Multiple personalities of Svetlana Bogacheva: who is she and why is everyone talking about her?

Netflix came up with a new plot for the movie adaptation: for days everyone has been discussing Svetlana Bogacheva on Russian-language Twitter, who has been acting like other people for years and borrowing hundreds of thousands and millions for absence. treatment. Comedian Tatyana Schukina said this about how she suffered from the actions of a scammer: post your story on twitter: according to him, he lived with a woman named Svetlana Vladimirovna Bogacheva for three years, paid for cancer treatment and immigration, and even talked to his doctor, psychotherapist and daughter. In fact, all these people (besides diseases) did not exist, and Svetlana Bogacheva made correspondence on her behalf.

As Tatyana Shchukina explains, at first they communicated on business matters, and the new acquaintance did not arouse their suspicions. And she once called him in tears and said that her husband hanged himself. This was followed by a story about a dead girl and a request to stay with her for at least one night, which eventually turned into a full-fledged cohabitation – her psychotherapist Gleb Koganovich allegedly asked not to leave the “patient” alone. Other contacts that Bogacheva conveyed to Tatyana Shchukina included an oncologist, best friend, cousin, hotel roommate – it all turned out to be fictitious. And at the end of February, after the start of the SVO, Svetlana Bogacheva persuaded a friend to emigrate with her from Russia and wrote on behalf of an FSB officer that a criminal case could be brought against her, so she had to leave. .

Tatyana Shchukina’s mother was the first to suspect that something was wrong, and when she herself asked Svetlana Bogacheva for x-rays confirming the relapse and metastases in the lungs, she replied, “I can’t, it’s too personal.” As a result, Tatyana got angry and began to call the people whose “friend” had left her, but none of them were available, except the oncologist’s phone – after dialing the number, Svetlana Bogacheva’s phone rang and she no longer began to lie. Tatyana Shchukina recorded the confession of the scammer on video and posted it on Twitter – now the post has more than a thousand reposts and eleven thousand likes.

Later it turned out that such a case was not the first. Even while studying at the Ivanovo Medical Academy in the mid-2000s, Svetlana Bogacheva told stories about domestic violence, said she had cancer and borrowed money for treatment. In an interview with the publication “Cold” (The editor-in-chief of the publication, Taisiya Bekbulatova, was included in the list of foreign agents) the main character of the scandal claims that he tried to attract attention and arouse pity with his stories: “I borrowed money from a lot of people. Lying has become so natural for me that when answering a question, a concept that does not directly fit comes to mind. I can lie in detail and convincingly.” Over the years, he says, he developed a certain “need to compose,” which he calls an uncontrollable addiction. And he even sacrificed his health to make the illusions believable: he injured himself, imitating seizures and convulsions. Once, after another lie, he even faked his own death – they say, he lied so much that he despaired and “took a break for two days.”

Now Tatyana Shchukina plans to return to Russia, collect all the victims of the fraudster and write a statement to the police against her, but the fraudster himself is not afraid of punishment – he has nothing to lose. She has stayed in Turkey (where she broke up with Tatiana and her boyfriend in February), planning to find a job, pay off debts, and seek psychiatric help.

By the way, on the Web this story became the occasion for numerous jokes: Svetlana Bogacheva was compared with Split, John Malkovich and Billy Milligan. And Tatyana Shchukina was offered to write herself a book based on the past few years.