Maybe your drawing skills aren’t half done.
Viktoria Nasyrova, the Russian-born former dominatrix who was sentenced to more than two decades behind bars for trying to poison her doppelganger friend with a slice of tainted cheesecake, has taken up drawing while cooling her heels in the clink.
“My work, called ‘signature,’ is letters of people’s names, with butterflies and other things, in 3D,” Nasyrova, 47, recently told the Post from Bedford Hills Correctional Center in a series of interviews on the jail.
“You would be very surprised,” he continued. “I feel enormous pleasure seeing people’s faces when I give them what they asked for; no one expects it. “I can call what I do works of art, without false modesty… Even to me, they seem like small miracles.”
The black-haired alleged serial poisoner said she always liked art, culture and travel, but it has become difficult for her to find people to talk to about it since she moved to the Westchester County Women’s Prison after his sentencing in April.
“I don’t want to seem better than others, although in a way I am,” Nasyrova said. “But to find a person of your intellectual level… It is difficult to find people here with whom I can really communicate. “I want to talk about art, culture, travel, books.”
Viktoria Nasyrova was sentenced to more than two decades behind bars for trying to poison her doppelganger friend with a piece of contaminated cheesecake. Matthew McDermott
“I didn’t do anything,” he insisted. “I never stole from anyone. I never killed anyone. I never tried to kill anyone. I was sentenced to 21 years for a crime I did not commit.”Gregory P. Mango
But even since discovering her newfound passion for drawing (and getting to enjoy fresh vegetables she couldn’t eat while on Rikers Island awaiting trial), Nasyrova said she’s “nervous all the time.”
“I wasn’t like that before. In prison, you have the feeling that something is about to happen at any moment. You can be eating and the next minute someone next to you is fighting… I can’t relax,” she complained.
That will all end if she succeeds in her plans to appeal her attempted murder conviction in February, something Nasyrova insisted would happen because she is, of course, innocent.
“I didn’t do anything,” she insisted while sitting in a visiting room in Bedford Hills. “I never stole from anyone. I never killed anyone. I never tried to kill anyone. “They sentenced me to 21 years for a crime I did not commit.”
That’s not what a Queens jury thought when it found Nasyrova guilty of trying to kill Olga Tsvyk, a 35-year-old lash stylist, by feeding her a piece of poisoned cheesecake in August 2016.
Nasyrova was found guilty of attempting to kill Olga Tsvyk, a 35-year-old eyelash stylist. Dennis A. Clark
Tsvyk believes that Viktoria Nasyrova tried to poison her and assume her identity.
Prosecutors brought up a series of damning witnesses during the trial, including Tsvyk; Ruben Borukhov, the ex-boyfriend who told the court that Nasyrova poisoned him on a date, stole his credit card and went spending $2,600; and Nadezda Ford, daughter of a Russian woman whose body Nasyrova allegedly burned after killing her.
The testimony, combined with DNA evidence Nasyrova left on the cheesecake box, convicted the defendant, whom Queens Supreme Court Justice Kenneth Holder called “an extremely dangerous woman.”
But during her interview with The Post, Nasyrova tried to present herself as less of an evil assassin and more of an arts and crafts teacher.
“I had no idea I could draw, but I’m good,” she said, adding that she earned a few hundred dollars each month at Rikers for her illustrations, which range from Disney characters like Mickey Mouse to classic cartoons like Roger. Rabbit and Betty Boop.
“I make all kinds of things for inmates: cards, posters, T-shirts,” he said. “I once made birthday decorations for an inmate’s daughter. She liked the Minions, so I made big cardboard cutouts and painted them like the Minions.
“Then I put on 3D glasses, stood them up, and then made T-shirts for all the children with the Minions characters and their names on each T-shirt,” he smiled. “It’s just the beginning.”
Nasyrova, 47, recently told The Post from Bedford Hills Correctional Center in a series of jailhouse interviews how she passes her time.
“It’s hard to find people here that I can really communicate with. I want to talk about art, culture, travel, books,” Nasyrova said.
Create cartoon cards, posters and t-shirts.
Despite her enjoyable new hobby, fiery old Nasyrova quickly surfaced when asked about things like prison food or the trial that brought her there.
“The food here is garbage,” he said. “But I like being able to order fresh fruits and vegetables… I have more recreation time here. “I already lost 20 pounds.”
He also refused to attend required anger management courses because he thought it was a waste of time.
