Daria Dontsova biography personal life family. The son of writer Daria Dontsova has been put on the federal wanted list. “Eulampia Romanova. The investigation is being conducted by an amateur."

Suspected of attempted murder.

The 37-year-old son of the author of dozens of detective stories Daria Dontsova - Arkady Vasiliev (on the picture)- he himself became a participant in a story worthy of a separate cover. A criminal case has been filed against him.

As Life News learned, Arkady was initially suspected of nothing less than attempted murder his girlfriend.

This story began with the fact that on August 26, 26-year-old Daria V. came to one of the clinics in the north of Moscow and complained of terrible bruises and abrasions. The girl said that she was beaten by the young man with whom she lives together.

Having taken a certificate about beatings, Dasha (on the picture) went to the Airport police station and wrote a statement. In her explanation, she indicated that the day before, her boyfriend Arkady Vasilyev returned home in the morning very drunk and, for no apparent reason, began beating her. After that, according to the girl’s statement, he tried to throw her out of the window. Daria was saved only because her mother came.

The plot of the crime novel, which became a reality for Dontsova’s son, took place in an apartment on Usievich Street, owned by the famous writer.

A few days later, after the end of the inspection, a criminal case was opened at the Airport police station regarding the beating of Daria V.

Arkasha (as Dontsova’s son is called by close friends) was invited for interrogation, and 26-year-old Dasha was also interrogated. Arkasha did not admit to anything, but the girl insisted on her own. As a result, the criminal case was transferred for investigation to a higher authority - the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Northern District.

While the case was being investigated, another disaster was barely avoided. On September 5, Dasha was forced to contact the police again. According to the girl, on this day at 9.30 Arkady showed up and began to threaten her again. The police patrol squad that arrived at the scene detained Arkady and took him to the same Airport police department. The arrest report says so: “At the address of Usievich, 8, Vasiliev Arkady Dmitrievich, born in 1972, does not work, was detained, who on 09/05/2009 at 9.30 at the house at the place of detention threatened to kill citizen Daria V., born in 1983. The preventive measure is a written undertaking not to leave.”

During the entire time the case was being investigated, investigators changed the charges several times. Mainly featured “Grievous Bodily Injury”, “Battery”, "Attempted Murder" and... "Fraud."

The money issue in this matter is not accidental. Dasha and Arkady had their own business, in which only Arkady signed all the papers. When the investigation was in full swing, law enforcement officers confiscated all the club documentation from the girl and discovered evidence of fraud there.

During all these months, Arkady constantly called Daria and threatened her that he would kill her if she did not withdraw her statement from the police. As a result, the girl was so scared that she herself was no longer happy that the matter was in full swing. The criminal case has now been suspended, and the statute of limitations expires at the end of February 2010. If during this time the criminal case does not acquire witnesses to the attempted murder of the girl or other evidence of Arkady’s guilt, it will remain closed, since the young man appears in it as an unidentified person.

Dontsova's family refuses to comment on the difficult situation. The writer and her son do not answer calls from a Life News correspondent, and Daria Dontsova’s official representative Olga, who serves as her director, comments on the conflict as follows:

We will not discuss the nonsense of the press and everything that is being inflated around Dontsova’s son.

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"Cool Heirs" (1999)

Darya Dontsova(real name Agrippina Arkadyevna Dontsova, maiden name Vasilyeva; June 7, 1952, Moscow) - Russian writer, author of women's "ironic detective stories", member of the Writers' Union of Russia. Winner of literary awards.

Biography and career

Born into the family of the Soviet writer Arkady Nikolaevich Vasiliev. Mother - Tamara Stepanovna Novatskaya, worked as a director of the Mosconcert. In 1974, Daria Dontsova graduated from Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosov, Faculty of Journalism. After graduation, she worked for 2 years in Syria in Aleppo at the Soviet consulate as a translator from French. After returning to Moscow, until 1983 she worked in the information department of the newspaper “Evening Moscow”. In 1983, she changed her last name (to her husband’s last name) and went to work for the monthly magazine “Fatherland”. After the birth of her daughter (in 1986), she began teaching German and French.

