ST. PETERSBURG, September 25 Alexander Nikanorov, director of the Tovstonogov Bolshoi Drama Theater in St. Petersburg, has died, BDT reported on the Telegram channel.
“»On the 41st year, the director of the BDT, Alexander Nikanorov, tragically passed away,” the publication says.
The theater described Nikanorov not only as a creative person, passionate about art, but also extremely reliable, noble, decent and kind.
The date and place of his funeral have not yet been announced.
On Sunday, BDT reported that Nikanorov had stopped communicating since Thursday. He left the house on a bicycle without taking his phone or documents with him. The director was last seen getting off the train at the station in Toksovo in the Leningrad region on the afternoon of September 21. According to the theater, the search for Nikanorov was carried out by the police and the LizaAlert search and rescue team with the assistance of relatives, colleagues and friends. A source in law enforcement agencies spoke about the discovery of the body of a man in a forest belt in Toksovo, who, according to preliminary data, could be the missing director.
In 2013, Alexander Nikanorov graduated with honors from the workshop of Anatoly Praudin of St. Petersburg State Academy of Theater Arts, specializing in drama directing and acting. skill.» He studied for a master's degree at the New Stage of the Alexandrinsky Theater under the direction of Valery Fokin and Andrei Moguchy. Since 2014, Nikanorov has worked as a director at the Tovstonogov Bolshoi Drama Theater.