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| Hostage Marat tells his story |
| Written by "Ãàçåòà" | |
| Ïîíåäåëüíèê, 28 Îêòÿáðü 2002 | |
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By Olga Gerdt, in ‘Gazeta’ “HE LAID DOWN AND SAID FAREWELL TO LIFE” Assistant stage director Marat (name withheld by request) was one of the lucky ones who got out of the - Where were you at the moment of capture? I was at my workplace. I am an assistant director, and my job is to monitor the situation on stage and behind the scenes to avoid possible conflicts. I was on stage. - When did you realize that something was wrong? You perhaps recall how the second act starts? The pilots are tap dancing, and then the main character comes on stage. That evening Andrei Bogdanov played him. They exchange a few remarks of a humorous nature, but before Tchkalov is to appear I see some man jump from the hall onto the stage. He is wearing camouflage and a vest, and has a mask all the way down to his shoulders, and has laced up black boots and a Kalashnikov assault rifle. My first reaction: is this some kind of a bad joke? Is he from one of our law enforcement agencies? SWAT? Why, and from where, was not clear. Then the man fires a burst from a machinegun and starts chasing actors out into the auditorium with his gun. In this scene there were nine, including the main character. At that moment I still did not know what was going on, and our carpenters start to push me into the room where they have their workshop. This is past the stage area. So we went in there, the six of us: the head of wardrobe, the chief of the scenery shop and of his people, and me. We locked it from the inside, and then turned off the lights and hid. - Did the terrorists check the rooms behind the stage? They went through them very quickly, you could say at times it seemed chaotic, and it suggests to me that they did not know the precise plan of the building, because a lot of actors escaped from the - What floor was this? First floor. - Your wife, Anzhelika, was she at home that evening? She came by that evening to see me at - And you sent her home? She almost made a scene when I sent her home! - What happened after you got out? We were put in a police van, which was standing on Melnikov Street, and they took us a little farther from the scene of the action. Various officials came to visit us in the van: the duty officer from the Interior Ministry, two FSB majors, a RUBOP (anti-organized crime department) major, and they questioned us. Later they drove us through Volgogradka and Proletarka, to Dubrovka #1, where we were approached by other law enforcement officials. After this I was able to call ‘Lika’ (Anzhelika). I was in shock. When we were still in the (scenery) room, we all quietly sat there, but for some reason there was this gush of emotion that came out at when everybody started phoning loved ones. There (in the scenery room) I was not nervous, I just counted time: at what time would the play have finished, how long would take me to get home, how long I would be delayed — we were getting ready for a concert and it took a lot of time and energy. That is why so many of our people and children ended up getting taken hostage. - Where were the children? They were on the second floor, where there is the snack bar and the theater guestroom. There were some on the third floor, too, where there are lobbies where they were rehearsing. Galya Delyatitskaya is the assistant choreographer. She works with the children. Georgy Leonardovich Vasilyev was also in the theater. The rehearsals went on until one o’clock. On that day it was my turn to lead them. - Did the children stay behind at the theater because of rehearsals? We have only one child in the second act. All the other children are in the first act. So that day it was Filipp Avdeyev. Somehow he managed to escape. The rest either left or went to rehearsals, and there they were when they captured them. Mark Rozovsky’s daughter Sasha was also there. - While you were sitting behind the scenes, what did you hear on the broadcast from the hall? They herded people into the hall with a lot of shouting and a lot of firing in the air. Judging by the sound, the first shots were blanks, but then the live ammo started. I was in the army and I can tell the sound of a blank round from a live one. And again, the burst that I saw (while still on stage) was directed at the ceiling, where we have audio equipment mounted, and lighting, and a suspended ceiling. There certainly would have been some stuff falling or the sound of bullets hitting up there, but there was nothing like that. As I understand it, they had the upper part of the ‘horn’ (curved magazine) filled with blanks to put psychological pressure on the hostages. They rounded up people and began to speak: “We came here from Grozny and we have nothing more to lose. We achieved our goal and here we are. We made bombs in Grozny.” In all likelihood, they showed these to the hostages. “Do you see these three buttons? We’ve - Was the room quiet? At this point, yes. They achieved that. There was a definite leader: he began his speech by first shooting, but before that there was a lot of talk in Vainakh (the northeast Caucasus language group that includes Chechen, Ingush, and others). If you have ever heard it, you understand that it is