Metropolitan of Simferopol and Crimea Tikhon (Shevkunov) spoke about the details of the death of Hieromonk Roman (Matyushin), known for composing songs for Russian artists.
The cleric indicated that the priest died at Belgrade airport before a flight to Russia.
— They have just reported that in Belgrade, at the airport, returning to his homeland to die, Hieromonk Roman (Matyushin) rested in the Lord. On the last day of Easter. “I succeeded,” Tikhon wrote on his page on the social network. VK.
Roman was the author of the lyrics for the songs of Elena Vaenga and Sergey Bezrukov.
Hieromonk Roman, born in the world Alexander Matyushin Pravdin, was born on November 16, 1954. From a young age he wrote poetry and studied at the Faculty of Philology of Kalmyk University, but refused to take the final exams. In 1980, he entered the Holy Spirit Monastery in Vilnius, then took monastic vows in the Pskov-Pechersk Monastery.