Beauties and the Beasts: True stories of girls who were doused with acid. Acid-drenched beauty queen Eleonora Kondratyuk got married (photo) The fate of Eleonora Kondratyuk today

Despite all the pain and horror that these girls had to go through, they did not despair and did not break. By their example, they tell the world: beauty is not only external data, but also a state of mind.

Jessica Notaro

Italian model and Miss Italy 2007 finalist Jessica Notaro doused with acid former lover. After a short romance, the girl decided to break up with the young man, but she could not even think that he would be capable of such cruelty. As a result of the tragedy, Jessica received severe chemical burns to her face, body and eyes. Today, the girl spends about 800 euros a month (about 40,000 rubles) on medicines that help her cope with pain. plastic surgery it can be carried out only in a year, when the body is a little stronger. Recently, Jessica appeared on a TV show where she took off her headscarf for the first time and addressed the "ill-fated" ex: "I want you to see what you did to me. This is not love".

Dana Vulin

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In 2012, Australian Dana Vulin was the victim of an overly jealous wife of one of her acquaintances. Suspecting Dana of an "assassination attempt" on her beloved husband, the jealous woman doused the girl with ethyl alcohol and set it on fire. As a result, Dana received third-degree burns on her face and body, and spent a long time in a coma. The Australian underwent many operations and spent two years in a special mask - according to the girl, her burned face was so ugly that she was afraid to walk past the mirror. In addition, Dan was wearing a kind of spacesuit all the time, which, in turn, hid the deformity of the body. And so, after a long and hard work on herself, the girl finally took off her mask and showed the world a new self: albeit with scars, but beautiful again.

Katie Piper

In 2008, 35-year-old Danny Lynch doused his girlfriend, model Katie Piper, with sulfuric acid. As a result, the girl received third-degree burns, lost her eyelids, half of her left ear and most of her nose. Severe injuries were inflicted on the eyes, mouth, tongue, esophagus, hands, arms, neck and décolleté. Even the doctors who took Kathy that ill-fated day were horrified - according to them, they had never encountered such terrible injuries. Over the next three years, Katie underwent more than 80 operations on the internal organs, only after them the girl was able to eat and drink normally. Plastic surgeons also did the impossible - they reconstructed the model's face using synthetic leather. Today, Katie looks very good, and the former lover is serving a life sentence in one of the British prisons.

Eleonora Kondratyuk

Terrible story happened to our compatriot Eleonora Kondratyuk. The winner of the Beauty of Sochi and Miss Charm contests became the victim of a rejected fan back in 1999. The girl was returning home when she was attacked from behind and doused with concentrated sulfuric acid. The acid burned the eyes, respiratory tract, skin on the face, neck and shoulders. In a critical condition, the girl was taken to the regional burn center, where doctors literally pulled Eleanor out of the other world. Despite more than 300 operations, return to normal life the girl did not succeed. Eleanor leads a reclusive life, and if she leaves the house, she hides her face with a veil. former model is a frequent visitor to burn centers: she spends a lot of time with people who find themselves in similar situations.

Laxmi Saa

Indian woman Laxmi Saa was the victim of an attack by a rejected groom: an offended lover poured acid over the lady of the heart. At that time, the girl was only 15 years old, and despite the fact that her appearance was hopelessly spoiled, Laxmi did not despair, began to fight for her rights and even made a career in the modeling business. This year, Laxmi became the face of Indian clothing brand Viva N Diva. Advertising campaign The brand is called Face of Courage, and its main message is that beauty is not only external data, but also a state of mind. The heroine herself to this day is actively seeking to limit the sale of acid and tougher penalties for such crimes.

Reshma Kuresh

Reshma Kuresha is another Indian who suffered from acid: when the girl was 18 years old, she became a victim of her own brother. Reshma received severe burns to her face and body, lost an eye, but did not give up and did not give up. Today, the girl maintains a microblog in which she uploads a video, proving that the victims do not become disabled, but can achieve a lot. And last fall, during New York Fashion Week, Reshma took part in the show of the collection of Indian designer Archana Kochhar and became real star podium. In an interview with reporters, the model admitted that she entered the catwalk with one goal - to draw attention to the availability of acid in India. Reshma noted that in Asian countries this problem has a global scale, and she herself is trying in every possible way to change the attitude towards the victims of such attacks in society.

Shirin Mohamadi

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Shirin Mohamadi was only 18 years old when her rejected fiancé poured acid on her. The girl lost her right eye and ear, her mouth was severely damaged, and deep burns all over her body. To date, Shirin has undergone several plastic surgeries, but the difficult rehabilitation process is not over yet.

fragile blonde with beautiful legs and angelic voice. Every time, walking along the streets of Sochi, 37-year-old Eleonora Kondratyuk receives hundreds of compliments from men. The girl in the distant 98th did not win the crown at the Miss Sochi beauty contest, but received third place - the audience award and the title of Miss Charm.

From nature at Eleonora Kondratyuk Blue eyes, only now it is rare for anyone to see them through dark glass. The beauty has not taken off her sunglasses for 19 years...

September 2, 1999 forever divided the life of a Sochi girl into before and after. On that day, the blond beauty was doused with acid. In a critical condition, she was taken to the regional burn center, where doctors literally pulled Eleanor from the other world.

