23 November 2022 8.30pm
The actor intended to get up from the coffin and walk away if something went wrong.
Leonid Bykov’s life ended abruptly. The actor died in the summer of 1979 in a car accident, colliding with a truck on the highway. The tragedy came as a surprise to everyone except the artist himself.
The fact that Leonid Fedorovich predicted his imminent death is evidenced by one fact. Bykov sent a letter to one of his friends, in which he described in detail how exactly his funeral should take place.
The star of the film “Only Old Men Go to Battle” did not want honors, orchestras and grandiloquent speeches over his coffin. All that she considered a circus. It was enough for the artist that one of those present said one word: “Goodbye.” At the same time, Bykov warned that if his friends disobeyed him, he would insolently “get up and leave.”
In addition, the actor wanted his relatives, colleagues and friends “derbollyznul” to play correctly and play “Smuglyanka”. Not without irony, he clarified that he is a director not by profession, but by vocation. “I even conduct my own funeral,” the artist himself was surprised in that same letter. It is curious that it was according to Bykov’s scenario that he was finally buried.
