The investigator put the bandit in jail and then helped him escape. Crime novel
Crime drama by Evgeny Tatarsky « Prison romance»
was released in 1993 and immediately won the love of the audience, largely thanks to the actors who played the main roles - Alexander Abdulov and Marina Neelova. Few people know that the story of a female investigator who lost her head over a prisoner and arranged his escape was based on real events, and the main characters had their own prototypes - one of the most famous Soviet raiders Sergei Maduev and senior investigator for especially important cases under the USSR Prosecutor General Natalya Vorontsova. And in real life the ending of the story was much more dramatic than in the movies.
The fate of Sergei Maduev was predetermined from birth - he was born in prison. His father was a Chechen man convicted of resisting deportation, and a Korean woman serving time for profiteering. After his release, his father abandoned his family, and Sergei was raised on the street. He started stealing at the age of 6, and at 17 he went to jail for the first time - he was sentenced to 6 years in prison for complicity in theft. In 1980, he was released, but a few months later he was arrested again for robbery and assault, and for the second time he received 15 years.
For some time, Sergei Maduev, nicknamed Chervonets, behaved almost like Robin Hood: he robbed only those who acquired wealth through dishonest means, did not take the latter, and once even called the ambulance for the owner of the robbed apartment, since he had an accident. heart attack. However, his “nobility” did not last long. He himself called himself an “outlaw thief”, even criminals considered him a “lawless man”, since he stopped at nothing, stole the “common fund” of thieves in law from Tbilisi and Tashkent, withstood the attack of 12 criminals who intended to kill him for it , and could use his weapon at any moment. Although Maduev took up criminal activity back in the 1970s, he committed his most notorious deeds in the late 1980s, for which he was called the last criminal of the USSR era.
In 1988, the criminal was transferred to a settlement colony, from where he escaped. He was put on the all-Union wanted list, but for about two years they could not catch him. During this time he made not only a series robbery attacks and robberies, but also several murders. His crimes became more and more daring: in one of the Leningrad cafes, in front of the customers, he shot the doorman for being rude to him. But in 1990 he was nevertheless captured and put in Kresty.
Maduev knew that most likely this time he would be sentenced to death, so he gave evidence, indicated crime scenes and signed protocols without looking. He was accused of committing more than 60 crimes, 10 of them were murders. But in March 1991, when the criminal was supposed to be transported to Moscow, he suddenly pulled a pistol from his bosom and tried to escape. As it turned out later, it was the same revolver with which he committed several murders. It was kept in the prosecutor's office safe, and only one of the employees could hand it over.
As it turned out, Natalya Vorontsova, an investigator for particularly important cases of the USSR Prosecutor General’s Office, handed over the weapon to the criminal. Maduev was always successful with women, and he managed to seduce Vorontsova and convince her to help him escape. During interrogations, she admitted everything: “ When we were alone, the conversations increasingly began to wander away from the matter: about family life, about children, about relatives. He really dreamed of having normal family, children. Once there was a case when I asked him: “If there was a woman who would wait for you for 15 years, what would you answer?” He said that there are no such women. I said, “What if I waited?” Then he probably didn’t even believe that it was possible. Only then was he convinced and told me that yes, indeed, I would have waited for him for these 15 years».
Maduev himself, as he admitted, was alien to romantic feelings: “ I deceived her a lot. For me at that time she was only an investigator at the Prosecutor General’s Office, and I did not see her as a woman. I saw only a potential enemy who was pulling me towards to the highest degree punishments. And that’s why I did everything to use her... No, I didn’t love her and don’t love her. But I have great respect for her. I even told the investigator at one time that if I knew her at large and knew that she would commit such a crime for my sake, I would not hesitate to connect my life with her».
In the film, the hero Abdulov is killed during his escape, and future fate the heroine Neelova says nothing. In fact, the escape was unsuccessful; the criminal was wounded, but survived, and later tried to escape twice more. Investigator Vorontsova was fired from the prosecutor's office and sentenced to 7 years. In 1995, Maduev was sentenced to death, but due to the introduction of a moratorium death penalty replaced life imprisonment. In 2000, he died of cardiovascular failure and diabetes.
Hero of a prison novel
One of the most daring attempts to escape from prison was made on May 3, 1991. On this day, the thief and murderer Sergei Maduev, nicknamed Chervonets, tried to escape from the famous St. Petersburg “Crosses” with the help of a pistol brought to him by investigator Vorontsova...
