In the style of Technology: in Moscow, they said goodbye to the scandalous rapper

On April 11, a farewell ceremony was held in Moscow for Pavel Ivlev, 40, who is known to a wide audience as Pasha the Technician. The rapper's death was announced on April 4 by his ex-wife Eva Karitskaya. The main cause of death was septic shock. The actor spent more than a week in a hospital in Thailand in an artificial coma, doctors could not save him. It is known that the Technician had problems with illegal substances. Relatives, close friends and fans, of whom the rapper had a lot, came to see the musician off on his last journey, despite his scandalous image. The details are in the Izvestia report.

How was the farewell to Pasha the Technician?

Numerous fans gathered to say goodbye to Pasha the Technician at the Church of Peter and Paul in Lefortovo. Mostly schoolchildren. At one point, law enforcement officers even had to close the entrance to the territory to avoid a stampede. However, these measures still proved insufficient. Kilometer-long queues lined the nearby Soldatskaya Street. Fans climbed fences and roofs of houses, from which it was convenient to watch what was happening. In parallel, they chanted: "Pasha the Technician."

People obstructed the movement of public transport by demonstratively boarding tram rails. Riot police arrived to help. There have been arrests of overly active teenagers. Maxim Uryadov, a friend of the late musician, was also in the paddy wagon, launching a drone over the temple.

Pasha the Technician died in Thailand. He was 40 years old. The musician's body was delivered to Moscow on April 9 in a zinc coffin. Luka Safronov took over the funeral expenses. The pianist was one of the first to appear at the funeral service and told Izvestia what kind of legacy the rapper left to his family. According to him, the contractor took out a mortgage on an apartment, and his ex-wife will have to pay for it for a long time.

— Pasha was the main breadwinner in the family. I know a lot of people who have made money from it, and tomorrow they will leave. The loved ones will be left alone," Luka Safronov said. — But I know that thanks to our memory, his work, and his friends, they should be fine.

According to Safronov, Pasha the Technician worked a lot, while the musician could never boast of a large fortune.

"He was making money. I didn't earn much because most of the money went into other people's hands. There are no debts. There was only the mortgage that he was paying off. I helped my family. It was important to him," the pianist told Izvestia.

Eva Karitskaya arrived at her ex-husband's funeral wearing dark glasses and carrying a bouquet of white roses. The girl was accompanied by a guard, she refused to talk to the press. Eva did not have her six-year-old son Ivan, whom she gave birth to in her marriage to Pasha the Technician. Relatives, apparently, decided to protect the boy from increased attention and not to traumatize his psyche.

Where was Pasha buried?

Pasha the Technician started his career in the noughties as a member of the Kunteynir group. Former colleagues of the controversial rapper also came to see him off on his last journey. David Nuriev, who performs under the pseudonym Ptakha, was among the participants of the funeral ceremony. According to the artist, the Technician promised him at every meeting to stop using illegal substances, but he never did.

— It would be good for young people to look at this and understand that sooner or later substance use always ends like this. And I know that Pasha would like people to understand this, that this path leads to exactly such consequences," Ptakha addressed the fans of the Technician.

The funeral service and farewell to Pasha the Technician lasted more than three hours. His snow-white coffin was carried out of the temple to the shouts and applause of his fans. Relatives and close friends were walking nearby. My ex-wife and mom couldn't hold back their emotions, they were crying. Then everyone moved to the Nikolo-Arkhangelsk cemetery, where the rapper was buried.

There were no fewer fans of the rapper there than at the temple during the funeral service. The teenagers did not disperse until the last moment and sang the idol's songs in unison, holding carnations in their hands. The grave of the Technician was drowned in wreaths and flowers. As the audience managed to note, the last time such a large number of admirers of creativity at the funeral of artists could only be seen at Yura Shatunov's. The ex-soloist of the band "Tender May", we recall, died in June 2022.

The mother of the deceased Pasha was one of the last to leave the cemetery. Luka Safronov hugged her and supported her by the arm. The woman admitted that she had not yet fully realized what had happened.