Deadly beautiful. Why are Russian children dying in China?

It is known that 14-year-old Vlada Dziuba was urgently hospitalized. She was in a coma for two days and on Friday, October 27, it became known that she had died in the hospital. It’s too early to talk definitively about the causes of the tragedy, as the investigation is underway, but earlier in the press they wrote that Vlada Dzyuba allegedly worked for 13 hours in a row, exceeding the norm, and her agents did not take out the necessary medical insurance. There was also a comment from the model's mom about the tragedy.

She calls, says: "I'm so tired, I worked 13 hours, I want to sleep." She was already sick, and then the temperature began. I did not sleep, I called her all the time to go to the hospital.

It is known that Vlada Dzyuba started her own at the age of 12. After a year of study, the girl with might and main participated in shows and starred for glossy covers in Permian magazines. And she dreamed of going abroad to work. In the spring of 2017, having received a passport, the aspiring model signed her first contract and flew to China. Here is what they said in the agency, from which Vlada Dziuba allegedly flew to Shanghai.

Our agency does not conduct financial activities and does not send models to work, we can only provide consulting and informational support. Vlada herself was looking for options where she could go to work. China suited her, since teenage girls usually work as models in this country.

We know how it all happened. On October 25, during a fashion show of famous oriental designers, the girl became ill. With a temperature of 40, she was admitted to the hospital, and two days later she died from an acute meningococcal infection. According to preliminary data, the cause of Vlada's death was multiple organ failure against the background of an infectious lesion of the nervous system and sepsis. Previously, they also wrote that the model suffered from meningitis, complicated by severe exhaustion. The director of the agency, with whom Vlada collaborated, refutes the information about the allegedly hard slave labor of his wards.

They write that the girl worked for 13 hours during Fashion Week. And it was because of this overwork that she died. But Fashion Week ended on October 18th. And the whole story with this model began only on the 24th. And she died on October 27th. So there is no connection between fatigue and her death. And the agency reports are completely wrong.

At the same time, surrounded by Vlada, they say that she grew up as an absolutely healthy child and did not have any chronic diseases. After the death of a Russian woman in a clinic in Shanghai, the question arose about her medical insurance, which she did not have. Why a minor child flew to work abroad without medical insurance at the height of the school year, special authorities are investigating.

We will definitely let you know how the investigation ends, so stay tuned.

On October 27, Vlada Dzyuba, a 14-year-old model from Perm, died in Shanghai. The girl came to the Celestial Empire under a contract, which she allegedly independently concluded with a Chinese modeling agency. The Perm woman was preparing to take part in the fashion show of famous oriental designers, but she did not appear on the podium one of the days of her stay in China. The true cause of death of Vlada Dzyuba is not exactly clear today. The medical report of Chinese doctors says that the girl died from insufficiency and an infectious lesion of the nervous system.

But, only Russian investigators and relatives of the deceased do not believe in the conclusion of doctors. After all, initially the doctors made a different diagnosis - meningitis. Vlada's mother thinks that her daughter died from overwork.

On October 25, Vlada began to feel unwell, her body temperature rose, and the girl was hospitalized by Chinese doctors. A few days later, on November 27, the Perm woman was gone. The initial version of Dzyuba's poor health is a meningococcal infection, but there are rumors that the girl could have been poisoned by her envious people. The mother of the young fashion model is sure that her daughter was driven to death by an exhausting work schedule.

She often complained to me that she wanted to sleep. She said she was very tired. I was very worried about my daughter, I asked her to go to the doctor. We constantly kept in touch via Skype,” says the heartbroken mother of Vlada Dziuba. She believes that the cause of the girl's death is overwork.

The director of the Chinese modeling agency, where the deceased girl worked, does not agree that the Perm woman died from a busy work schedule.

- It's an accident. Vlada became ill between shows: on October 24 there was a photo shoot, and the next day - a very important show. Before the show, the girl's body temperature rose to 40 degrees and she was immediately taken to a Shanghai hospital. We were all very worried about the girl, because she had never complained about feeling unwell before, ”recalls Vlada’s employer.

According to some reports, the photo shoot for the jewelry catalog, which the director of the 14-year-old model spoke about, lasted 13 hours. Perhaps the long shooting played a role in the sharp deterioration in the health of the teenager.

