"The RVC, in an Instagram post on 6 January announcing his death, described him as a hero. "The war began during his first year at university in St. Petersburg, where he studied philosophy and planned to become a public philosopher," the post read. "He was disgusted by the fact that many of his peers in Russia pretended that nothing was happening. Therefore, he decided to leave Russia and then join the Russian Volunteer Corps.""
"Anufriev's father, Sergei Anufriev, who was from a family of Odesa artists, became a key figure in the Moscow Conceptual movement in the 1980s. He co-founded Medical Hermeneutics Inspection with Pavel Pepperstein and Yuri Leiderman, who is also from Odesa. More recently the elder Anufriev and his wife, the curator Katya Chalaya, raised funds for drones for the Ukrainian military at an exhibition in Odesa in May 2025."
Two Ukrainian artists and a Russian-born philosophy student raised in Odesa died on the frontlines while fighting for Ukraine in recent days and weeks. Timofey Anufriev, 21, left Russia after studying philosophy in St Petersburg, joined the Russian Volunteer Corps, served as a stormtrooper, and received the medal For Assistance to Military Intelligence of Ukraine. Anufriev used the name Aeneas. His father, Sergei Anufriev, was prominent in the Moscow Conceptual movement and later raised funds for drones in Odesa. Lana Chornohorska, 27, an anarchist and LGBTQ+ activist, volunteered as a drone operator and was killed on 1 January in southern Ukraine.
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