 She wrote about such historical persons as Ragnar Lodbrok, Aella of Northumbria, Rurik, Oleg and Vadim, among others.However, most of these books were not published until 1996, as Perestroika-era publishers were not interested in historical fiction.After the fall of Soviet Union, Semyonova abandoned her computer work and became literary translator from English, working for Severo-Zapad.