Farewell ceremony with Vasily Lanovoy will be held on February 1 at the Vakhtangov Theater

"Vasily Semyonovich, as a full holder of all awards, will be buried at the Novodevichy cemetery on Monday, the farewell will go to the theater", - Interfax quotes Kirill Krok's words.

Vasily Lanovoy, known for his roles in the films "Scarlet Sails", "War and Peace", "Officers", "Seventeen Moments of Spring", "Anna and the Commander", "Days of the Turbins" and others, as well as his support in the last years of the president's life Russia Vladimir Putin and Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin, died January 28, at the 88th year of life after January 2, he was hospitalized with coronavirus infection. Throughout his career, the actor has played more than 70 movie roles.

Adorers of People's Artist Vasily Lanovoy, who died on January 28 from the effects of coronavirus infection, bring flowers to the monument to Yevgeny Vakhtangov in Moscow. The monument was opened last year in front of the State Academic Theater named after the director on Arbat, where Vasily Lanovoy worked. The head of the Moscow City Duma Commission on Culture, Yevgeny Gerasimov, in an interview with the Podyem newspaper said that a monument to Vasily Lanovoy could appear in Moscow.