This incident had a wide resonance. At that time there was not a single newspaper that did not tell its own story about history romantic love a lonely female investigator and a seasoned repeat offender. In fact, even after a thorough investigation in the case of Sergei Maduev, much remains unclear. After the trial, he made an official statement that there was no love between him and the investigator, his accomplices simply managed to bribe Natalya Vorontsova. At that time, no one attached any importance to this. The common man wanted to believe in touching story doomed love. After some time, director Sergei Solovyov filmed the melodrama “Prison Romance,” where the role of the criminal was played by Alexander Abdulov, and the investigator was played by actress Marina Neyolova. This film made Sergei Maduev famous throughout the country, giving him a certain romantic aura, although in life he was very far from the image created on the screen.
Sergei Maduev was born in Kazakhstan in 1957, where his parents were exiled only because of their nationality. Since childhood, the son of a Chechen and a Korean woman hated the authorities who treated him and his parents so cruelly. Sergei Maduev, who was recorded as Russian in his passport, received his first sentence at seventeen years old. In 1974, he was sentenced to 10 years for robbery and robbery, but served only six. Upon his release, he returned to his homeland - the city of Kaskelen, but was never able to get a job. Because of his criminal record, all doors were closed to him. Then Maduev, together with his younger brother Alvi and old acquaintance Agapasha Tairov began robberies and murders, traveling throughout the Soviet Union. Soon in underworld Sergei Maduev became known under the nickname Chervonets. He received his nickname because, when free, he always paid taxi drivers only with ten-ruble bills, never taking change.
In 1980, Sergei Maduev committed daring robbery cash register of the millionaire collective farm named after the 30th anniversary of the Kazakh SSR. Then the raiders stole huge amounts of money for those times - more than 50 thousand rubles. The search for criminals was headed by acting. Nikolay Buran, head of the Pavlograd regional criminal investigation department. At the same time, Sergei Maduev showed his “noble” qualities. Captain Nikolai Buran recalled: “Initially, the bandits planned to attack the chairman of the collective farm himself and even came to his house. But he was saved from death by his daughter-in-law, who was heavily pregnant and trustingly responded to the request. unknown men take out the water. Seeing a pregnant woman, Maduev abandoned the robbery attack on the house of the collective farm chairman.” The criminals were arrested in Omsk the next night after the robbery. The court sentenced the three hijackers to seven years in prison.
In the zone, everyone considered Sergei Maduev, including the thieves in law. After serving most of due date, he was transferred to a settlement in Taldy-Kurgan, from where he fled in December 1988.
Thus began the new criminal era of Sergei Maduev. By that time, he was known to operatives as Ali Maduev, Andrey Lvov, Ali Filani, Vladimir Shpak, Sergey Li. The many-faced bandit continued to “tour” around the country. With new accomplices, he traveled from Astrakhan to St. Petersburg, committing cold-blooded murders, well-planned robberies and robberies. Not only the police were looking for him everywhere, but also Tbilisi and Tashkent thieves, who sentenced Chervonets to death in absentia for stealing money from their common funds.
Sergei Maduev did not look like an ordinary criminal. He had a sharp, insightful mind, read a lot, and had a peculiar sense of humor. Chervonets always dressed with emphasized elegance, not allowing even the slightest carelessness in clothing or appearance. But among others, Sergei Maduev was especially distinguished by his penchant for illogical actions. For example, he could feed ice cream to a whole gang of children, and during a raid on an apartment he could remain near the crime scene, calling ambulance, when a robbery victim suffered a heart attack. And at the same time, he left behind corpses, among which were women and children. The bandits did not hesitate to kill the Aivazov family when they resisted during the raid and made noise.
On June 6, 1989, Sergei Maduev and his partner broke into two-story house Oleg Shalumov, who lives in Rostov region. Chervonets killed the owner with the first shot, then the criminals strangled his wife. Leaving the house, the bandits doused the rooms with gasoline and set them on fire. One-year-old Misha Shalumov, who was sleeping in a crib on the second floor, burned alive in the fire. Two years later, Sergei Maduev, while in custody in Butyrka prison, insisted that he did not know about the child. “If I had known,” said Chervonets, “I would have been the first to take him out of the fire.”
In Leningrad in October 1989, Maduev’s gang broke into the apartment of pensioner Anna Yurich. Chervonets fatally wounded the owner of the apartment when she tried to call the police on the phone. On trial the killer cynically stated: “The shot was unintentional, I slipped on the parquet.” In early January 1990, during a robbery in Tashkent, Maduev cold-bloodedly shot his accomplice, who was wounded during a skirmish with the owner of the apartment, a former prisoner.
