Anna Selezneva, victim of the terrorist attack. Now fearless

Victims of the explosion in the St. Petersburg metro met at a performance about the victims of terrorist attacks.

“After everything we've been through, nothing can scare us,” survivors say.

A small group gathers in the dark in front of the Annekirche church. Anya Selezneva hides her non-working left hand in her sleeve. She came with her friend and mother. In the first hours after the terrorist attack in the metro on April 3, Anya was listed as “victim 512.” She stayed in a coma for two weeks, lost a lot of blood, but pulled out.

Marina Kochunova tries to smile, but it’s clear that she’s a little tense. She came with her husband Roman, who has not left his wife since the disaster.

Two more girls - Nadya Nikitkova and Sasha Shnaydruk - are volunteers who became friends for the victims of the terrorist attack. They came to the hospital with gifts, organized collections of money for operations, and still run support groups on social networks. Sasha Shnaidruk invited the girls to the play “No Places” and agreed with the organizers that they would be allowed in out of turn. The idea is risky, given the theme of the play: society's reaction to terrorist attacks. Only seven months have passed since the tragedy in the metro. But the victims decided to come.

The Ablamskys are late!

Let’s wait inside,” Sasha Shnaidruk commands.

20-year-old Anya Ablamskaya is the third girl to be seriously injured in the terrorist attack. In the video made by eyewitnesses after the explosion, a doctor from among the subway passengers bandages her crushed leg and puts a splint on it: the actions of a woman who happened to be nearby saved Anya’s leg.

It's drizzling and chilly. Elena Ivanova, the mother of Anya Selezneva (19 years old), looks reproachfully at her daughter, nodding towards the volunteers: “Look, even the healthy girls are all wearing hats.” “Mom, I’m healthy!” - Anya responds. On her left arm, part of the bone has been replaced with artificial material. Elena continues to persuade: “Marina is without a hat, but at least she’s wearing a wig.” Marina smiles shyly. You can joke like that with your own people. And they became their own during the time they spent in hospitals. A bomb fragment hit Marina (29 years old) in the head, crushed the frontal bone, and got stuck inside. Doctors had to remove part of the frontal bone and installed a plate instead. While her hair grows, she wears a wig.

Inside, the church makes an impression: smoked walls, smudges on the ceilings, holes in the walls, walls worn down to the plaster, twilight. Several years ago there was a fire in the church, the Lutheran community is raising money to restore it. In particular, allowing in theaters that do not have their own venues.

The performance is not performed on stage, but in the middle of the church, where parishioners usually sit. The actors work in the aisle that leads to the altar, with spectators sitting on both sides - a complete resemblance to an elongated subway car. There is no heating, so everyone wears coats and hats.

Before the performance begins, the girls exchange news - who has what operations ahead, what hurts. Anya Selezneva should have part of an artificial bone implanted in her arm: “We have already completed more than 18 operations. There is so much plastic surgery and bone implantation ahead.” “But the pain in our leg doesn’t go away,” says Evgenia, Anya Ablamskaya’s mother.

Director Dmitry Krestyankin warns the girls that some scenes may be painful, and if anyone feels uncomfortable, they can leave. Just in case, a psychologist sits behind.

...During the scene where the actress in the role of a subway cleaner complains that she has to clean up blood and body fragments from the floor, Marina Kochunova began to pull on her gloves. It seemed like she would get up and leave, but she was just frozen. Unlike Nadya Nikitkova and Sasha Shnaidruk, who sobbed almost the entire performance, the two Ani and Marina sat calmly.

After the performance, Evgenia will say: “After everything we have experienced, nothing can scare us.”

Marina and Roman left as soon as the applause died down. “We try not to dwell on it and remember less,” Roman said. “I came because I was interested in what they could show in the theater. But it wasn’t scary. I understand that no matter how much I want, nothing can be changed,” says Marina. “The main thing I understood is that we get hung up on little things, life goes by, and we don’t pay attention to important things.”

