“I have great respect for Romka ... The theater has lost a great artist.

Now such losses are happening that I just don't even know.

I am very worried about this, of course.

We were good friends with him, ”Boyarsky said.

Earlier, Soviet and Russian actress Valentina Talyzina, in a conversation with RT, called Viktyuk a great genius.

Viktyuk died at the age of 84.

At the end of October, he was hospitalized with a coronavirus infection.