In Moscow, actress Evgenia Dobrovolskaya, star of the series “Queen Margot” and the second wife of the famous actor Mikhail Efremov, died at the age of 60.. The Russian media The Blueprint News writes about this.

The news was confirmed by the Chekhov Moscow Art Theater. The theater added that in the last year she had been “struggling with a serious illness,” but “despite all the thirst for life and stubbornness of spirit, her physical strength turned out to be finite.”.

" Our Zhenya, infinitely talented and fearless and equally endlessly doubtful, unpredictable, extremely sincere, real always and in everything,” the message says..

Evgenia Dobrovolskaya played in the Moscow Art Theater named after M. Gorky, the theater-studio under the direction of Oleg Tabakov, the theater-studio "

Dobrovolskaya made her film debut in 1983 in Pavel Chukhrai’s drama “The Canary Cage”; she also starred in the films “Mechanical Suite”, “Midlife Crisis”, “December 32”, “The Irony of Fate”. Continuation"

Evgenia was married three times. Her second husband was the notorious actor Mikhail Efremov. The couple married in 1990 and divorced seven years later.. Dobrovolskaya and Efremov have a son, Nikolai Efremov, star of the 2012 TV series “The White Guard”.

Evgenia maintained a good relationship with her ex-husband, but said that she left him because he “could not control his emotions”. According to the actress, in the modern world this is called abuse. " After that I immediately left. We are so tired of each other,” Dobrovolskaya recalled.

In 1998, Dobrovolskaya was awarded the title of Honored Artist of the Russian Federation, in 2005 - People's Artist. She received prizes for best actress at festivals in Poland, Odessa, Berdyansk.

Let us remind you that in the summer of 2020, actor Mikhail Efremov became the culprit of a fatal accident in the center of Moscow. Evgenia Dobrovolskaya was worried about her ex-husband, but did not appear in the courtroom.

" Misha is good... Only drunk Misha and sober are two different people. A drunk man is it. He didn’t understand what he was doing at all,” said the actress. At that time, Efremov was already married for the fifth time, to sound engineer Sofia Kruglikova. The couple has three children.

In March 2024, Mikhail Efremov, who was sent to a colony for committing a drunken traffic accident with a fatal outcome, had his application for parole approved..