The right to a requiem

Relatives of the dead artists of the ensemble Aleksandrov arose a conflict with the Ministry of Defense

The widow of one of the artists of the Academic Song and Dance Ensemble named after Alexandrov, who died in the disaster of the Tu-154, which occurred on December 25, turned to journalists. She claims that relatives of the victims of the disaster had a conflict with the Ministry of Defense, which opposed a full -fledged memorial service, despite the consent of the hierarchs of the Russian Orthodox Church. The Special Corps of Medusa Ilya Zhegulev tried to figure out the situation.

According to the relatives of the dead and friends of their families, with whom the Medusa correspondent managed to talk, the date of the funeral of the victims of the plane crash has not yet been finally scheduled. On Wednesday, January 11, relatives notified that the funeral would be held on January 14; And already on Thursday, January 12, according to the widow of the soloist of the ensemble Ivan Stolyar Nadezhda, she was informed that they would take place on January 16 or 17. All expenses associated with burial were taken by the Ministry of Defense. 45 coffins are going to bring an organized manner to the recently built by the memorial complex of the Ministry of Defense in Mytishchi. In the same place, on the street, a short funeral service for those killed by the priest and burial will occur.

Relatives themselves counted on a more solemn and public ceremony. According to Medusa, Nadezhda Stolyar, she decided to help in organizing the funeral service and contacted representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church. According to the woman, the abbot of the Novodevichy Monastery agreed to provide the temple, and Juvenal, the patriarchal governor of the Moscow diocese, was to take the dead. The carpenter was later reported that the Patriarch himself gave preliminary consent to hold a memorial service, but he allegedly waits for the “team”. “Who gave the Ministry of Defense the right to manage the funeral service? They are now not soldiers, not artists, they are our dead relatives, ”the carpenter is indignant. - For the fact that the ministry took responsibility for the funeral and expenses for them, thank you. But the desire of relatives is worthily to carry the deceased not under their power. ” “We have a simple goal-to decorfully say goodbye, to give up humanly,” says the family friend of the carpenter Peter Novikov. “The Ministry of Defense has a different goal-to quickly bury and forget everyone so that no one would pick it up.”

The existence of a conflict between the relatives of the dead and the Ministry of Defense regarding the Panichid Medusa was also confirmed by Yuri Mikhaylyuk, a friend of the family of the deceased participant in the ensemble Dmitry Litvyakov. “They deserve funeral service in the Central Cathedral of Moscow,” Mikhaylyuk believes. - The whole world knew them, but now they are going to bury quietly, with Lithium [memorial service] in the street in the cold. This is wrong. "

Patriarch Kirill and members of the Holy Synod conducted Lithuania in the plane crash in the plane of the Synod in the Danilov Monastery in Moscow on December 27, but none of the relatives of the victims were present on it.

Nadezhda Stoyar claims that she was talking with the official of the Ministry of Defense responsible for organizing the funeral-she met Sergei Froltsev, who was temporarily acting as head of the department of the department of the department (Anton Gubankov, who held this post until December 25, also died on board the Tu-154), in the office of the Aleksandrov ensemble. According to the widow, in response to the question of how the search and rescue operation is going on, Fratsev advised her not to worry: "Maybe the fish had eaten everyone there." He called the requests of relatives in relation to the panichid "Wishlist." According to Nadezhda Stolyar, the Ministry of Defense does not want to attract attention to the funeral and is not going to block the roads for their sake.

The acting head of the Aleksandrov ensemble, Gennady Sachenyuk, refused to comment on the situation with the funeral, advising to contact the Ministry of Defense. There is no information about the time and place of the funeral on the official website of the ensemble; Immediately, the inscription “Sorrow” follows an announcement of the recruitment of new employees in return for those who died in a plane crash.

Fralatsev himself was not available for comments on January 12. In the press service of the Ministry of Defense, the duty officer recommended that the Medusa correspondent send a written request, which did not receive an answer to the answer during the day. The press service of the Russian Orthodox Church confirmed that they were in the conflict around the Panichid, but recommended that they call the Medusa correspondent to the Moscow Regional Diocese, where, in turn, comments on this issue could be given only in the Ministry of Defense, from the Medusa correspondent.

According to friends and relatives of the dead, the only alternative to the funeral of the dead is to take the coffin and independently bury it without participating in the general ceremony. This can be done by those who want to bury a relative in another city. So, relatives of Dmitry Litvyakov, as a friend of the Mikhaylyuk family says, are going to bury him in his native Klintsy of the Bryansk region.

The first performance of the new composition of the ensemble Alexandrov will be held on February 23 at the Kremlin Palace of Congresses at a concert dedicated to the Day of the Russian Army.

Amendments. In the first version of the material, it was argued that among the dead participants of the ensemble was Ivan Stolyarov, and his widow was called Nadezhda Stolyarov. In reality, Ivan Stolyar, the name of his widow is Nadezhda Stoylar. We apologize to the readers.

Ilya Zhegulev

Moscow