Farewell to Yuri Solomin ended at the Maly Theater

MOSCOW, January 15 The farewell ceremony for People's Artist of the USSR, artistic director of the Maly Theater Yuri Solomin ended on the historical stage of the theater, the correspondent reports.
Solomin died at the age of 88 on January 11, two days earlier he was discharged from the hospital after a stroke. After farewell, he will be buried at the capital's Troekurovsky cemetery.

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More than a hundred people came to say goodbye to the artist: relatives, friends, colleagues, students and admirers of his work, including Assistant to the President of Russia, Head of the Russian Military Historical Society Vladimir Medinsky, Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation Olga Lyubimova, Head of the Investigative Committee of Russia Alexander Bastrykin, leader Party of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Gennady Zyuganov, People's Artists of Russia Sergey Garmash, Andrey Zhitinkin, People's Artists of the RSFSR Vsevolod Shilovsky and Stanislav Lyubshin, Rector of the Shchepkinsky Theater School Boris Lyubimov, Deputy Artistic Director of the Maly Theater Alexey Dubrovsky, Theater Director Tamara Mikhailova and many others.
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«He saved the theater when the Soviet Union was falling apart. When bacchanalia and permissiveness began, he was always like a staunch soldier guarding the theater,» Zhitinkin said at the farewell ceremony.

Wreaths for the farewell ceremony were sent by Russian President Vladimir Putin, the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, the head of the Russian government Mikhail Mishustin, the Tabakov Theater, the Ermolova Theater, Lenkomovites, the theater » Contemporary» and many others. Yuri Solomin was seen off on his final journey with applause. The ovation did not stop for about 5 minutes.
Earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed condolences to Solomin’s family and friends. He called the artist’s death an irreparable loss for national culture and for all of Russia. The head of state noted that Solomin was the keeper of the legendary traditions of the Russian classical theater, and his selfless service to his chosen cause, inner dignity, and decency earned the People's Artist of the USSR the highest recognition and truly popular love.

Yuri Solomin was born on June 18, 1935. In 1957, after graduating from the Shchepkin Higher Theater School, he was accepted into the Maly Theater. Since 1961, he taught at the Shchepkin Theater School and was a professor in the acting department. Since 1988 — artistic director of the Maly Theater. Among the roles played by the actor on stage are Khlestakov in Gogol's «The Inspector General», Fedya Protasov in Leo Tolstoy's «The Living Corpse», Voinitsky in Anton Chekhov's «Uncle Vanya», Cyrano de Bergerac based on the play by Edmond Rostand and Tsar Fyodor in the tragedy. Since 1980, he has worked in the theater and as a director.
Among his best film works: Pavel Koltsov («Adjutant of His Excellency», 1969), Telegin («Walking in Torment», 1977), Vladimir Arsenyev («Dersu Uzala», 1975), Major Zvyagintsev («Blockade», 1975-1978), Innkeeper and Heinrich Eisenstein (TV films «An Ordinary Miracle» and «The Bat», both — 1979), Vladimir Alexandrovich («The Light in the Window», 1980), Doctor Gradov (“Moscow Saga”, 2004).