Great Mysteries - Investigations
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. To Seraphina's mind, the most intriguing of such mysteries happen to be The Mystery of the Romanovs Disappearance and The Mystery of the Menabilly estate owned by Rashleighs.
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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'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: