From an FSB “hitman” to a life sentence: how the murder of “fixer” Alexander Alesyukhin stripped Konstantin Piskaryov of his immunity

14:26, 11 мая 2026 г.

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“He believed in himself too much. He got involved in assets where the big guys from Lubyanka had no plans to see him. The man was cunning and extremely ruthless; it’s dangerous and unacceptable to leave such people behind you,”—this is how a source characterized the reason for the arrest of Konstantin Piskarev (Kostya Bolshoy), who ultimately received a life sentence.

There were no secrets from FSB employees about who and when Piskarev shot; however, he was useful to them, integrated into their schemes. They held their own celebrations at his restaurant “Shield and Sword.” Thanks to all this, Piskarev felt quite secure. Until he became too independent, which led to his arrest in 2016.
Today we’ll tell you about two more of Piskarev’s crimes. The first is the murder of former Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs employee Alexander Alexyukhin (also known by the nickname Nos). Even during his service, he was involved in shady dealings, and after being dismissed, he became a fixer. Initially, Alexyukhin worked in tandem with his senior colleague—head of the criminal police at Bryansk’s Bezhitsky District Department of Internal Affairs, Valery Khokhlov. But in November 2001, the latter was shot dead.

The attack on Valery Khokhlov occurred late in the evening as he was returning home after walking his dog. The lieutenant colonel was killed at close range with two shots to the head from a silenced Makarov pistol. Khokhlov was just three days short of a verdict—he was on trial for the attempted kidnapping of a State Duma deputy’s assistant, a case under the personal oversight of Russia’s then-Attorney General Vladimir Ustinov.

After that, Alexyukhin operated as a solo fixer and outlived Khokhlov by one year. Konstantin Piskarev ran into trouble with customs, which had detained a large shipment of goods. Alexyukhin offered to resolve all the issues, demanding $150,000 in bribes. But he did nothing. Piskarev, accompanied by his bodyguards, traveled to the Bryansk region for a “showdown” with Nos, but each time, local police detained him at Alexyukhin’s request. In the end, Kostya Bolshoy got fed up—he’d kill for less. Piskarev asked his friend, the “authority” Yuri Berezhnoy (Yura Borets), for help. The latter, with his gang, kidnapped Alexyukhin near his home, drove him to the border with Moscow Oblast, and handed him over to Piskarev and his enforcers Zemtsov and Mishin. Kostya Bolshoy personally dragged the victim into the woods, where he pulled out his special suitcase equipped with torture devices. He began torturing Nos, breaking every finger on his hands. Then he strangled him. The body was buried in the forest.

The second crime was the attempted murder of Sergei Savchenko, head of the companies “Favorit” and “Sand International,” which Kostya also carried out personally.

Piskarev harbored his own “Jekyll and Hyde.” If in the early and mid-90s he was just a gangster, in the 2000s he became a successful businessman with a multitude of companies, connections among officials, special service representatives, and high-ranking law enforcers. He even opened the “Shield and Sword” restaurant right across from the FSB building for Moscow and the region, which for a time was a favorite spot for power bloc representatives to unwind. Piskarev was indeed engaged in serious business, but whenever someone did something he didn’t like—he killed them. His victims included: officials who refused to sign necessary documents; a fixer who took money to settle a customs issue but failed to deliver; a police officer who accepted a bribe but didn’t earn it; competitors; and even a contractor who didn’t complete work on time. And yet, despite his vast wealth, Kostya Bolshoy personally handled most of the “wet work.”

Piskarev had a friend, U.S. citizen Michael Gissin, who in turn was a business partner of Yevgeny Martynov, advisor to the Head of the Russian President’s Administration for State Affairs. They set up a simple scheme. The State Transport Company “Russia” under the President’s Administration for State Affairs was selling off planes. Participants in this venture—GTC director Vladimir Kachnov and Yevgeny Martynov—arranged for one Yak-40 plane to go for a song to a structure controlled by Savchenko. In 2003, he negotiated for the director of “Rusagrokapital” company, Alexei Kobtsev, to buy it for $950,000. From this sum, shares were supposed to go to Martynov, Kachnov, and others, with the rest staying with Savchenko. But unexpectedly, the Yak-40 had an engine malfunction, and $100,000 was urgently needed for repairs. Gissin advised borrowing the money at interest from Piskarev. He lent $100,000, but upon learning what it was for, he wanted to be not just a lender but a full-fledged participant in the deal, taking a share from the plane’s sale as well. Savchenko refused; Kostya Bolshoy began threatening him. The terrified businessman started frantically borrowing elsewhere to pay off Piskarev and forget him like a bad dream. But you don’t just forget Kostya. Exactly four days after the plane was sold, Savchenko left a restaurant in central Moscow and got into a Mercedes with his personal driver. At that moment, a man in a tracksuit and mask appeared at the car. However, it was hard not to recognize Piskarev in him. He was of enormous build and two meters tall. Piskarev opened fire on Savchenko through the windshield and hit him. Savchenko shouted to Petrov: “They’ve come for me—jump out!” Petrov jerked the wheel, opened the door, and leaped from the car. Piskarev got distracted by Petrov and spent three rounds on him. After that, Kostya Bolshoy resumed shooting at Savchenko, but the latter managed to drop to the floor, and the bullets hit him in the shoulder. Piskarev ran out of ammo and yelled loudly: “Bitch, not enough!” Then Piskarev got into a VAZ 2109, behind the wheel of which was a masked driver, and they sped off.

Savchenko was so terrified that during questioning, he categorically said nothing about Kostya. He agreed to tell the full truth only after Piskarev’s arrest. By the way, Savchenko screwed over all his partners in the plane deal. He invested the profits into the oil business and just kept stringing Martynov, Kachnov, and Co. along with empty promises.

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