Investigations: Secrets and Truths
Born into a world of secrets and divided loyalties, herself being a ‘disappeared’ child with changed identity, Seraphina naturally felt inclined to similar real life historical and fictional events. With the time, the inclination grew into actions translated into historical detective investigations and solving of literal mysteries.
A Guilty Conscience or A 'Mysterious Daughter' (2025) is a mini investigation leading to discovery a hidden sister and a twin brother's deception. The investigation is based on the analysis of the death certificate of Aurélia Micheline Evelyn (DRUON).
The investigation is a part of the bigger story, concerning the mystery of Seraphina's background, ancestral roots, and the clandestine romantic affair of her biological parents.
‘Твой ход!’ или ‘ПЕРВАЯ-Второй-Третья..’ (2025) is a mini investigation based on the analysis and comparisons of the information contained in the documents and French act papers sent to Seraphina by a certain Michel CANTON.
The investigation is a part of the bigger story concerning the mystery of Seraphina's background, ancestral roots, and the clandestine romantic affair of her biological parents.
The investigation uncovers the scheme of Seraphina's twin brother disguised as an amateur genealogist.
'Georgy at the Crossroads or Rasputin Georg' (2025) is a genuinely disturbing story which constitutes a part of the elaborate deception scheme. The investigation focuses on a certain Georgyi Velmogin, a hired by Seraphina's twin brother 'bully' who performed surveillance with elements of online trolling, using fake social media accounts, and possibly dark net.
Georgyi Velmogin was an accomplice of Seraphina's brother whose manipulative scheme described in 'A Secret Affair of The Twin'.
Georgiy Velmogin is an example of a "male aggressor/troll" who uses harassment tactics, boundary violations, and persistent contact to wear a person down and gather intelligence.
'A Secret Affair of The Twin' is a part of the bigger ancestry related investigation that concerns Seraphina's birth and background. It is also indirectly related to the mini investigation 'My Comrade Baron' (2023).
'A Secret Affair of The Twin' is deeply personal investigation which uncovers a covert scheme of Seraphina's twin brother and his attempt to build a connection based on his ulterior motive of trying to find out more information about Seraphina's and his biological father, but without the risk of true relationship. Seraphina's investigation revealed her brother's surveillance disguised as help, including the creation of fake identities to get close to her, and her brother's repeated deflection when directly confronted.
The lesson of this particular story is - real connection requires vulnerability, honesty, and the willingness to be seen for who you actually are.
In the autumn of 2023, Seraphina was prompted to look into the Romanovs disappearance case. At first, she was reluctant to approach the subject, as she felt that the officially fabricated storyline was an unpleasant reminder of her own real life experience. Overcoming her initial fear and reluctance, Seraphina dived into the maze of ‘official’ story lines, available pieces of information and scattered across different archives Soviet documentation. Using available material, her reading between the lines and psychological skills to reconstruct certain events leading to Romanovs’ disappearance, Seraphina was able to demonstrate that a 100 year murder mystery was a carefully fabricated official version that stemmed from demanding political pressure on the Soviet government in 1918. The astounding results of her private investigation Seraphina revealed in a series of articles published on Medium platform under the common title ‘The In-Famous Romanovs’.
The articles of the series (the series is still ongoing):
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'My Comrade Baron' was a mini investigation inspired by the story shared with Seraphina by Anthony Gurney (Australia), a 'cousin' and one of the people who appeared in Seraphina's life as a part of the group of mysterious personages who made their appearance in June 2023 three months after Seraphina had publicly published her mother's Family Tree. Their half a year email exchanges led to Seraphina's publishing the mini investigative articles:
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'My Comrade Baron' - A Castle, A Private Train, and a Franciscan Monk. (Part One)
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'My Comrade Baron' - ‘A Foster Child, Securitate, and the ‘Star of David’. (Part Two)
'Menabilly, My Love' (2021)
In 2021, Seraphina started working on a series of non-fiction essays under the title 'Menabilly, My Love...' In essence, a literary detective investigation focused on analysing and decoding of the text of the phycological thriller ‘Rebecca’ (1938) by Daphne du Maurier.
Having a special lens of her own background allowing for a different vision, Seraphina was able see that the story 'Rebecca' is, in fact, an encoded record of tragic events associated with real life people - Jonathan Rashleigh, and plentiful riddles connected to the Rashleigh family and their Cornwall estate, Menabilly, that served Daphne du Maurier as an inspiration for drawing the fictional Manderley.
As in Seraphina’s case of tapping into her own subconscious for drawing her main characters of My Trickster (2011) and Головоломка/Puzzled (2013) book, Daphne du Maurier, while writing her most famous book, accessed the collective subconscious, mixing fictional events of her book with real life events of the place she had spent years observing from a far, and admiring.
The particular attention is paid to the symbolism and coded meanings of the content, including words, phrases, and sentences, as well as inversion and mirroring techniques of story-telling.
The articles of the series: