Users of "Peekaboo" found on Instagram, which, presumably, is maintained by the head of the Tver diocesan scientific library, Archpriest Vyacheslav Baskakov, photos of expensive items of fashion brands.
According to Medialeaks, the man running the Instagram account looks like the author of the Vyacheslav Baskakov account on VKontakte. to the VKontakte account Baskakov, refers The page of the parishioners of the church in honor of the icon of the Mother of God “Joy of All Who Sorrow (with pennies)”, whose rector is .
In the pictures on Instagram, a man in a cassock poses in Gucci shoes ( worth 595 euros) and with a Louis Vuitton bag ( 84.5 thousand rubles ). Church parishioner Andrey Vasenev told Moskovsky Komsomolets that he once noticed Baskakov had a new iPhone, to which the priest replied: “What can I do if they give me such a gift?”
The telephones of the Tver diocese and Baskakov himself were unavailable . After the first publications about the priest's Instagram, the account was deleted.
Update. The press secretary of the Tver diocese, Maxim Mishchenko, told TASS: “We do not comment on memes that were posted on the Internet allegedly on behalf of Baskakov.”