Unity and struggle of opposites

What are the activists Dmitry Enteo and Maria Alekhina

- Dmitry, where are your ducks?

The apartment of the Orthodox activist Dmitry Enteo (Tsorionova) seems to be an office, it has light walls and few furniture. But in a small niche is an extensive iconostasis. And two cats peek into the open door.

“Damn, here with ducks is a really tragic story,” Enteo says, removes the hood of a black sweatshirt and ruffles his hair.

The Orthodox activist and founder of the “God's will” movement, together with the Pussy Riot group, Maria Alekhina, started ducks. The ducks were fed to Foie Gra, but Enteo and Alekhin saved them, called freedom, equality and fraternity and settled in the Enteo apartment.

“At first we wanted to take them to the pond, prepared for the will,” says Dmitry. - But right on the day of liberation there was a tragedy. Brotherhood, the smallest duck, broke her neck, we buried her at the monument to Lermontov. The rest tried to release, but it is difficult to get used to freedom, they did not succeed. I had to take it to the Smolensk forests, to the village near the monastery, to one girl of Orthodox good, so that they have a happy life. Freedom fluttered there and died, it remains, which means only equality. We transfer money to its maintenance, let it come off there for all!

“Freedom frowned there and died, it means only equality.”

Concentration camp with icons

In the fall of 2016, at the festival of the Echo of Moscow radio station, Maria Alekhina approached Dmitry Enteo and said: “Hello”. By this moment, Alekhina had already served the “two -legged” promised by Putin, for which the Orthodox activist Dmitry Enteo spoke warmly. They talked, then Maria suggested meeting.

- Why did you have this meeting?

- And I was interested!

- Did you feel normally, meeting with the person you dreamed of in prison?

- Well, now you can do it, but she was dancing in the temple! - Dmitry says passionately.

Dmitry Tsorionov (Enteo) Photo: Pavel Bednyakov/TASS

The movement of “God's will”, whose permanent leader and media face was Enteo, took shape just at the time of the trial of Pussy Riot. For a conservative Orthodox community, people who conduct direct actions were not in a novelty: back in 2003, Orthodox activists defeated the art exhibition "Caution, religion!" In the Sakharov Center. But this was a one -time action, and Dmitry Entoto put the shares on the stream.

“In 2012, the protest movement began very actively, we saw that the attention of society was riveted to this, immediately after the arrest (participants - approx. TD) Pussy Riot began the occupation, where all sorts of oppositions sat,” says Enteo. -We wrote on the poster something like “love Jesus”, discussed with them, then riot police screwed us together, such was fun!

On the pure ponds of Enteo and his associates only discussed with opponents, but already in August 2012 they began direct action. With a cry “Holy Rus', keep Orthodox faith! So it will be with any blasphemy! " Dmitry Enteo broke a T -shirt on a young man with the image of the Pussy Riot group. The video recording of this brawl spread widely, the police refused to initiate the case, and Enteo handed out more than a dozen interviews.

“Initially, we were strangers for everyone, both for conservatives and liberals, because our thoughts were not like everyone would like,” says Dmitry, opening a tray with melon and hospitably offering to join. “But what we understood exactly then - you can attract attention to ourselves only like that.”

- Why attract attention?

- To promote your ideas, of course!

The ideas of the movement were diverse. Participants in the “God's will” broke the blasphemous, from their point of view, performances in the “Theater. Kod” and the Moscow Art Theater. A.P. Chekhov brought a brick to the Museum of Erotic Art “Point G”, interpreting it as a “symbol of crucifixion and repentance”, dispersed the procession of Moscow Pastafarians, beat the employee of the Gulag History of Dmitry Davydov.

The face of these actions was always Dmitry Enteo, who took a direct physical participation in them-for example, he threw eggs at the State Duma protesters against the law on the ban on the ban on the “gay propaganda”, including the journalist of Novaya Gazeta Elena Zakuchenko.

I felt where the wind blows and where the country goes, how public life is burned

“I have never had problems with gays,” Enteo claims. -Kostyuchenko and I sat and talked in the same autosak, and if we meet in Jean-Jacques, we will be able to talk well. But if propaganda begins ...

“Will you attack her again?”

“I will try to tear out the rainbow flag from her hands and generally stop it,” Dmitry says firmly. - She should not have any complaints about me here, she is an activist, I am an activist, everyone treats with understanding.

Maria Alekhina Photo: Wiktor Dabkowski/Zuma/TASS

Enteo often pronounces the words “activist” and “corrugatedist”, says that he had half a circle of communication from the Museum of Modern Art, and the actor-activist Dmitry Pimenov, who at one time was simulating an attempt on Mikhail Gorbachev, calls a friend and his elder brother. Dmitry complains that now the youth movement is gray, and the “forty magpies” have replaced the “God's will”. He says that he, Enteo, and his associates, were fond of Pelevin and Sorokin. And new activists prefer Prilepin and Shargunov.