“The last thing I saw was an incredibly beautiful sky”

The tragedy that happened to the 19-year-old beauty amazed everyone, they could not believe it. After what happened, Elya could not recover for a long time, she led a reclusive lifestyle, only the closest people could communicate with her. And now, 19 years after the tragedy, the woman decided on a revelation. She wrote the book "I chose life" and talked about what happened to her.

As it turned out, on that ill-fated day, the girl went to the beach with her friend Sveta.

My path ran through the territory of the school where we studied for so many years. And when I was already passing by her, I met two small, very cute girls. Obviously, first-graders, smartly dressed, with white bows. I noticed that, while talking, for some reason they were looking not in front of them and not even at me, but right behind me, - Eleanor Kondratyuk recalls that terrible day. - The last thing I saw was a clear, bright blue, incredibly beautiful sky. And that's it! I turned back, but, apart from a dense, for some reason, brown color, I didn’t see anything.

A 20-year-old guy ran up to the girl and, abruptly grabbing Eleanor by the hair, snatched a can of sulfuric acid from the bag and poured it on his victim's face. Then the experts will establish that, in preparation for the crime, the attacker deliberately mixed acid with vegetable oil- to make it harder to wash it off. The acid burned the eyes, respiratory tract, skin on the face, neck and shoulders.

It was like nothing else, excruciating, never before experienced by me, unbearable corrosive burning pain! With every second, she became stronger and stronger, deeper and deeper into the body, continues Eleanor. - Being in a state of shock, for some reason I ran, not seeing where, and with all my might I crashed into some concrete rough wall. This blow brought me back to my senses a little. Groping for the edge of this wall, I tried to blink my eyes, and although my vision was already blurry, I could see the road. I automatically ran to school.

There the teacher of labor helped the girl. He took Eleanor by the hand and led her to the first floor, asking her to close her eyes. Soon a nurse came running, who injected painkillers. Other teachers fled

Hearing my voice, teacher Olga Ivanovna exclaimed in horror: “Elya, is that you?” I was dumbfounded: - Yes, but what about me? Am I so changed that you don't recognize me? Olga Ivanovna began to cry. Other teachers shushed her, afraid that I would hear, - says the girl.

A woman wrote a book about her life path(Photo: screenshot)

“I just said no to some scumbag!”

The organizer of the crime was the former admirer of the beauty. The violent Caucasian admirer Ruben Grigoryan (in the book the author does not write his name, indicating only the first letter of his last name G. - Auth.) was offended by Eleanor for daring to refuse intimacy.

You will still regret it and will cry bloody tears, but then you won’t get anywhere and you will come running to me yourself! - the boyfriend threatened the girl. And after that, the local racketeer Grigoryan gathered five thugs who were ready to track down and deal with the "recalcitrant" for money. He hired Abkhazian criminals Adgur Gochua and a certain Roman for a thousand dollars, one for all, which remained only promised.

Grigoryan himself went to Yaroslavl and supervised the preparations by telephone. In case the police suddenly began to listen to his communications, Grigoryan ordered to call him only Igor, and all key phrases pertaining to crime, encode. "Pour acid" sounded like "Bring tangerines."

When I was about to leave the house, an unknown woman called me, apologized for the anxiety and said that she would not disturb me again, but for the last time she wants to ask if I had changed my mind about G.? Once again I can’t mention his name, - holding back with difficulty, Eleanor continued her confession. - I answered the woman that it was pointless to ask me the same questions, and asked me not to bother anymore! And only now I understood what the phrase “last time” meant in that conversation. What an abomination - to attack a young defenseless girl who just said "no" to some scumbag!

After the incident, the perpetrators fled to Abkhazia. But the customer was looking for a long time. From Sochi he went to Karelia. But the two-meter Caucasian had a colorful detail. He had a long scar on his head and a prosthesis instead of an eye, which he lost during a gang war. For which he received the nickname "Cyclops". It was this sign that allowed the investigators to find and detain him in 2000.

Ruben Grigoryan nicknamed "Cyclops"

In court, Ruben Grigoryan received 11 years, his accomplices - six and seven years. The perpetrator of the attack was killed before the case even went to trial. And they identified his corpse... by the burns on his face.

Most likely, it was the acid from my hair that got on him when I fought back, Eleanor suggests. - After a while, another of the criminals died in prison.

And Grigoryan was released and lives as before. Eleanor was able to return to normal life only now. The doctors assured her that after a severe chemical burn she would not survive, but the girl did not give up.

The injuries were so serious that I was urgently transported to the regional burn center in Krasnodar, says Eleonora Kondratyuk. - The doctors could alleviate my condition only with the help of painkillers, because it is very difficult to act with a chemical burn. But nothing could be done. All that remained was to wait for the process of corrosion to end. For all the time of work, specialists of the burn center have not yet encountered such cases.

A chemical burn is considered the most severe, as it not only affects the surface, as with a thermal burn, but also corrodes tissue. The fiends also mixed the deadly liquid with oil - it was impossible to wash off the acid. Eleanor was diagnosed with a fourth-degree burn, the most recent, which is considered incompatible with life.

Examining me every day, again and again, the doctors stated that it was still impossible to operate, it was necessary to wait until the corrosive process ended, but there were practically no chances for survival, - says Eleonora.

