Has Kushchevka reached Khimki?

Cases of robbers attacking country houses in the Moscow region are not uncommon. But the murder committed on Sunday in Khimki is horrifying in its cruelty. “MK” already told the day before how 43-year-old Elena Pereverzeva and her children, 12-year-old son Daniil and three-year-old twins Vanya and Marusya, died during a fire in their cottage. Only Elena's eldest daughter, 21-year-old Daria (she was not at home) and the girl's friend Dima (he miraculously escaped from the burning building with the help of neighbors) were saved. Defenseless children and their mother were brutally killed and then burned. This tragedy may have a purely mafia background, since Elena Pereverzeva’s father is high-ranking official in one of the largest Russian oil companies. According to the latest information, nothing was missing from the house: Elena’s car is also there.

All that was left of the Pereverzev house was ashes. Photo: GSU ICR MO

The elite village of Terehovo is closed from outsiders by a high fence. At the entrance there is a checkpoint, a barrier, strict security guards, everything is as it should be. Entry is by pass only. You can’t help but wonder: maybe such a strengthening was undertaken after the Sunday tragedy?

“No, no, it’s always strict here,” the driver leaving the gate waves him off.

I decide to test this on my own skin. I move half a kilometer away from the checkpoint, pull myself up and calmly climb over the 2-meter fence. A house is being built here, and some blocks have been dumped on the outside of the fence. Welcome, uninvited guests! For those who are more skilled, two trees leaned over the fence very successfully. In short, even though the village is guarded, the bandits could easily have gotten here undetected. However, in fairness, I will note: the video surveillance system works flawlessly here. I got caught on camera, was identified and expelled from the territory 10 minutes after the illegal entry. Why did the robbers go unnoticed to cottage 33, where the Pereverzevs lived? Perhaps they snuck into the village in the dark, when the image was “lame” and the security guards were dozing? Or did the guards, for some reason known only to them, allow them to pass? Or... there were no robbers at all? There are no answers to all these questions yet.

At about 9 o'clock, residents of the village noticed that smoke was pouring out from under the roof of a one-story house with an attic for the Pereverzev family. The owner of the house is 43-year-old Elena, an accountant and economist at the Rosneft company. Elena raised three minor children - three-year-old twins Vanya and Marusya, as well as 13-year-old Danya. Her eldest 21-year-old daughter Daria graduated from the history department of Moscow State University this year and lived separately with her boyfriend, a 22-year-old graduate of Moscow State Technical University. Bauman by Dmitry Kolesnikov. The young couple rented an apartment on Lavochkina Street, but often visited Terekhov.

On Sunday, Dmitry was supposed to fly on a business trip from Sheremetyevo. The airport is located close to the settlement, and therefore Dmitry decided to spend the night in a cottage, and Daria went to Moscow.

Dmitry managed to miraculously escape, as he slept in the attic. The bravest of men, seeing that a house of 150 square meters. meters engulfed in flames, put up a ladder, went upstairs and helped him get out of the house. Dmitry could barely breathe.

It took several hours to extinguish the mansion; even two helicopters flew in and dropped five tons of water. Firefighters eventually entered the premises and discovered the bodies. Rescuers carried them out of the burning building, but were unable to revive them. According to the preliminary version, the children suffocated with carbon monoxide.

It was not immediately possible to find the owner and 13-year-old Danya among the smoke and fumes. The mother and son apparently found themselves at the epicenter of the fire, so their bodies were badly burned. At about 5 p.m., a dead teenager was found in the ashes, and later the body of a woman.

The rescued Dmitry explained that the house was apparently attacked by villains, as he woke up from the smell of carbon monoxide and found himself with his hands tied. Kolesnikov said that he heard a conversation between two criminals. One of them, in particular, said that he needed to be finished off, and the other replied that instructions were given to deal only with the owner of the cottage, Elena (a synthetic rope tied in a double knot was later found on her neck). The villain allegedly calmed his partner down, saying that the guy would burn anyway.

The guy still hasn't recovered from the shock. But he will still have to answer uncomfortable, even cruel questions. After all, it is absolutely unclear how the bandits entered the village? Why didn’t anyone, neither the kids nor their mother, wake up? Why was it necessary to kill defenseless children? How, again, did the criminals disappear from the cottage town? A version immediately suggests itself: the crime was committed by someone close to the Pereverzev family, who had access to the house, and to whom Elena could have ordered a pass. Moreover, similar examples behind Lately there were plenty. It was the son who killed the widow of the mayor of the Moscow region Roshal and her daughter three weeks ago, although at first everyone was also looking for the mythical robbers.

Perhaps the nanny of the dead twins can clarify something - she was intensively interrogated yesterday. The day before, on Saturday, the woman was in the house, and towards evening Elena let her go until Monday: she was going to spend the weekend with the children.

The Pereverzev family was well known in the settlement.

“Elena raised three children alone, she was a wealthy woman,” the residents said. — She gave birth to a daughter, Daria, and younger twin children from her first husband, Igor. And Dani’s father is her second husband Alexey. But she did not live with any man. Igor has been working on the island of Phuket for at least 10 years. He is a photographer, also involved in diving and organizing exclusive tours. Igor helped Elena and the children, they had a good relationship. Elena saw the meaning of life only in children.

You look at the photo on social networks and your heart bleeds. Charming babies on the hot Thai sand (in the summer the family vacationed in Phuket). The boy raised his hands triumphantly - his beloved CSKA is the champion again. Eldest daughter, who lost her entire family in one morning, is a pretty, successful Moscow student. An ordinary family with above-average income, thousands of them. Who could decide to commit such atrocity?

“In order to establish the causes of the fire, as well as the death of the victims, a number of examinations have been scheduled. The case was transferred to the First Directorate for Investigation of Particularly Important Cases of the Main Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee of Russia for the Moscow Region,” MK reported. official representative Main Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee for the region Olga Vradiy.

If the version about the robbers is confirmed, the answer should be sought in the place of work of the deceased. Elena's father, 76-year-old Ivan Chernov, has worked for Rosneft for many years. Since 2006, Ivan Nikolaevich has been director of the department of strategic and foreign projects of Rosneft (he lived in a neighboring cottage village and often visited his daughter and grandchildren). The woman also worked as an accountant and economist in this organization. The company itself is now well known. The criminals could have assumed that the house contained countless treasures and chosen the cottage based on this principle. By the way, it’s difficult to say whether anything was missing from the house - the mansion turned into ashes. And if Dmitry Kolesnikov’s testimony is confirmed, it means that the criminals wanted to deal specifically with Elena Pereverzeva. Perhaps they were simply hired. And these people are so cruel that they stop at nothing, even killing children.