On January 8, 1990, Chervonets was arrested at the railway station while trying to board the Tashkent-Moscow train. Four operatives captured the criminal right in the corridor of the train carriage. One of the policemen handcuffed his hand to Maduev’s. Suddenly the criminal grabbed a grenade from his pocket and tore the ring out of it with his teeth. He shouted that he would blow up the train and demanded a meeting with the Minister of Internal Affairs of Uzbekistan. He ordered the platform to be cleared, together with the hostage he entered the linear traffic police station and locked himself in one of the offices there. Chervonets demanded from the policeman strapped to him: “Get it in my breast pocket notebook and burn it.” The operative obediently complied with the criminal's demand. By this time, the deputy ministers and prosecutors of Uzbekistan had arrived at the station. There is a sniper lurking on the roof of a nearby building. A second riot police officer was on duty at the door. Choosing the right moment, the sniper shot Maduev in the hand. At the same time, another operative knocked down the door, grabbed a grenade and threw it into safe place. Fortunately, there was no explosion - the grenade turned out to be a training grenade. Thus ended the last day of freedom of thirty-five-year-old Sergei Maduev.
The investigation began. Maduev was transported from city to city several times due to the wide geography of his crimes. In Butyrki, Chervonets was in solitary confinement. A few months later, several tens of meters of rope and a noose were discovered there. Maduev did not hide his desire to break free. When he was transferred to the famous “Kresty”, he told the prison warden: “I left my grandmother, I left my grandfather. And I’ll leave here, and I’ll leave with you.” As time has shown, Chervonets almost did not fulfill his promise.
On May 3, 1991, at 7.30, Sergei Maduev was taken out of his cell in order to be transferred to Moscow. Approaching the table where the personal search of things was taking place, he pulled out a pistol and shot at the wall. Major Egorov tried to stop the criminal, but he shot him in the stomach. Having taken a hostage, Sergei Maduev managed to go out into the prison yard, where he was detained by prison guards.
The investigation into the escape attempt was headed by KGB Colonel Vladimir Georgiev. He acted under the cover of an operational investigative group, which was formally headed by Kruglov, an investigator from the Vyborg District Prosecutor's Office. Georgiev achieved the transfer of Maduev from “Kresty” to the KGB pre-trial detention center, and a special iron cage was created to contain the criminal. Maduev came to the first interrogation badly beaten. This is how the Krestov security “worked” on him during his arrest. The investigator was in no hurry to interrogate Maduev and, taking into account his state of health, took up operational work.
The examination established that when attempting to escape, the arrested person used the same weapon that was confiscated from him during his arrest in Tashkent. Only one of the members of Proshkin’s operational investigative group, which conducted the investigation of all Maduev’s criminal cases, could hand over the weapon to Maduev. This gun, along with other evidence, was kept in a sealed safe at the prosecutor's office. The circle of suspects turned out to be small - only 8-10 people. Soon, the investigation had information that shortly before the day of his escape, an unknown woman called Maduev’s sister and asked her to get a pistol for him. The main suspect, thanks to the established facts, became Natalya Vorontsova. But, despite the fact that a criminal connection between the prosecutor’s office investigator and Maduev was established, there was not a single direct evidence against Vorontsova. The decisive factor in this case was to be the testimony of Maduev himself.
Gradually Chervonets began to testify. At first, he stated that investigator Ryabinin had brought the pistol into the cell and described in detail the circumstances of this transaction. During the next interrogation, the investigator reproached Maduev for deliberately misleading the investigation. The criminal was incredibly surprised by this: “Did you really check?” Then it became clear that many investigators did not check his testimony, but simply filed it in the case. So gradually it swelled to 78 volumes, and the number of crimes charged against Maduev exceeded 60.
After a thorough check, it turned out that he could not have committed most of the crimes Maduev was accused of. Soon, Chervonets admitted that in Tashkent he was sent a “baby” in which authoritative people asked him to take upon himself all the crimes related to the weapons seized from him during his arrest. And out of gratitude, they promised to organize an escape.
Since Maduev still faced the death penalty, he easily “appropriated” for himself those robberies and murders that he did not commit. It soon became known that the people who promised him assistance in escaping were dead, and Maduev himself fell into a trap. He began to recant his testimony. But Colonel Proshkin did not want to listen to anything - he was already mentally trying on the general’s shoulder straps, having won the “trial of the century.”
