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Oleg Pavlovitch Tabakov, metteur en scène et un acteur russe, à Moscou en mai 1989, Russie. (Photo by Gianni GIANSANTI/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)

Oleg Pavlovitch Tabakov, metteur en scène et un acteur russe, à Moscou en mai 1989, Russie. (Photo by Gianni GIANSANTI/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)

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MOSCOW, RUSSIA - APRIL 19, 2017: Oleg Tabakov, artistic director of the Chekhov Moscow Art Theatre and Tabakov Theatre Studio (Tabakerka), accepts an award for Outstanding Contribution into the Development of Theatrical art at the 2017 Golden Mask award ceremony at the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Music Theatre. Valery Sharifulin/TASS (Photo by Valery Sharifulin\TASS via Getty Images)

MOSCOW, RUSSIA - APRIL 19, 2017: Oleg Tabakov, artistic director of the Chekhov Moscow Art Theatre and Tabakov Theatre Studio (Tabakerka), accepts an award for Outstanding Contribution into the Development of Theatrical art at the 2017 Golden Mask award ceremony at the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Music Theatre. Valery Sharifulin/TASS (Photo by Valery Sharifulin\TASS via Getty Images)

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MOSCOW, RUSSIA - OCTOBER 28, 2016: Oleg Tabakov, artistic director of the Chekhov Moscow Art Academic Theatre (MKhAT), at a ceremony marking the theatre's 118th birthday. During the ceremony prominent actors and employees were awarded commemorative tokens. Vladimir Smirnov/TASS (Photo by Vladimir Smirnov\TASS via Getty Images)

MOSCOW, RUSSIA - OCTOBER 28, 2016: Oleg Tabakov, artistic director of the Chekhov Moscow Art Academic Theatre (MKhAT), at a ceremony marking the theatre's 118th birthday. During the ceremony prominent actors and employees were awarded commemorative tokens. Vladimir Smirnov/TASS (Photo by Vladimir Smirnov\TASS via Getty Images)

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MOSCOW, RUSSIA - SEPTEMBER 15, 2016: Oleg Tabakov, the artistic director of the MKhT Moscow Art Theatre and the Tabakerka Theatre Studio, pictured during the opening of a new building of Oleg Tabakov's Tabakerka Theatre Studio, called "The Scene at Sukharevskaya". Vyacheslav Prokofyev/TASS (Photo by Vyacheslav Prokofyev\TASS via Getty Images)

MOSCOW, RUSSIA - SEPTEMBER 15, 2016: Oleg Tabakov, the artistic director of the MKhT Moscow Art Theatre and the Tabakerka Theatre Studio, pictured during the opening of a new building of Oleg Tabakov's Tabakerka Theatre Studio, called "The Scene at Sukharevskaya". Vyacheslav Prokofyev/TASS (Photo by Vyacheslav Prokofyev\TASS via Getty Images)

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Actors of the Moscow Art Theater congratulate their artistic director Oleg Tabakov (C) during a jubilee party marking his 75th birthday at the theater in Moscow on November 14 , 2010. The famous Russian actor, director, and public figure, who played over 100 roles in film and on TV, turned 75 on August 17. AFP PHOTO/ RIA-NOVOSTI/ KREMLIN POOL/ VLADIMIR RODIONOV (Photo credit should read VLADIMIR RODIONOV/AFP via Getty Images)

Actors of the Moscow Art Theater congratulate their artistic director Oleg Tabakov (C) during a jubilee party marking his 75th birthday at the theater in Moscow on November 14 , 2010. The famous Russian actor, director, and public figure, who played over 100 roles in film and on TV, turned 75 on August 17. AFP PHOTO/ RIA-NOVOSTI/ KREMLIN POOL/  VLADIMIR RODIONOV (Photo credit should read VLADIMIR RODIONOV/AFP via Getty Images)