The worst thing is not even that the beauty completely lost her face - the acid hit him all. She is permanently blind. The man who confessed his love turned out to be a crazy bastard who ruined the life of a young girl. But Eli didn't give up. For 19 years, she survived 200 operations. They transplanted her skin, hair, restored her nose, tried to restore her eyesight ... There was no longer any talk of her left eye. Nowhere in the world and for any money it was impossible to restore his sight. But there was an opportunity to restore the right one - a cornea transplant was needed. But almost all attempts were unsuccessful.

The first of the operations was canceled at the very last moment due to an infection found in the donor eye. A month later, doctors in Germany found a second organ, but the donor cornea belonged to a very old man. Even in the case of the most successful operation, the remnants of vision would begin to disappear with catastrophic speed.

For the third time, hope was brought, no matter how terrible it may sound, by a car accident in which she died Native sister Eleanor - Julia. But the precious cargo was spoiled. The Moscow doctor did not control the feeding solution in which the corneas were located in time, and as a result, they became unsuitable for transplantation.

Later, part of her vision was returned to the girl with the help of another Dutch transplant. But Eleanor sees only silhouettes, hardly distinguishes faces.

Each time, the tragedy that happened to me was tried to be tied to one or another program about beauty contests. But these are unrelated events! - says Eleonora Kondratyuk. - This person first saw me on the street a few months after the last competition, when only memories of him remained. And there are absolutely no guarantees that this would not have happened if I had been engaged, for example, in volleyball, swimming or going to ballet.

Despite the tragedy, Eleanor did not lose the joy of life. She graduated from the Academic School of Design and continues to paint today. She also often visits burn clinics and does everything possible to make the life of people in trouble a little easier. She helps those who find themselves in a similar situation, tells how to find the strength in themselves to live on.

Eleonora Kondratyuk, a participant in the Miss Sochi 1998 beauty pageant, who was doused with acid by order of an admirer of the Armenian Ruben Grigoryan, told in the program “Man and the Law” how her life turned out almost 20 years after the tragedy.

In 1998, Eleonora Kondratyuk participated in the Miss Sochi contest, where she won third place and the audience award and the title of Miss Charm. But the beauty queen's life was divided into "before" and "after" not by successful participation in the competition, but on September 2, 1999, when she was doused with sulfuric acid by order of an admirer of the Armenian Ruben Grigoryan, whom E. Kondratyuk refused intimacy.

The acid burned the eyes, the respiratory tract, the skin on the face, neck and shoulders ...

In a trial that took place in 2000, Ruben Grigoryan received 11 years, his accomplices - six and seven years. The perpetrator of the attack was killed before the case even went to trial, after a while another of the perpetrators died in prison.

Ruben Grigoryan

After serving his term, R. Grigoryan was released, and Eleonora Kondratyuk was able to return to normal life only 20 years later, as she told about in the program of the First Russian Channel “Man and the Law”.

“For 19 years, I have had 200 operations under general anesthesia - this does not go unnoticed. If a ordinary people suffer from a cold for a day or two, then I’m a couple of months, since I have a weak immune system, ”says E. Kondratyuk in an interview with the Man and the Law program, emphasizing that she started using cosmetics relatively recently, since previously it was impossible to do this because for a wounded face.

Eleonora Kondratyuk in 1998 (left) and today (right)

The beauty queen, who continues to fight for her eyesight, told how she was able to see herself in the mirror for the first time since the tragedy: “I just went up and looked, I did it without any special preparations. I didn’t see anything terrible, but I was very upset, the memories are still fresh. She asked her mother, “Why is that? Why so many experiences? Is there a way out of this situation. To which my mother told me “Do not anger God, you survived, this is the most important thing,” notes E. Kondratyuk.

Speaking about the criminals, the girl said the following: “I decided that I just got injured. I decided to forget everything, to throw it out of my memory, not to destroy myself, not to think. You should not despair, you should not lose heart, you need to find strength in yourself, courage to overcome everything and cope with everything. Sometimes every minute I had to explain something to myself and prove to myself that there would be a glimpse. I convinced myself that the blows of fate do not deprive a person of the opportunity to be happy.

It should be noted that E. Kondratyuk told her story in an autobiographical book, which she called "I chose life."

A fragile blonde with beautiful legs and an angelic voice. Every time she walks the streets of Sochi, 37-year-old Eleonora Kondratyuk receives hundreds of compliments from men. The girl in the distant 98th did not win the crown at the Miss Sochi beauty contest, but received third place - the audience award and the title of Miss Charm.

By nature, Eleonora Kondratyuk has blue eyes, only now it is rarely possible for anyone to see them through dark glass. The beauty has not taken off her sunglasses for 19 years...

“The last thing I saw was an incredibly beautiful sky”

The tragedy that happened to the 19-year-old beauty struck the whole country, they could not believe it. After what happened, Elya could not recover for a long time, she led a reclusive lifestyle, only the closest people could communicate with her. And now, 19 years after the tragedy, the woman decided on a revelation. She wrote the book "I chose life" and talked about what happened to her.

As it turned out, on that ill-fated day, the girl went to the beach with her friend Sveta.