Yesterday, the father of the dead children took the first flight from Thailand to Moscow.

Why do you think a human rights activist goes to a pre-trial detention center? At first glance, a strange question. Those who sit there complain to us about poor conditions, indifferent doctors, and sadistic cellmates. And we walk, trying not to think that the complainant himself is perhaps the devil in human form, the gallows are crying for him, and if another scoundrel gave him a “dark”, society will only say thank you.
But no one can be called a criminal before a court verdict - this is a banal truth that, alas, is often forgotten.
And here is another call - no, not even a cry for help. 23-year-old Dmitry Kolesnikov begs us to meet. He went on a hunger strike to protest against the actions of the investigator. Do you remember him? Yes, remember, of course. Kolesnikov was detained in September on suspicion of the gruesome murder of four people in Khimki near Moscow. All newspapers wrote about this case, the Internet trumpeted... According to investigators, he killed his girlfriend’s mother, as well as her 12-year-old brother and twins, a boy and a girl, three years old. The guy set the house on fire, and then pretended that he himself miraculously escaped from the killers.
Understanding the complaints of a suspect in such a terrible crime is doubly difficult. But the verdict is still far away, which means we need to go to a pre-trial detention center. To find out if everything is so clear in this terrible and seemingly simple matter.

On the morning of September 7, in the Terekhovo cottage quarter, a two-story house in which Rosneft employee Elena Pereverzeva lived caught fire. Neighbors came running to the fire, put up a ladder and helped her eldest daughter’s friend Dmitry Kolesnikov escape. Afterwards, the bodies of Elena, her 12-year-old son Daniil and three-year-old twins, Vanechka and Marusya, were found in the house. Kolesnikov first testified that there were criminals in the house. But a few days later, the guy admitted that he hit the woman on the head with a bottle of champagne, after which he strangled her with a cord and set the house on fire. Motive - Pereverzeva expressed displeasure with her potential son-in-law, reproaching him for Dasha’s sudden and unsuccessful pregnancy. The tough talk ended in murder and arson to destroy evidence and child witnesses.


History of the accused
Dmitry Kolesnikov is a suspect in the murder of Elena Pereverzeva and her children. He writes all day long. Notebooks with a lot of diagrams and drawings. Day and night, as if in a frenzy, he records all the details that emerge in his memory. “This is a crime scene, and these are the criminals and their victims. The bandits came here, they came out here, the children slept here...”
“We planned that day to have a picnic with Dasha’s mother and invite all our relatives. I was going to propose to Dasha there. But her grandfather, who enjoys unquestioning authority among us, forbade her to go. We decided to cancel the picnic and stay home. And then Lena, Dasha’s mother, called and asked to bring textbooks for her son Dani. And then I thought: maybe this is for the best, I can take the rings and all the preparations out of the apartment (otherwise there would be no surprise for Dasha). Now they are trying to pretend that Lena did not want me in her family. Against! She was incredibly happy for Dasha and me.
I arrived, Lena and I together figured out how to arrange everything beautifully - I’m talking about my marriage proposal. When it was already quite late, I went to sleep in this room. Lena slept here. I’m here, there were children here...
At this point, the voice breaks down, Dima’s chin begins to shake.
- I woke up from cries for help. Lena called me. She called ME! Do you understand? She kept screaming: “Dima, help!” I rushed to the call. The man was strangling her with one hand and showing her something on a tablet with the other. Another man came out of the dining room. I started to run, but he caught up with me and knocked me out.
I remember the faces of the criminals, especially one. Now I’m putting together sketches so that they can be found. You know, I’m a good drawer, I just need an eraser. Will you bring me an eraser next time?
... I woke up and lay there until they left. I heard the children crying... (The chin is shaking with such force that the face is distorted with a grimace.) I rushed into their room... But I only got this far (shows on the diagram). The house was made of stone with glass wool, and the smoke was such that you inhaled it, and that was the end. And I didn’t get to the children... I came back here. I thought: I’ll get out into the street, run around the house and get to them on the other side.
Additional details of the murder are told by Kolesnikov’s mother - from the words of her son, of course. They had time to talk - he was not arrested immediately:
- The one who strangled her had an iPad on which he showed her some kind of recording and said something like: “People like you should not live.” When Dima woke up, they were still walking around the house and looking for something. He pretended to be unconscious. And they were talking to each other: “What should we do with him?” - “Nothing, it wasn’t ordered. He'll die anyway. It will burn."
“I had a confrontation with Dmitry Alekseevich, the worker who was the first to run to the fire,” continues Kolesnikov. - And I tell you that I got out through this door, but the investigator writes it down differently! Then they said that I even had a diploma on the topic of arson or something related to fires. My specialty is robotics, and my diploma was about antennas! But any diploma should have a part about fire safety.
- Why did you complain to human rights activists? Were you treated poorly in detention?
- When I was placed in the isolation ward in Lobnya, two men met me in the cell. They told me that in prison they would let me go and kill me for my children, that I had to confess everything, and then I would sit in a cell under supervision, no one would touch me. They beat me on the sly all the time. They threatened to rape me and infect me with HIV. They said that it would be bad for my whole family if I didn’t confess. I have a suspicion that something was added to my cigarettes. Supposedly my mother gave me these cigarettes, but she says she didn’t even know this brand.
Then at some point the investigator began to explain that if I agreed to murder in a state of passion, then I would be given only 3 years plus parole, and I would be released in a year. Otherwise I won’t live to see the trial... And I made a confession.
REFERENCE: Dima wrote two confessions on September 12 and 16. In one, he indicated that the reason was a quarrel allegedly because Elena did not want Dasha to have children from him and was against the wedding. In the second - that they developed a crime plan together with Dasha because of the inheritance.
The investigator wants me to convince Dasha to come to Moscow. He promises dates. But if she arrives, she will also be put in a cell.
I went on a hunger strike in protest against the actions of the investigator. I don't think he's really trying to find the truth. I arrived at the house with a briefcase containing a laptop. It had to burn, didn't it? But my family sees that someone is constantly accessing the network from it (I’m not even talking about Skype, VKontakte, but there is such a program as TeamSpeak, my account was linked specifically to the computer). Why doesn’t the investigator want to find out who and from what place? Why don't they bill the phones of those who might have been involved in some way? Why?..