Despite constant interrogations, Maduev refused to name the person who brought the pistol to his cell. But, having learned about his sister’s testimony, he stopped persisting and told the investigator: “In my life, I have never met women who could sacrifice their home, position, in a word, everything for me. Therefore, it seems that I began to experience sublime feelings for Vorontsova. I love this woman." But with each new interrogation, Maduev’s nobility melted before our eyes. Saving himself from the death penalty, he continued his revelations. First of all, Chervonets asked the investigator to meet with Vorontsova herself and offered to film everything on video. “You will understand everything yourself, I will try to persuade her to confess, but I can’t vouch for success,” said the criminal.
Natalya Vorontsova was asked to interrogate Maduev, explaining that he wanted to testify to her personally. Chervonets showed off in front of the camera, kissed the investigator’s hands, looked touchingly into her eyes, whispered something in her ear, but could not persuade her.
The next day, Natalya Vorontsova was arrested. During the search, they found a whole collection of photographs of Chervonets. The woman did not admit her guilt and began to write complaints to all authorities. Only after she was shown the footage did she admit everything and begin to testify. During interrogations, she refused to discuss her feelings with anyone.
At the trial, Vorontsova stated: “I was motivated only by a feeling of pity and justice. It seemed to me that there was too much pressure placed on this person.” In her closing remarks, Vorontsova said: “I apologize to those I have harmed. Especially from their parents and that victim. I also ask the press to leave me alone.” Natalya Leonidovna Vorontsova was dismissed from the authorities, and in 1992 the court sentenced her to seven years in prison.
After the trial of Vorontsova, Maduev began to discuss his relationship with the female investigator with obvious cynicism. “Vorontsova? “And what about Vorontsova,” he confessed, “isn’t she from this world?” The same as everyone else. He also wants to eat, wants to live well, wants happiness in his personal life. You can pick up a key for any person. I took advantage of Vorontsova’s feelings, but in my position there is no choice.”
Maduev's trial took place on July 10, 1995. The courthouse was guarded by a whole company of escort troops. In the outer cordon stood dog handlers with dogs and a number of machine gunners. Everyone entering the courtroom was checked with a hand-held metal detector. Evil tongues claimed that on the fourth day of the trial, someone tried to enter the hall with a Makarov pistol, hiding it in the video camera. If the court had spared the defendant’s life, dozens of victims and their relatives would have staged lynching against Maduev. There were rumors that an assassination attempt was being prepared on Chervonets and that they would try to kill him on the way to the courthouse or back to the pre-trial detention center.
But Sergei Maduev lived to see the verdict, which was read out over three days. When he was given the last word, the criminal asked to be left alive. He spoke calmly, without emotion. It seemed that last words pronounced not by a person, but by a machine. The chairman of the court, Lyudmila Sukhankina, put Maduev in the case last point. On the surviving video recording of this process, Chervonets stood up and met the words: “Sentenced to an exceptional measure - execution.” His face twitched barely noticeably, and he quietly said: “Thank you everyone, good luck and happiness,” and sat down on the bench. After the verdict was pronounced, the cage with the criminal was cordoned off by machine gunners. The lawyer, wanting to support his charge, approached the cage and said something encouraging. But this sentence never came into force. A moratorium on the death penalty was soon introduced.
The investigation into the case of Sergei Maduev dragged on for another four years. Chervonets was placed in another solitary cell and transferred to special treatment content. During this time, he tried to escape twice. In the second case, he was again helped by investigators from the prosecutor's office.
May 7, 1996 in Kalininsky district court A hearing began in the case of the Krestov employees who handed over weapons to Maduev. At their trial, Chervonets explained: “The people who helped me and are helping me are looking for benefits for themselves. This is not help, this is buying and selling - you give me, I give you. Only one person helped me unselfishly.”
Sergei Maduev died in 2000 in the Soliletsky colony “Black Dolphin” from an exacerbation of diabetes.
Natalya Vorontsova was released from prison, now lives in Zhitomir, got married. She tries not to think about Maduev and plans to write a book to reveal the truth about the “prison romance.” Although her case cannot be called completely completed, there are still too many questions and surprising coincidences.
Sergei Maduev had a single tattoo on his body: “If you love me, you will destroy yourself.” It turned out to be prophetic for Natalya Vorontsova, a former investigator General Prosecutor's Office USSR.