Personal life

Daria was married three times. Twice divorced. She married for the third time in 1983 to Alexander Dontsov, psychologist, Doctor of Science, professor, dean of the Faculty of Psychology of Moscow State University. M. V. Lomonosov, academician, full member of the Russian Academy of Education. Daria has two children: Arkady (born in 1972) from her first marriage and Maria (born in 1986) from her third. Arkady has a son - Nikita (grandson of the writer). Her husband Alexander has a son from a previous marriage - Dmitry.

Creation

The main characters are similar to the author. The novels are published in 5 episodes with the main characters. Dasha Vasilyeva- a wealthy woman, lives in the holiday village of Lozhkino with her family and animals, is friends with police colonel Alexander Degtyarev. Has two children - son Arkady and daughter Masha. In the past, Dasha was married several times, worked as a French teacher at a Moscow university, received a modest salary, and lived with her family in a small apartment in Medvedkovo on the outskirts of Moscow. This character is closest to the author. Daria's main hobby is pets. Her heroine has many cats and dogs in her house, one of them is the pug Huchik. The heroine of another series, Evlampia Romanova, in the past - Efrosinya Romanova, a late child and long-awaited daughter of a Soviet general-scientist and opera singer, graduated from the conservatory in the harp class, was married once, changed her name after a divorce and learned to cook deliciously. Lampa opened her own detective agency, where she works as a private detective and is friends with police major Vladimir Kostin. According to the story, I received: a cat Semiramis and a cat Klaus, two pugs Ada and Mulya, Plusha, Fenya, Kapu and two other dogs Staffordshire terriers Rachel and Ramik, hamsters Kesha, Petya, Leonardo and a toad Gertrude. Viola Tarakanova she inherited knowledge of the German language from the writer, the heroine was married to Major Oleg Kuprin, an investigator from Petrovka, 38, worked as a German language tutor, but got divorced, she writes detective stories under the pseudonym Arina Violova. Vilka is not indifferent to animals; the cat Cleopatra, the cat Son and the dog Dyushka live in her apartment. Ivan Podushkin- the son of a Soviet writer, worked as a secretary for a private detective, but left his rich mistress and left with the circus. Tatyana Sergeeva has nothing in common with the writer, dark-haired, full-figured, intelligent and well-read, graduated from the philological faculty of a pedagogical university, widowed (in the recent past), worked as a school teacher of Russian language and literature. She is married to former actor Aristarkh Babulkin (nicknamed Gris), who is an employee of the secret group in which Tanya works.

Accusations of plagiarism

In 2008, Dontsova was accused of plagiarism. Igor Chersky's story, published in the magazine "Karman" in March 2000, was included in chapter 19 of Dontsova's book "Toad with a Wallet", which was published in 2004. This is the only example that received much publicity. There are many examples of comparing passages from Dontsova’s texts with texts previously published on the Internet. Dontsova is also accused of borrowing recipes and texts for her cookbooks from the book “Bon Appetit” published in the USSR in the 1970s by German authors Günther Linde and Heinz Knobloch.

Awards

List of works

Books

Series

• “Private investigation lover Dasha Vasilyeva”
• “Eulampia Romanova. The investigation is being conducted by an amateur."
• "Viola Tarakanova. In the world of criminal passions"
• "Gentleman of Detectives Ivan Podushkin"
• “Detective on a diet. Tatyana Sergeeva"

Outside the series

• “The Lazy Woman’s Cookbook” - published 2003
• “Notes of a Mad Optimist” - published 2003
• “Notes of a crazy optimist. Two years later" - year of publication 2005
• “Simple and delicious recipes of Daria Dontsova” - year of publication 2006
• “Notes of a crazy optimist. Three years later" - year of publication 2007
• “Cookbook of a lazy person-2. Delicious Journey” - year of publication 2007
• “Cookbook of a lazy person-3. Celebration of life"

Scripts for television series

• “Private investigation lover Dasha Vasilyeva
• “Private investigation lover Dasha Vasilyeva - 2” (together with Victoria Evseeva)
• “Private investigation lover Dasha Vasilyeva - 3” (together with Victoria Evseeva)
• “Eulampia Romanova. The investigation is being conducted by an amateur” (together with Victoria Evseeva)
• “Eulampia Romanova. The investigation is being conducted by an amateur - 2" (together with Victoria Evseeva, Alisa Michabeli and Irina Gelos)
• "Viola Tarakanova. In the world of criminal passions" (together with Irina Pivovarova (film 1) and Ekaterina Shagalova (films 2 and 3))
• "Viola Tarakanova. In the world of criminal passions - 2" (together with Irina Pivovarova and Ekaterina Shagalova)
• “Ivan Podushkin. Gentleman of Detective" (Film 1 - together with Victoria Evseeva; films 2 and 3 - with Anna Anosova and Natalya Pavlovskaya; season 2 - with Alexey Vinokurov and Victoria Evseeva)