Suspect's story
Daria Pereverzeva is Elena's only surviving daughter, Kolesnikov's friend. She also writes letters - to Moscow from abroad. “I sincerely hope that you will help me find the truth, and that’s why I decided to write you my letter,” Dasha begins her story with these words. I received it after communicating with Dima. - My mother and children were the dearest and closest people on this planet to me. For their sake, their blessed memory and truth, I am ready to fight. Dima was forced to confess and incriminate himself and me. I don't blame him for this. He had no other choice."
And then Dasha talks in every detail about her family and her life.
She met Dima almost 5 years ago. Dasha writes that even her strict grandfather approved of her choice. “And my mother wanted our wedding, she loved Dima,” the girl assures. Dasha describes how they helped their mother with twins, how they endlessly went to visit, etc., etc. All the details are on a dozen sheets. This is how Dasha describes the events of late summer - early autumn:
“On August 21, I returned from Irkutsk (I was on a hike with my dad; she and my mom haven’t lived together for a long time). There I had a dream that I was pregnant. Upon arrival, Dima and I immediately went to the medical center to check if this was true. It turned out to be true. But then I started bleeding. I called my grandparents and told them that I was pregnant, but there was a risk of miscarriage. They were very worried about me. But they had nothing against the child; on the contrary, they supported me. We called Dima's mother. My mother was the last to find out - she was in the Maldives on vacation, and I didn’t want to worry her. My mother said: “God grant there won’t be a miscarriage!” She called Oleg’s sister (her friend), who works as a gynecologist. And I was admitted to the hospital. Mom called dad (he lives in Thailand), scolded him for going camping, and said that because of this, I might have problems with the pregnancy.”
The child could not be saved.
“On September 6, Dima went to buy a ticket for September 7 to Simferopol, where he was going to see my grandfather’s friend about work,” continues Daria. - We wanted to organize a picnic, but grandfather forbade it. Mom asked Dima to stop by the “House of Pedagogical Books” to buy textbooks for Dani. And mom said: let Dima stay the night, get some sleep, and she herself will take him to the airport. At 21.10 he was in the village of Terekhovo. From 22.00 to 23.00 he called me several times, saying that mom was putting the kids to bed, and he and Danya were watching some movie. I didn’t talk to my mother, my brothers, or my sister anymore.”
Grandfather's story
Ivan Nikolaevich Chernov - Daria's grandfather and father murdered Elena Pereverzevoy, a respectable, respected man, is the head of one of the departments of Rosneft. He doesn't write letters - he has no time for that. I can’t even imagine how his heart can handle it. How he forces himself to wake up every morning, make phone calls, watch TV. Ivan Nikolaevich lost his daughter, two grandchildren and a granddaughter at once. And the losses may not end there.
How to believe in people if it turns out that Dmitry Kolesnikov is a murderer? For whom to live if the version that his granddaughter Daria is an accomplice is confirmed?
Ivan Nikolaevich himself is a man of few words. The most amazing thing: on the one hand, he believes official version investigation, on the other hand, he feels very sorry for both Dima and Dasha. Moreover, he wrote to his granddaughter: “And how can you then love such a guy?” - hinting that the young man turned out to be a coward and did not try to save the children at the cost of his own life. - This is such horror. For a long time I myself did not believe that Dima could do this. I treated him very well. He said that he wanted to become just like me, to follow in my footsteps. I agreed on his employment... But there are facts...
Ivan Nikolaevich himself did not want to continue the conversation - it was too difficult. Therefore, we give the floor to the brother of the deceased Elena, Evgeniy Chernov.
- What attracted Dmitry Kolesnikov to our family? - he begins his story. - Until recently, my father worked at Rosneft in a serious position, and Kolesnikov, of course, wanted to somehow use his opportunities and contacts. It is still unknown what was more important for Kolesnikov - these purely mercantile calculations or relations with Daria.
After the accident, we were looking through Dmitry’s computer and came across a recording of his chat with Daria. Kolesnikov’s rude swearing is in almost every message! This came as a shock to us, because when visiting Daria’s grandparents, Kolesnikov did not allow himself a single rude word.
Upon closer examination, it turned out that Kolesnikov was simply using Daria, while behaving completely boorishly. When asked by Daria why she endured all this without complaint, she answered that “he loves me, it’s common to swear now, you’re outdated... but I myself can’t swear, I’m a girl...”.
By the way, Dmitry never agreed to drink even a glass of wine with our family. But now we know that in his company he often completely relaxed and was a frequent guest in clubs and restaurants.
Dmitry and Daria spent decent money on their lives. At the same time, Dmitry’s requests were constantly growing. A typical example. For some time the guys lived in a three-room apartment in the center. When this opportunity no longer existed, they had to be persuaded for a long time to move to an apartment at the Vodny Stadium. Large, well-finished apartment next to the park, but still not as cool as in the center...
Communicating with us, Kolesnikov simply played the role of a decent, modest guy. He had to restrain himself. I think that infiltration into our family was a kind of “project”. By the way, when Dmitry met Dasha, he was already living in civil marriage with another girl. Despite the very young age, the guy quickly got his bearings and broke up with her without much worry, Daria was a more “promising” option...
At the same time, they somehow managed to zombify Daria, who now does not want to see the facts and continues to defend Dmitry in spite of common sense. Kolesnikov knows what punishment he faces, and he resorts to any tricks to somehow reduce the punishment or try to avoid it - from trying to pretend to be a madman to allegations of beatings and torture during the investigation. Cowardly by nature, Kolesnikov is nevertheless cunning and resourceful. Nevertheless, I hope that, despite all the tricks and tricks, the criminal will be punished to the fullest extent of the law...
Of course, Dima and Dasha’s friends vying with each other to refute the words of her relatives. Dima is spiritual, with principles. And I didn’t like going to clubs. And I didn’t want to meet Dasha precisely because of her family. Yes, I could swear. What kind of questions? What's the big deal? Yes, he could drink in company. What are you hinting at? Dima himself has a three-room apartment in Moscow, he rented it out and lived on that money. And I couldn’t stand that very apartment in the center that you’re asking about and happily moved in...
***
Who to believe? Uncle Dasha? To Dima's friends?
Let’s say Dima drank, swore and generally lived with Dasha for the sake of self-interest. But where is the motive? Self-interest? Excuse me, but Daria is not the only heiress.
“There was probably some kind of spontaneous reaction,” Evgeniy Chernov discusses the possible motive. - Something in the conversation with Elena aroused Kolesnikov’s anger, and he is quite nervous, emotional person. Danilka apparently came running in response to the noise. Well, the kids were alive until the morning.
And in fact, the signal about a fire in the house came only at 8.30 in the morning. It turns out that the criminals Kolesnikov spoke about spent the whole night in the house? We were thinking about what to do and then started an arson?
All these are just versions. They lie on the surface, and it is the investigator who must dig deeper. Even if this is a step away from the comfortable beaten path that leads Kolesnikov straight to a colony for those sentenced to life imprisonment. For the sake of truth and elimination of any doubts, the investigator must check everything, even seemingly insignificant circumstances.
Witness story
Oleg Samartsev is a close friend of Elena Pereverzeva. The man is not easy. Undoubtedly not stupid. And having his own opinion about what happened in the house in the village of Terekhovo. When the investigation was just beginning, he advised us to pay attention to Dasha’s behavior in the ashes - she supposedly didn’t shed a tear. Of course, this doesn't mean anything...
In that terrible night Kolesnikov slept in the room where Oleg usually spent the night. According to Dasha, their mother introduced them to Samartsev in March. Then she flew with him ski resort to Bulgaria. And then Oleg began to live with Elena. True, the man turned out to be a family man, and his wife found out where he was and with whom he was spending time. “She was shocked, tried to return Oleg to the family, and constantly threatened my mother. She said that my mother should be afraid of her,” writes Dasha.
Then Oleg filed for divorce, and the trial began. In August it was Oleg’s birthday, and Elena gave him a trip to the Maldives. They flew together. They returned on the 31st and on the same day they quarreled over dinner that mom served at the wrong time. Oleg left.
“When on September 7, my grandfather called Oleg in front of me and told him about what had happened, he replied that he was now in the village and was leaving urgently. My mother and I had a very close relationship, I knew her email password. When I went to her email, I read a letter dated September 5 from Oleg, in which he writes that he did not go to the village and is now living in Moscow with his friend. This seemed suspicious to me, I came to the investigator and told him about it. To which they answered: “We already have an accused - Dmitry Kolesnikov, and there is no need to look for anything else and check.”
Really, why check? No one needs this, and it’s troublesome. But journalists, unlike investigators, have more than enough free time. So I called Samartsev - just out of curiosity. The conversation turned out to be more than strange.
- What makes you think that I am the same Oleg?
- Wait, did you know Elena or not?
- Yes, I knew her.
- That is, they still knew. Did you live with her?
- Can I tell you the size of the bed? We knew each other, that's all. Some people think that those who have had coffee twice in a restaurant are already common-law husband and wife... But in general, I don’t want to give any comments.
***
I managed to find out how the investigative experiment with Kolesnikov’s participation took place. Of course, Dmitry admitted everything there. But the main thing is how he did it. He answered all questions soberly and clearly. He explained in detail and showed that he hit Lena once, that the bottle did not break... And he showed how he burned his clothes after the crime.
That's all, actually.
The classic story of a representative of the “golden youth”, who was turned by the prospect of a profitable marriage. “American tragedy” in the Russian way.
Or not all?
How many examples do we know when investigators, trying to quickly deal with a complex high-profile case, themselves determine what matters and what does not, ignore evidence, relying only on a confession, it is unclear how it was obtained... Hundreds? Thousands?
On the other hand, how many examples are there when brutal killers, trying to shield themselves, came up with the most incredible versions? They talked about torture, went on hunger strikes, appealed to public opinion, invited human rights activists to the pre-trial detention center... Dozens? Hundreds?
There is still hope that such a terrible and cruel crime for Moscow (even in modern times) will be investigated in such a way that a mosquito does not erode the nose. So that after the verdict no one has even a shadow of doubt: it is the guilty person who will go to prison for a long time. Perhaps forever.
I really want to believe that we were not mistaken.

