The wife of a Ukrainian pianist, who killed her daughters in the United States, escaped prison and execution.

34-year-old Sophia Tsygankova, spouse of the famous Ukrainian pianist Vadim Kholodenko, was acquitted by a Texas state court after being charged with murdering her own daughters. The woman was declared insane and decided to be transferred to a psychiatric hospital. Two years ago, Tsygankova strangled her young daughters with pillows, after which she tried to commit suicide, but managed to save her.

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Kholodenko and Tsygankova got married in 2010, but five years later they filed for divorce. The media notes that due to insanity a woman can stay in the hospital until the end of her days. For the first time, the disease began to manifest itself in Gypsy at the age of 18 years, writes Life.ru. She became aggravated after parting with her husband, who changed his wife with a mutual friend.

In March, 2016, the court of the Texas city of Fort Worth, held the first short meeting, at which 31-year-old Sofia Tsygankova refused to plead guilty to the murder of her young daughters Nika and Michela. The charge was officially filed by Tsygankova the day before, says Air force. If found guilty, the death penalty was threatened, which is much more extensive in Texas than in most other states.

In November, 2015, Vadim, the winner of the competition. Van Cliburn 2013, filed for divorce. A similar suit was soon filed by Tsygankova. After that, she and her daughters lived in a two-story apartment in Benbrook, and Vadim rented a hotel room, but every morning she visited the girls.

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"My wife is going crazy"

According to information from the police report, on the morning of Thursday, March 17, Kholodenko, as always, drove up to Tsygankova’s house to take five-year-old Nika to school. The door was not locked. When he entered, he saw his wife kneeling in the kitchen. She was wearing a bloody nightgown and had a cut on her wrist and a puncture wound on her chest.

Kholodenko went upstairs and found Nika’s body in the nursery, and next to it was a pillow brought from the master’s bedroom. In the bedroom, Kholodenko saw one-year-old Michela in the cradle, who also showed no signs of life. Her face was partially covered by another pillow. Some discharge was later found on both pillows.

Kholodenko called the police and said: “My wife is going crazy.” When officers arrived, they found her still on her knees, “rocking back and forth and making noises.” Two large knives lay nearby, one with traces of blood. A local medical examiner noted that the girls showed signs of violent death. They appeared to have been smothered with pillows, according to the police report.

From the report it follows that in the past, Tsygankova turned to psychiatrists, and the day before her daughters she visited a psychiatric clinic in Fort Worth. An empty vial from the neuroleptic quetiapine, prescribed for manic-depressive psychosis and schizophrenia, was found in her home. Three more vials of anti-depressant and sedative were found in the bathroom.

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“Have I done anything wrong with the children?”

These were the words the woman suddenly uttered, addressing the police who detained her. Tsygankova is now under observation in the medical department of the local prison. When asked at the hospital about the cause of her injuries, she said: “I think I committed suicide.” She remembered cutting herself with a knife and taking a bunch of pills. According to the report, “she said she didn’t want to live anymore.”

In her car Ford Focus found blood-stained sheets. Under the rear bumper lay a suitcase that propped rags tucked into the exhaust pipe.

In addition to the mother, the last person who saw the girls alive was their nanny, Lyudmila Madmusayeva. Tsygankova showed that when she returned home around 9 on the evening of last Wednesday, the nanny had already laid Mikela to bed and put her pajamas on Nick. Mother let her go and put Nick to bed.

More she, in her words, does not remember anything.

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