About the book: 2024 / Internet hit! “Russian Billy Milligan” Svetlana Bogacheva deceived her victims for years, immersing them in the world of made-up characters. At the end of 2022, the Russian Internet exploded with the story of stand-up comedian Tanya Shchukina: the girl admitted that she had become a victim of her friend Svetlana Bogacheva. Tanya lent her huge sums for treatment for three years, looked after her around the clock, communicated with her doctor, psychotherapist and named daughter, and provided support after the death of loved ones. In fact, these people, illnesses and events did not exist: Svetlana came up with 11 virtual personalities to tie your victim to yourself, create a fictional reality around her and completely control her life. To maintain her legend, Svetlana, a doctor by profession, forged medical documents, inflicted fractures on herself and caused necrosis with injections. Over three years of friendship, Svetlana surrounded Tanya with a fictitious reality, took control of her finances, ruined her health and psyche, isolated her from friends and forced her to emigrate. Tanya Shchukina's book is an incredible and frightening story about how methodically a swindler can turn your life into hell. Even if before that you were sure: “This won’t happen to me.” DANILA POPERECHNY (recognized as a foreign agent in Russia), stand-up comedian: “If I myself had not been a direct participant in the events, I would have decided that the author was greatly embellishing! An incredible story that was trumpeted all over the Internet and which really happened to my friend.” ALEXANDER NEZLOBIN, stand-up comedian: “When I first heard this story, I immediately thought that it was worthy of a film adaptation on Netflix! I am very glad that the book appeared. She will shock you, but she will teach you not to get into such situations».