Vera Alentova Dies at 83, Public Farewell Set at Moscow’s Pushkin Theatre
The star of Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears will be buried at Novodevichy Cemetery next to director Vladimir Menshov.
Overview
- Farewell proceedings are scheduled for December 29 at 11:00 Moscow time at the Pushkin Theatre, with a two-hour public panikhida preceding the burial.
- The Pushkin Theatre’s artistic director Evgeny Pisarev confirmed her death to TASS following her hospitalization after a December 25 health incident.
- Alentova fell ill during a civil memorial for actor Anatoly Lobotsky at the Mayakovsky Theatre on December 25 and was taken for medical care.
- Trained at the Moscow Art Theatre School-Studio, she spent six decades with the Pushkin troupe and appeared this season in Madam Rubinstein and False Confessions.
- Leaders and cultural institutions issued tributes, and the Pushkin Theatre dedicated a jubilee performance to her memory and adjusted upcoming productions she was slated to perform.