"Burn my body when I die"

Who was a student who hanged himself on a worship cross in Belgorod

On February 3, in Belgorod, the 18-year-old student of the local college Yegor Skutov committed suicide. He hanged himself on a worship cross on a hill from which the whole city is visible. Most of Skutov’s acquaintances say that they did not notice anything unusual in his behavior - but, according to the “cold”, the student was preparing for suicide for at least a week and talked about his plans to a friend. Details of the story are told by journalist Igor Ermolenko .

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In the mornings on Studentskaya Street, on which the inhabitants of the suburbs go to the center of Belgorod to work, a cork is gathering. The road passes past the hill, where the city authorities in December last year installed large white letters “White City” with a red heart - it was assumed that the inscription would become a local attraction, against which the residents of the city and tourists would take photos.

On Monday morning, February 3, this place really fell into many photos and videos-but only because the body of the gallows slowly swinged from the wind on the top of the mountain on the top of the mountain on the top of the mountain. The black silhouette on the rope stood sharply against the backdrop of the bright sky.

Photo from a passport

On the night of February 3, 18-year-old student Yegor Skutov came to the building of the Belgorod Industrial College, where he studied in the third year. A couple tens of meters from him, at the construction site fenced with a metal fence, he took out a spray can of black paint and brought the inscription on it: “I love you all.” At the end, Skutov draws a big heart. In the center of this heart, he attached his photo, which he cut out with scissors from a passport.

In the morning, the student was found hanging on a worship cross on a white mountain, four kilometers from college.

According to a friend Yegor Skutov Sergey ( the name was changed at the request of the hero ), around midnight he posted a farewell video on his VKontakte page. In this video, according to Sergey, Yegor asked no one to blame for his death. This is confirmed by a familiar interlocutor of the "cold" in the regional Ministry of Internal Affairs. The video, Sergei says, was twenty -minute: in it, Skutov did not give an unambiguous explanation to his decision, but said “about what he came for this life”, talked about “true love”, which is received by a “rare person”, and that “one cannot trust anyone except himself.” Now the video is only at the disposal of investigators; The Skutov page on which it was posted was already removed in the morning. Information about this is confirmed by law enforcement officers.

At about eight in the morning, employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs were already working on the White Mountain. In the air, the smell of incense was felt - in the church of the Trinity of the Life -Giving, located near the Poklonnaya Cross, the service was going on at that time. It recently rained, and the site was covered with sticky mud. At nine o’clock one of the operatives climbed onto the cross and cut the rope tied to the crossbar; The corpse collapsed to the ground. The video of this moment on the same day dispersed in social networks and caused indignant comments: some wrote that the corpses could break the bones, others-that it was “in a Swing” one.

Rapper-basketball player

Yegor Skutov was born in 2001. He graduated from the Orthodox gymnasium No. 38 named after Alexander Nevsky in Old Oskol. In school years, Skutov was engaged in basketball and played at competitions for the gymnasium and for the Yunost sports school.

One of the lectures of the gymnasium told the “cold” that he remembers Yegor as a “sunny and kind boy”, who studied and went to the temple with pleasure, “was very life -loving”. According to her, the mother, who works as a teacher in the same gymnasium, brought him up alone, they had a "warm" relationship. Egor was her only child. “This act is a real shock,” she said, adding that she considers the circumstances of what happened strange.

After the gymnasium in 2017, Yegor Skutov entered a budget place in the Belgorod Industrial College, where he began to study for a welder. At the same time, he became interested in music and began to record rap under the pseudonym Skutik. In 2018, Skutov released his first album . “I would like to leave beautifully, just like Morgan Freeman, but I have something to lose, this is life, not films,” he reads in one of the tracks. In another song, he compares himself with Kurt Cobain: "Something there broke in his skull box, after that it was somehow embarrassed to live."

In addition, Skutov continued to play basketball and became one of the best players of the student team BIC (Belgorod Industrial College). In the team, he was the highest and held the central position. On February 2, Skutov took part in his last game: Bick played against BelGAU that day - and won by a wide margin.

"I love you all"

Closer to the noon on February 3, when the photos and videos from the White Mountain have already filled city publics, the students of the industrial college crowded at the fence of the construction site opposite the college, where Skutov brought the inscription “I love you all”. The operatives arrived to inspect the fence.

“They learned everything from the news,” says one of the students. - Police went to the corridors today. But in college everyone is trying not to talk about it. And the teachers mourn. "

Skutov’s classmates say that they did not notice anything special in his behavior. “An ordinary guy, sociable, kind, if you ask for anything, it would help without problems,” says Matvey ( the name changed ) who studied with him. - Cheerful, wrote the songs himself, performed them, there was a creative guy. Studied well, an athlete. Nothing portended trouble. " Recently, according to Matvey, Skutov broke up with a girl, but did not worry about this. “Over the years that I knew him, he never soared about the girls,” the student explains.

Matvey recalls that a few days before the incident, Yegor showed a fresh tattoo to the classmates - the phrase “burn my body when I die on my chest and with black paint” - but they did not see anything strange in this. Sergey's friend Sergei told the cold that Yegor showed this tattoo in his farewell video VKontakte.