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In the cell, Natalya began to have health problems: she constantly held on high temperature and suddenly a lump appeared on my thigh. Prison doctors said that she was healthy and accused her of malingering. Only when a tumor formed at the site of the compaction was the prisoner taken to the medical unit. The operation to remove the tumor was performed in April. The doctors insisted on at least three days of observation in the hospital, but the investigation refused this. Within half an hour after the operation, Natalya was sent back to a cold, damp cell in the pre-trial detention center. Over the next months, Natalya very quickly turned from a healthy woman into a real wreck: her body became swollen, her knees stopped bending and her eyes almost couldn’t close. On July 21, she underwent a second operation and was then placed in the intensive care unit with a diagnosis of sepsis. The security, according to the instructions of the investigators, did not allow her to even give her hot broth, because according to the instructions, all food transfers must go through the pre-trial detention center. On August 9, Natalya died. She left behind two small sons - five-year-old Vanya and one-year-old Dima. They are now under the care of their grandparents - Dmitry's parents.
Free Press contacted Natalya's friend Vera Smolenskaya and asked for details of this scary story.
“Today Dima, Natasha’s husband, was allowed to come to her grave. Apparently, they took this step because the story caused a lot of noise in the city.- says Vera, - He was brought to the cemetery accompanied by four guards; he was handcuffed to one, as if, indeed, he was some kind of repeat offender. Dima's parents also drove up there, with him youngest son. He and Natasha had good family, neither better nor worse than others. They lived modestly. Therefore, even people who did not know them closely were surprised that Dima was declared the leader of the drug mafia. Some of our non-criminals live much richer lives. Natasha didn’t even go on maternity leave to care for the child; immediately after giving birth, she returned to work in our HOA, where she was the chairman. I remember how she waited for her salary every month: “Well, when already, when!” And the salary is 4 thousand rubles.
"SP":— Was she arrested as her husband’s accomplice?
- Yes, after Dima’s arrest, she immediately started active work. Natasha was literate, knew the laws and where to turn, after all, she graduated from the Institute of Management. She brought documents and looked for the right people, lawyers who could help her husband. When we met, Natasha told me that the investigators were threatening her that they would take her children away, and in a private conversation they promised to “roll both of them into asphalt.” This is how the nightmare began. She did not stop her activities, Dima never confessed, which is why, apparently, they decided to arrest her as an accomplice.
"SP":— Tell me, did Natalya have any health problems before her arrest?
“She gave birth to a child just six months before.” During pregnancy, women undergo all possible examinations and monitor their health as much as possible. They took her away healthy and beautiful. It’s impossible to describe how I saw her at the funeral: her whole body was a continuous purulent wound. Because of this, she was even buried in a closed black bag.
"SP":— Did her relatives and friends somehow try to help her?
“Dima’s parents met with her and she constantly complained to them that the temperature was not falling, that her whole body was aching and the tumor was growing. When she finally had the first operation and the tumor was removed, we simply could not believe that she was immediately sent back to the pre-trial detention center. The doctor himself told the investigators that this was dangerous. But apparently they don’t have a drop of mercy. Then she got worse. Together with Dima’s parents, we found specialist doctors who were ready to come to the pre-trial detention center with the necessary equipment and do necessary tests to understand what is happening to her. The investigation refused, citing the fact that the doctors we found could fabricate Natasha’s tests on our instructions.
"SP":— On July 19, Natalya had a trial to change the preventive measure, what condition was she in by that time?
“Then she started to swell all over.” Her eyes did not open, her legs did not bend. The judge asked her what was the matter, to which Natasha replied that I would also like to know what was happening to me, but no one was giving an answer. The judge looked at the file, and there was a certificate in it stating that she was healthy. That is, it turned out that she was a simulator. Although, it’s not clear what you can do to yourself to look like that. Her sentence was extended, after which the investigators themselves began taking her to doctors. Three days later, on July 21, she was taken to purulent surgery. Natasha underwent emergency surgery. The surgeon told the relatives: “I’m not God, I’ll try to do everything I can, but the situation is difficult.” And he added that to recover after the operation, she needs enhanced nutrition - juices, broths. For two days the guard allowed the transfers, but on the third he refused, citing a prohibition from the investigation. No one saw her alive again. She simply rotted alive.
"SP":— Do you see Natalya’s children?
— Yes, now Dima’s parents have taken custody of them and taken them in with them. The children do not yet understand what happened. Senior Vanechka recently came up to me and asked: “Where is my mother, haven’t you seen her today?” I say: “No, Vanechka, I didn’t see it.” And he told me: “She went to earn money. When he returns we will buy big car and we’ll fly into space on it.” I don’t know where the child got this from, but listening to him talk about his mother is very painful. I do not believe that Dima and Natasha are guilty. But in any case, even if the young woman is guilty of something, is it possible to treat her so inhumanely? While she was under investigation, she was obliged to provide medical care. Still law enforcement agencies must protect us.