“It’s nonsense,” he said. “They don’t care what they’re doing. They’re not going to help me. I have anger issues, but they are not the type of issues these classes can help me with.”
Other inmates have already felt his icy wrath, he says.
“One time I got into a fight and I was so angry that I kept hitting her and she was covered in blood,” Nasyrova said. “Then I realized that if she didn’t stop, he was going to seriously mutilate her. So I stopped.”
His arrival in Bedford Hills was quite a spectacle, he said.
When she arrived she was covered in blood, which she claimed was from a transport guard punching her in the nose.
Nasyrova plans to appeal her attempted murder conviction in February. Dennis Clark
They called extra security and “they tied me up like Hannibal Lecter,” she said, referring to the fictional cannibal serial killer, adding that she was then put on suicide watch.
“I told them, ‘I will never commit suicide. With my intellect, if I wanted to kill myself, I would have done it already, believe me,’” she said.
“Everyone here knows who I am,” Nasyrova boasted. “There are some inmates here who speak Russian and before I arrived they were asking them about me: ‘Do you know she’s coming here?’ She’s a legend.’”
But Nasyrova also claimed that her supposed reputation is exaggerated.
“I’m not a gangster, I’m not a criminal; I’m a normal human being,” he said, before adding that he doesn’t “tolerate any disrespect.”
“When people call me ‘Russia’ or any name other than my name, I don’t respond,” he said. “I tell them, ‘You can call me Viktoria or the inmate Nasyrova, not ‘Russia’ or ‘white ass’ or anything else that’s not my name.’ You don’t have to like me, but you have to respect me.”
Ruben Borukhov, her ex-boyfriend, told the court that Nasyrova poisoned him during a date, stole his credit card and spent $2,600.
Borukhov claims that he never used drugs. Queens District Attorney’s Office
He lashed out at everyone involved in his case, including the prosecutors who “turned the trial into a Broadway show” and the witnesses who testified against him.
“It’s a completely fabricated case,” he said, arguing that he had no reason to poison Tsvyk, who nearly died after ingesting the powerful Russian tranquilizer phenazepam, and that a former drug conviction should have hurt Borukhov’s credibility.
Prosecutors said Nasyrova attempted to hijack Tsvyk’s identity by stealing his passport and cash, among other things.
“The trial was based on the fact that I tried to kill this woman because we look alike and I want to steal her identity,” the temptress replied. “But she’s not a US citizen, she doesn’t have a green card, she doesn’t have any rights… what’s the point of trying to kill this woman?”
Nasyrova claimed that Tsvyk is the real villain, accusing the victim of trying to frame her and putting the phenazepam in the cake box herself so she could stay in the United States, without making it clear how those two things were connected.
Nasyrova also ranted about an illegal organ donation ring she claims operates in the tri-state area, said she wants to sue the prison because a correctional officer beat her on the way to Bedford Hills, and believes the Russian government is trying to incriminate her. .
Queens Supreme Court Justice Kenneth Holder called Nasyrova “an extremely dangerous woman.” Matthew McDermott
When The Post contacted Tsvyk, she said Nasyrova deserved what she got.
“Yes, I planted the phenazepam,” Tsvyk said, sarcasm dripping from his words. “I got poisoned and all those other people got high too. However, she is the one in jail… she lies about everything.”
Borukhov admitted that he was arrested for growing marijuana about 15 years ago, but he served his sentence and never used drugs.
“I told the truth,” Borukhov said. “What he did to people… he deserves everything he gets. “They all lie, they are all corrupt, she is the only one who tells the truth, but they gave her 21 years.”
Nasyrova, meanwhile, compared herself to Matt Damon’s character in the movie “The Martian,” one of her favorite films that she says has “inspired” her.
Nasyrova wants to sue the prison because a corrections officer beat her on the way to Bedford Hills and she believes the Russian government is trying to frame her.
Nasyrova tried to present herself as a less evil killer and more of a teacher of arts and crafts. Matthew McDermott
“Can you imagine a person in a situation like that? To be left alone on a strange planet to not only survive, but also to return home? Nasirova asked.
“For me it’s the same situation: not only surviving in prison, but also gaining my freedom.”
But her victims are less concerned about Nasyrova’s alleged struggles and more concerned about what she will do if she finally gets out.
“She is a very dangerous person, a scary person,” Tsvyk told the Post. “She is a manipulator and a liar. I thank God that she can no longer do what she has been doing to people, although who knows what she will be doing in prison. “She is capable of anything.”
“I hope they don’t let her leave early, lest she come after me.”
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