Later, doctors denied the information that Vlada died of meningitis. The cause of Dzyuba's death was multiple organ failure, sepsis and an infectious lesion of the nervous system.

Model career

14-year-old Vlada Dziuba worked in the modeling business for only two years. In Perm, the girl worked at the Great Model agency. The art director of the modeling agency Elvira Zaitseva spoke about how the girl began her career:

- Vlada had to work hard at the initial stage. When she first came to us, she was very shy and hunched over. In general, there were enough teenage complexes, ”Zaitseva recalls.

The girl was brought to the modeling school by her mother, who worked as an editor of one of Perm's glossy magazines.

After a year of study, her modeling career took off: Vlad began to be invited to participate in various fashion shows. Photos of the young fashion model are increasingly published in the popular glossy magazines of Perm. In 2016, Dziuba took first place and the title of "Top Model" in the "Young Beauty of Perm" contest.

Elvira Zaitseva is sure that the cause of Vlada Dziuba's death is an accident.

- I know that Vlada complained to her mother about being very tired, probably by this time she was already sick. If you work with poor health, then any schedule is difficult to bear. There are no guilty people in this tragedy - this is an accident, ”Zaitseva said in an interview with reporters.

Vlad did not have health insurance

The fact that the 14-year-old model did not have health insurance in a foreign country could also play a role in the girl's death. This also explains the fact that Dziuba categorically did not want to turn to doctors for help when she felt unwell.

The culprit for the fact that the schoolgirl was in China without proper health insurance is a modeling agency. Vlada signed a three-month contract with foreigners - with a well-known Chinese organization. But, for some unknown reason, they did not provide their employee with a full social package.

It turns out that when the teenager became ill, she was taken to a Shanghai hospital without any documents. Did the doctors see the patient without health insurance on time? There is no answer to this question. Perhaps the lost time that the doctors needed for the formalities could have saved the dying girl.

Russian diplomats are now trying to understand the events of those days, to establish the true cause of the illness of a young Perm woman. For some time, the issue of paying for Vlada's stay in the clinic remained open, those few days in which specialists from the Celestial Empire tried to save her.

But then the media announced that the Chinese modeling agency, with which Dzyuba had a contract, paid for the treatment. The agents had to pay $800 in medical bills.

Vlada's mother urgently began to apply for a visa and a passport, even when she first heard from her daughter about fatigue. The woman wanted to help Vlada, to be with her at a difficult moment, to hold her and turn to foreign doctors together. It would not have been possible to pick up the girl right away, since the contract signed for three months excluded the possibility of leaving China for that time.

In the process of preparing documents, Vlada's mother learns about her daughter's death. Now she is preparing to take the body home. Relatives and acquaintances of the young fashion model, who died in a foreign country in pursuit of a dream, collected funds to transport Dzyuba's body to her homeland. But later it was decided to cremate the schoolgirl's body in China, and then transport the girl's ashes to Russia.

Second strike

After Vlada Dzyuba passed away, another grief happened in the family of the young fashion model: the uncle of the schoolgirl died. The man died in the hospital from pneumonia after much suffering. Vlada's mother is having a hard time getting over the second blow of fate - the fees to China for the cremation of her dead daughter had to be postponed.

Farewell to the young managed to be postponed for a while - Vlada's mother asked the Chinese side to postpone the cremation, as the funeral of Dziuba's own uncle is ahead.

Who sent a young model to a foreign country

14-year-old Vlada signed a contract with the Chinese side for a four-hour filming day. That is the number of hours of work that both the Russian side and China require by law. Who allowed the child to work more than expected - the Perm law enforcement agencies will understand this. And also, investigators and prosecutors will check the modeling agencies of both countries for negligence in relation to a minor girl.

Despite the fact that modeling agencies consider the cause of Vlada Dzyuba's death an accident, investigators see a crime in the incident. A criminal case has been initiated under the article “Causing death by negligence due to improper performance by a person of his professional duties”.

The Investigative Committee for the Perm Territory has already seized all the documents of the Perm modeling agency, in which the deceased Vlada began her career. Zaitseva, who was the director of the schoolgirl, claims that she did not send the girl to China. She does not send her models to work abroad at all, but only advises and provides informational support.

- Vlada herself was looking for a good paid job as a model. Her choice fell on China, because this country mainly works with teenage girls. And their conditions are not bad enough,” Zaitseva told reporters.