Dmitry Vorontsov is still under investigation in a pre-trial detention center. His old, retired parents collect documents, look for lawyers, carry packages and take care of little Dima and Vanya. The children believe that mom and dad will return and they will be together again.
“Prison Romance” completed
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On December 10, “authority” Sergei Maduev died in an Orenburg prison - famous bandit and the prototype of the hero Abdulov in the film “Prison Romance”. Brought him to his grave incurable disease- diabetes mellitus.
It was amazing person and a truly unique criminal who loved life more than anything else. Although he spent most of it on the run or behind bars.
Sergei Maduev (aka Ali Filani, aka Sergei Li, aka Vladimir Shpak, aka Chervonets) was born in 1956 in a zone in Northern Kazakhstan, where the Chechens repressed by Stalin were exiled. Maduev's mother is Korean; she was tried several times for profiteering. The father is a Chechen, convicted of resisting the authorities.
Sergei, his brother and two sisters were brought up in orphanage. From the age of six, after his father abandoned his family, Sergei fed himself: he sold anasha, stood “on the sidelines.”
In 1974, for complicity in a group theft, he, 18 years old, was given his first 6 years in prison. He served from bell to bell and was released as an already established bandit, ready to rob and kill. He remained free for only a year and received new term- 15 years for murder.
In the zone, Maduev managed to withstand the attack of 12 criminals: the thieves clans of Tashkent and Tbilisi sentenced him to death for stealing their “common fund”. By this time, he was already called Chervonets - because he always paid taxi drivers with “ten”, regardless of the meter readings. Nevertheless, he did not intend to obey the laws of the world of thieves and called himself an “outlaw thief.”
Maduev was released in 1987, under an amnesty in honor of his 70th anniversary October Revolution, and ended up settling in Taldy-Kurgan. But he quickly went on the run. He organized a gang and began robbing underground millionaires. And in June 1989 he met with Roman Chernyshev, who has since become his constant partner.
In total, Maduev and his comrades committed more than 60 robberies and murders: in Novosibirsk, Grozny, Astrakhan, Leningrad, Rostov and Leningrad regions.
The gang led by Sergei Maduev committed the first murder in the city of Kamensk, Rostov region. The bandits entered the house of the Shalumov family and, threatening with weapons, began to demand money. Shalumov tried to escape and was killed. His wife Ella Chernyshev strangled. Then the bandits set fire to the house - the Shalumovs' son Misha burned alive.
Then Maduev and Chernyshev moved to Leningrad, where they robbed the director of a hosiery factory, the foreman of thimble makers and several co-operators.
On October 11, 1989, Maduev and Chernyshev attacked the apartment of Rosa Yurich, a “shady” businesswoman known in the St. Petersburg criminal world who traded gold. During the robbery, Yurich was seriously wounded and later died. Maduev did not kill anyone else who was in the apartment. Received 134 thousand rubles. and slowly left.
“I haven’t seen grief - love me,” the tattoo on his hand warned. They say he never took the last one. He could return the stolen goods with an apology, even leave a bouquet of flowers. He could, at the request of the victim, not take any things memorable for the person. Once he took pity on a pregnant woman and left her all the money he found in the apartment.
In 1990, he was caught again - in Tashkent at the railway station - and transported to Leningrad, to “Kresty”. During the arrest, Maduev, handcuffed to one of the policemen, suddenly grabbed a grenade and pulled out the pin with his teeth. But the operatives quickly got their bearings and shot him in the arm and threw the grenade out the door. Then Chernyshev died in a shootout.
And an operational-investigative team of ten people began working with Maduev. The investigation into his latest “arts” lasted four whole years.
It was in “Kresty” that he met the investigator of the prosecutor’s office for especially important cases, Natalya Vorontsova, charmed the woman and persuaded her to bring the revolver and cartridges that had been confiscated from him earlier. Vorontsova was so carried away by her defendant that she took him home to wash his clothes and removed materials from the case that, in her opinion, were “attributed” to Maduev.
But the carefully planned escape on May 3, 1991 failed. Chervonets managed to take one of the guards hostage, and seriously wounded Major Egorov with a shot in the stomach. However, the detention center staff were able to disarm him.
Surprisingly, before this, all his escapes were easy for him. In Astrakhan, he managed to smuggle a sharpened pin into his “solitude”; in Butyrka, a 30-meter rope with a noose...
In 1992, Natalya Vorontsova was sentenced to 7 years in prison. Now she has already been freed, her traces are lost somewhere in Ukraine.