Just a little more, it seems, and the high-profile case will be put to rest. The Moscow Regional Court spent about six months sorting out the intricacies of the investigation into the brutal murder. On March 6, the jury announced its decision in the case of the death of a Rosneft employee and her three children. All 12 agreed with the investigation: they were all killed by Dmitry Kolesnikov, the common-law husband of the eldest daughter of the deceased woman...

Let us recall this story briefly. In September 2014, in an elite village near Khimki, a two-story cottage burned out completely. While clearing out the rubble, firefighters found the body of the 43-year-old owner, Rosneft employee Elena Pereverzeva, and her three children. Danila was 13 years old, twins Masha and Vanya were only 3 years old. Forensic experts determined that the woman had been strangled before the fire. 23-year-old Dmitry Kolesnikov, the fiancé of Pereverzeva’s eldest daughter, Daria, was detained on suspicion of murder. That night the guy spent the night in the house of his potential mother-in-law (it seemed like he was supposed to fly from Sheremetyevo on a business trip in the morning, and from Khimki it was closer to the airport), although Dasha herself remained in the Moscow apartment. Kolesnikov first admitted his guilt, then recanted his first testimony. Since then he has stood his ground: he saw strange men in the house, they killed Elena and the children, then they set the house on fire, and they knocked him out and left him inside, allegedly hoping that the guy would not be able to get out of the fire...

We wrote a lot about this story, analyzed different versions. Among them were the revenge of the wife of her lover, Elena Pereverzeva, and robbery. The family, to put it mildly, is not poor - the father of the deceased woman, Ivan Chernov, held high positions in Rosneft for many years.

But the version of the investigation remained unchanged. Dmitry Kolesnikov and Daria planned to kill the Pereverzevs in order to get their grandfather’s fortune in the future - a lot of real estate and bank accounts.

By the way, Daria Pereverzeva, a few days before the tragedy, flew to Thailand (her father lives there) and was abroad until December 2016. investigative committee reported that the girl was wanted. At the end of last year, Pereverzeva Jr. flew to Russia to appear in court as a witness for the defense, and was arrested. The investigation into her case is ongoing independently of the trial of Kolesnikov.

The trial in the high-profile case was held behind closed doors. Even Kolesnikov’s mother was not allowed into the meetings. Therefore, today the woman waited for a decision at the door for several hours.

The judge first reminded the jury of the evidence presented by the investigation. Then the collegium (lists of jurors are formed by random selection from among the residents of the region - Auto.) went to a special room for discussion. The assessors decided Kolesnikov's fate in an hour and a half.

The assessors agreed with the investigation that Dmitry Kolesnikov removed contenders for the inheritance Photo: Personal page hero of a social network post

Ivan Chernov was the first to leave the courtroom. The 71-year-old father of the deceased Elena Pereverzeva and his lawyers have not missed a single meeting over these months. The former top manager of Rosneft did not communicate with journalists all this time. Only once did he briefly answer a few questions from “KP”:

I don't want to voice my point of view. Let the court decide whether he is guilty (Kolesnikov, - Auto.), or not,” he explained his position at the end of last year.

Leaving the courtroom today, surrounded by four representatives at once, Chernov looked confused.

- Ivan Nikolaevich, can you comment on the jury’s verdict?

The elderly man paused for a moment at the elevator door.

No, now is not the time...

- What did the jury decide today?

Chernov waved his hand irritably:

Now you will find out everything yourself.

