Murderer Archpriest Adelheim worked as a movie operator

27-year-old Sergey Pchelintsev, the alleged killer of the Pskov Archpriest Pavel Adeelheim, worked as a movie operator, RIA Novosti reports. According to the mother of Pchelintsev Svetlana Kovaleva, her son has recently worked on a documentary about killer maniacs ( response to the death of Father Paul ).

“Seryozha always made a good, kind movie,” she said . “But this time he repented that he shot an evil film, he even said that this film was taken away from people.” Pchelintsev came to the priest to prepare for the wedding, Kovaleva said.

According to his mother, in recent years, Pchelintsev had severe headaches caused by injury to the upper cervical vertebra. “The last time I saw him, he grabbed my breasts,” Kovaleva continues. “He began to shout:“ Mom! How do you not understand that I seem to have a pin in my head! What hurts me! "

In December last year, Pchelintsev received a diploma of VGIK with a degree in Operator. In 2010, he shot Anna Shishova’s documentary “The Pacific Ocean” - about the blind sculptor Alexei Zhivagin from Sergiev Posad. For this film, he was awarded the prize "Best Operations Work" at the 30th Festival of VGIK.

Pchelintsev was mentally unbalanced. This is reported from the words of the priest's friends by the Pskov Information Agency. Pchelintsev came from Moscow on the 75th anniversary of Paul's father and lived with him for three days. The wife of Archpriest Vera Adelheim, on the eve of the murder, sensed something was amiss, said a friend of the priest's family Peter Gusev. “She said: a nuisance from us. A man from Moscow came, the son of some acquaintances. He drew here on a taxi, paid 16 thousand. The name is Seryozha. He is not entirely adequately behaving,” Gusev said.

According to Vera Adeelheim, soon his father came for Bagelintsev to take him home. But he behaved inappropriately - he knelt down and asked him to not send him to a mental hospital.

“This young man was somewhat strange behavior. But they were directed to Father Paul, he had a gift to calm the conversation,” said Olga Guseva. She is sure that the priest could not provoke Pchelintsev. “I have known him for thirty years, but I have never seen him lost his temper, he is always calm, soft. The holy man. He did not refuse anyone in a conversation, he greeted everyone,” Guseva said.

Earlier, the deputy of the Pskov Regional Assembly, Lev Schlosberg, stated that the suspect "a mentally ill person, perhaps his acquaintances hoped that the word of his father Aleheim would cure his illness."

Former classmate of Pchelintsev Dmitry Pishchulin did not notice any mental deviations. “We talked with Sergey while studying at VGIK and worked together several times. He is considered a very good operator, always very carefully approaches every frame and thinks over him,” Pishchulin said . “It cannot be said that he was sociable and cheerful, he was in himself all the time. But by his behavior it was never assumed that a person may be a killer, but not for sure, though he could have been a lot of years. To change, there were rumors that he went to Goa and returned strange. "

At about 20:00 Monday, the beekeeper killed Adeleheim during a conversation in the kitchen, hitting him with a knife in the stomach. After that, Chelintsev tried to hide, but was captured by the police. When trying to detain him, he inflicted two blows with a knife. As the Pskov news feed with reference to eyewitnesses conveyed , Pelintsev shouted that Satan ordered him to kill the priest.

Pchelintsev was taken to the hospital, where he had surgery. However, it is still not clear whether he can explain why he decided to kill the priest: he has problems with the blood supply to the brain. Now the bee is connected to the apparatus of artificial ventilation of the lungs. As soon as the state of his health improves, investigators will take care of him, then they plan to transfer the suspect to the temporary detention center.

Adeelheim was born in 1938 in Rostov-on-Don. Since 1946, after the arrest of the mother, he was brought up in an orphanage. When the mother was freed, he lived with her in a settlement in Kazakhstan. In 1954 he became a novice of the Kiev Pechersk Lavra. He studied at the Kyiv Theological Seminary, from where he was excluded in 1959 Igumn Filaret, the current patriarch of Kyiv and all Rus'-Ukrainian, for political reasons.

In 1964 he graduated from the Moscow Theological Academy, served as a priest in the Uzbek city of Kagan. In 1969 he was arrested, and in 1970 he was sentenced to three years in colony for "slander for the Soviet system." In 1971, during the unrest in the colony, he lost his right leg. After liberation, he continued to serve as a priest. Since 1976 he was a clergy of the Pskov diocese.