Oleg Tabakov received the Award Oleg Tabakov

Today, March 24, in the Moscow Studio Theater, under the leadership of Oleg Tabakov, the awarding ceremony of the laureates of the annual theater award Oleg Tabakov was held. In one of the nominations, Oleg Tabakov himself received the award.

According tothe BBC , he was awarded for playing the main role in the play "Judge of the Jeweler" of the Moscow Art Theater. A.P. Chekhova,

In total, 16 people became laureates of the award this year, including the playwright Ivan Zarypaev, the theater of the Maya Turovskaya, the philanthropist Irina Prokhorova and the wife of Tabakova, actress Marina Zudina.

Since 1995, when Oleg Tabakov’s charity fund award began to be awarded, more than 120 people received it. According to the award page on the Internet , it is awarded "actors and directors of theater and cinema, sceniographs, theater historians, writers, teachers, and playwrights Prize for achievements in the field of culture."

This year the award was awarded for the 21st time, its prize fund amounted to 1.6 million rubles.