The key facts

  • Lidia Fedoseeva-Shukshina died on November 6 at the age of 88 from heart failure
  • The funeral is scheduled for November 11 at the Novodevichy Cemetery, next to the grave of Vasily Shukshin
  • The funeral service will be held at the Church of the Resurrection of the Word on Uspensky Vrazhek at 11:00

The date and place of the farewell have changed

People's Artist Lidia Fedoseeva-Shukshina will be buried on November 11 at the Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow next to her former husband, the writer and director Vasily Shukshin. Her daughter, actress Olga Shukshina, told TASS about this. The farewell ceremony was originally planned for November 10 at the Kuntsevo funeral hall, but later the family changed both the date and the venue of the memorial events. According to Life.ru, the funeral service has been scheduled for the same day and will take place at the Church of the Resurrection of the Word on Uspensky Vrazhek, with the service beginning at 11:00.

Circumstances of her death

Lidia Fedoseeva-Shukshina died on November 6 at the age of 88. According to Life.ru, the cause of death was heart failure; the actress spent her final weeks in hospital, where her condition was described as serious.

Burial next to Shukshin 52 years later

Vasily Shukshin died on October 2, 1974, at the age of 45, during the filming of the film 'They Fought for Their Country'. Fifty-two years later, the grave of Lidia Nikolaevna will appear next to his. Life.ru also reported that the actress's elder daughter risks missing the funeral because of her Ukrainian passport; the publications contain no confirmed information on whether this issue has been resolved.