The first performance in which Oleg Tabakov played was “in search of joy” based on the play by Victor Rozov. Photo: Mikhail Ozersky / RIA Novosti, 1960.
On Monday, March 12, at the age of 82, an actor, director, artistic director of the Moscow Art Theater named after Chekhov and the Tabakerka Theater, Oleg Tabakov, died. For more than twenty years, he was the leading actor of the contemporary theater. Since the late 1980s, he headed the Tabakerka Theater, and in 2000 it became the arts for the Moscow Art Theater. Chekhov. Tabakov also starred in more than 120 films.
The scene from the play "Balalaikin and K". Photo: Anatoly Garanin / RIA Novosti, 1973. Artist Oleg Tabakov as the head of the buffet in the film "Always on sale." Photo: Evgeny Kassin / Itar-Tass, 1965 Oleg Tabakov (left) in the role of Schellenberg and actor Vyacheslav Tikhonov (right) as Stirlitz in the film "Seventeen Moments of Spring". Photo: RIA Novosti, 1973 Frame from the filming of the film "D'Artagnan and three musketeers", 1979. Photo: Kinopoisk Oleg Tabakov in the film "Mary Poppins, Goodbye", 1983. Photo: Kinopoisk Oleg Tabakov and Olga Barnet Scene from the play based on the play by Pierre de Bomarsha “Mad Day, or the Marriage of Figaro” in the production of the theater studio Oleg Tabakov. Photo: Ruslan Krivobok / RIA Novosti, 2009 Oleg Tabakov in the play "Seagull" director Konstantin Bogomolov. Photo: Sergey Pyatakov / RIA Novosti, 2011 Oleg Tabakov at the ceremony of presenting the National Theater Prize "Golden Mask." Photo: Valery Sharifulin / TASS, 2017
