The famous artistic director of the Maly Theater died in Moscow Yuri Solomin. The reason is complications after a stroke. The legendary “adjutant of His Excellency” left not only a solid creative legacy, but also a material one.
What caused the actor’s death
People’s Artist of the USSR, artistic director of the Maly Theater and full holder of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, Yuri Solomin, died at the age of 88 after suffering a stroke at the end of last year. According to the SHOT telegram channel, the artistic director was hospitalized with this diagnosis on November 6. The artist lost consciousness while walking to the car to go to work.
Already in early December, Solomin’s condition stabilized and he was transferred from the intensive care ward to a regular one. Everything indicated that the artist would pull through: his speech became clearer, he began to host not only his relatives, but also his colleagues from the theater. After the New Year, doctors began preparing the People’s Artist of the USSR for discharge. He returned home the day before his death.
Doctors now consider the preliminary cause to be kidney failure, which could cause complications due to a stroke. It was accompanied by multiple hemorrhages in the brain with damage to the temporal region.
What Yuri Solomin left behind
In recent years, Yuri Solomin has owned apartments at two addresses in the center of Moscow: in Spiridonyevsky Lane, where the artist arrived after being discharged, and in Stary Tolmachevsky Lane.
The apartment in Spiridonyevsky Lane is the Solomin family nest. The artist’s wife, an actress, director and teacher, died here in 2019. Olga Solomina. Their only daughter Daria and granddaughter Alexandra are also registered here.
Housing with an area of 80 square meters is located almost in the very center of Moscow, next to Tverskoy Boulevard and a stone’s throw from the Patriarch’s Pond. In recent years, wealthy citizens and fashionable young people like to settle here.
Real estate here is traditionally expensive: the seller estimated the cost of an apartment of the same area, which is currently being sold in the Solomins’ house several floors above, at 145 million rubles.
Another living space where Yuri Solomin was seen is located in Stary Tolmachevsky Lane in one of the oldest districts of Moscow – Zamoskvorechye. There is an apartment with an area of 116 square meters. The price per square meter here reaches 570 thousand rubles. Thus, the market value of such living space can be about 70 million rubles.
It is known that the Solomin family had a dacha in the village of Valentinovka. There, since the 40s of the last century, dacha-building cooperatives of the Moscow Art Theater and the Maly Theater were created. The family owned 23 acres and a good-quality wooden two-story house with an area of 100 square meters.
On the ground floor there is a kitchen, shower room and living room, on the second floor there are two bedrooms and a dressing room. There are several fruit trees, centuries-old pines, spruces and maples on the plot, and between them there is parking for four cars. The house has cable TV and Internet.
Recently, the cottage has been rented out: on one of the real estate websites there was recently an advertisement looking for tenants willing to pay 43 thousand rubles a month for the entire range of amenities.
Who can claim the inheritance of Yuri Solomin
The only direct heir is his 58-year-old daughter Solomina Daria. Despite the fact that Daria grew up in a famous acting family, she did not follow in her parents’ footsteps and preferred a career as a pianist. For some time, Solomin’s daughter lived in London and taught music there, but then returned to Moscow. She was the last one to see Yuri Solomin alive.
The Solomins also have their only granddaughter, Alexandra. Now she is 33 years old, she is married and has managed to please her grandfather with two great-grandchildren. Unlike her mother, she plunged headlong into theatrical life: first she served in the Maly Theater troupe under the direction of her famous grandfather, and then concentrated on working with children and teaching. Now she and her family live right next door to the Solomin family nest – in Maly Patriarchal Lane.