In Moscow, on the 83rd year of his life, the director of the Moscow Art Theater. Chekhov and the famous actor Oleg Tabakov. This was reported in the press service of the theater, the "RIA-Novosti".

The last few months, the actor was in hospital - he was hospitalized in late November 2017. Since then, there have been conflicting reports about the status of the artist: first it was reported that Tabakov was ill with pneumonia and would soon be discharged from the hospital, later it became known that the health situation of the actor was more serious - he was connected to an artificial respiration apparatus, he can not speak, This orientation in space and time.

In January 2018 the news was comforting: it was reported that the actor was on the mend. However, a month later it became known that most of the time Tabakov conducts in a state of artificial coma. Physicians found that the body of the artist is so weak that he simply can not cope with the slightest strain.

Oleg Tabakov was born in Saratov on August 17, 1935. In 1953 he entered the Moscow Art Theater School, where he was one of the best students. Tabakov is one of the founders of the theater "Contemporary". He is known to the audience for roles in such films as "War and Peace", "Seventeen Moments of Spring", "Twelve Chairs", also Tabakov voiced Matroskina's cat in the cartoon "Three from Prostokvashino" and "Vacations in Prostokvashino". This is reported by the "Ukrainian News".