Overview
- the civil memorial on the main stage of the Moscow Art Theatre concluded Saturday morning, with an Orthodox service set for 13:00 MSK and burial planned at Troekurovskoye Cemetery later in the day.
- Hundreds of colleagues, students and admirers brought flowers and applauded as the casket was carried out, with messages read from Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin, Culture Minister Olga Lyubimova and Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin.
- Notable attendees included Konstantin Khabensky, Vladimir Mashkov and Evgeny Grishkovets, while Konstantin Ernst recalled that Zolotovitsky created a sense of home and family around him.
- Colleagues said he kept his illness private, was hospitalized in January, and continued to appear on stage through late December.
- Zolotovitsky died in hospital on January 14 at age 64 from an oncological disease, with his son recalling an optimistic final response to a doctor’s question.