How Did Nikolai Slichenko Die?
Nikolai Slichenko, Russia's most well-known Romany culture icon, died at the age of 86.
Slichenko died on July 2 after a long fight with an unidentified illness, according to the Romen Theater for Romany Culture in Moscow, which he managed for decades.
Death Cause- Unspecified Illness (Death Date: 2 July 2021)
Who Was Nikolai Slichenko?
2 July 2021 he was a Soviet and Russian singer, actor, and the artistic director of Moscow's Romen Theatre. He was the only Romani to receive the title of People's Artist of the Soviet Union (1981).
Nikolai Slichenko's fate was not pleasant. He was born in a family of sedentary gypsies-serfs near Kharkiv on December 27, 1934.
Part of the future artist's boyhood was spent during the Great Patriotic War when his father was shot in front of his eyes. Following the war,
Slichenko and his surviving relatives moved to a gypsy collective farm in the Voronezh region, where he discovered a dream: he learned of a gypsy theater in Moscow and resolved to perform there at all costs.
Tributes
Excerpt from "Abduction" Soviet musical comedy film, 1969 R.I.P. Nikolai Slichenko pic.twitter.com/YjJP1rABHn
— Soviet Visuals (@sovietvisuals) July 2, 2021
Nikolai Slichenko also directed several television shows and was the recipient of many state awards before and after the collapse of the Soviet Union.https://t.co/FNiZqiuzAV
— Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (@RFERL) July 2, 2021
Most famous Son of Roma nation in former USSR died, the nation is mourning for Nikolai Slichenko!
— Roma Nation Movement #RomaIsTheNation (@RomaMovement) July 2, 2021
People's Artist of the USSR, actor and director Nikolai Slichenko died at the age of 87, 🙏
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