[3][4][5][6][7] They showed the whole event on their social media pages,[8] broadcasting on Periscope[9] and calling themselves the Russian Bonnie and Clyde.
[10] His mother found out that Denis had a lover by accident: during spring break, her son went to spend the night at a friend's house.
[10] On the morning of 11 November, Muravyev took his mother's bank card from her bag, which he used to withdraw money for two tickets for a shuttle bus to Strug Krasnye.
On the afternoon of 14 November, the teenagers were found in a dacha house 80 kilometers from Pskov, belonging to the Vlasova's stepfather.
Before the suicide, the teenagers posted identical farewell messages to their relatives on their VKontakte pages, accusing them of “destroying their psyche and lives".
[10] According to a representative of the Department of Internal Affairs in the Pskov region, law enforcers went to the village of Strugi Krasnye to check information about Muravyev, who had been reported missing.
[17] A number of media outlets and online users speculated and accused law enforcers of deliberately killing the teens.
Since Rosgvardia, claims that the police special forces did not open fire during the attack, some users speculate that the teens may have lied that they ran out of ammunition[3] A police officer who failed to check a report of missing teenagers in the Pskov region was charged with negligence.
[18] Denis Muravyev's family stated that they believed the officers who arrived on the scene acted wrongly, leaving the teenagers with no choice other than suicide.
Young people quote them in their statuses, write posts calling them “defenseless and freedom fighters”, and compose fanfics.
Speaking on the radio station “Govorit Moskva”, a clinical psychologist suggested that the teenagers could have joined a sect or suffered from mental illness.