“That is why they are so dull, and for me Orthodoxy is about freedom,” says Dmitry. - I felt where the wind blows and where the country goes, how public life is burned, and if there are icons in this concentration camp on the walls, it will not become better from this. When the Crimea and Donbass began, the atmosphere of hatred came ...

- Wait a minute, but it is you with your movement, all these fights and calls for plantings have become a symbol of the atmosphere of hatred!

“Well, no, I do not think that the concept of freedom is connected with the right to mockery,” says Dmitry. - A person is free to do what he wants, but freedom is inseparable from responsibility.

Without agreeing the phrases, he drives a gray cat from the table, digging in a bag of food. The cat sits down and takes the look as if nothing was.

Exile

Responsibility for God's will occurred in 2015. Several people, led by Dmitry Enteo, broke into the Manege exhibition hall. They damaged the four works of sculptor Vadim Sidur, explaining their vandalism by the fact that work insults their religious feelings. At first, they did not want to arouse the matter of intentional damage to cultural values, then Lyudmila Esipenko was detained on it (now she calls herself a cute clothing). The activist was placed under house arrest with the right to attend worship every day in the temple of the Ascension of the Lord, then Lyudmila was subjected to a comprehensive psychological and psychiatric examination at the Serbian Institute. Based on the results of the examination, it was recognized as sane.

Dmitry Tsorionov, nicknamed Enteo, together with their supporters, sculptures of the 60-70s at the exhibition in the arena of “sculptures that we do not see” the photo: Vasily Khaikin/Kommersant

On the third of October 2017, on her Facebook, Mila Changova wrote that from now on the head of “God's will” is she and only she. Changova accused Enteo of making friends with unexplored blasphemers and betrayed the ideals of movement. The activist illustrated her post with a photograph of Enteo and Alekhina, participating in the rally of reading the Bible near the Ministry of Justice.

- "God's will"? What is it? Enteo asks ironically when I am interested in what he was to be expelled from the movement. According to the activist, the movement broke up back in 2016, when some of his associates broke off and created the Orthodox Defense movement, and he himself became uninteresting in a religious action. Dmitry Enteo founded a new project “Decommunization” and focused on social activities.

According to Enteo, the post of clothing is associated with personal resentment:

-She is not my wife, as they wrote in the media, there was some kind of relationship, but did not work out. The fact is that we were the godfather of one child, in this case one cannot have a relationship, this is a spiritual incest, this is all the matter.

Lyudmila in the comments violently denies the motive of jealousy. In a conversation with “such things”, she proposed to give an exclusive comment in her position, but only on condition of the complete publication of the text without commenting the editorial office and opinions of the rest of the parties. She answered all the questions: “My goal was that the brainchild of many people of“ God's will ”should not be associated with Dmitry Tsorionov in the state in which he is now. What he does and says does not correspond to the will of God. ”

Masha Alekhina reads the Bible with the Ministry of Justice for the right of every person to read any books without the permission of officials. pic.twitter.com/z61xgwvvvvvvvv

- Dmitry Enteo (@dimitriyenteo) July 8, 2017

When Maria Alekhina began to communicate with Dmitry Enteo, they introduced each other to their friends. Maria sent Mile a request to friends on Facebook - she was wondering who was building the movement and conducting stocks with Dmitry.

- She immediately asked me if I regretted that “I was booming in XXS,” and I replied that no. The conversation from the series turned out: "You are the enemy of the people!" - "You can on you."

Alekhina says she was not upset due to not prevailing communication. There is no court and there is no court.

Personal story

This ability to talk and have good relations with people of opposite views in general, it seems, is inherent in Maria Alekhina. When Alekhin was transferred to the Nizhny Novgorod colony, the authorities were seriously afraid that Maria would make friends with the national waxball Olga Shalina. Shalin was even sent from sin to the schizo for 15 days, the condition of the exit was “not to be friends with Alekhina”, with which Shalin was not even familiar until then. “I broke for a long time, but refused,” says Shalia. - "From the schizo, comrades and human rights activists saved me, I went out and we began to be friends." Shalia calls Alekhin an interesting interlocutor, and relations with her are friendly, despite the difference in views. After the liberation, Alekhina even went with Shalina to the Donbass to look at the world through the eyes of a cellmate.

Maria says that he does not like labels at all and tries not to hang them on others. So, in communication with Dmitry, she first of all wanted to figure it out herself why he wanted a prison term for her.

Maria Alekhina at a court meeting in the Pussy Riot case : Evgenia Guseva/Komsomolskaya Pravda/Photoxpress.ru

- Understood?

- I can't say, this is a personal story. I hope that one day Dima can tell her.

“This is a personal story. I hope Dima can tell her once "

I ask what their joint story with Dmitry is about - communication, PR, an attempt to convince an ideological enemy or generally “Love Story”. Maria prints for a long time: “Again, labels. Is it really if you just call “Love Story” there are no more questions left? This is the story that is happening right now. What is Alekhina and Enteo? These are evenings in a circle of completely different people: activists of “other Russia”, Pussy Riot, my friends from my last colony No. 2, activists of “God's will”, this is disputes, it is acquaintance, this is the reading of the Bible by the Ministry of Justice, this is an anti -fascist march under the hood, this is a balloons in St. Petersburg at the presentation of my first book Riot Days, it is Dima Dima in a scooter on the scooter according to the scooter The "county" for my performance with Pussy Riot theater helps to wear columns at a performance. This is courage. "

In January 2016, on the anti -fascist march of memory of the lawyer Stanislav Markelova and journalist Anastasia Baburova Maria Alekhina and Dmitry Enteo, who were killed by nationalists, came together. The organizers of the march on the march of Enteo were not allowed. He behaved unusually quietly, one of the eyewitnesses wrote: “He looked calm, peaceful, complacent. It has been replenished since I entered into clashes on this march and other promotions. ”

Dmitry says he went there because Masha invited him.

“It was important to her.” She wanted me to see this, this is part of her world. If she had not invited, I would not go.

- Was it a shame when they did not let it down?

- Listen, I went there for three years, waved with them, I took the flags of LGBT. I, you know, have not allowed myself either.

Maria says that she called him on the march not because she needed a company. “I had reasons to think that it was important and interesting for him to go to this march.” Dmitry says that he was interested, because he “loves all kinds of movements, although he does not share the views of Antif.”
Alekhina's friends took her communication with Enteo with surprise, but without negativity.

- Those who really want to understand - understand that it is more interesting than not. Has one of close people ceased to communicate with me? No! - Maria laughs. - As for the kilometers of shit on the Internet, so, in their opinion, I have been chicken in P for five years now ... deh!

Medium translator

I am waiting for the former ally of Enteo Alexei Fomichev in the courtyard of the Church of the Resurrection of Christ in Kadash. The prayer service has just ended with the holy royal mentors (Tsar Nicholas II and his family - TD) and there are many people around with the portraits of the king, pinned by a pin to clothes. People debate about ecumenism and anti -Modernism, read angry poems about the film “Matilda” and complain that the ruling bishop does not allow the letter against Alexei the teacher.

“First we watch blasphemous films, and then we will accept the Satanin TIN,” says a young woman in a long skirt and a bright pink scarf. She came to the temple next to the Tretyakov Gallery with a group of pilgrims from Smolensk.

Alexei comes out of the refectory with a dozen strong young people. Some of them are dressed in tracksuits, golden crosses are sewn on Olympic, one with a hipster beard and in shorts. Young people discuss the books of the Athos monk Paisius Svyatogorets. One of them, moving around the corner, lit a long brown cigarette.

“Dima was really a Christian who loved God, was ready for everything for the sake of Christ, even for martyrdom,” says Alexei. “Therefore, we chose it with a translator of the position of movement, moreover, after the story with a torn T -shirt, he had a certain media fame.”

Dmitry Enteo on the art piker of the Orthodox activists “The Russian Orthodox Church Against Darwinism and Evolution Theory” Photo: Sergey Nikolaev/Photoxpress.ru

Alexey was among those who came to promotions against Pussy Riot supporters in the very first days after their arrest. Almost all the videos of “God's will” were shot by him - according to him, he never sought publicity. “Each action found some kind of response in the media, and we used it,” he explains. “So that people do not think that society is satisfied with everything, except for the lack of freedom to dance in temples.”

After the movement became relatively massive, “God's will” came into contact with representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church. “Of course, we immediately wanted to put tough conditions,” says Alexei. - They said, or you will do as we say, or we will consider you the enemies of the church. It sounded very menacing, but we realized that we do not care, it is important for us, who the Lord God considers us. ” Alexei is interrupted to say to his ally: "With God, brother!" - They are forgiven in a special way, "with a threefold lobby shoulder in the shoulder."

Alexei speaks quietly and peacefully, he has a fashionable haircut with shameful temples, it is quite difficult to imagine him fighting. But it was he who took part in the conflict with the employee of the Museum of the History of the Gulag and in several more direct actions. Now he does not accept, but notes that if, for example, the film “Matilda” is still shown, they will be released with his comrades-in-arms and try to stop “all this disgrace”.