Standing outside the hall, along with Kolesnikov’s mother, Elena Petrovna, were the guy’s friends and former classmates. A minute later his lawyers came out into the corridor.

As far as we know, the jury's verdict will be discussed in court on March 28. Dmitry Kolesnikov's defense is going to insist on procedural violations during the trial.

Meanwhile, Daria Pereverzeva was transferred from a pre-trial detention center near Moscow to a Moscow pre-trial detention center in Pechatniki, where only women are kept. In the near future, the girl should be sent for a psychiatric examination to the Serbsky Institute.

, 05.18.16, Moscow, 09:03 And the main suspect claims that he was hiding from the robbers under the bed. 77-year-old former top manager of Rosneft Ivan Chernov tries to go to the graves of his daughter and three grandchildren every Saturday. All four of them are lying on Troekurovskoye Cemetery nearby: 43-year-old Elena Pereverzeva, 13-year-old Danila, twins Vanya and Masha, who were only 3 years old. About this scary story we wrote many times (more details on the website kp.ru). Rosneft employee Elena Pereverzeva and her children died in September 2014. Their bodies were found in a burnt cottage near Khimki. But it was not an accident.

OIL WORKER'S DAY

The investigation lasted for a year and a half. The prosecutor is now studying the case. Recently, the case materials were transferred to the Moscow Regional Court. Jury selection is underway. But new details constantly emerge. At first, investigators had several versions. For example - robbery. Or the revenge of the legal wife of businessman Oleg Samartsev, with whom Pereverzeva met. Or a contract killing (the house with the bodies burned down in a suspicious manner on Oilman’s Day). But in the end, only one suspect remained - 23-year-old Dmitry Kolesnikov, the common-law husband of the daughter of the deceased Elena Pereverzeva. According to investigators, he was encouraged to kill his mother and three children by his beloved, Daria Pereverzeva (the girl, who has been living in Thailand for a year and a half, was charged in absentia). Motives? There are two of them, as indicated in the case. Inheritance and revenge. Not long before this, Dasha lost her child (she went on a difficult mountain hike, not knowing that she was pregnant). The investigator believes that the girl experienced clouding. For some reason she blamed her mother for the tragedy. So she tempted Kolesnikov into sin... As KP ​​learned, a certain witness named Zubov is mentioned in the criminal case. The young man comes from the Lugansk region. When they started shooting in the east of Ukraine, he went to work in Moscow. Here he worked as an industrial climber. I read his testimony. He says that in August 2014 he was drinking in Zhulebin with fellow countryman Vlad Kosyachenko. A certain Maxim Gusev, also a guy from the Lugansk region, came up to talk to him. Vlad then told Zubov what they were talking about.

Maxim offered him to earn money - either to rob him or to scare an “oil woman” somewhere in Khimki, Zubov told the investigator. - I told Vlad not to get involved, since he has a wife here and Small child. But after that Vlad disappeared. It can be assumed that they were talking about the robbery of Pereverzeva’s house. According to Zubov, in May 2015, he went to the Lugansk region to visit his relatives and learned that Kosyachenko had returned to the LPR and died. Zubov explained his thoughts to the investigator. Most likely, Kosyachenko “signed up” for the case after all. That’s why he left Moscow hastily. And they killed him so as not to share the loot (equipment and jewelry disappeared from the house).

NEW TURN

In the criminal case, Zubov’s testimony appeared in the summer of 2015. How did they find this witness?

And here is a series of coincidences. And they're weird too.

In Moscow, the brother of this same Zubov had some problems with the law. He needed a lawyer. I found the defender of Zubov via the Internet. I entered into an agreement with lawyer Sergeev. And one day he said in a private conversation that he was defending a guy who was accused of murdering a Rosneft employee in Khimki. It was then that Zubov put two and two together. And he told Sergeev this story about Kosyachenko. In a criminal case, Zubov testifies three times. First, to the lawyer, who comes to the investigator with this recording. Then there is testimony where Zubov refuses everything: they say, it was the lawyer who taught me what to say, but I myself don’t know anything like that. But then another interrogation appears. Here Zubov again continues to insist: his friend Kosyachenko died because he got mixed up with robbers... And the police interrogation, the witness said, took place under pressure, the operatives intimidated him and forced him to sign such testimony. By the way, there is even a complaint to the regional prosecutor’s office about this. And then Zubov disappears. More precisely, he is expelled from Russia with an entry ban for five years. Also a muddy story. It seems like he was expelled for two administrative offenses (that’s the law). But the lawyers of the main suspect in the murder of the family from Khimki, Kolesnikov, made a request to the region where Zubov allegedly sinned. It turned out there were no offenses.

"ALL TABLETS, PHONES, JEWELRY ARE MISSING"

Dmitry Kolesnikov told the following story during interrogations. At night I heard loud screams, went down and saw a man who laid Pereverzeva on the floor and showed her something on the tablet. Kolesnikov got scared and ran. They caught up with him and hit him on the head. I woke up in the bathroom with my hands tied, when the house was already filled with smoke. Somehow I got out...

As it turned out, not quite.

I myself am a former investigator, and this story seemed implausible to me from the very beginning,” Kolesnikova’s lawyer Inga Dolzhikova tells me. - Well, what kind of tied hands if there are no marks on the wrists? I tell him: let’s tell the truth. At first he denied it, but then he confessed. Elena Ivanovna had already gone to bed. Dmitry and her eldest son Danila were sitting on the second floor, watching a movie with headphones. There are some sounds from below. Danila rushed to his mother. But Kolesnikov hesitated. He was scared. After some time I just looked down. He says he heard men's voices. I saw that Danila was already lying on the floor and not moving. Kolesnikov simply chickened out. He quietly returned to the room and hid under the bed so as not to be found.

But there were other testimonies from Kolesnikov (those that were given in the first 24 hours after the tragedy and which he later abandoned. - Author). He said that he doused the bodies and the house with flammable liquid...

If we assume that this is so, there should have been traces of this liquid on his clothes and on his hands,” Dolzhikova continues. Nothing in my hands. And the wet clothes seized from Kolesnikov (after extinguishing the fire. - Author) were sealed in plastic bag. For some reason they didn’t immediately send it for examination, and it rotted. Dolzhikova wonders how many potential lines of investigation she thinks have been left out. If we assume that the attack on Pereverzeva’s house was still a robbery, who could be the gunner?

