The private Embraer jet on which Prigozhin was travelling to St Petersburg crashed north of Moscow killing all 10 people on board in August.
Redoubt is a military intelligence-controlled group that started life as a cosy arrangement between Kremlin-linked oligarchs and senior army officers.
Vladimir Putin’s spokesman said the president would not attend the service. The Russian leader had decried the armed rebellion in June as “treason” and “a stab in the back”.
Russian investigators recovered the black box after the crash,which Western officials strongly believe was no accident two months after Wagner’s attempted mutiny.
Trying to wrest control of Wagner Group’s shadow army,the Russian president wants all mercenaries to “strictly follow the orders of commanders and superiors”.
Reuters has reported that only the day before the plane crash,a Russian official visited Libya to reassure allies there that Wagner mercenaries would remain – but under Moscow’s control.
In Kursk,about 500km south of Moscow,a smiling Vladimir Putin appeared in a well choreographed event to commemorate “all citizens”.
The Wagner leader’s plane crash is another reminder of revenge served Vladimir Putin-style.
The oligarch emerged first as a supporter of Vladimir Putin then a critic of the Kremlin’s handling of the war effort in Ukraine.
“The temperature is +50 – everything as we like,” the former mutineer said in a video some suspect was filmed in Africa.