Legendary Russian actor Vyacheslav Tikhonov died on December 4 in Moscow at the age of 81.
Legendary Russian actor Vyacheslav Tikhonov died on December 4 in Moscow at the age of 81.
Tikhonov was born near Moscow in the town of Pavlovsky Posad on February 8, 1928. After employment as a metal worker, he began his acting career in 1945.
Tikhonov's most famous role came in 1973, when he played Soviet spy Standartenfuhrer Stirlitz in the immensely popular World War II television serial, Seventeen Moments of Spring.
The title refers to the seventeen days before the final capitulation of Nazi Germany and centers around attempts by the Soviet Union's man in Germany to thwart secret peace talks between the Nazis and the U.S. and Britain.
Vyacheslav Tikhonov as Stirlitz and Yekaterina Gradova as Kate in Seventeen Moments of Spring.
Vyacheslav Tikhonov as Matvei and Svetlana Druzhinina as Larisa in It Happened in Penkovo (1958)
Tikhonov also played Prince Andrey Bolkonsky in the 1967 adaption of Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace. The film was awarded an Oscar in 1968 for Best Foreign Language Film.
Lyudmila Savelyeva as Natasha Rostova and Vyacheslav Tikhonov as Andrei Bolkonsky in War and Peace.
Vyacheslav Tikhonov as teacher Melnikov in We'll Live Till Monday (1968)
Irina Alferova and Vyacheslav Tikhonov in TV mini-series TASS Is Authorized to Declare...
The actor was hospitalized on Saturday amid media reports that he had suffered a heart attack. The exact cause of death has not yet been made public.
