Farewell to the artist Elena Mikheeva took place in Moscow.

A farewell ceremony was held in Moscow for Honored Artist of the Russian Federation Elena Mikheeva, who played at the Moscow Provincial Theater. Footage of the ceremony on April 29 is published by Izvestia.

The farewell took place at the Trinity Church at the Pyatnitsky cemetery. People came to say goodbye to her with bouquets in their hands.

"I only knew her off the stage, I didn't know her from the theater. She was an amazing person, she was an amazingly bright person, she loved people very much. <...> Honestly, in my life he was the brightest, most positive person I knew. And may her memory be blessed, of course, this is a great loss," said Tatiana Troitskaya.

Actor Sergey Vershinin shared his memories of how he came to the theater young and how venerable actors, including Mikheeva, surrounded him with warmth. He called her one of the "mothers" for young people in the theater.

"She was thoughtful, sensible, smart, witty, funny, always positive, so we will always remember her like this. <...> There was such a mother, one of the mothers who was in our lives for young people. Therefore, this is a loss that is human, strong, and precisely human," Vershinin said.

The actress will be laid to rest at the Nikolo-Arkhangelsk cemetery.

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The Moscow Provincial Theater announced Mikheeva's death on April 26. The artist was born in 1951 in Leningrad. In 1972, she completed her studies at the Shchukin Higher Theater College on the course of A.I. Borisov. During her career, the actress worked at the Moscow Satire Theater and the Moscow Regional Theater named after A.N. Ostrovsky. From 2013 to the end of her life, Mikheeva served in the troupe of the Moscow Provincial Theater.

Later it became known that the cause of death of the actress was cancer. Mikheeva had been struggling with a painful illness for a long time.