Jailed Russian dominatrix Viktoria Nasyrova insists she is innocent

Jailed Russian dominatrix Viktoria Nasyrova, 45, who tried to kill lookalike friend with poisoned cheesecake insists she is innocent and reveals she has taken up art while behind bars

• Nasyrova was already wanted for murder when she fled Russia in 2014
• Her spree continued in New York as she poisoned her way across the city 
• She complained her trial turned into a ‘Broadway show’ that found her guilty

A Russian dominatrix who tried to kill her US doppelganger with a piece of poisoned cheesecake to steal her identity has taken up art while in prison as she continues to profess her innocence. 

Viktoria Nasyrova, 45, was wanted for murder in Russia when she fled to America in 2014 and began a new life offering ‘quality massages’.

But she was jailed for 21 years in April for attempting to murder eyelash stylist Olga Tsvyk with phenazepam at her home in Queens borough of New York City and making off with the victim’s passport, cash and employment authorization card.

Nasyrova was caught when the daughter of her original victim hired a private detective to track her down and discovered she had also drugged and robbed a series of New Yorkers she met on dating sites.

‘I didn’t do anything,’ Nasyrova told the New York Post from the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility, ‘They turned the trial into a Broadway show.’

Viktoria Nasyrova said ‘everybody knows who I am here’ as she spoke from prison about her conviction for the attempted murder of her former friend Olga Tsvyk

Olga Tsvyk (above) met Nasyrova six months before she was poisoned in 2016

Nazyrova was accused of killing Alla Alekseenko, 54, in 2014, and Alekseenko’s daughter Nadeza Ford hired a private detective to track her down 

Nasyrova was branded an ‘an extremely dangerous woman’ by the judge who sent her to a New York prison after hearing about her crime spree that lasted for nearly ten years. 

The inmate admitted her reputation preceded her when she arrived at her new home ‘strapped up like Hannibal Lecter’, following a fight with a transport guard.

‘Everybody knows who I am here,’ she told the New York Post.

‘There are a few Russian-speaking inmates and before I arrived they were asking them about me, “You know she’s coming here? She’s a legend”.

‘I don’t want to sound like I’m better than others, although in some ways I am,’ she said of her fellow prisoners.

‘But to find a person on your intellectual level, it’s hard to find people here that I can really communicate with.

‘I want to talk about art, culture, travel, books.’

Nasyrova is now earning hundreds of dollars a month as she passes time with her new art hobby. 

‘I make all sorts of things for inmates: Cards, posters, t-shirts,’ she said.

Nasyrova ate two slices of cheesecake herself before passing a poisoned third slice to her friend

The powerful Russian tranquilizer phenazepam which was used to poison Tsvyk

Tsyvk(left) was said to be a look alike of Nazyrova (right) the glamorous Russian dominatrix who was tied to a string of crimes dating to 2014

‘Once, I made birthday decorations for an inmate’s daughter. She liked the minions, so I made large cardboard cut-outs, painted them like the minions.

‘Then I put on 3-D glasses, stood them up, then made t-shirts for all the kids with the Minions characters and their names on each t-shirt,

‘It’s only the beginning.’

But not all the inmates have enjoyed her arrival.

‘Once I got into a fight, and I was so angry that I kept beating her, and she was covered in blood,’ she said.

‘Then I realized that if I don’t stop, I am going to seriously maim her. So I stopped.’

Nasyrova (left) appears in court after poisoning Tsyk (right) in the hope of stealing her identity 

Nasyrova has ties to crimes that date back more than a decade. 

She allegedly had sex with a local police officer to escape from Russia after the remains of her neighbor Alla Alekseenko, 54, were found burned and buried two miles from her home in Krasnodar.

Traffic cameras pictured the victim’s body in the front seat of her car as Nasyrova drove it to the burial site after murdering her for her money.

Interpol put Nasyrova on its Most Wanted list but she made it to New York where she was jailed after trying to steal her new friend’s identity and pass off an alleged murder as a suicide.

Tsyvk, an eyelash stylist, met Nasyrova six months before she was poisoned in 2016, the victim shared in court. Nasyrova, the former dominatrix, learned how to get an employment authorization card from her new friend. 

On the day Tsyvk was attacked in 2016, Nasyrova had arrived at her home in Forest Hills, Queens, in desperate need of her services. In exchange, Nasyrova insisted she would bring the stylist cheesecake she purchased at a local bakery.

After arriving at her home, Nasyrova ate two slices of cheesecake offering a third slice, that prosecutors say had been laced with Russian tranquilizer Phenazepan, to Tsvyk.

Tsvyk told the court she started to feel sick about 20 minutes after eating the cake and began to vomit as she laid down in her bed.

Tsvk was found by her sister, Iryna Kozachenko, who called the police.

The victim told the judge and jurors that she lived in fear for months after she survived the attack, especially since it took months to capture the former dominatrix.

Alekseenko’s horrified daughter learned that the wanted Russian beauty was now living just miles away from her in Brooklyn.

Alekseenko’s body had been found months after her murder, badly burned and reduced to a skull and a few bones identifiable only through dental records.

Investigators found $17,000 in cash and jewelry missing from the her home.

Alekseenko’s daughter then paid a private detective in New York to look into Nasyrova and bring her to justice. The detective was able to hunt Nasyrova down and arrest her.

At the time, Nasyrova was also wanted by NYPD on suspicion of drugging and robbing at least three men she met via a New York dating website.

Victim Ruben Borukhov, 54, testified in court to being drugged by the con artist while on a date with her. He woke up to find charges up to $2,600 on his credit card and his watch missing.

‘The trial was built on the fact that I tried to kill this woman because we look alike and I want to steal her identity,’ Nasyrova said this week.

‘But she is not a US citizen, she doesn’t have a green card, she doesn’t have any rights … what is the point for me to try to kill this woman?

‘I’m not gangster, I’m not criminal, I’m a regular human being.’

But she insisted she does not ‘tolerate any disrespect’, in prison.

‘When people call me Russia or anything other than my name I don’t respond,’ she added.

‘I tell them, “You can call me Viktoria or inmate Nasyrova, not Russia, or whitey, or anything other than my name”.

‘You don’t have to like me, but you have to respect me.’

She said the food in her new home is ‘garbage’ but is pleased to have lost 20lbs.

And she has refused to take part in the prison’s anger management courses.

‘It’s bulls–t,’ she said.

‘I do have anger issues, but they are not the kind of anger issues that these classes can help me with.’

She compared herself to Matt Damon’s character in the The Martian,’ a movie she said had ‘inspired’ her.

‘Can you imagine a person in such a situation? To be left alone on a foreign planet, and not only to survive, but to make it back home?’ she demanded.

‘For me it’s the same situation — not only to survive in jail, but to gain my freedom.’

On the day she was attacked in  August 2016, Nasyrova had arrived at her home in Forest Hills, Queens, in desperate need of her services. In exchange, Nasyrova insisted she would bring the stylist cheesecake she purchased at a local bakery. Nasyrova laced the Cheesecake she gave to Tsyvk

Nasyrova said ‘f*** you’ to the Queens Supreme Court judge Kenneth Holder as he sentenced her 

Ford had to be consoled after breaking down outside the courtroom in Queens

But Tsvyk told the Post she is scared that Nasyrova might win her freedom and return to finish her off.

‘She’s a very dangerous person, a scary person,’ she told the paper.

‘She is a manipulator and a liar. I thank God that she can’t do what she’s been doing to people anymore, although who knows what she’s doing in jail. She is capable of anything.

‘I hope they don’t let her out early, lest she come after me.’

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