Evgeny Prigozhin was secretly buried in St. Petersburg

Facebook netizens named it “Special Funeral”Based on this “Special Military Operation”, the euphemism used by the Kremlin to refer to the invasion of Ukraine from the beginning. The funeral of Yevgeny Prigojine took place in St. Petersburg on Tuesday, August 29, in a very secretive and incredible atmosphere.

Despite dozens of journalists trying to locate the ceremony in all four corners of the city, nothing filtered out till evening. Finally, it was the press service of Concord, the parent company of the Wagner mercenary group, that noted on its Telegram site that the funeral at the Borokovsky cemetery had taken place earlier in the day.

Mr. There are the remains of Prigogine’s father. His administration claimed to have organized the ceremony “As per the wishes of the family”.

A simple grave

No date or venue has been announced. Petersburg officials themselves admitted being kept out of the secret. In the morning, the Kremlin said it was not aware of any preparations, and Russian President Vladimir Putin, who has been close to the businessman since the 1990s, assured that he did not plan to attend.

According to several sources cited by independent Russian media, only about forty of those closest to Yevkhuni Prigozhin, who was killed in an unexplained crash of his plane on August 23, attended the funeral. Many of the mercenaries or ex-combatants of Wagner’s group who wished to do so could not pay tribute to their leader.

The pictures started appearing in the evening A very simple grave was marked by a wooden cross (Russian tradition only provides for placing a stele after a year). At her feet, an excerpt from the poem Still lifeBy Joseph Brodsky.

Officials alert

Officials used the treasures of imagination to mislead journalists and interested people. Arrangements were announced during the day at three other cemeteries in the city, access to which was restricted. In one of them, Valery Sekhalov, one of Prigozhin’s lieutenants, was buried on Tuesday at the Serafimovsky cemetery, where Vladimir Putin’s parents are buried. The dates and locations of planned ceremonies for eight other people on board, including Wagner Group founder Dmitry Outkin, have also been kept secret.

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