My path ran through the territory of the school where we studied for so many years. And when I was already passing by her, I met two small, very cute girls. Obviously, first-graders, smartly dressed, with white bows. I noticed that, while talking, for some reason they were looking not in front of them and not even at me, but right behind me, - recalls Eleonora Kondratyuk that terrible day. - The last thing I saw was a clear, bright blue, incredibly beautiful sky. And that's it! I turned back, but, apart from a dense, for some reason, brown color, I didn’t see anything.

A 20-year-old guy ran up to the girl and, abruptly grabbing Eleanor by the hair, snatched a can of sulfuric acid from the bag and poured it on his victim's face. Then the experts will establish that, in preparation for the crime, the attacker deliberately mixed the acid with vegetable oil - so that it was more difficult to wash it off. The acid burned the eyes, respiratory tract, skin on the face, neck and shoulders.

It was like nothing else, excruciating, never before experienced by me, unbearable corrosive burning pain! With every second, she became stronger and stronger, deeper and deeper into the body, continues Eleanor. - Being in a state of shock, for some reason I ran, not seeing where, and crashed into some rough concrete wall with all my might. This blow brought me back to my senses a little. Groping for the edge of this wall, I tried to blink my eyes, and although my vision was already blurry, I could see the road. I automatically ran to school.

« I just said no to some scumbag!»

Grigoryan himself went to Yaroslavl and supervised the preparations by telephone. In case the police suddenly began to listen to his conversations, Grigoryan ordered to call him only Igor, and to code all the key phrases related to the crime. "Pour acid" sounded like "Bring tangerines."

Ruben Grigoryan, nicknamed "Cyclops".

Most likely, it was the acid from my hair that got on him when I fought back, Eleanor suggests. - After a while, another of the criminals died in prison.

And Grigoryan was released and lives as before. Eleanor was able to return to normal life only now.

For the third time, hope was brought, no matter how terrible it may sound, by a car accident in which Eleanor's sister Yulia died. But the precious cargo was spoiled. The Moscow doctor did not control the feeding solution in which the corneas were located in time, and as a result, they became unsuitable for transplantation.

Later, part of her vision was returned to the girl with the help of another Dutch transplant. But Eleanor sees only silhouettes, hardly distinguishes faces.

The tragedy of Eleonora Kondratyuk.

Original taken from nedostreljani in TERRIBLE REVENGE YOU CAN'T IMAGINE

Today is the birthday of a girl whom the author of these lines cannot call otherwise than a great martyr.

But here we congratulate Elechka in the morning on the phone, and her voice, as always, is gentle, even, clean, friendly. Angel in the throes of hell! More than THREE HUNDRED (!!) operations only under general anesthesia.

But the starting positions of the young Eleonora Kondratyuk were the envy of many of her peers. The picture shows the culmination of the awarding of the title "Miss Charm" in Sochi in 1998.

Next was the all-Russian competition in Moscow with high chances of winning. But then everything collapsed in the most irreparable, terrible way.

The cause of misfortune for a girl from a large and very poor family was her own beauty. A tall, slender blonde with a catchy appearance drove hot Caucasian men crazy.

Some tabloid publications later talked about how Elechka had a stormy romance with a one-eyed thug named Cyclops. Let it remain on the conscience of the authors. A naive girl in this life did not seduce anyone. She really did not have time in her incomplete 18 years. Unless she agreed to ride Grigoryan's BMW a couple of times. But the two-meter "jock" presented itself very effectively. Been to the USA. He won overseas in "fights without rules." Lost an eye protecting a girl from a gang of rapists...

Although, in fact, Grigoryan was almost killed after he played tricks with his friend Suren on July 25, 1998. Then the Greek guard demanded 5 rubles from each, the officially established entrance fee to the Breeze cafe in Adler. But you need to know Ruben with his hypertrophied self-esteem. Despite the fact that in criminal circles Ruben was never raised above the usual "torpedo", fighting "meat", Grigoryan considered himself the navel of the Universe.

Saying: "We are the masters on this earth and are not obliged to pay anyone!" two Armenians beat a Greek.

By the next evening, the staff of the cafe prepared seriously. Several men with sticks and iron bars. The fight was horrendous. Suren died on the spot. Ruben lost an eye.

After that, a series of assassination attempts on Greek businessmen took place. Those in retaliation began to "order" the Armenian colleagues. For the first time in the history of the Adler region, an armed explosion of ethnic hatred could turn out to be a reality. It all ended with the explosion of a directional mine in the night cafe "Oasis" at railway. Several innocent men and women died, including a vacationer from Moscow.

Holiday season was in danger of collapse. Neither the formal nor the criminal authorities wanted to allow this. There was a gathering of elders, a meeting in the city administration and an extraordinary gathering of "authorities". The storm was averted.

Almost all crimes hung "grouse". Although the detectives are the most knowledgeable locals some of them, including the explosion in the Oasis, are stubbornly attributed to Grigoryan.

Having recovered, he never lost faith in his exclusivity. I liked the girl, I simply took it and stole it. The scandal has risen above the heavens! But the bouncer and the casino security guard turned out to have serious patrons. The local "authority" agreed with the parents of the victim about the wedding. The marriage turned out to be unhappy, but there was no “shame” on the girl.