List of books

“Private investigation lover Dasha Vasilyeva”

33. The third eye is a diamond.

35. The dark past of the Little Humpbacked Horse.

"Gentleman of Detectives Ivan Podushkin"

"Tatyana Sergeeva. Detective on a Diet"

2. Diet for three little pigs 3. Yin, yang and all sorts of rubbish 4. Microbe without complexes 5. Piglet’s ideal body 6. Grandfather Snegur and Frost 7. The golden rule of the three-punch 8. Agent 013

• Stories
• Ballerina in shoe covers
• Squirrel from the land of talkers
• Squirrel with a clock
• Chatty pink bear
• Money cake
• Cognac for an angel
• My unknown friend
• The Unequal Marriage of Bluebeard
• Nobody from nowhere
• Gift from heaven
• Fake tiger teeth
• Eskimo from Mars
• Money key
• A real Christmas fairy tale

Truth in three boxes

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Moscow police investigators have put the son of the famous writer Daria Dontsova on the federal wanted list. 39-year-old Arkady Vasilyev is suspected of hooliganism with the use of a weapon.

The police have been searching for Vasilyev for two months without success. Until now, investigators have assumed that the accused did not leave Mosca. However, after the failure of the local search, it was decided to expand the boundaries of the search.

The suspect in the criminal case initiated following a shooting near a nightclub on 1905 Street on November 26, 2011 has indeed been put on the federal wanted list, the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Moscow confirmed to Life News.

Now all employees of the internal affairs bodies of vast Russia will be focused on establishing the whereabouts of Arkady Vasilyev.

Employees of the Federal Drug Control Service and the FSB will receive similar information, a source close to the investigation told Life News. - In addition, the movement of the person involved in railway and air transport will be taken under control.

Law enforcement officers became interested in Arkady Vasiliev after a traffic conflict that ended with a shot at the Mercedes driver. […]

In June 2012, investigators questioned Arkady Vasiliev about this incident. However, that meeting with the writer’s son turned out to be the last for law enforcement officers: he did not appear for any more summonses.

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Using a traffic police officer's baton and a pistol, he cleared the way for his car in the parking lot.
He was very drunk and swore at everyone, fired at the Mercedes, and disappeared
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The conflict occurred on November 26, 2011 at about 2 a.m. near the Kafka nightclub on 1905 Street, a law enforcement source told Life News. - A couple came out of a nightclub. The girl got behind the wheel of a dark gray BMW car, and the man took out the baton of a traffic police officer and began pointing it at the drivers of parked cars nearby, demanding that the exit be cleared for his foreign car.

According to witnesses to this scene, the stranger was very drunk, behaved inappropriately and swore at everyone.

Many drivers began to answer him and make comments,” our source continues. “Then he pulled a pistol out of the car and pointed it towards the Mercedes S500 car, in which 42-year-old Nikolai Z. was located. After firing two shots at the driver’s door of the car, the man disappeared.

Witnesses to the conflict remembered the license plate number of the car, and the next morning the owner of the bullet-ridden car contacted the police. A criminal case was initiated under Part 1 of Article 213 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation “Hooliganism with the use of weapons or objects used as weapons.”

Having identified the owner of the BMW, the operatives went to her residence address. It turned out that the car was registered to the shooter's ex-girlfriend. She told the police that she was only the formal owner of the car. In fact, the car belongs to Arkady Vasiliev, the son of the writer Daria Dontsova, whom she has not seen for a long time.

The police were unable to find Vasiliev immediately: he did not live at his place of registration. After several months of searching, they finally managed to interrogate him.

In the interrogation report, Vasiliev indicated that no such incident had happened to him and that he was not near the club at the specified time.

The police asked him to undergo a victim identification procedure.

