Actress Lydia Fedoseeva-Shukshina has died

Theater and film actress, People's Artist of the RSFSR Lidiya Fedoseeva-Shukshina died at the age of 89. This was announced by her daughter, actress and TV presenter Maria Shukshina in the telegram channel.

"My mother died… I ask for your prayers, dear, kind people!", she wrote.

Farewell will take place on Tuesday, November 10, in Kuntsevo. Fedoseeva-Shukshina will be buried at the Novodevichy cemetery.

Lidiya Nikolaevna Fedoseeva-Shukshina was born on September 25, 1938 in Leningrad. As a child, she survived the blockade of the city, later graduated from VGIK and made her film debut in 1955 in the film "Two Captains".

The main stage in her life and career was a creative and marital union with director, screenwriter and writer Vasily Shukshin, whom she married in 1964. In his iconic paintings "Stove-benches" and "Kalina Krasnaya", the actress brilliantly embodied the image of a strong and wise Russian woman. After the sudden death of her husband in 1974, she took a double surname and continued to actively act in films.

The actress's filmography includes more than 80 roles, including memorable works in the films "You never dreamed ...", "Demidovs" and the TV series "Petersburg Secrets". She played in the Polish films "To the last drop of blood" and "The Ballad of Januszyk".

For 16 years until 2014, Lydia Fedoseeva-Shukshina was the president of the All-Russian Film Festival "Vivat Cinema of Russia!", held in St. Petersburg.

For her great personal contribution to the development of cinematography, she was awarded the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, IV degree (1998).