The director will be buried at the Donskoy cemetery where his parents and brother David are buried.MOSCOW, October 8. / Correspondent. TassBARINOVAOlgaSvistunova/. More than threethousand people attended the final farewell ofYuri Lyubimov,the founderof the Taganka Theatre.

“In the line in front of thetheater there were counted over 2.8 thousand persons, while anotherfew hundred are already present in the audience hall. People keep coming” – said the agency interlocutor.According tothe last will ofLyubimov, there should be no declamations. Actorsand directorsrefuse to comment, and prefer not to speakto the press.

The coffin was set on the stage. is A portrait of Lyubimov with a black mourning ribbon to his right, on his left – the icon of St. Nicholas, under which burn two candles. On the stage backdrop – a part of the scenery from the last production of the director on the Vakhtangov Theatre stage – “The Demons”.

The first to say goodbye to Yuri Lyubimov came the Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinskiy, head of the Vakhtangov Theatre Rimas Tuminas, Head of the Department of Culture of Moscow Sergei Kapkov, the actor Veniamin Smekhov, the actress Yulia Borisova, the artist Boris Messerer and many others.