Maduev tried to escape from “Kresty” twice more, and both times he was unsuccessful. By the way, junior inspectors of the pre-trial detention center helped him. Mine last escape Maduev tried to commit it in the fall of 1994 at 4 a.m., but was noticed by the controller. The inspector saw Maduev’s legs sticking out of the observation window of the cell. Due to the awkward position, Chervonets was unable to use his TT pistol.
On July 10, 1995, the St. Petersburg City Court sentenced Sergei Maduev to death. He was found guilty of 25 counts related to robbery, robbery, banditry, murder and attempted murder. The materials of his case took up 85 volumes. In total, Maduev received 2 “towers” (the prosecutor asked for 3), 70 years in prison with confiscation of property and compensation for damage to victims.
During the trial, the courtroom was guarded by eight soldiers of the convoy guard battalion, armed with AKS-74U machine guns and pistols, as well as an angry Rottweiler. The reading of the verdict took three days.
However, the sentence was not carried out due to the declared moratorium on the death penalty. Maduev for a long time was kept in the Novocherkassk prison, and on November 1, 2000 he was transferred to Orenburg, to the Sol-Iletsk colony. This zone, which prisoners have already dubbed “Black Dolphin,” will now be the only one in Russia for “lifers” and is already ready to accept more than 900 people at a time. Currently it houses 116 prisoners.
As the deputy head of the Sol-Iletsk colony, Alexander Kandalov, told us, prisoner Maduev, nicknamed Chervonets, was no different from other prisoners. The criminal “authority”, who has several “walks” into the zone and two daring escapes, was placed in a 3-person cell. Chervonets suffered from a severe form of diabetes since childhood and was therefore on bed rest. His cellmates - unsociable Caucasians - really didn’t like the fact that this “half-breed” was lying on his bunk on the day of his duty, pretending to be terminally ill. However, after a few weeks, the “authority” became very ill, and his cellmates also had to look after him.
Maduev passed away surprisingly quietly. On his last day, he gave up injections and pills and devoted himself to the epistolary genre. Chervonets drew up another application addressed to the head of the colony with a request to arrange for him a meeting with an FSB officer for extradition the last secrets national importance and began to write a letter to my sister in Achkhoy-Martan with greetings to my numerous Chechen relatives. In the evening I ate and went to bed, but did not wake up in the morning. The cause of death was stage 3 cardiovascular failure and diabetes mellitus.
Those who knew him in the colony say that numerous imprisonments undermined his health, but did not break his spirit. He was already walking with difficulty, but he really wanted to live and hoped to overcome the disease.
As for the sensational story with the seduced investigator, Maduev always assured in conversations that all this was a pure lie, and she brought the weapon into his cell for a decent amount of dollars. He loved only one woman, Tamara T., a witness in one of his cases. And she reciprocated: she not only paid for lawyers, but sent her own husband with parcels and even gave 37 scarlet roses to prison on Maduev’s 37th birthday.
Oleg Fochkin, Yulia Azman
Sergey Maduev and Natalya Vorontsova
I am interested in the love story - between the repeat offender Sergei Maduev and the investigator of the prosecutor's office for especially dangerous cases, Natalya Vorontsova.
Although love, as such, was only on one side. Natalya loved her, and Sergei divorced her (the film Prison Romance was based on this story).
In the name of love, Natalya Vorontsova committed a crime of office: she took Maduev’s weapon from the safe and gave it to him. He promised not to shoot and to give up the gun as soon as he was released.
The criminal nicknamed “Chervonets” did not keep his promise. During his escape, he seriously wounded a police major and was captured at the very gates of the prison.
What happened next? The prosecutor's office was racking their brains: who gave him the gun? Nobody thought about Natalya Vorontsova - she was too efficient, too impeccable. An ugly lonely woman who graduated from school with a gold medal and college with honors. How could she believe a criminal about whom not only criminal world, but all the investigators knew: he had a magical effect on women, and not one he had his eye on refused him. He had a tattoo on his arm: “I haven’t seen grief - love me.”
Young girls always stood under the windows of the prison and shouted out the windows: “Sergei!”
What did Natalya, an experienced investigator who worked in the prosecutor's office for 11 years, expect?
She knew about all Maduev’s affairs, she knew that he could mercilessly, on the move, kill a person. He had 60 crimes on his record, and in total they were worthy of execution.
This story once again confirms how we, women, crave love. And always: excellent students fall in love with bullies. Perhaps she had been dreaming about this meeting all her life, and what was it for her! – loss of reputation, job, freedom?
