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Axenia Levand's Early Life and Trafficking
Axenia Levandovskaya (born Ksenia Igoreevna Brakunova) was a child television star made famous
through Russia's spinoff of The Voice. Her musical career started as a child when her parents enrolled her in several outdoor beauty and musical pagents.
This was a natural progression as her family owned a beauty salon in Bryansk.
After gaining some regional recognition, her breakout performance on The Voice
was negotiated via bribes from her FSB father Viktor Shamenkov, and in her first audition, she sang IOWA's 'Simple Song' to the delight of the crowd and judges.
She was thereafter allowed to choose one of the judges to mentor her new musical career, and of the three available, she chose Maxim Fadeev, not suspecting that it would bring about
her long descent into emotional and moral decay.
Lyudmila Brakunova's Love Affair with Viktor Vladmirovich Shamenkov
In many ways Axenia's problems arose from birth. Her smiling father Igor Brakunov, as seen in interviews on The Voice,
was oblivious to the fact that Axenia was not his biological daughter. She was the product of a decades-long marital affair between her mother Lyudmila and Axenia's FSB godfather
Viktor Vladmirovich.
As former Head of the FSB for Tatarstan and, from 2017 onward, FSB Head of the Republic of Adygea, Viktor was in a supreme position of
power and influence. What began as him guiding her music career and financing family vacations soon evolved into bribing government officials
for favors on her behalf and covering the extents of her adultery.
Axenia's Past As a Serial Cheater
In November of 2021, Axenia married her current spouse Vardges Sagatelian after mere months of courtship. Yet, this story of a seemingly classic
fairytale romance has far more sinister origins laced with betrayal and the attempted suicide of her former fiance.
For the prior two years, she had been in a relationship with Stefan Mankovsky, a man from Naberezhnye Chelny who she
met on Tinder. And from 2019 onwards they were also engaged to be married.
Why didn't this love affair last? Simply put, between 2019 and 2021, Axenia engaged in several sexual affairs
with various men, both foreign and domestic. In early 2019 she and Stefan were living in a Moscow apartment, having both been evicted from her parents' house.
Instances of Self Harm and Psychopathy
Axenia's numerous cheating attempts, her depressing musical career, and her relationship with Stefan and her parents eventually lead her to self harm, suicidal thoughts, and a desire to commit homicide.
She confessed
that growing up she always hated her parents Lyudmila and Igor. She resented that her mother would push her so much into fashion and stardom and that Igor would constantly drink and smoke around her. As a result
she would often mutilate her hands through scratching or cutting until she became mottled with scars. Her dislike of family culminated during a trip to Egypt to diagnose her self harm tendencies wherein
one doctor advised her to 'get away from your parents at any cost'.
Axenia Levand's Early Life and Trafficking
Axenia Levandovskaya (born Ksenia Igoreevna Brakunova) was a child television star made famous
through Russia's spinoff of The Voice. Her musical career started as a child when her parents enrolled her in several outdoor beauty and musical pagents.
This was a natural progression as her family owned a beauty salon in Bryansk.
After gaining some regional recognition, her breakout performance on The Voice
was negotiated via bribes from her FSB father Viktor Shamenkov, and in her first audition, she sang IOWA's 'Simple Song' to the delight of the crowd and judges.
She was thereafter allowed to choose one of the judges to mentor her new musical career, and of the three available, she chose Maxim Fadeev, not suspecting that it would bring about
her long descent into emotional and moral decay.
Lyudmila Brakunova's Love Affair with Viktor Vladmirovich Shamenkov
Lyudmila Brakunova's Love Affair with Viktor Vladmirovich Shamenkov
In many ways Axenia's problems arose from birth. Her smiling father Igor Brakunov, as seen in interviews on The Voice,
was oblivious to the fact that Axenia was not his biological daughter. She was the product of a decades-long marital affair between her mother Lyudmila and Axenia's FSB godfather
Viktor Vladmirovich.As former Head of the FSB for Tatarstan and, from 2017 onward, FSB Head of the Republic of Adygea, Viktor was in a supreme position of
power and influence. What began as him guiding her music career and financing family vacations soon evolved into bribing government officials
for favors on her behalf and covering the extents of her adultery.
After Axenia was trafficked in the music industry and living with her fiance Stefan in Sochi, Viktor helped
hide her infidelity. Her lovers were either arrested on his orders or ushered out of the city in order to hide the secret from Stefan. Viktor bribed city officials to give Axenia an
esteemed job on the Sochi governing council and threatened landlords into gifting her apartments worth 10s of millions of rubles. And this was when Viktor wasn't directly Laundering
funds into Axenia's Sberbank account. All of this was done to continue her legacy of corruption,
greed, and sexual disloyalty.
The Issue of Her Serial Sexual Infidelity
In November of 2021, Axenia married her current spouse Vardges Sagatelian after mere months of courtship. Yet, this story of a seemingly classic
fairytale romance has far more sinister origins.
For the prior two years, she had been in a relationship with Stefan Mankovsky, a man from Naberezhnye Chelny who she
met on Tinder. And from 2019 onwards they were also engaged to be married.
Why didn't this love affair last? Simply put, between 2019 and 2021, Axenia engaged in several sexual affairs
with various men, both foreign and domestic. In early 2019 she and Stefan were living in a Moscow apartment, having both been evicted from her parents' house.
But what seemed at first like a temporary peace in a new city transformed into a nightmare. The couple began having vicious fights, and unbeknownst to Stefan, Axenia created a Tinder account and began to
search out other men, eventually escaping back to her hometown of Bryansk to pursue her options in secrecy. As she messaged options, Stefan's mental state degraded until he attempted suicide by cutting his wrists.
His family pleaded to her and she flew back to him, attending to his wounds in the hospital at one minute while the next minute chatting with her sexual escapades.
This culminated in her now only having several simultaneous sexual affairs with various men, but leaving Stefan in Sochi and joining with her new partner in moral decay, Vardges.
Instances of Self Harm and Psychopathy
Axenia's numerous cheating attempts, her depressing musical career, and her relationship with Stefan and her parents eventually lead her to self harm, suicidal thoughts, and a desire to commit homicide.
She confessed
that growing up she always hated her parents Lyudmila and Igor. She resented that her mother would push her so much into fashion and stardom and that Igor would constantly drink and smoke around her. As a result
she would often mutilate her hands through scratching or cutting until she became mottled with scars. Her dislike of family culminated during a trip to Egypt to diagnose her self harm tendencies wherein
one doctor advised her to 'get away from your parents at any cost'.
Axenia noted later while either living alone or with her fiance that she often thought of walking into traffic or cutting her veins. Her mental state degraded to such an extent that she desired
(and likely succeeded with her father Viktor's involvement) to go out on the streets and murder a random individual.