Why did a nanny from Moldova, a certain Vakaryuk, urgently ask Elena to take time off that evening? - asks the lawyer. - She said that her husband was sick. The nanny was interrogated. Her husband is not. And the woman quickly left for her home. In addition, that summer there were renovation work, the builders were also visitors. They might have noticed that the owners live well, but the cottage, in fact, is not guarded in any way. After the fire, the documents in the house were intact, but all the tablets and phones were missing. No jewelry was found either. From the point of view of the average person, all this is really strange. Moreover, the investigation did not provide any 100% evidence. There is evidence, as they say in the Investigative Committee. But now no one will talk about them. The case is going to court, which means that any comments by the investigator can be regarded as an attempt to put pressure on the court.

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Daria Pereverzeva and Dmitry Kolesnikov. Photo from personal archive

On the night of September 6-7, 2014, in Khimki, near Moscow, in the elite cottage quarter "Terekhovo" a house will burn down. Rosneft employee Elena Pereverzeva and her three children will die. The only one who will survive is the fiancé of Elena’s eldest daughter, Dmitry Kolesnikov. The young man will scream from the bathroom window, which is on the second floor. The neighbors will put up a ladder, and Kolesnikov will get out. He will be in only underwear, he will be given a tracksuit. He will tell the operational officers who arrived at the scene in slurred language that unknown people came to the house, tied him up, dealt with Elena and her eldest son, and then set everything on fire.

On the second day, Kolesnikov was detained, calling him a murderer and arsonist. In a few more days, the investigation will also name the customer - his fiancee, the 22-year-old eldest daughter of the deceased. Dmitry faces life imprisonment. The trial is due to begin soon. Denies guilt. The girl also denies everything. However, the defense does not have much strong evidence in favor of Kolesnikov’s innocence. But there is a strong feeling that this story is much deeper and more ambiguous than the one described in the indictment. We will not draw conclusions for the reader; we will only present the arguments of the key characters in this story, and of course, the opinion of the investigation. Put yourself in the jury's shoes.

Characters:

• Elena Pereverzeva, 43 years old. Accountant at Rosneft. Mother of four children. She raised 12-year-old Danya and 3-year-old twins Marusya and Vanya. The eldest daughter lived separately - in Moscow with her common-law husband. She broke up with the fathers of her children.
• Ivan Chernov, 77 years old, Elena’s father. Head of the Department of Strategic and Foreign Projects of Rosneft. A respected man, he lived outside the city, not far from his daughter.
• Oleg Samartsev, 60 years old, businessman. Former director of Sokolniki Park and former head Russian Rugby Federation. Elena's boyfriend, whom she met a few months before her death.
• Daria (or Dasha, as she is called in the family) Pereverzeva, 22 years old. Elena's eldest daughter. Graduate of the history department of Moscow State University. She lived in a civil marriage in her own apartment for four years. Did not work. Now - abroad. The investigation did not interrogate her, only tested her with a polygraph, but the results, according to the defense, disappeared somewhere. There is no trace in the case.
• Dmitry Kolesnikov, 23 years old, Dasha’s boyfriend. Graduate of Baumanka. He made a living with odd jobs. He was a member of the large Chernov-Pereverzev family, as evidenced by photographs of family celebrations and gatherings. In the photo, Dmitry is often with Dasha’s grandfather or her mother. Both the boy and the girl claim that they were going to get married, and none of their relatives opposed it. Since the fall of 2014, Kolesnikov has been in jail.
• Elena Kolesnikova, mother of Dmitry Kolesnikov. I immediately arrived at the scene of the tragedy. I waited in the car at the police station while my son was interrogated for the first time. The next morning, she took him for a second interrogation at the Investigative Committee, after which Kolesnikov was detained. I knew Elena Pereverzeva.
• Igor Pereverzev, Dasha's father. I broke up with her mother a long time ago. Lives and works abroad. Immediately after the tragedy, he flew to Russia and a month after the funeral of Elena and her younger children, when Kolesnikov named Dasha as the customer in his confession, he took his daughter to Thailand, where she now lives.
• Elena Pereverzeva's older brother - Evgeniy Chernov and his wife Tatyana.
• Wife and daughter of Oleg Samartsev.
• Refugees from Lugansk region Vladimir Zubov and Maxim Gusev.

Version No. 5 - mother of Dmitry Kolesnikov

“We told the investigator that someone was on Dimina’s VKontakte,” says Kolesnikova’s mother Elena. — I have screenshots. The investigator replied: “This cannot be,” but refused to double-check.

Elena Kolesnikova says that her son is a non-conflict person. “Yes, and Lena (Pereverzeva. - V.Ch.) was absolutely non-conflicting. We met her a year after our children started living together. I have always been very wary of wealthy families, because we lived on average income. When he met Dasha, I asked him why you need this. He said: “Mom, she is a simple girl and her family is simple.” When I crossed the threshold of this house, I realized: Dima was telling the truth. Lena and I immediately found a common language. She was very friendly, but by nature... it seemed to me that she lacked love, care, some kind of peace in this life. Before the twins were born, she wanted to adopt a girl. Her father didn't allow her. Then she decided to go for IVF. She was happy about the appearance of the twins and gave herself completely to them. And in March 2014, she got a man. But when we went to the zoo with the children in July 2014, she said that Oleg was very Difficult person. I didn't ask any unnecessary questions. But I saw: Lena was worried. And she was happy for Dasha’s pregnancy.”

About the tragedy.“Dima did not want to take advantage of Dasha’s grandfather’s job offer. I wanted to achieve everything myself. But in the end he did not dare to contradict his grandfather. I remember calling and saying that he was going to buy tickets to Simferopol and that “Aunt Lena also asked me to buy textbooks for Danila.”

When he was released from the police on the first day, he cried and said that he and we, his family, could be killed. He smelled of cognac - they poured it on him to calm him down... The next morning we were told to come to the Investigative Committee for additional interrogation. He ate calmly, got dressed, and we left. He then told me: “I don’t understand why they killed Aunt Lena. In my head I can hear the wheezing of dying Aunt Lena and the crying of children.”

I didn't see him again. I sat at the door of the investigator’s office until nightfall. I was asked to bring Dima's panties. They checked him for rape. But when Dima went to shower at home, we threw them out - they were soaked in smoke. I went home and started looking in the trash, but it turned out that my husband had thrown out the bucket in the morning. What prevented him from taking his underpants earlier when he was in the police station? And why didn’t they immediately flush or cut their nails?

And only the next morning they asked: “Did you wash your hands?” Certainly! And I took a shower! And then, if he had done this, would he really have sat quietly at the headquarters of the Investigative Committee, waiting for someone to call him and close him down?

The lawyer was not allowed to see Dima. There was an opera at the door. Investigator Kalugin interrogated his son. When Dima was taken to the toilet, I shouted to him: “Son, don’t sign anything without a lawyer!” On the way back from the toilet he became hysterical. Then the lawyer was allowed in.