Vlada Dzyuba's teachers were against her departure

The teachers of the 14-year-old girl told reporters that they were initially against Vlada's career. They felt like they were in trouble.

- We all the teaching staff did not want Vlada to go abroad. The girl studied well, but the modeling career took her a lot of time, there were frequent absences from school. We met with Vlada's mother and asked her not to let the girl go to China to work. But they didn’t listen to us, ”shared one of the teachers of the deceased Dziuba.

Before leaving for the Celestial Empire for fashion shows, the schoolgirl assured her mother and teachers that she would definitely catch up with the entire program upon her return, which would be missed. After all, her dream was so close - Vlada dreamed of fashion shows of famous brands, she wanted only the most famous catwalks in the world. And studies could wait, in the spring the girl was engaged in distance education, which her mother also approved. The primary goal of the schoolgirl was a career. But it led to a sad outcome.

On October 27, 14-year-old model from Perm, Vlada Dziuba, died in Shanghai. The news about the tragedy appeared in all major Russian and Chinese media, it was argued that the cause of the death of the girl could be too much workload and negligence of the host. The magazine collected everything that is known at the moment about this tragedy, and also learned how Chinese Internet users reacted to it.

After the girl's death, it was reported in the Russian press that Daria was the victim of a "slave contract" and died after a 13-hour show at Shanghai Fashion Week. Zheng Yi, CEO of host modeling agency ESEE, refuted these claims in a statement to the Global Times: “Vlada Dziub's death has nothing to do with the Shanghai show, as it ended the week before. She legally worked 8 hours a day during her contract stay in China.”

Daria spent 60 days in China and worked legally, according to What's on Weibo. The girl felt ill while shooting for a clothing catalog in, after which she returned to, and was hospitalized in the intensive care unit of the Rui Jin (瑞金) hospital, where she died on Friday, October 27th. According to the results of the autopsy, the cause of death was septicopyemia, a form of sepsis.

The Perm woman was preparing to take part in the fashion show of famous oriental designers, but she did not appear on the podium one of the days of her stay in China. The true cause of death of Vlada Dzyuba is not exactly clear today. The medical report of Chinese doctors says that the girl died from insufficiency and an infectious lesion of the nervous system.

But only Russian investigators and relatives of the deceased do not believe in the conclusion of doctors. After all, initially doctors put a different diagnosis - meningitis. Vlada's mother thinks that her daughter died from overwork.

Vlad Dziuba

She often complained to me that she wanted to sleep. She said she was very tired. I was very worried about my daughter, I asked her to go to the doctor. We constantly kept in touch via Skype, - says the heartbroken mother of Vlada Dziuba. She believes that the cause of the girl's death is overwork.

The director of the Chinese modeling agency, where the deceased girl worked, does not agree that the Perm woman died from a busy work schedule.

This is an accident. Vlada became ill between shows: on October 24 there was a photo shoot, and the next day - a very important show. Before the show, the girl's body temperature rose to 40 degrees and she was immediately taken to a Shanghai hospital. We were all very worried about the girl, because she had never complained about feeling unwell before, - recalls Vlada's employer.

Vlad Dzyuba at a photo shoot

Later, doctors denied the information that Vlada died of meningitis. The cause of Dzyuba's death was multiple organ failure, sepsis and an infectious lesion of the nervous system.

14-year-old Vlada Dziuba worked in the modeling business for only two years, Komandir reports. In Perm, the girl worked at the Great Model agency. The art director of the modeling agency Elvira Zaitseva spoke about how the girl began her career:

Vlada Dzyuba collaborated with the agency

Vlada had to work hard at the initial stage. When she first came to us, she was very shy and hunched over. In general, there were enough teenage complexes, - Zaitseva recalls.

The girl was brought to the modeling school by her mother, who worked as an editor of one of Perm's glossy magazines.

Elvira Zaitseva is sure that the cause of Vlada Dziuba's death is an accident.

Elvira Zaitseva is sure that the cause of death is an accident.

I know that Vlada complained to her mother about being very tired, probably by this time she was already sick. If you work with poor health, then any schedule is difficult to bear. There are no guilty people in this tragedy - this is an accident, ”Zaitseva said in an interview with reporters.