Other classmates of Skutov note that they talked little with him, and they only say that he was kind. At the same time, no one calls him believers - on the contrary, the student’s acquaintances believe that he was hardly religious.

Of classmates, according to students, Skutov most often talked with Danil Shiryaev, who is also fond of rapp. Shiryaev refused to comment. Outside the college, Skutov talked with Dmitry Lutsev, who was not only his close friend, but also the co -author of his first tracks. Lutsev explained that he could not give a comment, as he is under subscription about non -disclosure. The college administration refused to talk about Skutov.

The former girl Skutova Anna told the “cold” that she had not talked with him for almost two months - the last time they talked on December 10 last year. What was the reason for his decision to commit suicide, she does not know. According to her, with her he never talked about such an intention. Anna confirms that Yegor had no strong experiences due to the cessation of their relationship. “We broke up normally. They realized that they were lifted up by loving each other, ”she explains.

At the same time, according to the source of “cold” in law enforcement agencies, one of Skutov’s friends told investigators that in his opinion, Yegor had problems with the psyche: he allegedly said that some people with whom he “not in reality” communicate about the afterlife life support him.

"This is somewhat reminiscent of" matrix "

A friend of Skutova Sergey, who knew him for several years, says that recently he and Yegor rarely talked. When he suddenly called him a week ago, he "did not even recognize him at once." Nevertheless, they talked. “We usually have such conversations, peculiar - well, conspiracy theories, secret government, Masons ...” Sergei lists. “Occultism, esotericism, the meaning of life.”

So it was this time: Skutov, according to him, started talking about the reincarnation in which they both believed. “When the conversation came to us regarding death, the reincarnation of the soul, he said that he no longer believes in karma, [and in that] that suicide can“ roll ”you with karmically, and in the next life you will be a less developed creature,” he says. - Yegor put forward an interesting theory that only those who believe in it have karma - and that if he kills himself, he would only speed up the moment of his rebirth to the next life. It somewhat reminiscent of the "matrix". These were the first bells to what would happen. ”

Later, Yegor called Sergey several times, and in the evening on the eve of February 3, he directly told him that he was going to commit suicide. Sergei says that he tried to “offer him an alternative” and explain that he “still can try the embodiment for this: for example, try to become a successful rapper or a famous basketball player. “[I said] that all the doors are open in front of him. But he stood his ground, ”he recalls.

Sergei claims that he did not hear despair in Skutov’s words: “Yegor spoke as a happy person. He said that this week is the best in his life. Because he behaved as he wanted, he was completely liberated. " For example, according to Sergey, after playing basketball, a friend told him on the phone that "he very boldly talked with judges and participants from the other side." “On every timeout, he ran out to smoke-and smoked as the last time too. He said that it was a good game - and they won, ”he retells Skutov’s words.

As for the tattoo of Yegor, she, too, according to Sergei, was associated with the theory of the deceased about rebirth. “This is solely to accelerate the transition process, from its point of view. Because when a person is buried in the ground, his etheric body has been here for a long time. When a person is burned, he, let’s say, leaves this world faster, ”he explains the logic of the deceased.

Sergei emphasizes that Skutov was not a “suicidal teenager who was offended by the girl who abandoned the girl, nor the“ Satanist ”, nor the“ sacrifice of pedfile priests ”, as they write in social networks. But he himself does not know the real reasons for his act. “It is rational to not explain in any way, it does not fit into the usual framework. Perhaps he already had a psyche, I can’t know, I have not seen him for a long time, ”he argues. “Perhaps he got everything, he was tired, and, taking advantage of this theory that there is no difference between this life and the next one, just decided to leave.” At the same time, Skutov did not want him to be “searched for months” in the forest and decided to “leave beautifully,” says Sergey. “Yesterday he mentioned more than once that it would be noisy, that some kind of test should come from Vladimir Vladimirovich himself, and that they would talk about it,” he recalls.

The fact that Yegor plans suicide, Sergei did not tell anyone. “Why didn't I tell anyone? It would only provoke him more strongly. He was seriously configured, I was not going to interfere with him in any way, ”he says. “On some side, this is indifference, but from some ... It would still not have changed anything, he would still do what he planned.”

Absolutely normal procedure

According to the Investigative Committee, on the fact of the detection of the body of Yegor Skutov, a check is carried out. The initiation of a criminal case in the UK was not declared. The interlocutor of the “cold” in the local police says that the version of the student bringing to suicide is not considered; According to another source, investigators consider the cause of the state of mental health of the deceased.

The Russian Orthodox Church has already reported that the worship cross on the White Mountain would be re-consecrated due to the "desecration". “There is such a canon: when the holy place is defiled, it is consecrated again. After the last events, obscure and unpleasant comments appeared on the Internet that the cross should be demolished, but no one will do this. The cross is established in memory of the fallen and it will stand, ” said Fedor Klyuyko, head of the protocol of the Belgorod diocese, calling a re -consecration of the“ absolutely normal procedure ”. He also noted that the diocese plans to improve the observation deck on the hill and pave it with tiles; The only question is, "who will maintain order there."