And the playboy continued to act according to the old resort principle: "Whoever dances the lady, he dine with her." Those few signs of attention that Eleanor managed to accept from a tall stranger turned out to be fatal for her. Despite the fact that the girl refused to deepen relations almost immediately. Rumors of adventures reached her too. scary person”, as reported by more knowledgeable girls.

But here's the problem, to lower the brakes did not work. Because Grigoryan drunk company friends swore:

The girl will definitely be mine!

Everything that follows, my friends and my friends, has already been described many times in the press. But, without false modesty, it was the author of these lines who studied this sensational case more deeply than anyone else.

So, in order. Rising star" modeling business I was going to fly to Moscow on September 3, 1999 for a Russian beauty contest, but the day before, the fate of Eleonora Kondratyuk was forever divided into “before” and “after”. The last “before” is a carefree walk to the sea through the courtyard of the former Elina school in Dagomys. The first “after” is two nonhumans who overtook the girl from behind. They were remembered by junior high school students. And Elya, who was never accustomed to look around by our bloodthirsty reality, did not manage to see anything.

strong male hand in a rubber glove, she grabbed hold of her luxuriant hair and pulled back sharply. Head thrown back, the girl screamed. And then concentrated sulfuric acid. Diluted for a greater striking effect with oil.

Elya nevertheless ran to the school, found the door by touch, managed to call for help until her burnt vocal cords failed ...

The teachers surrounded her. But no one recognized the “sunny beauty”, as they called their best graduate at school. The damage to the skin, muscles and even bones was horrendous.

The EMERCOM helicopter took the victim of the most brutal attack in the history of Sochi to the regional clinic. And in the Dagomys settlement police department, a very leisurely, amazingly sluggish trial began.

Your blogger, then a fairly well-known investigative journalist, was immediately aware of the matter: he received a summary of daily incidents directly from the headquarters of the Internal Affairs Directorate. Trust in a journalist, it must be admitted, from the cops is simply exceptional.

But I had to respond with black ingratitude. Publicly rebuking former colleagues in a variety of media:

So it was at first. The author of these lines has already published personal data of the alleged customer and even his photo in various newspapers, and former colleagues According to the investigation, they demanded to wait and warned that Grigoryan could sue me for slander.

It got to the point that he was forced to turn ... to criminals! It is possible to regard such a step as you like. But contacts with major "authorities" are sometimes absolutely necessary for an investigative journalist. After all, it happened in my practice like this: a dejected reader comes. His car was stolen. Saved up for it for many years. Only just before retirement did he manage to save up.

I call "Goose", the local "breeder":

Nikolai, your people, of course, have nothing to do with this disgrace. But if you try hard and help?

By the next morning, the intact "seven" stood in the yard of the victim.

And in the situation with Elya, I had to turn to Viktor Syrtsov, known in Sochi as "Non-Russian".

At the mention of El, he held out his hands:

You see, I immediately got goosebumps. We will not tolerate such injustice. With these very ones, I will strangle the one who did this to the girl! If this is Grigoryan's work, he won't live either. The boys are looking for him. But he is somewhere in Armenia.

Both the detectives and the thieves were, to put it mildly, inaccurate. And that’s why Grigoryan is now living in the colony almost comfortably: “rocking chair”, solar procedures, his wife is a “correspondence student”, he will be released in a year ...

And it was not Sochi detectives who found him at all, but Karelian ones. Then the guys from the Medvezhyegorsk police department told me:

Through the "grassroots" channels, information came about a tall guy of Caucasian nationality who had settled with a local woman with an injury to his right eye. You understand that in Karelia now, like everywhere else, Caucasians are under scrutiny. And this one also started a business with local brothers. Something to do with the forest...

Given the physical data of Cyclops and the severity of his deed, the detention event was carried out with the strengthening of SOBR and OMON. On the night of March 29-30, 2000, we took this Ruben of yours from an ambush in one "illuminated" apartment. He offered no resistance. Did not have time. But he said: the victim, they say, was largely to blame herself. She behaved towards him, Grigoryan, very arrogantly.

In the spring of 2000, the first sentences were handed down. Secondary accomplices of Boghos Nubaryan and Artem Voskonyan were convicted in Lazarevsky. The enraged Grigoryan asked the first of them to find “strong acid”. The small businessman Nubaryan, who later died in the colony, nevertheless assumed that the infernal mixture was not needed at all for “extracting gold from microcircuits”. One thing, it was about this that he lied to the seller.

Grigoryan was not satisfied with the contents of the bottle. He tested on his own skin to enjoy the pain that would make a shrew writhe. But the acid didn't burn deep enough. Nubaryan had to try again and get a concentrated liquid.

And just then, Cyclops' old acquaintances, future executors of the "order", arrived from Abkhazia. One was called Adgur Gochua, the second was Roman Dbar. Grigoryan asked to find a place for them with a telephone somewhere in Dagomys. Thus, another person involved in the first litigation- Artem Voskonyan. He will be slapped after 6 years in a strict regime colony for 6 years. Boghos Nubaryan, 39, will receive a year more.

No special leniency was shown to Grigoryan, who alternated reading the Bible with threats and curses in the dock for some reason only against me. In the picture, Cyclops is just in once more threatens to parse the author of these lines in parts and send them in parcels to my, then still alive, mother.