Vlada Dziuba did not have insurance

Russian diplomats are now trying to understand the events of those days, to establish the true cause of the illness of a young Perm woman. For some time, the issue of paying for Vlada's stay in the clinic for the few days in which specialists from the Celestial Empire tried to save her remained open.

But then the media announced that the Chinese modeling agency, with which Dzyuba had a contract, paid for the treatment. The agents had to pay $800 in medical bills.

Photo of Vlada from a personal archive

Farewell to the young model was postponed for a while - Vlada's mother asked the Chinese side to postpone the cremation, as the funeral of Dziuba's uncle is ahead.

14-year-old Vlada signed a contract with the Chinese side for a four-hour filming day. That is how many hours of work the law requires both the Russian side and China. Who allowed the child to work more than expected - the Perm law enforcement agencies will understand this. And also investigators and prosecutors will check the modeling agencies of both countries for negligence in relation to a minor girl.

The prosecutor's office will check the modeling agencies for negligence in relation to a minor girl

Vlada herself was looking for a good paid job as models. Her choice fell on China, because this country mainly works with teenage girls. And their conditions are not bad enough, - Zaitseva told reporters.

The teachers of the 14-year-old girl told reporters that they were initially against Vlada's career. They felt like they were in trouble.

We all the teaching staff did not want Vlada to go abroad. The girl studied well, but the modeling career took her a lot of time, there were frequent absences from school. We met with Vlada's mother and asked her not to let the girl go to China to work. But they didn’t listen to us, ”one of the teachers of the deceased Dzyuba shared.

The teaching staff was against Vlada's trip to the show abroad

Last week, 14-year-old Vlada Dziuba died. A native of Perm came to Shanghai to participate in a fashion show. However, the girl became ill, and she was urgently hospitalized. Vlada spent two days in a coma. Doctors failed to save the Russian woman. On Friday, October 27, it became known that she had died in the hospital.

The sudden death of a teenager made a lot of noise in the media. It was said that Dzyuba allegedly worked 13 hours in a row, exceeding the norm, and her agents did not take out the necessary medical insurance. Law enforcement officials are investigating the causes that led to Vlada's death - the Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee for Perm has begun an investigation. The Commissioner for Human Rights in the Kama region took the situation under personal control.

According to preliminary data, the cause of Vlada's death was multiple organ failure against the background of an infectious lesion of the nervous system and sepsis. Earlier, journalists wrote that the model suffered from meningitis, complicated by severe exhaustion. However, it is still too early to talk about the final results, an autopsy needs to be done. This requires the consent of the mother of the girl Oksana Dziuba. At the moment, the woman is in Russia. She is preparing for the trip. Tentatively, Oksana will arrive in Shanghai on Wednesday.

“She calls, says:“ I’m so tired, I worked 13 hours, I want to sleep. She was already sick, and then the temperature began. I didn’t sleep, I called her all the time to go to the hospital, ”the model’s mother told reporters.

The director of the agency, with whom Vlada collaborated, refutes the information about the allegedly hard slave labor of his wards. Zheng Yi said that the press is spreading incorrect information about the terms of the model contract. According to him, Vlada felt unwell not behind the scenes of the show, but in the hotel. Shanghai Fashion Week employees are currently conducting an internal investigation.

“They write that the girl worked 13 hours during Fashion Week. And it was because of this overwork that she died. But Fashion Week ended on October 18th. And the whole story with this model began only on the 24th. And she died on October 27th. So there is no connection between fatigue and her death. And the reports from the agencies are completely wrong,” says Yi.

According to the man, his wards did everything possible to help the schoolgirl. “The girl was moved to Shanghai. By the end of the day, she still felt unwell. And then we sent her to the hospital. From the very beginning, the doctors could not understand what exactly she fell ill with, what was happening to her, ”said the director of the agency. According to Yi, the Russian side handled the insurance.

Oksana Dzyuba, the mother of the deceased model, said goodbye to her daughter on social networks. The woman noted that it is very difficult for her to come to terms with the loss of a loved one.

“Inexpressible pain. Children for a mother are the most valuable thing that can be in her life. Nothing and no one can replace the loss of one of them. I will never be able to accept and believe that my Vlada is not with us. I love you very much, my girl!” - Dzyuba wrote on her page.

Later, during a conversation with reporters, Oksana noted that she did not blame anyone for what had happened. The mother of the model refused to continue the conversation, citing the fact that it was hard for her to speak.