“Galina Borisovna was hospitalized, she is in the Botkin hospital, the alleged diagnosis is bilateral pneumonia,” Pavlov said.

In June, Volchek was hospitalized in connection with a routine examination. The assistant to the artistic director of the Sovremennik Theater after that noted that Volchek “is all right.”

Galina Volchek has been the artistic director of Sovremennik since 1972.