A specific date for investigative actions has been set,” the source continues. - Nikolai Z., whose Mercedes was shot at, Vasiliev himself and several extras were supposed to come. Nikolai had to either point to Vasiliev, or say that among these people there was no one who shot at his car.

However, Dontsova’s son did not show up at the police station at the appointed time, and then stopped answering phone calls altogether.

According to a Life News source, Arkady’s mother wrote a letter to the Ministry of Internal Affairs with a complaint against the investigator who is investigating this case, asking them to look into it.

The writer’s official representative denied this information, also adding that Daria Dontsova would not comment on what happened to her son. […]

Daria Dontsova (real name Agrippina Arkadyevna Dontsova) was born in Moscow in 1952 into a creative family. At birth, the girl was named Agrippina in honor of her grandmother. At the time of the daughter’s birth, the parents were not yet officially registered, since the father was in a previous marriage. Agrippina's parents formalized their relationship only in 1959. My father was a writer, and my mother worked at the Mosconcert as a director.

During her school years, Agrippina was not particularly successful. She enjoyed studying foreign languages, but she was not good at exact sciences. Classmates treated the girl coolly. At first, the family lived in a barracks. When it was disbanded, Agrippina and her grandmother had to live without their parents for almost a year, because the room that was allocated to the family was too small. Only in 1957 did they receive a new spacious apartment in a new building near the Airport station.

Her parents cared about Agrippina’s development and decided to send her to a music school, but it turned out that the girl was completely devoid of the ability to play music.

Since preschool age, Agrippina had a penchant for languages. The future writer had two nannies - a French woman and a German woman. They hardly spoke Russian, so she had to learn foreign languages, and she was especially good at German. In 1964, as a schoolgirl, Agrippina visited Germany with her father - there a local publishing house was going to publish a work by him. From Germany the girl brought with her many books in German. In her youth, she was actively interested in literary works of various authors.

Books

Having a penchant for the humanities, the girl entered the Faculty of Journalism at Moscow State University. After graduating from university, she worked for two years at the Syrian Consulate of the USSR as a French translator. Returning from Syria, Daria worked for seven years as a journalist in the printed publications Otchizna and Vechernyaya Moskva.

The first story was written in 1984, but in the magazine “Youth” no one was interested in the girl’s literary attempts. However, the writer did not despair and tried herself in another genre.

In 1999, the first detective “Cool Heirs” appeared under the pseudonym Daria Dontsova. The heroine was Dasha Vasilyeva, who by chance took up private investigation. Dontsova wrote this cheerful, cheerful and interesting book while lying in the hospital in the oncology department. When Daria finished treatment, five works were already ready for printing.

The first detective story was received with a bang by readers; everyone wanted a sequel, and it, of course, followed. Dontsova’s books are published by the EKSMO publishing house; to date, Daria has written about a hundred detective stories, the total circulation of which is more than 230 million copies. Each new novel by the writer becomes an indispensable bestseller.

In Russia, Daria Vasilievna Dontsova is considered one of the most published writers. She writes one novel for about a month. In the Russian Guinness Book of Records, the writer is recorded as the most prolific author, as she was able to write more than 100 works in just 10 years. Dontsova's novels are read not only in Russia or the countries of the former USSR, but also in China, as well as in Western Europe.

Daria's books are considered a cure for depression; the writer's inexhaustible optimism is felt in each work. Many fans of her work believe that Dontsova’s autograph brings good luck.

It should be noted that the writer works not only in the detective genre. She is also the author of the book “The Lazy Woman's Cookbook,” which presents the most accessible recipes for novice housewives in the form of simple manuals. Dontsova also wrote an autobiographical book, “Notes of a Mad Optimist.” But, of course, Daria’s detective stories brought her fame and prosperity. Based on them, TV series were filmed, where the main characters were Dasha Vasilyeva, Ivan Podushkin, Evlampia Romanova and Viola Tarakanova.

Daria Dontsova is a three-time winner of the Writer of the Year award, twice received the Bestseller of the Year award from the Book Review newspaper, and is also a laureate of the Book of the Year competition. In 2003, Dontsova’s star appeared on the literary square of stars on Strastnoy Boulevard in Moscow. In 2005, the writer received the Order of Peter the Great, First Class, with a ribbon for her services in the field of literature and great personal contribution.

