Supported Putin and lived in Germany: Rodion Shchedrin died, a composer who made Plisetian star

To spread: Rodion Shchedrin was 92 years old. He died in Germany, where he lived with his famous wife since the 1990s, but continued to support the Russian President Putin even after the war in Georgia and annexation of Crimea. It is known that Rodion Shchedrin died on the night of August 29, as reported at the Grand Theater in Moscow, noting that the "greatest genius of modernity and the world classic" died. The place and causes of death are not reported.

However, only some Russian tabloids wrote that Rodion Shchedrin died in Germany. Rodion Shchedrin - People's Artist of the USSR (1981), laureate of the Lenin Prize (1984), the State Prize of the USSR (1972) and two state prizes of Russia (1992, 2018). Full cavalier of the Order "For Merit for the Fatherland", author of operas, ballet, symphonies, concerts.

Rodion Shchedrin wrote music for the films "Height" (1957), "Normandy - Niman" (1960), "And if it is love?" (1961), "Anna Karenina" (1967), as well as to the cartoons "Rooster - Golden Comb" (1955) and "Kolobok" (1956). Since 1958, Rodion Shchedrin has been married to the famous ballerina Maya Plisetska, who died in 2015. The urn with the dust of Plisetskaya was kept in her husband. Since the 1990s, the couple lived in Munich, Germany. There were no children in Shchedrin and Plisetskaya.

In 2023, Rodion Shchedrin transferred an apartment in Tverskaya in Moscow, where he lived with Maya Plisetska for almost 30 years, the Bakhrushin Museum. In an interview with 2018, Rodion Shchedrin stated that Munich "led his life" because his music publishing house Schott Music was located there. "Publishers' rights extend to the whole world, except Russia, in Russia, the right is behind me," Shchedrin said.

About marriage to Maya Plisetska Rodion Shchedrin said that he had "a great wife with whom I had an exceptional relationship. " They met at Lilia Brick's party when Shchedrin was 22 years old. "We understood each other from half a word. I attribute it mainly to her character, to her tolerance. I was happy with her immensely, endlessly. I was always interested in it. Every minute was filled with one or another event. And of course, it could not but give a person.

It is noteworthy, but in 2023, the journalist and producer of the Agency Inna Kurochkina spoke about a conversation with Rodion Shchedrin in 2019. Then Shchedrin lived on a farm in Lithuania, having the nationality of this country. Inna was going to make the movie "1939" about the people of the artistic environment of Germany.

"It was important for me that a person who was related to music, the composer, spoke words about how it is possible that people of the artistic environment did not rebel against fascism," Inna said. She met with Shchedrin with politician and artistic figure Vitutas Landsbergis. "I reminded Professor Landsbergis the topic and asked to make a parallel of Hitler-Putin, Germany in the 1930s and today's Russia.

She told that it was "difficult to describe my condition at this point" because, leaving from the Russian Federation in 1994, Shchedrin stated that "a cross could be put in Russia. " But the shoot was canceled. "The composer of the whole of Russia tried to explain:" Understand, Putin has erected a monument to Maya. "" Understand, I have a pension in Russia. "I silently made Knyxen, we sat in a car and went to shoot a person and musician Vitautas Landsbergis, and Kurochkin summarized.