Oleg Tabakov

Oleg Pavlovich Tabakov (Russian: Олег Павлович Табаков; 17 August 1935 – 12 March 2018) was a Soviet and Russian actor and the artistic director of the Moscow Art Theatre. He was born in Saratov.

Tabakov in January 2013

Tabakov acted in Anatoly Efros' A Noisy Day (1960), Grigori Chukhrai's Clear Skies (1961), Sergei Bondarchuk's War and Peace (1966–67), TV series Seventeen Instants of Spring (1973) and D'Artagnan and Three Musketeers (1978), the Academy Award-winning Moscow Does Not Believe In Tears (1980), Nikita Mikhalkov's Oblomov (1981) and Dark Eyes (1986), and A Man from the Boulevard des Capuchines (1987).

Tabakov died at a Moscow hospital on 12 March 2018 at the age of 82.^[1]