In A Russian Family, A Dark-Skinned Child Was Born: Convinced That His Wife Had Cheated On Him With Someone Exotic, The Husband Packed His Things And Disappeared.
Marina Yuryeva’s birth of a dark-skinned son stunned her husband, Igor, sparking suspicion of infidelity. Enraged, he left, believing a local African, Fabien, was involved. Rumors fueled his anger, leading him to confront Fabien with a crowbar. Meanwhile, Marina was attacked and pushed down stairs, her baby left unharmed. Police arrested Igor, suspecting him of the assault. An alibi from Natalya Rudinskaya, a Communist Party official, cleared him, hinting at her hidden motives. Blood tests revealed the baby wasn’t theirs—switched at birth. Dr. Evgenia
Baryshnikova and midwife Irina Sonicheva died mysteriously, linked to intern Fyodor Shapoval, hired by Rudinskaya to cover her plot. Driven by love for Igor, she orchestrated the switch to break his marriage, but it backfired. The court sentenced Rudinskaya to seven years and Shapoval to death. The Yuryevs reclaimed their child, while Fabien adopted the switched baby, abandoned by its biological mother.