The verdict was harsh. But are eleven years of captivity out of those twelve that are maximally provided for the intentional infliction of grievous bodily harm capable of somehow alleviating the torment of Eleanor? In addition, the worst thing for the Sochi beauty and her mother, Tamara Vladimirovna, was yet to come.

With Tamara, a prominent, catchy and incredibly courageous woman, we talked a lot and often. Both me and Emma. We were even more united by a common misfortune: the graves of our son Alyosha and Yulia Kondratyuk ended up in the Sochi cemetery nearby.

Julia is older sister Eli. A day before her death, a mischievous, cheerful girl invited my wife and I to the Vyatka restaurant on the seashore. There Julia worked as a manager.

And then the Mercedes of the owner of this establishment skidded in front of the tunnel on the highway between Sochi and Adler. The 600 flew over a concrete wheel bumper. Turned around in the air. And imprinted on the anti-landslide wall starboard side. The 31-year-old passenger in the front seat died immediately. No one, except Yulia, was injured in the cabin.

Eleonora's father and Yulia's stepfather then said:

In Germany, they shouldn't know about it! Yulechka's death will also kill Tamara and Elya.

Yes Zhenya went crazy! - my wise wife was indignant. “Mother will not survive another. If you don't say goodbye to your daughter.

And I decided at my own risk to call from Sochi to Freiburg.

Tomochka, - I babbled into the phone. - You are so strong and courageous with us, Tomochka ...
And he fell silent, unable to decide on the main thing. Then he asked to be called to the receiver of some doctor who understood Russian, so that the deadly news could be conveyed through him. Then, perhaps, they will support the weary more quickly and successfully. maternal heart. If it suddenly does not withstand the secant, like a knife, phrases:

Julia is no more.

Hearing this, Tamara Vladimirovna still screamed. Confused and short. But I immediately remembered: next to Elya! It was at these moments that Professor Stark and his assistants carefully removed the bandages from Eleanor's face. And already appeared new spout, "blinded" by the professor instead of his own, destroyed by acid. The daughter was all ears, waiting for the mother's first reaction.

She thinks everything looks terrible. And that's why I'm screaming, - flashed through Tamara Vladimirovna. She dropped the receiver on the floor, rushed out into the spacious corridor of the clinic and covered her mouth with her hand. Well-groomed and neat, like the whole country, staff scurried past busily.

Guten Morgen, Frau Tamara! Doctors and nurses bowed their heads respectfully.

The main miracle of the past century, the Internet, even helped to get through to the German media from Sochi. And now all of Western Europe bowed before the courage of a mother and daughter with an unpronounceable surname Kondratyuk.

Tamara Vladimirovna did not notice anything anymore. She felt like she was dead. That there is no more strength left to suffer and suffer.

But what about Elechka, Yana, Kostya without me? And who will take care of the orphaned granddaughter Elina now? She's only nine years old! Tamara felt ashamed of her own weakness. She once again realized: own life she is no longer in control.

20 minutes after German doctors It became known about the night accident in Sochi, a representative council gathered in the conference hall of the clinic. At the sight of so many medical luminaries with extremely anxious faces, Tamara Vladimirovna's legs buckled. She realized that the fateful Friday, September 8, 2000, would finally finish her off. That now ruthless fate will read the verdict for her second daughter.

What will they refuse us? - already with an indifferent, chilling calmness, mother was wondering. - It is impossible to further restore the skin? Exhausted Elechkin's body does not accept a new spout? Will put an end to the reconstruction of the auricles? Or the eyes? Well, vision, of course!

Already twice a comfortable reanimobile of the Mercedes brand, so fatal for the Kondratyuks, was ready to deliver Elechka from Freiburg to Dusseldorf. There, specialists in transplantation of organs of vision carefully selected in their bank of donors the cornea for the right eye of a Russian girl.

The left was out of the question. Nowhere in the world and for any money could it be possible to restore vision to the left eye of Elechka Kondratyuk: the infernal mixture of acid and oil did its job.

The right cornea did not survive even a month after the assassination attempt. One of the best Russian professors then installed an artificial protective film. She did not allow at least something to see and was not designed for a long time. It was on these few months in Germany that now depended the possibility of gaining at least a modicum of vision in the future.

But the first visit to the Düsseldorf clinic was canceled at the very last moment due to an infection found in the cornea of the donor eye. The second "transparent avascular formation, optically acting like a strong convex glass", the Germans managed to pick up a month later. But the cornea belonged to a very old man. Even in the case of the most successful operation, the remnants of vision would begin to disappear with catastrophic speed.

Of course, the eyes! - Tamara collapsed exhaustedly into a carefully substituted chair. “They’re going to say that there’s nothing that can be done about Eli’s vision.

Tamara Vladimirovna was not mistaken in only one thing. Professor Stark, after expressing grief and sympathy, spoke very carefully about the eyes. Only about the eyes of her other daughter.

There are still 50 hours left,” the professor explained through an interpreter. - The death of one of your daughters gives unique opportunity for another. You just need to have time to do everything. And to have time to do everything very correctly.

The next two days passed for Tamara Vladimirovna, as if in a frenzy. At first it was necessary to decide to tell everything to Elechka. But this turned out to be not the most difficult. The most difficult trials showed in the fragile beauty not only fantastic courage. Mom and daughter, as well as 19 years ago, at the time of Tamara Vladimirovna's pregnancy, became one. Tamara immediately felt where, what and how Elechka was hurting. Eleanor, with some incredible instinct, divined the thoughts oppressing Tamara Vladimirovna.

Have we lost someone very close, Mom? the girl who was bandaged from head to toe was the first to ask. “Speak right away, don’t be afraid, I can handle everything.

She really endured. Because I learned one saving means, not available to the weak, distrustful, embittered, desperate. Already through a short time Elya told herself not to sob and began to help those whom she considered much more vulnerable in those terrible hours.
Even this miracle girl consoled me with her melodious voice:

Don't be too upset there, Sergey Alekseevich. You did the right thing by giving us a call. That's what Julia wanted. I know. I still hear it from her.

And she said to her mother wisely and simply:

If everything goes well, Julia will not go anywhere from you and me. You just have two daughters in one. I will learn to see the world through the eyes of my older sister.

More than once or twice Tamara repeated this phrase already in Adler, in the rented apartment where Yulia lived and where they brought the deceased that terrible night. We sat until dawn at Yulia's coffin. The three of them drank vodka, which had no taste and strength. It was terrible to look at Tamara. She didn't turn black, no. And it has not even lost its former beauty. But it was like… a china doll with a fixed gaze. Creepy Venetian carnival mask. Repeating like a spell:

Elya will see this world again. Through the eyes of your sister.

For this, unknown and well-known fellow countrymen to Tamara worked miracles. The account went to the clock. After calls from Germany, even on a day off, as if by a wave magic wand, transport appeared at the right time in the right place, the best Sochi doctors quickly arrived, the necessary tests were taken from the cooling broken body, encouraging results were transmitted to Germany, agreements and consultations were carried out through translators by phone and fax, a delicate operation was performed on the operating table to remove still preserving the life of the corneas, the pilots violated the instructions and took on the Moscow board precious containers with ideal donor material ...

At this time, Mr. Stark personally selected from 800 people of his well-trained staff the best guardians for this extraordinary Russian girl. Seven experienced nurses who understood her speech had to replace each other not to leave Eleanor for a second.

Irina Schmidt, a representative of the respectable company Winterhouse, which had already donated a lot for the treatment of Eleonora Kondratyuk, came for Tamara Vladimirovna with damn expensive air tickets Frankfurt-Moscow-Sochi-Moscow-Frankfurt.

The date of return in them remained open, because in Germany they reasonably feared that even such an incredibly strong Russian woman could be knocked down by her daughter’s funeral, if not completely, then for a long time.

I understand that it will be very, very difficult for you there, - Professor Stark admonished. - But I know that you real mother. You really want to look into the living eyes of your daughter. Therefore, you will not just hand over these thermoses with a special solution to my Russian colleagues. Remind them personally of the need for strict adherence to all, without exception, the rules for the storage and transportation of donor material. Down to the smallest detail. However, Frau Tamara, there are no trifles at all in such an important matter.

In the night "Sheremetyevo-2" Tamara Vladimirovna was met by a physician. Some metropolitan doctor who has already received detailed instructions from Germany. He was holding a round metal box, just delivered by the very plane that was supposed to take Tamara Vladimirovna to a heartbreakingly dramatic funeral in a couple of hours.

Tamara understood: particles of her eyes still continue to live in a sterile box. dead daughter. This, too, had to be endured. And do not forget to repeat to the doctor several times about the need for an urgent, but very careful transfer of Yulia's corneas to the life-giving German solution.

Tamara did just that. But I didn't have time to check. And the doctor, whose name no one even remembered, just ... left everything as it was. At best, due to his insufficient qualifications, he was afraid to violate the sterility of the corneas when they were moved from one container to another. At worst, the Russian doctor was simply too lazy, presumptuously deciding: the transplants will reach the clinic in Düsseldorf even in the old packaging.

Now, with perfect accuracy, you still can’t establish anything. That's just one shocking fact in world medicine has become more. And Mrs. Schmidt risked her life in vain, delivering the coveted box from Frankfurt airport to Dusseldorf at breakneck speed. And the main specialists of the eye clinic were waiting in vain for the donor material all Sunday. Without a nourishing solution, the corneas became completely unsuitable for transplantation just 40 minutes before arriving at the clinic!

Upon learning of this, Professor Stark wept in his office. This plastic surgeon of the highest class could not understand anything in the mysterious country of Russia. Ready to get out of the skin and give the last for the sake of a compatriot in trouble. But then, in the most absurd and irreparable way, it takes away even a hint of salvation.

Although part of Eleanor's vision was returned. Later. With the help of another, Dutch transplant. But by that time, the Gochua case had just resumed. The one that, together with Dbar, poured acid over Elya. Having received three thousand dollars for two for this mortal sin.
A little later, Dbar will be overtaken by punishment. He will be shot dead in Abkhazia while trying to collect a ransom for the hostages he abducted.

And the unpunished Gochua will eventually become completely insolent and almost stop hiding. After all, the case against him has long been gathering dust on the shelf. As suspended "because of the non-search of a person suspected of committing a crime."

For Gochua, this was tantamount to an indulgence. The main figure is behind bars. The hype surrounding the Sochi tragedy subsides. Investigators in Russia have long been demanding results on much more recent cases. So the police itself is counting only on "maybe". You look, somewhere, someday, this very Adgur will emerge ...

Come to terms with this normal person impossible. Little counting on success, I nevertheless asked for it to visit an acquaintance from near Pitsunda. I persuaded him to ride around the places of military "glory" of Dbar and Gochua. Those got used to the weapon at the time of the Georgian-Abkhazian war. Gochua, moreover, has a brother serving in a serious position in the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the self-proclaimed republic.

Alik, let's call him that, understood: this circumstance only increases the risk. But a couple of years before that, I saved this peasant, illegally detained, from the Sochi riot police. I returned his passport. And Alik promised to repay good for good.

So they traveled around the villages under the guise of buying homemade wine. We tried such a soft-tasting and such a killer mulberry chacha. They were talking about life. About politics. About the vague future of the resort region, devastated by the war and hanging in a legal vacuum. We switched to paternal topics so close to the peasants. Everyone was ready with my own hands strangle the fiends that mutilated the girl. But…

You understand that we are peaceful people. And these freaks always have machine guns at hand. You will be caught one day. You will not stand the torture and will hand us over. Then everyone will not live.

Deal in the following way. Let a literate and reliable person be asked or personally scribble a letter for me. But it must be anonymous. Then, with all my desire, I will not name a “traitor”, because I will not know him.

To be honest, I didn't really believe the collective promise. But after half a month he was holding in his hands an opportunity in his name. In the envelope, in a diligent female handwriting, it was indicated that 27-year-old Adgur Gochua runs a cafe in the former Leselidze, the current Tsandripsh. Lives at this address...

What followed was a matter of technique. We must pay tribute to Taygib Taygibov. The deputy head of the Sochi Internal Affairs Directorate for investigation treated my tip with the utmost attention. And he responded promptly. Although, for legal theorists, it is extremely debatable. But what kind of extradition in the manner established by the Convention could be discussed? Send a request to the Prosecutor's Office of Georgia? What can she do on the territory of present-day Abkhazia? To address the Abkhazians? But where is the guarantee that brother Gochua will not show himself here either?

In general, from Tsandripsh, located just a fifteen-minute drive from the state border, the Sochi task force simply stole Adgur Gochua. They gave me a nickel, stunned me, threw me into the car and quickly went home!

But that was just a hint. The "fairy tale" began from the moment the first sentence was passed. Those who only acquired the instrument of crime and brought them to the scene of the incident - seven full years. Strict regime. And the performer is two years less! Song!

He attached a journalistic voice to the prosecutor's office, which issued a protest. Tried to make noise all over the country. He promoted the version about big money, which, according to reliable sources, was brought by Gochua's relatives to Lazarevskoye immediately after the sale of two cars stolen from Sochi a couple of days before the scandalous verdict.

The decision of the Chairman of the Lazarevsky District Court Batsuev was canceled for unlawful leniency. But his subordinate, after many months of delay ... left the executor of the inhuman "order" the previous five years. Adding, however, six more. Months!

I no longer write, I shout in a variety of newspapers. First of all, in Novaya and Sochi, of course. To what, they say, the level of corruption has our Themis sunk?

New red tape. Additional, like an investigation in the police department. Then the case gathers dust for several more months without any movement in the Lazarevsky District Court.
It seems that everyone there was hoping: maybe this annoying press will fall silent? Did not work out. Eight years of a colony for Gochua still managed to be achieved. But at what cost! During this time, your obedient servant received several death threats with a clear "Abkhazian" trace. And Elya, shocked by such a strange attitude of Themis towards her executioner, lost her sight a second time.

After the assassination attempt, already in Germany, he finally managed to visit the Kondratiuks in Munich. They were running out of money. Former sponsors - a deep bow to them for many years of help! – further financing of treatment was considered impossible for themselves. The future looked bleak.

It was felt that Elya was on the edge. It took a lot of work to persuade her to give an interview to Stern.

This reputable journal was the first to respond to appeals to German colleagues.

It was even more difficult to persuade Elya to take a picture at least in profile.

Why do people see what I am now? repeated the mutilated beauty through her tears. “Let them remember the old me!”

But then we won't raise new wave compassion. There will be no new donations. Seeing once is always better than reading dozens of times,” the journalist Wedemeyer gently insisted, having studied the psychology of his reader well.

The article "The Girl and the Mafia" nevertheless appeared. Money flowed into the new, now German, aid fund for Elya Kondratyuk. About ten thousand euros have accumulated.

main problem such a meager sum could not solve in any way. For all operations on vision and restoration of appearance, much more was required.

Only, it seems, Ela did not want anything anymore. Even my tiny note in Novaya about the money collected by foreigners provoked a protest, while Russia, the stepmother, forgot about her daughter, exhausted by suffering.

There is no need to write anything more about me at all, Sergey Alekseevich! Eli demanded.

On such a misunderstanding, they parted. But until now, requests continue to come from Russian television people: "Can you help me contact Elya?" I won't help. Eleanor no longer counts on the media. Begging to mention it as little as possible. But I, nevertheless, by such a date and in LiveJournal, I will still risk returning to the previous topic.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, ELEANOR!