Actress Lydia Fedoseeva-Shukshina Has Died

“My mother, Lydia, has died. I ask for your prayers, dear, kind people!” she wrote. Fedoseeva-Shukshina was hospitalized on October 14 due to heart problems. Against the backdrop of deteriorating health, the actress was placed in a medically induced coma on October 22. Fedoseeva-Shukshina was born on September 25, 1938, in Leningrad. She studied at VGIK. She was married five times, including to director Vasily Shukshin, with whom she had daughters Maria and Olga. She gained wide recognition for her roles in her husband’s films “Pechnik-Lavochki” and “Kalina Krasnaya.” After Shukshin's death in 1974, the actress continued to act in films, with over a hundred works in her filmography, including “Tryn-Trava,” “Call Me to the Bright Distance,” “From the Life of Vacationers,” “Vivat, Cadets!,” “They Fought for Their Country,” and “The Twelve Chairs.” In 2018, the actress married producer and showman Bari Alibasov. This marriage was the fifth for the actress. They divorced in 2020.