MOSCOW, August 21 Leading actor of the Moscow Hermitage Theater Honored Artist of Russia Alexei Shulin has died at the age of 56, according to the theatre's telegram channel .
«We regret to inform you that Alexei Valeryevich Shulin, Honored Artist of the Russian Federation, an amazing actor and a wonderful person, passed away last night,» the message says.
Alexey Shulin graduated from the Gorky Theater School in 1991, the course of Riva Yakovlevna Levite, and after 16 years he worked at the Murmansk Regional Drama Theater, where he played in more than twenty performances, received the title of Honored Artist of the Russian Federation. He played at the Hermitage Theater for 16 years, where he played the roles of Carlo Goldoni in Carlo the Honest Adventurer, the Earl of Kent in King's Lear, Henry St. critics.