The director of the Maly Theater spoke about the last hours of Yuri Solomin’s life

“Woe is ours, grief”

Tamara Mikhailova, director of the Maly Theater, was one of the last who managed to communicate with the artistic director.

-Yuri Methodievich was discharged from the hospital, he was brought home, and we, looking at him, even sighed with relief: “The trouble seems to be over,” I thought then.

-What did he say when he found himself at home, where he had not been for more than two months?

-He said: “It’s so nice at home, it’s warm,” he stroked the photographs.

-Who stayed in the house with him overnight?

– His daughter was with him. Yuri Methodievich went to bed. And in the morning… I didn’t wake up. She found him. Woe, woe is ours.

“He didn’t let us down”

Maly Theater artists remember Yuri Solomin.

The Maly Theater is in shock – artistic director, People’s Artist of the USSR Yuri Solomin has died. The first artistic director was not appointed, but chosen by the team and colleagues.

“I remember how he was elected at that historic meeting,” Honored Artist of the Russian Federation Alexander Bely told MK. – In December, his leadership turned exactly 35 years old. Everyone then voted for him.

And I was lucky from the very beginning – I studied with Yuri Methodievich, graduate of 1987. He was very strict with us and incredibly demanding. He didn’t let anyone down. No hack job could work with him. And he didn’t indulge in praise, which we fools were offended by. Already when I was accepted into the theater, he once praised me on the day of my entry into the play “Tsar Fyodor Ioanovich” for the role of Shakhovsky. Then they played, and Yuri Methodievich came up to me: “Sasha, well done,” he just said and walked into the dressing room with the steps of a king.