Muscovites keep sipping Prosecco in the sun. But something feels off
eading from the Tchaikovsky Conservatoire to Red Square, Bolshoi Nikitsky Street is lined with crowded brunch spots. Poised young women with immaculate tans sip Prosecco with their Kamchatka crab cakes, checking out the passers-by. It’s as if Yevgeny Prigozhin’s march on Moscow never happened. Almost.
Some people admit to being rattled by Prigozhin’s aborted insurrection. One Moscow resident I know remembers the constitutional crisis of 1993, in which army tanks shelled a government building and more than 100 people were killed. When she heard the news about Prigozhin she urged her daughter to stock up on macaroni .
When Vera saw trucks blocking the road near her apartment, the possibility of a coup went from meme to reality. “The idea of Prigozhin entering Moscow was like meeting a monster,” she said. “It felt like a horror story.”I went to a soirée hosted by a successful art dealer. Sitting in the smart kitchen, one of the guests – an artist – said she was worried that the turmoil unleashed by Prigozhin couldn’t be contained.
Whether or not they were shaken by the events of June 24th, most people I spoke to now are hoping to forget war and politics as they head to their dachas for the summer. “People just want to lead their lives, they know they can’t do anything to change things,” said a friend. “It’s a kind of tired fatalism.”
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