Sergei Kolesnikov died this morning. His son Ivan said that the TV presenter’s heart stopped at the Sklifosovsk Institute for Emergency Medicine. According to the “Moving Up” actor, his father was taken to the hospital after suffering a stroke. Doctors could not help the Channel One star.
Farewell to Sergey Valentinovich will take place on May 2 or 3. There will be no farewell at Chekhov’s Moscow Art Theatre. “The funeral will take place in the church on Krasnoselská.” And the burial is at the Troekurovsky cemetery, ”said Ivan.
Valery Barinov starred with Sergei Kolesnikov in the TV series “Petersburg Secrets”, so he was especially sensitive to the news of his death. The People’s Artist of Russia said that his partner had a stroke a week ago.
“Oh, Seryozha died, Christmas trees! I knew that he had a stroke. Somewhere on April 20-21, I played in the play of Oleg Menshikov, at MN Yermolov. There I met Igor Zolotovitsky. We did not see him for a long time. After the performance, we got together and talked. He said: “You know, Kolesnikov has a stroke.” We knew him well. We filmed with him a couple of times. He met very often in the “Shelter of Comedians”. He was a regular there. Always with some funny numbers, “said Barinov FAN.
Actor and singer Viktor Rakov also worked with Kolesnikov in Petersburg Secrets. He spoke bitterly about the death of a colleague.
“Unfortunately, we weren’t very familiar with Serezhou,” the artist said. – Very good impression of him. I remember a show he hosted on TV. His son grew up to be a good artist. It would seem to live and rejoice.
The Chekhov Moscow Art Theater expressed its condolences to the relatives of Sergei Kolesnikov. “Today, April 29, in the 69th year of life of Sergei Valentinovich Kolesnikov, an honored artist of Russia, a student of the Moscow Art Theater School, who gave the scene of the art theater for three decades, a beautiful, strong, kind person, passed away. He, a student of Sofya Pilyavskaya and Vladimir Bogomolov, entered the Moscow Art Theater after graduating from the studio school in 1978, but first appeared on the stage of the theater as a student when he played a street singer in “The Life of Galileo”. The debut was natural – Sergey Valentinovich had amazing musicality. Later, in 1992, he staged the play “Unexpected Joy” to his own poems and music on the Small Stage of the Moscow Art Theater. He played Tibulus in “Three Fat Men”, Hendon and Joe Gray in “The Prince and the Pauper”, Mortimer in “Mary Stuart”. In 1987, after the division of the troupe, he worked at the Gorky Moscow Art Theater: Glumov (“Enough simplicity for every wise man”), Vaska Pepel (“At the bottom”), Don Juan (“Crazy Jourdain”), Nozdrev (“Dead Souls” ). In 1990, he moved to the Moscow Art Theater named after AP Chekhov, and was a member of the ensemble until 2011. Here he played dozens of roles, among them the knight Hans in Ondine, Skalozub in Woe to the Joke, Kurbsky in Boris Godunov, Kudryash in The Tempest, Dulchin in The Last Sacrifice, Gloucester in King Lear…” — said the theater in his Telegram channel.