Hundreds of mourners today attended a funeral for car bomb victim Darya Dugina.
As Russia and Ukraine traded bitter claims about who killed her, there was high security at her farewell ceremony.
Her bereaved father Alexander Dugin, 50 - called ‘Putin’s Rasputin’ - and mother Natalia Melentyeva, 64, sat beside the open coffin.
Many believe the car bomb that killed Darya was intended for him.
He told mourners: “Forgive me, it’s hard to speak. Dasha [Darya] hears me. I wanted to raise my daughter the way I see an ideal human.
“So first of all it was about belief. She spent her entire childhood in Orthodox camps. But I also wanted her to be a smart Orthodox person.
“So with her mother we advised her to become a philosopher, and she became one.”
An ardent supporter of the war, Dugin has accused Putin of failing to use his full firepower to crush Ukraine and challenge the West.
“She died for Russia, on the front line,” he said. “This front line is here, in every one of us. She lived for victory, and died in the name of victory.”
He said her last words to him before getting into her Toyota Land Cruiser were: “Papa, I feel like a warrior, I feel like a hero.”
A message from Vladimir Putin said: “Accept my sincere condolences and words of support due to the hardest, irreplaceable loss you suffered.
“A vile, cruel crime ended the life of Darya Dugina, a bright, talented person with a true Russian heart - kind, loving, open and sympathetic.
“A journalist, a scientist, a philosopher, a military correspondent, she honestly served the people, the Fatherland, and proved with her life what it means to be a patriot of Russia.
“The memory of Darya Dugina will be forever kept by her close people and friends, her comrades. Wishing you strength and fortitude in this mournful hour.”
Russia's secret service, the FSB, has blamed Ukraine for the killing and said the attack was carried out by a woman named Natalia Vovk and her daughter.
The FSB claims they escaped over the border to Estonia after planting the bomb.
Ukraine strongly denies any involvement and adviser to President Volodymyr Zelensky, Mykhailo Podolyak, said: "Ukraine has strongly denied any connection to the attack. Ukraine has absolutely nothing to do with this, because we are not a criminal state like Russia, or a terrorist one at that."
Not long before the attack, Dugin appeared to be openly critical of Putin and said: "The Supreme Commander-in-Chief [Putin] said that we haven't really started anything yet. Now we have to start. Whether you want it or not, we’ll have to.