impossible to even imitate this accent. He asked if there were any Georgians, Azerbaijanis, or foreigners. Then there was a noise in the hall, a din. The people apparently began reacting to his words. Then I heard: “Documents, documents.” I understand they determined, according to documents, who was a citizen of what republic. Then again there were a lot of shots, some cursing in Vainakh as they tried to calm the hall, or terrorize it. Then they divided up the hall: the women to the left, the men to the right. The divided up the hall and then again some shooting and intimidation. Someone asked for water. - A man or a woman? A woman. She was given water. Behind the stage we keep this sort of order: canisters of drinking water are standing there, since during transitions actors could have a dry throat, so it is there to keep them hydrated. They told her snidely: “Don’t drink too much, there’s not enough for a month.” Then again, more noise, chatter, and conversation that was impossible to understand. The only thing I could specifically make out were the names of some of the militants: Rashid or Rashad, Idris, and Sultan. Then one of the women tried to talk with them. She said: “What are you doing, guys? There are women and children here. You also have mothers and wives.” At that one of the militants replied, not the one, not the leader who spoke fluent Russian and basically tried to keep himself correct like some sort of a correct hero, fairly balanced and not devoid of logic. His timbre even had a calming effect on the hall. But this other gunman said to her: “In Chechnya your Russian soldiers drag our girls around like this.” Then I realized he was using physical force on her. They began shouting “Allah Akbar” with some phrases in their language. It was as if it brought him to some kind of religious ecstasy. When they separated the men from the women, they said: “Sit down here in the second row. You don’t need any tickets. Here are some good seats for free, so sit down.” - So, when people say that the gunmen were well behaved, it was not so? Everyone except the leader, they communicated with people with a jeer, and reveling in the fact that no one could do a thing about it. The leader, apparently, could very cleverly make a veiled, and that was it. They were always shouting about their bombs and threatening people. We heard all of this until they shut off the source of transmission. They looked like - Did you have security? What security? Your average theater security. There were, of course, some strong guys, but there were there were mostly elderly people and they were not armed. - After being freed, did you contact anyone still inside the theater? On the first day, when they drove me around to all three headquarters, I got home late and the first call on my answering machine from my colleague and friend, ‘Tolya’ (Anatoly) Glazychev. He called from the auditorium. From his wife I learned that he was in the hall sitting next to Georgy Leonardovich Vasilyev. They were holding up. How Tolya was able to call me, I do not know, but his voice sounded quite peppy. - Do you know how your colleagues saved themselves? When the FSB was questioning me, it so happened that I saw those who managed to escape. I saw one of the scenery carpenters, the one who directs the elevation of the roads from a computer. He ran behind stage and a Chechen woman pointed a pistol at him, knocked him over and forced him to lie down. He laid down and said farewell to life, and then someone shouted something in Vainakh to her. She ran off, and he managed to escape from the building. One of the scenery carpenters, Kirill, managed to climb up to the gallery and, as his friend Dima said, he got out of the building through the catwalk over the stage. Today I was told that in the prop room is Larissa, the prop chief. It is a dead end and does not have any windows or a backdoor, and it is completely cut off from everything. I do not know how she will get out of there. OLGA GERDT: We spoke once again with Marat on the evening after the assault, when the hostages were already taken to the hospital. He said that, to his knowledge, all nine actors that were taken hostage were alive and well, and so was Georgy Vasilyev, the author of the musical. Assistant choreographer Galina Delyatitskaya, which was taken hostage along with the children, is also doing well. Those who left the building before the assault were definitely lucky, including the six declared released by the terrorists on the morning of October 25th. No one released them, and it seems that the terrorists did not even know about them. These people, among them assistant director Oleg Klenin, hid behind an iron door in the cash room, by the administration offices. The headquarters was in contact with them and decided to get them out. Another five, according to Marat, were freed during the day of the 25th. These were stagehands that had spent two days on the third floor: two electricians and three from the sound department. They got up to the attic along a ladder, and then got out through the vents. Prop chief Larissa, about whom Marat was worried on the first day after the capture (of the theater), was forced to surrender to the terrorists: she came out of her Marat spent the day before the assault with his |
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