it became a shock for everyone when the 16-year-old raevsky attacked his neighbor and raped her (according to other sources, he tried to rape her). in 1970, he was imprisoned after a court trial. to serve his sentence, he was transferred to the mordovian assr, in a corrective labor colony 30 kilometers away from saransk. there he was abused by the homosexual inmates, with a tattoo even being applied to the "lowers" on the back - a blue rose. it has been suggested that from that moment on he began to dislike women. in june 1971, he escaped from prison.