A mother and daughter were found fatally stabbed early this morning inside a Brooklyn apartment — and cops now are looking to question the older woman’s longtime boyfriend, who may have already fled to Russia, police sources told The Post.
The grisly discovery was made inside the sixth-floor apartment on East 13th Street near Avenue W in Sheepshead Bay.
The women were identified by police sources as Tatyana Prikhodko, 56, and Larisa Prikhodko, 28, both of whom are registered nurses who worked in maternity units.
Larisa — a beautiful blonde who recently began working at Mount Sinai Hospital and who has a young son — had been stabbed numerous times in the torso, sources said.
Tatyana, who worked at Brookdale Hospital for 13 years, had her throat slashed open, and stab wounds to her torso and face, sources said.
One body was found in the bedroom, the second was found in the front room of the apartment — which is where Tatyana lived with her boyfriend.
Larisa lived downstairs, on the third floor.
“She was a beautiful blonde – she was a nurse and had a kid and everything,” said neighbor Armando Petrillo, 54, about Larisa. “I can’t believe this would happen to someone like her. She was nice – we didn’t know each other well but she said hi from time to time and smiled.”
Sources said the bodies of the mother and daughter were found after the father of Larisa’s young child, who lives nearby and who had the boy for the weekend, became concerned after she did not come by to pick up their son as scheduled yesterday morning.
After waiting all day, the father then went to the local police precinct and alerted cops at about 8:30 p.m. last night.
Police went to the building and entered Larisa’s third-floor apartment, where they found everything in order, and nothing disturbed.
Cops then learned that neither Larisa nor Tatyana had shown up for work as scheduled.
Police then forced open the door to Tatyana’s apartment, and found both women there dead. Several bloody knives were found near the women’s bodies.
There were no signs of forced entry. Neighbors said that a new security system had been installed in the building just last week which required visitors to pick up a telephone connecting them to an individual apartment, whose residents then had to buzz the visitor in.
It is unknown when the women were killed, but a friend of Larisa’s is known to have spoken to her on the telephone on Saturday afternoon.
Police are now searching for Nikolai Rakossi, the boyfriend of Tatyana, who has lived in the apartment for about a decade, sources said.
Local airports have been notified to be on the lookout for Rakossi, a 52-year-old day laborer, but investigators now believe he may have fled to Russia..
Boys in the neighborhood admitted they were smitten with Larisa.
“We used to see [Larisa] coming out of the apartment when we played football – she was bangin’, that’s what we’d always say,” said Patrick Romanowski, 17, who lives nearby. “It’s sad. It’s crazy to hear about all these murders around here lately.”
One neighbor said that shortly after midnight the superintendent knocked on her door and told her to stay in her apartment.
“I see so many policemen and detectives here,” said the woman, “It must be something bad.”
Building resident Marlene Kaylie, who has lived there for 37 years, said, “Nothing like this has ever happened in this building, or even in the neighbhorhood.”
“It’s very safe, very quiet and peaceful.”
Additional reporting by Andy Campbell, Len Maniace, Erin Calabrese, Rebecca Rosenberg, Hannah Rappalye and Amanda Mikelberg