On April 8, a farewell ceremony and funeral were held in Moscow for blogger and war correspondent Vladlen Tatarsky (real name Maxim Fomin). On April 2, St. He died during a terrorist attack in St. Petersburg.
The farewell ceremony to Tatarsky began at noon at the Troekurovsky cemetery. Prior to this, law enforcement tightened security measures around the cemetery, and all visitors were carefully inspected through metal detectors.
One of the first to say goodbye to the military correspondent was Evgeny Prigozhin, the founder of Wagner PMC. At the ceremony, he said that despite Tatarsky’s death, his voice would continue to rise. And he noted that although it is sometimes sad, he always tries to convey the truth to people.
Leonid Slutsky, head of the LDPR party, attended the ceremony. He noted that Tatarsky lived a brilliant life and that “thousands and thousands of Russian youth” would learn from his example. Slutsky also proposed lifting the moratorium on the death penalty for organizers and perpetrators of terrorist attacks. Former Defense Minister of the DPR Daniil Bezsonov and musician Akim Apachev also came to say goodbye to the military correspondent.
Funeral wreaths were sent by Dmitry Kiselev, CEO of Russia Today media group, and Margarita Simonyan, editor-in-chief of RT.
Tatarsky was buried and buried in a closed coffin. Next to it in the farewell hall, along with wreaths and flowers, lay a “nominal” sledgehammer with the inscription “Your work lives” from the warriors of the PMC “Wagner”, a violin case, and posthumous medals.
In addition, Akim Apachev’s song “They Gone” was played in the hall along with the coffin – a creative rework of the song by Ichkerian poet Timur Mutsuraev. In Russia, the text of this song is considered extremist and is banned. Apachev explained that he used forbidden verses in the “They Left” choir, as they had been resting in the Donbass since 2014. And so he wanted to honor the memory of the fallen military comrades.
According to media estimates, a total of more than a thousand people came to say goodbye to Tatarsky – the queue in the hall with the coffin stretched a kilometer. At the same time, it was noted that at the entrance of the cemetery, visitors were asked to throw away their lighters and leave foreign objects at the entrance.
Armed state guards accompanied the war correspondent’s relatives. The Bishop of Zelenogradsky, the Patriarch of Moscow and the deputy of All Rus’ Savva, served together with the clergy of the Moscow diocese.
The ceremony lasted about two hours, after which the coffin with Tatarsky’s body was removed from the hall, taken to the funeral, through a living corridor, to the hearse. A portrait of a military reporter was moved in front of the funeral column.
He was buried with almost military honors – a military band and a guard of honor were present, gunfire and the Russian anthem sounded over the journalist’s grave, a salute was given, and the army marched.
On April 2, a creative meeting with Tatarsky was held in St. Petersburg in the Patriot bar on the Universitetskaya Embankment, a well-known place where patriotic and military issues were discussed. There was an explosion around 6 pm. According to the main version, a bomb exploded on the statuette, which Daria Trepova presented to Tatarsky. She was arrested and charged, she.
As a result of the terrorist attack, one person died – Tatarsky himself. At least 40 people were injured, a total of about a hundred people were in the room. Some of the victims are minors. Some of them are still in the hospital, their condition is evaluated as severe and moderate. Investigators tentatively estimated the strength of the bomb brought to the bar at 200-500 grams of TNT.
Vladlen Tatarsky was 40 years old. He was born in Makeevka, near Donetsk, in a miner’s family. He also started working in the mine, then went into business. He was later found guilty of committing an armed attack on a bank with the intent to rob. Tatarsky said he escaped from prison in 2014 and joined the DPR militia. After transforming into the People’s Militia, he served in reconnaissance.
Since 2019, he began to maintain a personal blog on his Telegram channel, which at the time of his death had several hundred thousand subscribers. In it, publishing news from the LPR and DPR, Tatarsky spoke about the events in Donbass. After the start of the special operation, he joined the Vostok battalion and reported information from the front.