She saw only what she wanted to see and did not notice reality at all: he did not like her.
After a failed escape, Maduev betrayed her and handed her over, (although he could not have done this), he publicly declared that he did not love her - not for a single second, looked at her with hostility and wariness, perceived her as an enemy who was leading him to execution: at his there were too many victims to count.
If not for his confession, Natalya would never have been identified. But even after the confession, which stunned everyone, they did not believe him. And what did he propose then? Install a video camera in her office and organize a meeting for them. The video camera was installed and the meeting was organized. In it, he calmly “talked” to his mistress, kissed and hugged her, as if unaware of the shooting. Suspecting nothing, Natalya behaved as all women who have lost their heads in love behave. This video became fatal evidence, she was given 7 years.
For a long time I could not understand: how could he seduce her? How?
And suddenly I understood, as if I saw the whole scenario that he played out, like clockwork.
The transparent curtains parted, and on the stage was the investigator’s office. A nondescript woman with glasses sat at the table; opposite, the criminal sat a little cheekily and at ease.
During the interrogation, he casually said that all his life he had dreamed of a woman who would wait for him all his life. Smart, educated, and let her not be beautiful, so that he would be calmer. How tired he was of cute little fools with whom there was nothing to talk about (Sergei was very well read).
He would write letters to her every day, call her and coo into the receiver (he had a cell phone in prison). Let her not bring him anything, let her come so that he can kiss her hands.
Next, Sergei casts a quick and tenacious glance at her, and seems to forget about his words, a little ashamed of them: he reads poetry, asks Natalya: what she read, what she loves. There is amazement, delight, admiration for her. Here she is: an educated and intelligent woman, whom I have dreamed of since childhood. He looks at her with wide open eyes (his eyes are amazing).
And what about Natalya? There is no husband, no children, age is running out. Male colleagues don’t court her or give her compliments, and yet she is the only woman in the prosecutor’s office. She dreams of passionate love, but she dresses terribly, doesn’t put on makeup, and outwardly, she looks more like a man than a woman. The work, whatever you say, left its mark. IN real life She would never have bewitched such a handsome man, and if this had happened, he would certainly have cheated on her or abandoned her, which she would not have survived.
And here it is, the only option when the dream can come true: a man loves her. Let it go! – he’s in prison, let him! – his hands are stained with blood, but he won’t be able to change her. There will be: letters, calls, she will go on dates with him, give birth to a son (Sergei was supposed to be transferred to a prison located in another city). Life will be filled with meaning, colors and sounds and aromas will appear in it. And about the blood-stained hands, Natalya will convince herself that many crimes were attributed to him. Well, whoever, and she knows very well how it happens: so that there are no unclosed cases, they blame everything on someone who, anyway, is guaranteed a life sentence or execution.
It is impossible for her to find such a man, but also for him - a devoted and faithful woman. She believed. After all, he doesn’t ask her for anything.
Love lasts and lasts, because no one imposed a ban on interrogations: 23 volumes were compiled on Maduev. And this is where it begins final act, and Maduev plays simply masterfully. He plays like God, or rather, like a Demon. He tells the woman in love that he can no longer and wants to go to prison. Until I met her, I could sit, but now I can’t. He now knows exactly what he wants: to give her flowers, sleep in bed with her, go on vacation with her. Maduev plays hysterics, does not eat or drink, and refuses interrogations. He threatens to commit suicide and, in fact, he is almost taken off the loop in his cell. Earnestly?!
Natalya is in despair. She doesn't know what to do, she's just mad. And he, like a cat and a mouse, continues the game: “I don’t want to live.”
She herself offers him a gun. He refuses, waves his hands and rolls his eyes: “Are you crazy? Do you want to destroy yourself ? And you thought about me!!!”
I believe that she literally persuades him to take the gun. He makes him promise not to shoot at anyone. He definitely has a pistol, right, Sergei? - will return it to her after the escape, because she took control of him. How did Natalya (who saw the corpses of the people he killed, a child) believe that he would not shoot?
Women love with their ears . If Maduev – he repeated several times – that he would die without her – and I would believe...
The escape was unsuccessful, she was shown a video where Maduev betrayed her. They showed his testimony, where he admits that he scammed her, acted like a scoundrel, but he had no other choice - he was afraid of being shot...
“Well, is she not of this world? Didn’t you understand what you were doing?” - he will tell reporters.
She will serve seven years and leave prison alive and well. What is absolutely surprising: police officers do not survive in prisons.
After everything that happened, Maduev did not live long: he would die in his sleep...
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