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Actor Avangard Leontiev, who celebrated his 75th birthday, admitted that, despite his advanced age, he would like to work in the theater to the last. He set himself an example of a friend, People’s Artist of the USSR Oleg Tabakov, who “as long as he could reach the stage, played.”
According to Leontiev, Tabakov “played to the last.” “I once asked Tabakov: “Oleg Pavlovich, what will happen if you suddenly start to get sick, you can’t come to the theater?” He replied: “Then a bullet in the forehead is better,” Leontiev recalled in an interview with Izvestia.
Despite his illness, Tabakov not only played several performances a month, but also engaged in leadership work. “And suddenly at night he fell at home. I spent several months in the hospital,” Leontiev said, adding that “the doctors tried to do everything possible and impossible.”
Oleg Tabakov died at the age of 83 on March 12, 2018. The last few months he was in the hospital, where he got in November 2017. The actor was buried at the Novodevichy cemetery.
Source: Rosbalt
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