Valentin Rasputin buried in the Smolensk Cemetery in Irkutsk or Monastery of the Sign – Kommersant

                             
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Relatives of the writer Valentin Rasputin want was executed last will and writer, he was buried in the Smolensk Cemetery in Irkutsk, reported “b” in the Irkutsk branch of the Writers’ Union of Russia. In the Smolensk cemetery buried his daughter Maria, who died in a plane crash in 2006, and wife Svetlana, who died in 2012. According to the will, Valentin Rasputin asked to be buried in Irkutsk “a modest monument, like daughter.” In the department of the Writers’ Union also reported that Bishop of Irkutsk and Angarsk Vadim offers bury Valentin Rasputin on the territory of the Sign of the monastery, as he was a man of faith. Will be discussed in the March 16 morning at a meeting with the governor of Irkutsk region. There will also be decided in Irkutsk held a farewell for the writer. The coffin taken to the Irkutsk aircraft after the procedure funeral at the Cathedral of Christ the Savior.

Valentin Rasputin was born March 15, 1937 in the village of Atalanka Irkutsk region. He graduated from the historical-philological faculty of Irkutsk State University. Lived and worked in Irkutsk and Moscow. Valentin Rasputin died on February 14 in a Moscow hospital.

Catherine Eremenko, Irkutsk