At the end of August 2023, images of the founder of the Wagner PMC Evgeny Prigozhin with the hoars of the saint above his head appeared on social networks. It was claimed that supposedly such an icon was sold on Avito. We decided to check if this is so.
Many Telegram channels wrote about Prigozhin’s icon. In particular, he devoted her post in your channel publicist Alexander Nevzorov (678,000 views at the time of writing this analysis), later this record reposted and TV presenter Dmitry Gordon (48,000). Wrote about the Icon of Prigozhin, put up for sale on Avito, and some media, for example, "New news".
The very existence of icons with the image of people who are not canonized by the official church is a completely ordinary phenomenon. For example, a lot is known icons with Stalin, A One of them Even a few days completely officially hung in the temple of the Holy Equal-to-the-Apostles Princess Olga in Strelna, a suburbs of St. Petersburg. The icon was there with the blessing of the abbot. However, after the scandal that broke out, the icon was removed, and the abbot left his post.
On other icons, Stalin is even depicted with a halo and sign the “Holy Joseph”.
In addition, since the 1990s, the icons of pop singer Igor Talkov, who were killed in 1991, have been popular among the Orthodox monarchists. Most often, Talkov is depicted along with Nicholas II.
The reason for the news about the allegedly existing Prigozhin icon was the image in social networks - a screenshot from the Avito website.
This picture depicts Evgeny Prigozhin with a shining halo above his head, next to the inscription: "The Holy Martyr Eugene." The screenshot is circumcised, so neither the estimated price, nor the date of placement of the announcement, no other information are available. On Avito There are no signs of the icon: now from similar art objects you can only buy oil portrait of the founder of the PMC “Wagner” for 57,000 rubles.
The picture with the icon appeared on social networks on August 25, two days after The death of Prigozhin In a plane crash. However, the extended image is not a real icon, but changed in the photo editor Stock photo.
There are no other images of Prigozhin icon on the network, except for photos in the satirical account on Instagram "Association of the worst artists". A series of images is called "The icon of the Blessed Great Martyr Eugene is delivered to the temple of the RF Armed Forces." But next to the signature, so as not to mislead subscribers, the hashtag #the worst collage is given.
Thus, it can be concluded that the image of the icon of Evgeny Prigozhin sold on Avito is a fake, and at the time of writing the analysis of the founder of PMC “Wagner”, the founder of the PMC “Wagner”, which was released and applied.
Photo on the cover: screenshot "Checked" / social networks
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