Natasha Kuzina is our former colleague, we worked together at the same federal newspaper. Now we are at Rodina and she is an editor at a large company. There she was given a ticket to the Picnic concert. Here is Natasha’s story.
“I was there, yes, I have been a fan since I was little.
Now I have a license plate, I have a life, I have no coat and it is still not clear if there is a car that I parked not far from the entrance, but I can easily pay with it for the fact that the universe gave me the opportunity to leave the hall unscathed.
I arrived an hour early and was almost the first into the room and sat and corresponded with friends who were jealous of me. And when the third bell rang, I got up to take a photo of the packed, packed room.
Natasha’s number is in the closet in the concert hall. Photo: Natalya Kuzina.
And at that moment dull bursts were heard. Smoke and hellish smell. I was in the eighth row and almost next to the aisle.
Everyone was already running towards the stage and shouting “Nord-Ost!” For some reason I wanted to go to bed first. Because it was scary to run when they shot from behind.
But I ran.
She crashed on stage.
Got up.
She ran further.
At the end of a hallway there was a door, we ran towards it. It was tremendously, tremendously, tremendously scary that it was closed.
She opened!!!
On the street there had already been a collapse of cars trying to leave the underground parking lot. I just opened the door of a car and jumped towards them, although it was already full of people, the girl’s face was broken, she fell in the parking lot.
We arrived at the “Tu Casa” shopping center. We stopped and did not know how to get to the Moscow Ring Road. Personally, I only knew the path that led almost back to Crocus.
“After 10 minutes we were already in the Strogino area.” Photo: Natalya Kuzina.
Then the mall security guards started yelling that we had to go there and that was it. After 10 minutes we were already in the Strogino area. I don’t know why Strogino, but I don’t care where, as long as it’s not there.
The most terrible thing is remembering the moment when I turned around on stage and saw an infernal number of people who were very far from the stage and the service corridors, and it is difficult for me to even imagine where else to run.”