According to Alexei, Dmitry ceased to be sincere and focused on PR and show business when he began to receive funding from the sponsor of Metropolitan Hilarion (Alfeev) Leonid Sevastyanov. Allegedly, he gave money to the “God's will” to the anti -Armor project, and when the money was over, Dmitry Enteo's enthusiasm ended.

“He began to hysteria and became a little closed from the fact that he had lost this money, closed the project. We tried to reason him, even somehow stopped home to communicate, but he reacted absolutely inadequately. 16 people came out of the movement, in fact he was left alone and from a Christian turned into a humanist and modernist. ”

A sincere person

Enteo also calls the modernist Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin, but emphasizes that he always considered him a sincere person. During the heyday of “God's will”, Father Vsevolod headed the Synodal Department for the relationship between the Church and the Society of the Moscow Patriarchate. In 2015, he was deprived of this position and transferred from the rectors of the Church of St. Nicholas on three mountains to the temple of St. Theodore Studit at the Nikitsky Gate.

Together with the Father Vsevolod, we drink tea in a small refectory at a table covered with an oilcloth with roses. At one time, a variety of people met in the refectory of the temple on the Trekhogorka - from the rector of the RANEPA Vladimir Mau to the radical Orthodox activists, including Dmitry Enteo.

Dmitry Enteo and Vsevolod Chaplin Photo: Igor Stomakhin/Photoxpress.ru

“I do not consider Enteo an insincere man, like some people in the church hierarchy,” says Father Vsevolod. -I do not think that all this for the sake of PR, I talked a lot with him, although once I had to reflect him. But in it there is a sincere spiritual search and a rather great church experience, it is much more sincere than those whom I had to meet in the corridors of church bureaucracy. I know what people who have been sent, provocateurs look like, he is definitely not one of them. ”

«Я знаю, как выглядят люди засланные, провокаторы, он определенно не из их числа»

Изменение взглядов Дмитрия Чаплин считает смесью искренности и публичного перформанса. Священник не слишком одобряет новый проект Энтео «Декоммунизация», потому что считает, что православным не надо ссориться с коммунистами. Про общение с Алехиной говорит: «Да пожалуйста, Господь открыт всем, можно общаться с людьми любых вер, но надо не бояться им говорить о своих убеждениях. Пусть госпожа Алехина и госпожа Толоконникова приходят ко мне в храм, но им еще раз будет сказано — в очень мягкой форме — что спасение во Христе, а грех предполагает покаяние».

Несмотря на то, что протоиерей Всеволод Чаплин известен своими радикальными высказываниями, он подчеркивает, что никогда не выступал за тюремные сроки для участниц Pussy Riot. Впрочем, он не расстраивается от того, что акционистки попали в тюрьму: «Тут важно, что эта мера сработала. Больше никто в храме плясать не пытался, ведь правда? Такие акции — это духовная смерть общества, знак, что Бог его оставил».

Дмитрий Энтео говорит, что продолжает считать приговор Алехиной и Толоконниковой справедливым. По его мнению, участницы Pussy Riot должны были получить срок.

— Это было большое кощунство. За него надо было ответить.

— Обязательно в тюрьме?

Дмитрий немного молчит и говорит:

- Yes!

— И как вот вам все-таки это совмещать с тем, что Алехина близкий человек для вас?

Энтео сначала вздыхает, потом смеется и говорит:

- Hard! Ох, тяжело!

Крутой опыт

Защищаясь от нападок бывших единомышленников, Дмитрий говорит, что Мария Алехина «уверовала в Бога». Создается впечатление, что к Богу привел ее именно он, Дмитрий.

— Я никогда не была атеисткой, — говорит Алехина. — Во время нашего процесса мы цитировали Евангелие. Уголовное преследование и обвинение в религиозной ненависти — это такая штука, которая побудила нас глубже чувствовать христианскую философию. Это крутой опыт! А что касается Димы — если он понял это пять лет спустя, уже хорошо. Better late than never.

Бывший соратник Энтео Алексей Фомичев говорит, что опыт публичного отстаивания своих ценностей был полезным, но больше в акциях прямого действия Фомичев участвовать не собирается:

— Мы не будем больше ходить на митинги и пикеты. Наше оружие — это только молитва Господу Богу, пресвятой Богородице и царственным страстотерпцам. А с активизмом мы завязали абсолютно.

- Why?

— Я не знаю ни одного человека в «Божьей воле», кому бы это не повредило в духовной жизни, и мне в том числе. И история про Диму — это про желание получить славу любым способом, засветиться, словить хайп.

— Ну, а если эта история про «любовь выше ненависти»?

— Это не христианская любовь, а гуманистическая пародия на любовь! — уверенно говорит Фомичев. — Под прикрытием такой «любви» оправдывается любой грех и беззаконие.

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