Pyotr Mamonov, a rock artist, poet and also star that was a popular number in Russia” s social scene for years, has actually passed away. He was 70.
Mamonov passed away Thursday at a Moscow health center after 2 weeks in a synthetic coma on a ventilator after evaluating favorable for the coronavirus.
After starting the rock team Zvuki Mu (Seems of Mu) in 1982, Mamonov came to be a below ground cult number in Moscow. He obtained larger acknowledgment after Soviet constraints on rock-and-roll and also different society were raised in the late 1980s as component of then-leader Mikhail Gorbachev’s reforms.
Mamonov even more broadened his popularity via acting. He executed in many movies and also cinema manufacturings in the 1990s.
After coming to be deeply spiritual, he transferred to a remote town and also left the social scene behind in the late 1990s. Yet he made a victorious return as a star, starring as a sincere Russian Orthodox monk in Pavel Lungin’s 2006 flick “Island” and also as Russian Czar Ivan the Dreadful in Lungin’s 2009 movie “Tsar.”
Mamonov experienced a cardiac arrest and also went through a surgical procedure in 2019.
The head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, sent his acknowledgements, stating that Mamonov’s exceptional representation of spiritual personalities was feasible as a result of his spiritual experience.
Mamonov made use of “the language of art to talk with customers concerning everlasting topics: life and also fatality, the feeling of being and also the worth of great, interior battles and also the significance of following the voice of principles,” Kirill claimed.
In a letter to Mamonov’s household. Russian Society Preacher Olga Lyubimova hailed the musician-actor as “brilliant, charming and also solid.”
Funeral setups were not promptly introduced.
