“I didn’t want to know about his illness”: 22-year-old actor Ilya Knyazev died of leukemia 15.03.2023, 13:00

The management of the theater told about the death of the young actor. “It is with regret that we have to inform you that the artist of the Amur Drama Theater Ilya Knyazev died suddenly against the background of a long illness. A talented actor, a bright creative personality, a sincere and very kind, bright person died. Ilya did not want anyone to know about his illness – he gave all his energy to his beloved profession, kept optimism and strength, ”noted the theater.

A graduate of the Irkutsk Theater School, he was able to act in many productions in Blagoveshchensk. The audience remembered him for his roles in the performances of “Romeo and Juliet”, where he played Samson, the production of “Khanum”, in which he played the role of a fruit merchant, “Night before Christmas”, where he was a Cossack, in “Plot for a short story” – Medvedenko .

“After an unfinished theatrical season in the theater, Ilyusha became our family,” assured Marina Shchepkina. – A wonderful, very nice person, a promising, talented, original actor with a sweet smile, .. He was sick, he was fighting leukemia. But the disease won… We mourn together with relatives and friends. Unexpectedly, bitterly, painfully…”

Farewell to Ilya Knyazev will take place on March 16 in the cathedral in Blagoveshchensk. And the funeral will be held in the actor’s hometown of Irkutsk.

Darja Dontsová’s husband died on March 8. Alexander Ivanovich fought with bowel cancer for a year and a half. The academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences was 73 years old. Two days ago, the writer buried her husband, with whom she had been married for 40 years.

TV presenter Gleb Pavlovsky also died of oncology. The president of the Effective Policy Foundation was 71 years old. He spent the last days of his life in a hospice.