After the performance, director Dmitry Krestyankin invited the audience to talk about what touched them in the performance, about their fears. There were few people willing to speak. Elena Ivanova took the microphone, thanked her for the work, but was surprised that the “theme of the divine” was not touched upon at all: “Here I am sitting in front of you, my daughter was in this carriage - she barely survived, she lay in a coma for two weeks between life and death . I prayed for her. The whole country, America, France and Germany, prayed for her. I trusted God: let it be as he thinks. And even if there was a different outcome, I would have accepted.”

Later, Anya Selezneva admits that she did not experience any emotions at the performance, at times there was an unpleasant feeling, but nothing more. The girls spent a long time taking pictures on the ancient stairs and accepted the guard's offer to go down to the basement - without being afraid that there used to be a mortuary there. Despite the cane and pain when walking, Anya Ablamskaya walked through the narrow and low corridors of the basement. She says she felt no fear.

• “No Places” was created as part of the forum of the independent theater “Ploshchadka”. Director Dmitry Krestyankin, playwright Anna Safronova, psychologist Maria Savvo.

• The play is not about any particular terrorist attack, not only about the third of April in St. Petersburg. This is a conversation about the psychology of victims of terrorism, an opportunity to discuss and let go of their fears, worries and anxieties.

• When “No Space” was first shown in Annekirch, in a discussion after the performance it became clear that the theme of fear of death, especially sudden death, one’s own vulnerability, and fear of terrorism is very important and painful for young people.

VICTIMS 512

Eighteen-year-old Anna Selezneva, a third-year student at the St. Petersburg branch of the Russian Academy of Justice, was listed with exactly this line. From the scene of the incident she was sent to the Dzhanelidze Research Institute, where she is still in intensive care.

On the terrible day, the parents could not reach Anya by phone for a long time, and only at 10 pm they answered the phone. They didn’t really give any information, so the parents rushed to the hospital. All this time I was tormented by thoughts: she, not her...

Only when we arrived at the hospital at night did we find out that it was her,” the victim’s brother, Vladimir Ivanov, tells the KP in St. Petersburg correspondent.

Now Anya’s condition is listed as “serious.” According to her brother, the girl was put into an artificial coma so that her brain and body could more easily endure the injuries. No one is allowed near Anya except her parents.

The doctors said that they would bring her out of the coma and see what to do next. Her arm, legs and pelvis are broken,” Vladimir said.

There was also a ruptured lung, multiple burns and bruises. According to the chief physician of the research institute, Janelidze, Anya is being provided with all the necessary assistance, technical and medical capabilities allow.

THE UNIVERSITY RESPONDED

At this time, students from different branches of the Academy of Justice began collecting money to help Anya.

“She still hasn’t regained consciousness. Can't breathe on his own. We really hope that she gets better soon. Huge amounts of money will be needed to restore the girl,” it is written in the official group of the university on VKontakte.

This post was viewed by 11 thousand people, and one and a half hundred shared it. Academy students united to help Anya and her family...

As employees of the Crimean branch of the Academy told us, today boxes were placed at the university in which funds are being collected to help Anya Selezneva.

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“The car seemed to be swollen”

St. Petersburg resident Tatyana Nikitina and her son were traveling from the Grazhdansky Prospekt station to the Technological Institute, where they had an appointment with a doctor. Tatyana drives a car, but we decided to get to the center by subway.

Something bad started when the train passed the Ploshchad Vosstaniya station without stopping, Tatyana Nikitina told MK in St. Petersburg.” “Then my son and I got off at Tekhnolozhka, and right in front of us an exploded train had just arrived from the direction of Sennaya.” We arrived at the scene a couple of minutes after the explosion - there were no doctors yet, through the smoke we saw a mangled, as if swollen, carriage, from which people were running and crawling out.

The spectacle, according to Tatyana, was terrible - the passengers were covered in blood, burned, in panic and shock they did not understand what had happened.