Soon I went to another investigator - Polkin - for permission to transfer. In Polkin’s office, Elena’s father, Ivan Chernov, called me in front of me. I don’t know what he said, but Polkin was nervous: “Let’s not interfere in our work, and I’ll do what I have to do!”

At the same time, these days a man called me, introducing himself as “Viktor Nikolaevich.” He asked for a meeting, asked if I considered Dima guilty. The third time he called: “Dima and I are sitting here, he asks you to bring him sweatpants, a razor, a book... Dima, repeat which book.”

I, naive, packed my things and took them to the police station. And the next day everything became clear: the lawyer called and said that Dima had written two confessions... Then she gained strength and called her grandfather: “You understand, Dima couldn’t do this?!” To which he said: “The court will sort everything out.” We didn't communicate anymore.

Lawyers told me that Dima is not in adequate health in the pre-trial detention center: “We come to him, and he goes to the toilet all the time. Ten times in one meeting. Complains of vomiting, intestinal upset and dizziness.” He will talk about the fact that he was stuffed with spice later.

Version No. 6 - Vladimir Zubov

Kolesnikov's lawyers say they were contacted by 28-year-old Vladimir Zubov, a refugee from the Lugansk region. It’s just that one of the lawyers defended his brother, and Zubov told him that a year earlier, in August 2014, he was allegedly present during a conversation between his friend Vlad, also a refugee, and a young man named Maxim Gusev (22-24 years old, nickname Gus) . The conversation took place in Zhulebin. From their conversation it allegedly followed that Maxim offered Vlad to take part in the robbery of a woman living in the area of ​​Sheremetyevo Airport. “Maxim said that everything needs to be done quickly and immediately “fuck off”, go to war in the “LPR”, they will fight there, and no one will ever find them<…>Maxim said that “having done this big deal,” you can easily buy an apartment in Kyiv or Moscow and continue to live in peace.

Later I asked Vlad what case Maxim offered him to participate in. Vlad said that, according to Gus, it is necessary to “make a nightmare” of some woman, who is the daughter of an oil dealer. He said that the woman lives alone with young children, there are no men or guards in the house, so the matter is “easy.” Maxim was not interested in why she needed to be “nightmared”; the main thing was that they paid well, and everything they found in the house would also be theirs.<…>Vlad said that, according to Gus, this oil woman lives somewhere in Khimki near Sheremetyevo airport.

<…>Vlad and I didn’t see each other for some time, and then I found out that he suddenly left to fight for the “LPR.” On May 9, 2015, I went to my homeland in Ukraine and learned from friends that Vlad was not killed in a war under strange circumstances. He was called outside from his apartment and disappeared. He was found dead a few days later. They said that he allegedly went to remove some copper parts from the wires of a high-voltage line at night, and allegedly was killed by a large current discharge. Nobody believes this.<…>I think Vlad was killed for money, so as not to pay him a share for his participation in the case with that woman. He could have been killed by Maxim Gusev, nicknamed Gus, our fellow countryman or his accomplices. I can make a portrait of Gusev using an identikit and am ready to give truthful testimony to the investigator.”

The investigator was not impressed by this testimony. Kalugin did not interrogate Zubov.

But after the lawyers bring his written testimony, at 5 am the police will burst into the apartment where the witness lived, take him out, put him in a car and take him to the Main Investigation Department. Before Kalugin’s arrival, the police, according to Zubov, intimidated him, threatened to break his arms, legs, pierce his head, and also organize the rape of his brother in the pre-trial detention center. And all this, if he does not say on record that he was allegedly persuaded by his lawyers to give testimony with which he justifies Kolesnikov and Pereverzeva. Also, according to Zubov, the investigator forced him to drink Zhuravliki vodka during the conversation. He felt sick from drinking, he didn’t remember what and how he signed...

When he was released, he immediately went to see a lawyer, and together they sent a statement of crime to the prosecutor’s office. During interrogation at the State Investigative Directorate, Zubov confirmed everything on record. After that, he and his lawyer were under surveillance. IN mall“Atrium”, on Kurskaya, the police approached Zubov and forcibly took him to investigator Kalugin. Later, the witness will tell that in the office they allegedly strangled him, beat him in the ribs, again demanding that he give up his testimony. Didn't refuse. Soon the court sentenced him to 10 days of administrative arrest for “disobedience to police officers.”

Zubov confirmed all this to Novaya. He was recently banned from entering Russia.

Version No. 7 - Ivan Chernov (grandfather)

— The Investigation Department examined the possible involvement of persons named by Kolesnikov in the crime - family members of Oleg Samartsev, E. Chernov and T. Chernova (Elena’s brother and his wife. — V.Ch.), no grounds have been found to consider them suspects, Ivan Chernov, Dasha’s grandfather, will tell me when I ask if he has considered other versions.

Dasha Pereverzeva’s relatives—grandfather and his son, Evgeny Chernov—believe the official version of the investigation: the killer is Kolesnikov. They just disagree with the investigation that Dasha was the organizer. They say that they actually liked Kolesnikov before the tragedy. But, as it turned out, he lived with Dasha for profit, zombified Dasha, who now protects him against common sense.

“I became suspicious of Kolesnikov’s involvement,” says Ivan Chernov, “immediately after meeting him at the fire on September 7.” To my question “What happened?” he presented naive and extremely contradictory information about the crime allegedly committed by the “killers.” After his arrest and until now, Kolesnikov has changed his testimony several times. At the same time, he spoke every time about his contact with the “killers” while they were in the house. At least he saw them, and they saw him and even told him that they did not kill him because he was not ordered. On October 27, 2015, Kolesnikov wrote a fundamentally new testimony with his own hand. In them he tells that everything he said before for 14 months was a lie, that in fact he did not contact the “killers”, they did not see him, since he, being in Daniil’s room on the second floor (watching TV) and hearing the noise of the “killers” on the first floor, he hid. The previously stated reason for his salvation seems to have seemed to him (or rather to his lawyers) too naive. Next comes a description of the actions of the “killers”, the falsity of which is convincingly proven by the investigation.<…>The materials of his confession provided to me by the investigator confirm the above.

Evgeny Chernov told Novaya that he agrees with what his father said.

I will add that Oleg Samartsev and members of his family are unavailable for comment. They say that, like the Chernovs, he considers Kolesnikov to be the murderer.

