The key facts

  • The farewell to Lidia Fedoseeva-Shukshina will take place on November 11.
  • The actress's elder daughter may miss the funeral because she does not have a Russian passport.
  • Anastasia Voronina-Francisco holds only Ukrainian citizenship, which creates difficulties at the border.

The funeral of Lidia Fedoseeva-Shukshina and the possible absence of her elder daughter

The farewell to People's Artist of the RSFSR Lidia Fedoseeva-Shukshina, who died on November 7 at the age of 88, will take place on November 11. According to information published by the outlet Gazeta.Ru citing the Telegram channel Shot, the actress's elder daughter Anastasia Voronina-Francisco may not attend the funeral. The reason cited is possible difficulties at border control at Sheremetyevo airport, since the 65-year-old woman, who lives in Hurghada, holds only a Ukrainian passport. The actress's younger daughter Olga Shukshina suggested that her sister may arrive in Moscow only after the farewell ceremony, once the situation has calmed down.

The personal history and position of Anastasia Voronina-Francisco

Anastasia Voronina-Francisco was born in Leningrad in 1960, but after her mother's divorce from her father, the actor Vyacheslav Voronin, she stayed to live in Kyiv with relatives. In 1998 she was sentenced to 3.5 years in a penal colony for drug trafficking, and in 2018 she moved from Kyiv to Hurghada, where she still lives. Olga Shukshina noted that her sister has a complicated attitude toward Russia's special military operation in Ukraine, which, combined with the absence of Russian citizenship, creates obstacles to her quick entry into the country at this time of mourning.