They quickly began to kick us all out of the station towards the escalator,” says Tatyana. - They announced over the loudspeaker: “Leave the station!” People were trying to get on the escalator quickly, although they weren’t pushing, but there was a crush at the bottom. Some ran up the closed escalator. Others stood on the steps in silence, almost no one said a word, no one cried, everyone apparently retreated into themselves. A woman was riding next to us on the escalator; she had just come from the exploded carriage. The hair on her head was completely charred. When I asked her what happened inside, she replied that she was at the end of the car, and the explosion occurred somewhere in the middle. It was so strong that her ears were blocked and her hair was singed, and people standing closer to the center fell on each other. Then, according to her, the men began to break out the windows in the carriage to get out. Another woman added that allegedly before the explosion one of the passengers saw an ownerless bag standing on the seat. Not far from my son and I was driving a man who, apparently, was not far from the epicenter of the explosion - his face was covered in blood, his body was covered in some kind of bloody scraps, apparently left on him from other victims. And another girl with burnt hands. On the street around the metro station there were already many people with various injuries - some were standing, some were sitting. Later, ambulances arrived. When my son and I left the doctor, I was shaking, I couldn’t concentrate and figure out how to get back to the house, although a passing motorist even stopped nearby and offered to take my son and me to the Baltiyskaya. But it was not on our way.

Lyudmila Krasnolenskaya also saw the scene of the tragedy from the window of the train, which arrived at the Tekhnologichesky Institute station a couple of minutes after the explosion.

I was traveling with Lesnaya. They announced to us that we would fly past “Vosstaniya Square” without stopping. We arrived at Tekhnolozhka and stopped. Apparently, a couple of minutes passed after the exploded train arrived on the adjacent track. The station was already a bit empty. There were people sitting and lying on the platform covered in blood. The police stood nearby. I heard an announcement at the station - passengers were asked to walk up. The driver of our train did not open the doors. The train moved on.

“Everything turned white, I passed out”

Among the passengers of the ill-fated carriage were students - at this time, many were just running out of pairs. Among them was 20-year-old Lev Gayun from FINEK.

I live on Akademicheskaya, I usually change to the red line at Vosstaniya,” he told MK in St. Petersburg. - But they announced that Vosstaniya was closed, so I decided to transfer to the Technological Institute. I sat down in the carriage and looked at my phone. Moreover, from Nevsky Prospekt to Sennaya the carriage was packed, but, fortunately, most of the people got off at Sennaya, not many people remained. I was going to plug the headphones into my ears, but I didn’t have time - as soon as the train entered the tunnel, there was an explosion - everything went white for a few moments, apparently I passed out. When I woke up, it was dark in the carriage; light came only from the neighboring carriage. Something happened to the roof and doors, they were turned inside out. The train continued to move, pieces of doors rubbed against the walls of the tunnel with a grinding sound, and screams were heard all around. I tried to cover my head, I was afraid that something would fall on me from above.

Leo considers these minutes to be almost the most terrible in his life. When the train stopped at the platform, passengers began to break down doors and windows, and people also ran up from the other side.

“I couldn’t really help, because the explosion knocked my contact lenses out of my eyes, and without them I can’t see well,” says the student. - A teenage girl was sitting not far from me with her mother. Apparently, my mother was seriously injured and did not come to her senses. The people around me were mostly elderly; they were stupefied by what had happened and did not say anything. They silently submitted when we helped them get out of the carriage through the window. I realized that something was wrong with my ear, but the shock dulled my sensations. Soon we were sent upstairs, I called my parents, they met me in a car. Later they took me to the 122nd Medical Unit, it turned out that the eardrum on the left ear had burst and there was a contusion. But the doctors promise that everything will be fine, I will hear with this ear. For now he is kept in the hospital, but will be discharged in a week.

Lev still has no idea how he can get down to the subway again.

For now, I’ll refrain from traveling on the subway,” he says. - My classmates didn’t go to the university today either, it was scary to go down.

Died, shielding her daughter

Lists of the dead and wounded appeared only in the evening of April 3. Before the Ministry of Emergency Situations published official data on the victims, people had already launched a cry on social networks to find their missing friends and relatives. Thus, a message appeared that a student of the Russian State University of Justice, 19-year-old Anna Selezneva, was wanted, who at that time was supposed to be right in the area of ​​​​the Sennaya station and was no longer in touch. The fears of the relatives were confirmed - upon reaching the Dzhanelidze Research Institute of Emergency Medicine, the relatives found the girl among the unidentified wounded. “Anya was identified by her mother. This is victim 512 from the Dzhanelidze Research Institute. She's in the operating room. Let’s pray throughout St. Petersburg for her health,” Anna’s classmate Yulia Ushakova wrote on VKontakte.

