A statue of Prigozhin was erected on his grave in St. Petersburg. The monument created by the sculptor Yaroslav Barkov will be inaugurated on June 1st
On the grave of Evgheni Prigozhin in the Porokhovskoye cemetery of St.Pietroburgo a life-size bronze statue of the founder of the Russian mercenary company was erected Wagner. On the back there is a stele with name, date of birth and death and the symbols of the “private military company”. The statue of the entrepreneur, also known as the “cook of Putin“, immortalizes him with the three stars of the honor pinned on his chest Hero of Russia and the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk Republics.
The author of the work, the sculptor Yaroslav Barkovexplained to the local newspaper Fontanka that the mother of Prigozhin he “categorically did not want the image of a military man” and insisted on the image of an ordinary Russian citizen, a “patriotic man” whose “soul and heart ached for Russia.” The monument will be inaugurated on June 1st, the birth date of Wagner’s founder.
Prigozhin crashed on August 23, 2023 in the Tver region, two months after leading an uprising against Russian defense leaders by launching a march on Moscow. All the passengers on board his flight died. He was buried on August 29 in St. Petersburg, but the location of his burial was kept secret until the end.
Russian authorities have not yet officially disclosed the reasons for the plane’s crash. According to unofficial versions, the private jet he was traveling on was shot down by a missile or a bomb on board exploded. The Russian president Vladimir Putin he said, in October, citing the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federationthat experts found fragments of hand grenades in the bodies of people who died in the plane crash.
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