Version No. 8 - the last testimony of Dmitry Kolesnikov

In his latest testimony, Kolesnikov suggests: perhaps both Samartsev’s wife and the eldest son of “grandfather, Evgeniy and his wife Tatyana,” could have been involved in the murder. Daria has already spoken about Samartseva. Therefore, I will quote Kolesnikov’s opinion regarding the Chernovs: “<…>I suspect two women of involvement in the crime, since during the murder of E.I. Pereverzeva. one of the killers, strangling her with his knee, showed her, I believe, a video recording from a tablet computer, from which a woman’s voice could be heard, threatening and insulting E.I. Pereverzeva.<…>From E.I. Pereverzeva herself. and I know from my wife that the relationship between Elena Ivanovna and Evgeniy (Chernov) and his wife Tatyana was tense. These disagreements arose because of the envy of Evgeny and Tatyana towards Elena Ivanovna due to the fact that Chernov Ivan Nikolaevich perceived Daria not as his granddaughter, but rather as a second daughter. He gave her an apartment and a car, which made Evgeny and Tatyana very angry. After Elena Ivanovna gave birth to twins, the relationship between the brother and sister deteriorated greatly, Evgeniy and Tatyana began to worry that Chernov would leave more inheritance to Elena Ivanovna than to them.<…>.

<…>The killers, it seemed to me, were planning to kill my wife as well. I suppose the murder could have been ordered by Evgeniy and Tatyana,<…>, since by killing the entire Pereverzev family, Evgeny became the only heir to I.N. Chernov’s fortune.<…>My petitions to allow me to identify the voices of Samartseva and Chernova Kalugin (investigator - V.Ch.) rejected<…>».

Even in his last testimony, Kolesnikov speaks of a “wonderful relationship” with Elena, that her son “Danil was my friend,” and that “babies Vanya and Masha were my favorite fashion models. I treated them very warmly." “I had great respect for my grandfather Ivan Chernov.”

Specifically about that night, he says that after he helped Elena get the children out of the bath, they drank a glass of wine with her (previously they were talking about champagne. - V.Ch.) and he “outlined” to her how he was going to propose to Dasha, “showed him the ring he bought.” “She was happy and said she would help organize everything.” When Pereverzeva went with the small children to the second floor, she and Danila began to watch in his room “ Star Wars" “In order not to wake anyone up, they started watching through headphones (I didn’t mention them in my first testimony. - V.Ch.). After a while I thought I heard some sounds, perhaps footsteps<…>. I didn't pay any attention to it. After some time, Elena Ivanovna’s heart-rending scream was heard, at first not very strong, and then Elena Ivanovna’s heart-rending scream. And at the same time a man’s voice was heard, ordering her to remain silent. Gavrilichev (Daniil. - V.Ch.) jumped up and ran to the door.<…>Having reached the doorway, I heard Daniil’s cry: “Mom,” a dull sound, as if from a blow or a fall, and Elena Ivanovna’s squeal.<…>Muffled sounds, as if from blows or falls, and the screams of Elena Ivanovna were heard in a row. I moved towards the stairs, realizing that some kind of horror was happening. I saw that Danil was lying on the landing between the stairs, I slowly and carefully, bending down, went down a couple of steps and<…>through the openings in the railing I saw men in the hall. One was wearing a balaclava mask and had a large build and was dressed in all dark clothes (I can’t be more precise). The second is a blond, thin man. If I see him, I can identify him.<…>One of them was dragging Elena away from the stairs, holding her from behind with one arm, and holding a tablet or iPad in the other. Elena Ivanovna struggled, shouting that “I have children.”<…>they knocked her to the floor, the thin man began to press his knee on her throat and said “don’t yell,” and shoved an iPad in her face, from where a woman’s voice came, insulting Elena Ivanovna. I clearly understood that I could not do anything. I couldn't even make a call; my mobile phone was still down. Children were heard screaming - they were calling their mother. One of the men said: “Figure it out, what’s there?”<…>Feeling a real terrible fear for myself, I rushed to Danila’s room. I realized that there was nowhere to climb except under the bed.<…>The children's voices died down. Then I heard Elena’s weak voice. Male voices asked some questions. Someone came into the room where I was. Apparently, he took things out of the nightstand, because... they fell to the floor. I saw his feet wearing black sneakers with green and red stripes. Male voice: “This is a room (obscene. - V.Ch.), don't look there." The man left the room.<…>I was shaking... At first I still heard Elena Ivanovna’s faint screams, then everything died down. I listened, then carefully crawled out from under the bed and moved towards the stairs. Danil lay between the flights. Didn't move, foam was flowing from the mouth<…>. I realized that he was dead. The light was on in the bathroom - Elena Ivanovna was lying there, with some kind of liquid smeared around her.<…>At that moment I heard a noise from the street, decided that the killers were returning, and ran back in horror and crawled under the bed again.”

“I was in a state of oblivion. I woke up from the fact that I began to choke. I tried to go down, but there was heavy smoke and flames. He flew into the bathroom and began to swallow water. At that moment I remembered Maria and Ivan. I tried to get to their room, but I could only get to the middle of the corridor. He began to choke, didn’t see anything, returned to the bathroom, wet a towel, wrapped it around himself and again into the corridor. The situation was even worse than the first time, everything was cracking below. I opened the bathroom window and started calling for help.<…>».

Well, then - about the neighbors who saved him, about the children who remained in the house, and about Ivan Chernov, from whom he asked forgiveness there and then - for the children, “because he panicked and did not realize that it was necessary to put a ladder to on the opposite side of the house, climb onto the second floor and pull the children out of there. “I realized this too late, in the pre-trial detention center.” “I am terribly ashamed and hurt. I didn’t know how to justify my cowardice, how to explain that at that moment I was thinking more about myself than about others. I had never seen death, I was so frightened that I didn’t understand anything.”

Now in the pre-trial detention center, Kolesnikov is staging hunger strikes in protest against the actions of the investigator. Kolesnikov told members of the Public Monitoring Committee additional details of the murder and even drew up sketches of the criminals.

...But were there really criminals? Alas, there are more questions than answers, and Kolesnikov’s explanations sometimes sound naive. Although imagine yourself as a witness massacre, and you will understand - thank God you haven’t gone crazy. On the other hand, there are plenty of cases where killers try to whitewash themselves by complaining to human rights activists and journalists about torture. As well as cases when the investigation seeks to quickly complete a difficult, high-profile case, ignoring evidence and relying only on forced confessions.

It was not possible to talk with investigator Kalugin - the Investigative Committee asked to wait for the trial. Jury selection is currently underway at the Moscow Regional Court. And they have a difficult choice.

...I look through photographs of Koles-nikov with Elena’s children. Here they are at the zoo, Marusya sits on his neck, smiles, and he smiles at her. And here is another photo - Kolesnikov is playing football with Danila... And here is Vanya, who has just been born, in the hands of Kolesnikov, who tremblingly presses him to his cheek... And here is a photo where they are family table with Dasha’s grandfather... And I can’t understand - if he committed these murders, then what motivated him?