The list of dead included 49-year-old Irina Medyantseva - she was riding in the center of the carriage in which the explosion occurred, along with her daughter Alena. According to eyewitnesses, Irina shielded her daughter from the shrapnel with her body, thanks to which Alena survived, although she received serious injuries. “Alena is in intensive care, they have undergone surgery. Her condition is stable,” her family wrote on her page. Irina Medyantseva was a famous St. Petersburg doll artist; for many years she created original dolls that are kept in art galleries in St. Petersburg and Moscow, as well as in private collections. One of her last works is a figurine of a sad and kind man looking at a book with stars. Daughter Alena followed in her mother’s footsteps and also created designer dolls under the funny names “Elf”, “Baby”, “Dear Heart”. “Today my cousin Irina Medyantseva died in a terrorist attack in the metro. I never thought that such a disaster would affect my family. Irina, you were a real artist, in every doll you created, a piece of you will remain,” Maria Levkina, the wife of the ex-lead singer of the Na-Na group Vladimir Levkin, wrote on her page.

Students of the Crimean branch of the RGUP organized a fundraiser for the treatment of 18-year-old Anna Selezneva, who was seriously injured during a terrorist attack in the St. Petersburg metro, reports “KP in Crimea”.

The girl is a student at the St. Petersburg branch of the Russian State Unitary Enterprise; she is now in intensive care.

Doctors assess Anya’s condition as “severe.” According to her relatives, the girl was put into an artificial coma so that her brain and body could more easily endure the injuries received during the April 3 terrorist attack. No one is allowed near Anya except her parents.

“The doctors said that they would bring her out of the coma and see what to do next. Her arm, legs and pelvis are broken,” said brother Vladimir.

The girl also had a ruptured lung, multiple burns and bruises.

“Today, Anya’s condition remains serious. An operation has been scheduled to collect the bones of the left hand. I hold her hands every day. Morally and physically, we are with our daughter, with our beloved girl, Anechka,” said the girl’s father, Gennady, in a specially created help group on the social network.

In turn, Crimean students did not stand aside and installed two plastic boxes in the university building to collect funds.

“We are all family and must help each other! When we were informed that a student from our university was injured, we, the student council, student activists and group curators decided to start raising funds. They placed two plastic boxes, locked, and students responsively contributed. I’m proud that we have such students!” says Olga Demchenko, an employee of the Crimean branch of the Russian State University of Justice.

HOW TO HELP

Address: Simferopol, st. Pavlenko, 5, Russian State University of Justice. One collection box is located in the building itself, the other is at the security post.

Sberbank card: 5469550036293071. Recipient: Elena Vladimirovna Ivanova (Ani’s mother).

Let us remind you that 18-year-old Anya moved to the northern capital to study at RGUP. As the victim’s father, a Valdai businessman, told 53 News Gennady Seleznev, at the moment her condition is serious but stable. The girl received numerous injuries and is now in an induced coma - connected to a ventilator. The girl’s father is in the hospital of the St. Petersburg Research Institute named after Dzhanelidze.

Classmates created VKontakte Anya's help group. The guys report that people from all over the world are responding. Her father posts about Anya’s condition twice a day in the group.

Anya’s friends report that scammers are appearing online who publish bank card details and collect money supposedly for Anya’s recovery.

Please do not fall for scammers' tricks. We created this page precisely because of such people, who sooner or later, unfortunately, become the source of any problem in our country. We are uploading onto the network the ONLY TRUE number of a Sberbank bank card in the name of Elena Vladimirovna Ivanova, Anechka’s mother. All transfers to the card are a charitable donation. We cannot even imagine the huge amount that will be needed to restore the girl.

Sberbank card: 5469 5500 3629 3071

On April 3, 14 people died in the St. Petersburg metro. Among them is a Novgorod artist Irina Medyantseva. Her daughter was injured in the terrorist attack Elena Medyantseva and resident of Malaya Vishera Maxim Semenov.