Gradually, the famous writer put the production of detective stories on stream. Her fantastic literary prolificacy allowed her to reach a fairly wide audience. Her creative biography includes works of various genres, and new items are immediately picked up by fans.

For many years, Dontsova’s books have remained among the top most popular among Russian readers. The publications come out in millions of copies and do not gather dust on the shelves of bookstores. Her books continue to enjoy considerable popularity in Russia, and in 2016 the book “Stamp on a Woman’s Heart” was published.

The writer herself once admitted that she falls into a certain creative impulse when she begins work on a new work:

“When I write, I am in some kind of semi-conscious state. If there is cold, snow, or wind in the novel, I begin to freeze, despite the fact that it is incredibly hot outside. At a certain point, my characters get out of control and begin to live an independent life. One day one of the characters winked at me and said: “But I killed, I did, and you didn’t even guess!” Well, they’ve become completely insolent.”

In 2012, the writer released an autobiographical book “I really want to live. My personal experience." In this work, Dontsova shares her experience of defeating a terrible disease - cancer. Daria Dontsova fell ill with breast cancer in 1998.

Disease

Daria has repeatedly spoken in interviews about how she overcame the disease. Doctors gave the writer a terrible diagnosis - “stage four cancer.” She had to endure 18 operations, several sessions of radiation, and also undergo numerous courses of chemotherapy.

She was admitted to the hospital at the fourth stage of the disease and at first underwent three operations. There was practically no hope for a full recovery, but Dontsova did not lose heart and was able to overcome the terrible disease. She is an optimist in life, and while in a hospital room, she began writing ironic detective stories to escape from the terrible reality. The brave woman not only managed to avoid depression, but also completely recovered. In 2008, Dontsova was chosen as an ambassador for the Together Against Breast Cancer charity program run by Avon.

She had to deal with an extremely difficult illness, which is actually a demoralizing factor for many people. What broke many people made the famous writer stronger. Daria Dontsova was able to overcome breast cancer, and oncology did not become an obstacle for the woman on the way to achieving her goal.

Her readers claim that it was a serious illness that discovered Dontsova’s talent for writing. Gradually, new novels increasingly became real bestsellers.

Soon after the treatment, Dontsova told media representatives that many people have terrible associations with the words “chemotherapy” and “irradiation,” but in fact these are just “far-fetched myths.” The writer who managed to go through such suffering said that all this is not as scary as many imagine.

Personal life

Today Dontsova is married, this is her third marriage. The writer's husband's name is Alexander, they have children - daughter Maria and son Arkady, who gave his mother a grandson, Nikita.

All fans of the writer know her hobby - pets. Dontsova has a special weakness for pugs, having made these cute dogs part of her image. There are as many as four pugs living in Daria’s house. The writer loves these dogs very much. In addition, she creates her masterpieces in the company of a British cat and a tortoise. Article found on 24smi.org

She was born in the family of writer Arkady Vasilyev and Mosconcert director Tamara Novatskaya. Dad's fate was not easy. At the time of his daughter’s birth, he had not yet been divorced from his previous wife, and therefore could not marry the next one. At birth, the baby, who would become famous under the name Daria, received the name Agrippina and lived with him for a significant part of her life.

Creative parents could not get decent housing, so little Grunya lived with them in a barracks for the first years of her life. Then he was resettled, and mom and dad were given such a tiny room that their daughter had to be sent to live with her grandmother for a while - there was simply nowhere to put her crib.

Despite the difficult living conditions, everything was fine with the finances of the house. They allowed him to hire two governesses for Grunya - a German and a French woman. They hardly spoke Russian and taught the baby their languages. The girl's humanitarian inclinations first appeared at a very young age. She quickly learned the native languages ​​of her nannies. German was especially easy for her.

The daughter amazed her parents with her curiosity, and they decided to send her to a music school. But after the meeting, the teachers decided: the girl has no hearing at all. The news upset the Vasilyev couple, and they began to take their daughter to the opera and ballet more often, until they noticed that there they were simply experiencing unbearable melancholy.

Schoolgirl

Only closer to their daughter’s school years did the family finally receive a large apartment in a house specially built for writers and writers. Dontsova says that classics of Russian and Soviet literature still live there today, and that the girl’s family had famous friends back then.

