In Donbas, twenty-two-year-old Timofey (Aeneas) Anufriev—son of Odessa conceptual artist Sergey Anufriev and art curator Ekaterina Chalaya—was killed.
This was reported by the Russian Volunteer Corps (RDC), in which he served as an assault fighter.
The RDC statement noted that Anufriev took part in numerous combat operations, including assaults, clearing operations, and capturing prisoners, and was awarded the medal “For Assistance to Ukrainian Military Intelligence.”
The organization emphasized that he “lived and died as a true knight and poet.”
“Exceptionally intelligent and educated, open and kind, he sought to contribute to the Corps not only in battle but also beyond it. Aeneas had been familiar with the cultural bohemia of two capitals since childhood, but he was not the detached, ‘ethereal’ part of the artistic elite that exists apart from reality; on the contrary, he passionately cared about the fate of his people,” the RDC statement said.
Timofey Anufriev was born in Moscow, grew up in Odessa, and held Russian citizenship. Before the full-scale Russian invasion, he studied at the Faculty of Philosophy at a university in Saint Petersburg. After February 24, 2022, he left Russia, first moving to Serbia and then joining the RDC, which fights on the side of Ukraine.
The father of the deceased, Sergey Anufriev, was one of the key figures in Odessa art in the 1980s. He participated in the Moscow conceptualism movement, worked in the Kyiv squat “Paris Commune”, and was a member of the groups “Cloud Commission” and “Tartu Society.” From 1998 to 2000, in Odessa, he was involved with the association “New Art”, the countercultural magazine “PLI”, and the creation of the literary school “Odekadance.”
