Honored artist of Russia, the master of pantomime Anatoly Elizarov was found dead in his apartment in Moscow. On this subject informed TASS in reference to emergency services.
According to the interlocutor of the agency, Elizarov stopped contacting his relatives. On May 8, experts opened the door to the artist’s apartment and found him dead. According to preliminary data, he died of cardiovascular failure. Elizarov was 80 years old.
Anatoly Elizarov was born on February 16, 1943 in Leningrad. From the age of 13, he studied the art of pantomime in the Mime studio of the famous circus artist Rudolf Slavsky. Since the 1960s, the artist began to tour in the USSR and abroad. The Soviet and foreign press compares him to the master of French mime Marcel Marceau.
Elizarov was a laureate of international competitions and festivals, taught at the Russian Academy of Theater Arts (RATI), Galina Vishnevskaya Opera Center, Boris Shchukin Theater Institute, State University all-Russian cinematographer named SA Gerasimov (VGIK), gave master classes in Russia and abroad.
Elizarov also starred in the films “Aibolit-66” by Rolan Bykov, “Completely Lost” by Georgy Danelia, “The Sun, Again the Sun” by Svetlana Druzhinina, “The Crew” by Alexander Mitta, “The Imaginary Sick” by Leonid Nechaev.
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