Overview
- School-studio MHAT told RIA Novosti that Zolotovitsky died in hospital on Wednesday morning at 9:30.
- The institution posted condolences to his family, naming wife Vera Kharybina and sons Alexey and Alexander, and said it will announce the date and time of the farewell later.
- RIA Novosti, citing an unnamed source, reported he will be buried at Moscow’s Troekurovskoye Cemetery, a detail not formally confirmed by the school.
- Born in Tashkent in 1961, he graduated from the MHAT school in 1983, began teaching there in 1989, and became rector in 2013.
- He staged productions including Bashmachkin after Gogol’s The Overcoat, performed at Theatre Et Cetera, appeared in film and TV, and held Russian state honors including Honored Artist (2002) and Honored Figure of the Arts (2020).