Died People's Artist of the RSFSR Lidia Fedoseyeva-Shukshina

Actress Maria Shukshina reported the death of her mother – People’s Artist of the RSFSR Lidia Fedoseyeva-Shukshina. It's from sb.by.

- I ask your prayers, dear, kind people! – wrote Maria Shukshina in Telegram, reports RIA Novosti.

The artist was 88 years old. Farewell to her will be held on Tuesday, November 10, in Kuntsevo, and will be buried at the Novodevichy cemetery.

Lydia Fedoseyeva-Shukshina was born on September 25, 1938 in Leningrad. In 1964 she graduated from VGIK, where she studied in the workshop of Sergey Gerasimov and Tamara Makarova. She made her film debut in 1955, her first work was a small role of a laboratory assistant in the film Maxim Perepelica. Fame came in the late 1950s after the role of a student Tanya in the film Peers.

The turning point in the fate of the actress was a meeting with the writer, actor and director Vasily Shukshin - it was in his films that her talent was revealed in full. The most famous works of this period were the roles of Nyura in “Stoves” and Lyuba Baikalova in the drama “Kalina Red”.

After the death of her husband in 1974, the actress took a double surname – Fedoseyev-Shukshina. She continued to act a lot, films with her participation were released almost annually. In her filmography, more than 90 films, including “You did not dream”, “Peter’s Youth”, “12 chairs”, “They fought for the Motherland”, “Two captains”, “Vivat, midshipmen!”, “Dead souls”, “Walking through torment”.

In recent months, the condition of the actress has deteriorated sharply - she was on an artificial ventilation device.