One day, a funny incident even happened to her. During a literature lesson, the teacher asked an essay: “What was Valentin Kataev thinking about when he wrote the story “The Lonely Sail Is White”?” Without being embarrassed, the future writer went to her friend, Valentin Petrovich Kataev, and bluntly asked him a question.

He gladly helped his friends’ daughter, and was quite surprised when she was given a low grade for her essay, and they wrote right in the notebook in red ink that Kataev could not think about it!

At school, the girl stood out for her passion for the humanities, but the teachers teaching the exact sciences were upset. Grunya ignored their mathematics completely. It was clear that the girl would study something related to literature.

Writer

While still a schoolgirl, she went with her dad to Germany - some of the writer’s works were going to be published there and his presence was required. My daughter went with him to show off her German and see a new country.

It was from there, inspired by a new genre for her, that she first brought a stack of detective novels in German. For the future writer, this was a real discovery, but so far she did not understand that she could write like that herself.

After school, the writing girl with a penchant for languages ​​easily entered the journalism department of Moscow State University. And after graduating, she worked for some time, first as a translator from French in Syria, and then as a journalist in “Fatherland” and “Evening Moscow”.

She first tried to put pen to paper and create something artistic in 1984. The story was published in the magazine “Youth”, but it did not cause any special enthusiasm among anyone. Daria, being a true optimist, did not despair and decided that someday she would try herself in another genre.

Love

So time passed. She enjoyed the interesting life of a metropolitan journalist, traveled, fell in love, was disappointed and fell in love again.

For the first time she fell into the abyss of passions when she was very young. From her first marriage, which the writer rarely remembers, she had an eldest son, Arkady, who now made Daria a grandmother. Daria Arkadyevna’s second marriage is rarely mentioned anywhere.

After the first two attempts, she no longer intended to get married. “I realized that the beast Grushka Vasilyeva does not live in captivity,” the writer said about herself. But everything, as often happens, was decided by chance.

Her kind neighbor wanted to marry the kindest optimist Vasilyeva. She invited me to a birthday party, warning that the wonderful Sasha Dontsov, a social psychologist and professor, would be there. Grunya muttered, but came to the party.

“He thought: what a jerk!” says the writer. She herself also did not appreciate the stern appearance of her new acquaintance and was offended by the fact that he did not even look at her. She defiantly went to her apartment without waiting for the birthday cake.

Only three weeks later, a neighbor without ceremony came to her in the evening with the same Sasha. They sat over some scientific work, and since smoking was strictly prohibited in Alena’s apartment, the idea came to visit Gruna.

“I don’t want to get married!” the future wife reported to Dontsov. It turned out that he had just gotten divorced and was not going to marry “never again.” We laughed at the unsuccessful matchmaking, drank tea and stayed together in this apartment now forever. In the mid-80s they got married, and a little later their common daughter Masha appeared in the family.

there would be no happiness

She was still Grunya and was not a writer. Until one terrible day, thunder struck: a woman was admitted to the hospital with a diagnosis that completely turned her life upside down.

And let Dontsova now say that cancer is just a disease that can and should be fought, when she was diagnosed with the fourth, most severe stage of oncology, days of despair and real horror began.

Now she actively supports the “Together Against Breast Cancer” program and literally takes readers with a similar diagnosis to the hospital by the hand, forces them to agree to surgery, endure chemotherapy and hope for the best.

Then the inexhaustible optimism of this wise woman and her loving family helped respond to oncology with dignity. She underwent four operations, she had 14 more to go. She literally “settled” in intensive care when her husband said: “You always wanted to sit down for a novel, but you still didn’t have enough time. Now you're in the hospital, you have plenty of time..."

When the visitors left, Grunya, shrouded in pipes, put a sheet of paper on some book and wrote the first sentence of her first novel, “Cool Heirs.” It took only four days, and upon returning home she brought the manuscripts of five novels.

Darya Dontsova

All works were accepted by the EKSMO publishing house. Before this, editors had never encountered this genre—no one among Russian-speaking writers had written like this. Especially for the new writer, the name “ironic detective” was invented.

The writer says that to this day she has not learned to use a computer and writes all her books by hand. She refutes the arguments of gossips who accuse her of using the powers of “literary slaves” and can prove that every word of numerous novels belongs to her.