Inna Churikova died on January 14 at the Botkin hospital in Moscow, according to the official version: due to cardiac arrest.
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On Tuesday, January 17, the farewell to Inna Churikova will take place at the Lenkom Theater, where she has served for almost half a century. It is not yet clear where her funeral will take place. The theater believes that it would be correct to do this in the Church of the Nativity of the Virgin, next to Lenkom. Once the theater was engaged in its restoration, at the initiative of Alexander Abdulov, in the late 1980s, the “Backyards” festival was held, the funds from which went to the restoration of the temple. But the decision still depends on the son of the actress Ivan and her husband, the director Gleb Panfilov. This morning they went to the Novodevichy cemetery to choose the place where Inna Mikhailovna will be buried on Tuesday.
Conflicting information was received yesterday on this issue: it was called the Troekurovskoye cemetery, then after all it was possible to agree on the Novodevichy cemetery. Inna Churikova – People’s Artist of the USSR, full holder of the Order of Merit to the Fatherland. According to the state established her the main necropolis of the country. But the point is not only in status, but also in people’s love, which is immense for Churikova.
– The truth has prevailed. I am very happy about that. The city leadership made the right decision (the decision on the Novodevichy cemetery is made personally by Sergei Sobyanin – Ed.), – says the director of the Lenkom Theater Mark Varshaver. – Inna Mikhailovna is a great actress. She deserved this honor, if it is appropriate to say so.
Yesterday, a lot of people applied to the theater to ask us to work in Novodevichy. For whom, but for Inna Mikhailovna, it is not a shame to ask. She is not only a great actress, but also an amazing person, very kind and decent who tried to help everyone. Everyone in the theater loved her.
On Tuesday, January 17, the farewell to Inna Churikova will take place at the Lenkom Theater, where she has served for almost half a century.
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The announcement of his death was completely unexpected. Mark Borisovich, were there really no harbingers of trouble? This season, Inna Mikhailovna did not appear on the Lenkom stage. So she hurt…
– Unfortunately, it was not. He said that she and Gleb Anatolyevich (Panfilov) were afraid of covid. Beware. She sometimes she played the Queen of England in the Vakhtangov Theater (the play “Audience”-Ed.). But there were also cancellations of the function.
– It turns out that Inna Mikhailovna felt bad for a long time?
– Of course, if he felt good, he would play. As a true and great actress, she could not live without a stage.
– Yesterday, unconfirmed information appeared that Inna Mikhailovna had problems with the vestibular apparatus due to cysts in the brain. Because of this, the coordination was disrupted. In recent years, she often ended up in the hospital with various fractures and bruises: she broke her arms and ribs several times … So last summer she ended up in the hospital: due to a fall, Inna Mikhailovna had a rib. broken.
– Yes, many times I fell and there were fractures. But what is the use of talking about it now if Inna Mikhailovna cannot be returned?
She was home on New Year’s Eve. We spoke to her on the phone. So they decided to take her to the hospital to be examined. There were health problems. The last time we spoke was a week ago. She flirted, joked, laughed. She always picked up the phone. She said that she wanted to play something new, read plays. There was a conversation that she and Zbruev would play in a new play. She then had problems with her lungs. Exactly what? I’m not a doctor so I can’t say. I know that Inna Mikhailovna has been connected to a ventilator for the last few days (artificial lung ventilation – Ed.). Believe me, when she got sick in the hospital, great efforts were made to save her. A council of the best Moscow specialists was assembled.
Inna Churikova with her son Ivan
Photo: Vladimir VELENGURIN
So what caused the accident?
It got worse yesterday morning. Botkinskaya doctors were looking for relatives. I named the son of Inna Mikhailovna – Ivan. He had just arrived in Moscow, literally getting off the plane (the son of the actress lives in London-Ed.). He recently flew in for New Years. But then he returned to London, probably on business. He was constantly in contact. Yesterday morning he arrived, and immediately from the airport Vanya went to the hospital to see her mother. But she did not find her alive, she did not have time … Inna Mikhailovna idolized her son, he also loved her very much. Late only child…
Inna Churikova died on January 14 in the Botkin hospital in Moscow, according to the official version: due to cardiac arrest. She People’s Artist of the USSR she was 79 years old.
