Anatoly Kashpirovsky died

Television healer Anatoly Kashpirovsky died at the age of 87, reported journalist Andrei Malakhov. The cause of death was cardiac arrest, his director told TASS.

Anatoly Kashpirovsky is a Soviet psychotherapist who studied hypnosis techniques. He became widely known in the USSR in the late 1980s, when his “healing sessions” began to be broadcast on television. Kashpirovsky called his performances “an act of specific psychotherapeutic influence,” the “therapeutic influence” of which begins “from the first second of communication.”

Kashpirovsky also went on tour throughout Russia and other countries, filling concert halls and football stadiums. In the 1990s, he was a State Duma deputy from the Liberal Democratic Party. In the mid-2010s, a criminal case was opened against him for illegally practicing traditional medicine, but the court acquitted him. In 2020, during the coronavirus pandemic, Kashpirovsky started a video blog on YouTube.

Kashpirovsky was married three times. In 2025, in his third marriage, he had a daughter.