On the night of April 3, a masked woman was taken out of the front house in Pushkin by an investigation team. Before that, they talked to her for a long time, and the apartment was searched. Daria is registered in this house, who is wanted after an explosion in a restaurant on Vasilyevsky Island, which sent almost 30 people to hospitals and killed one military commander Vladlen Tatarsky. But this is not Daria herself.
The reason is known. On April 2, during a meeting with Tatarsky in a restaurant on Universitetskaya Embankment, a girl got up and introduced herself as Nastya: she is an artist and wants to make a gift to the military commander, but he is in the wardrobe. She went and brought a package. How she went to a restaurant with him before that – Fontanka showed.
In the bundle, a figurine-bust of the color of gilding was found. Eyewitnesses say it doesn’t look like Tatarsky. The military commander and the host of the evening unpacked the gift, exchanged good-natured remarks with the girl.
“The girl gave the bust and goes to her seat, but Vladlen stopped her and asked her to sit next to me. She said she was shy, but she went. In the second photo: this is at the moment when she sits down near Vladlen, ”another participant told Fontanka. He captured those moments.
A photograph of “Nastya” scattered through the nets, but very soon it became known that they were looking for a certain Daria Trepova. Daria’s name is on the list of those detained in St. Petersburg at a pacifist rally on February 24 last year. The court decision says that she and no more than 300 other citizens interfered with the rest in the evening at the Gostiny Dvor metro station. The offense was confirmed by several protocols and photographic evidence. The girl claimed in court that some people in civilian clothes detained her at the 135th house on the Fontanka embankment and she did not go to any rallies. The court sent her under arrest for 10 days, the decision stood on appeal. It is noted that earlier she was not brought to administrative responsibility.
During the protests, Dmitry, who is called the girl’s husband, was also detained. He was charged with the same article, he admitted participation in a mass event, agreeing that he probably violated sanitary standards. In court, he stated that in the evening he was at Gostiny Dvor with Daria. As follows from the decision, they retreated to the Anichkov Bridge with a poster in their hands. Dmitry then received nine days of arrest, he failed to challenge them in the city court.
Dmitry is a member of the Libertarian Party (LPR). The LPR Fontanka reported that Daria herself had nothing to do with the party, and her husband Dmitry was abroad. “Now he is worried about what happened. But we don’t have any information from him,” the interlocutor in the movement said. The LPR stressed that they condemn the attacks.
On the page of Darya herself on the social network, there are no traces of an oppositional mood, no political views. There she is Ophelia. Humoresques, memes, music, arthouse cinema on the wall. Subscriptions are near-artistic publics, interest in veganism and eco-projects is noticeable. Of the most radical – the self-liquidated “Team 29”. The association of lawyers, lawyers, journalists was headed by lawyer Ivan Pavlov*, who was included in the list of foreign agents.
In the more personal of those who are on the list of friends, the girl does not dedicate. He does not talk about his studies. It is known that she studied at the Lyceum of the Pushkin District. She took part in the conference of the National Research University Higher School of Economics, the work “History of Russian costume in the 10th-first quarter of the 18th century: originality and borrowings” brought her victory.
In 2015 she received the medal “For Special Achievements in Teaching”. Her mother was proud of her then on her page. “SPARK” knows the girl as an individual entrepreneur. The IP was registered on March 9, activity – “retail trade by mail or via the Internet information and communication network.” Given the interests, it could be about selling clothes.
Mother – 45, judging by open information, worked in companies related to the wine trade. Stepfather is a 49-year-old musician. He performs in a group that is described as virtuosos of various genres, well known to St. Petersburg jazzophiles.
The logic of the actions of the criminal investigation department was exactly the same as if there had been a simple murder on Universitetskaya Embankment, and the same photograph of the suspect was attached to it: her face was scrolled through the databases of detainees (and there are many of them, and they are different); filmed video from nearby surveillance cameras; they immediately questioned those present who could be reached here and now; found out that the girl had previously written off with Vladlen Tatarsky; the technical service opened the correspondence; checked the entrance to the Vasileostrovskaya metro station; landings in a taxi, corresponding to the time and approximate places. It doesn’t matter in what order all this was done, the employees were not even interested in examining the point of the explosion – the explosives experts still do not immediately give a conclusion. But already three hours later the police knew all the exact data they needed from the 26-year-old Petersburger Daria.
A kind of indirect confirmation for the security forces was the arrest at the rally on February 24, 2022. Although, of course, with such an attitude to today’s reality, it is surprising to attend meetings of their ideological opponents. Yes, even give one of the leaders of the patriotic wing – a bust. But she did just that, introducing herself as a student of the Academy of Arts (probably, the Academy itself, located a hundred meters away, played a role in this, and the fact that Daria really is not a stranger to drawing – she was engaged in aesthetics at the Lyceum).
Already by nine o’clock in the evening on April 2, hundreds of operatives (in the literal sense) moved to various addresses in St. Petersburg (we can’t even talk about hundreds of street outfits with her photographs). Of course, the house in Pushkin, where Daria lives, has become the most guarded.
Already on the night of April 3, a search was carried out in the apartment, the mother was taken away for an unpleasant conversation. Her mobile phone could not be a problem in such a situation. It was dismantled into calls, subscribers, communications, and so on. Everything is controlled thoroughly, the accepted procedural ceremonies are postponed for ordinary incidents.
Daria’s mobile phone does not give signals. You don’t have to have a brutal experience to know that at that moment she is sitting somewhere with a friend or friend. Or a friend of a friend. She is not a representative of the professional criminal world, where waste is thought out, apartments are rented in advance, new documents are drawn and there is a place for makeup.
Maybe she does not know all the intricacies of operational-search activity, but even through someone else’s Internet she sees hundreds of information flashes pointing to her. And if the networks know this – for example, many people unsubscribe from her page quickly – it means that I can’t be taxed.
There are many people in large uniforms at the search headquarters. Every ten minutes they receive information from different groups, change something in their locations, turn phone taps on and off. For us, it’s cinema. For them, it’s nerve-wracking. Permanent reports to Moscow. They have one thought – it is necessary to find, take, and there – according to the knurled.