Oleg Tabakov died

Actor and director Oleg Tabakov died in Moscow after a long illness at the 83rd year of life. This was reported in the Moscow Art Theater, the leader of which he was.

Tabakov was hospitalized in November 2017 with pneumonia, his condition was evaluated as extremely severe and connected to the apparatus of artificial ventilation of the lungs. Later, the doctors had to install a tracheotomic pipe for breathing. According to Life.ru, the actor and director died after a heart attack.

90187 Oleg Tabakov in Novosibirsk

Oleg Tabakov was born in 1932, was one of the founders of “Contemporary”, then played with Oleg Efremov in the Moscow Art Theater. Chekhov, who later led; He created his own studio "Snuff". In the cinema, he played more than 150 roles, including Schellenberg in the television film “Seventeen Moments of Spring”, King of Louis XIII in “D'Artagnan and three musketeers”, the owner of the saloon in the “Man from the Kapuzin Boulevard”, Miss Andrew in “Mary Poppins, to the Wet!”. In addition, he voiced the cat Matroskin in a series of cartoons about Prostokvashino.

In 2015, Tabakov, along with other artists, spoke out in support of the Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theater and directorTimofei Kulyabin , who staged the performance “Tangeyer” there, outraged by religious activists.

The Moscow Art Theater named after Chekhov in connection with the death of his artistic director canceled all the performances on March 12.