The satirist Mikhail Zhvanetsky died

At the age of 86, the satirist Mikhail Zhvanetsky died, reports "Rain" with reference to close friends of the artist.

In early October, it was reported that Mikhail Zhvanetsky decided to stop public performances in connection with age. This was told by his representative Oleg Stashkevich.

"Artists need to have the courage to leave the stage in time. Zhvanetsky has this courage - to leave the scene in time, not to pull. He was a realist and said that you do not need to go out on stage. You need to get old at home. A person is losing his usual performance, why demonstrate it?" - said Stashkevich.

According to him, that Zhvanetsky decided at the end of last year, when he closed his program "on duty in the country." According to Stashkevich, the writer left the artistic, stage and business activity. Information about this was widely dispersed only on October 8, because Zhvanetsky ceased to be an individual entrepreneur.

Answering TASS's question about the well -being of the satirist, Stashkevich said that Zhvanetsky "feels like an elderly person." “Health is the same as it was. But he has grown old. Therefore, he makes health with his capabilities,” the representative of the artist said. He added that Zhvanetsky was sometimes an artist "forced."

TV presenter Ksenia Sobchak called Zhvanetsky "a great man." “He was at his speech to the coronavirus, at a small evening. He forgot something, sometimes confused, but was beautiful anyway - just from his scale. It was very sad and painful to look at it,” she wrote in her telegram channel.

In February 2019, Russian President Vladimir Putinawarded Mikhail Zhvanetsky by the Order of Merit to the Fatherland of the III degree for great contribution to the development of domestic culture and art, many years of fruitful activity. "

People's Artist of Ukraine and People's Artist of the Russian Federation Mikhail Zhvanetsky was born on March 6, 1934 in Odessa in a family of doctors. He began to write miniatures in his student years when he studied at the Odessa Institute of the Navy.

Recognition for Zhvanetsky, as a satiric writer, came in 1964, when he began to work in the theater Arkady Raikin. He wrote more than 300 miniatures for Roman Kartsev and Viktor Ilchenko. And then he began to speak himself, writes "Moscow Komsomolets" .