The Russian ‘Sweeney Todd’: Sofya Zhukova

The “evil grandmother” made her victims into snacks for the neighborhood children

Sofya Zhukova at her trial. Image courtesy of DVHab.

Sofya Zhokova was never well liked by her neighbors. Among the residents of the grey apartment buildings in the small town of Berezovka, she stood out as particularly mean-spirited. The stout elderly woman often carried around an axe and was known to kill…