The commission to investigate the death of the Bolshoi Theater actor Yevgeny Kulesh found that Ekaterina Mironova, head of the theater's mimic ensemble, was to blame for his death. The artist died in October in front of the audience during the performance, he was crushed by a heavy decoration. It turned out that Kulesh was drunk. The commission believes that the manager should have monitored the state of the artist. As the commission indicated, Mironova violated the requirements of the job description.
"Mironova E. N. violated the requirements (job description), expressed in insufficient control over the observance of labor and production discipline by E. S. Kulesh, as well as insufficient organization of continuous and full-fledged work of the mimic ensemble collective," the document says, which cites TASS.
The commission considers Kulesh himself only 10% guilty. Experts characterized his actions as “gross negligence”.
The commission to investigate the death of Kulesh includes representatives of the social insurance fund, trade unions, workers who are associated with the enterprise, as well as the labor inspection of Moscow.
“She [Mironov] is guilty of being drunk,” summed up the commission’s lawyer, Andrei Aleshkin, the injured party, RIA Novosti reports.
He said that now the injured party will ask the Bolshoi Theater for additional compensation. Its size should be at least 100 minimum wages, which is about 1.5 million rubles.
“In such circumstances, I have every reason to ask for additional compensation. This can be either the payment of a lump sum or the appointment of a pension, ”the lawyer explained.
The Bolshoi Theater has already paid Kulesh's mother 1 million 50 thousand rubles and compensation for the funeral of 500 thousand rubles. At the end of December, the Social Insurance Fund of Russia also decided to pay the mother of the deceased 1 million rubles.
Kulesh has worked at the Bolshoi Theater since 2002. He was a member of the mimic ensemble, his actors are used for crowd scenes in operas and ballets. The tragedy happened at the beginning of October last year, when Kulesh took part in the opera Sadko. During the change of scenery, he went in the wrong direction, where he was supposed to, and fell under the scenery that weighed 2 tons, which descended from above.
Other artists on the stage shouted to Kulesh to move in the right direction, but he did not react. The play was interrupted and the audience was asked to leave the hall. The actor was hit on the head and died before the ambulance arrived.
The Investigative Committee began a preliminary investigation into the death of Kulesh. The Moscow prosecutor's office is also studying the incident.
At the end of December, the state commission of Moscow established that during the performance the actor was in a state of alcoholic intoxication of moderate severity. The lawyer of the injured party clarified that this degree of intoxication is characterized by "impaired coordination of movements, uncertain, unsteady gait."
“According to the logic of the members of the commission, alcoholic intoxication could have occurred due to the fact that Kulesh went on the stage, where there were spotlights giving light and warmth - he was blown away by the heat,” the lawyer explained.
The lawyer pointed out that Kulesh did not leave the theater during work, thus it is unclear "how and where he managed to get drunk to such a state."
Former premier of the Bolshoi Ballet Nikolai Tsiskaridze said that security problems in the theater led to the actor's death. He quoted a certain theater actress, Elena, who wrote to him about problems with the same set. “Before the premiere, I personally witnessed how the same set caught on the lighting devices, and they almost fell on people,” the message said.
Tsiskaridze noted that for safety reasons, there should be no artists on the stage during the change of scenery. According to the rules, this process should be supervised not only by the production director, but also by two additional directors. According to him, in the Bolshoi "safety, unfortunately, suffers."
Theatrical artist Pavel Kaplevich, in turn, believes that the actor himself is to blame. “This is his problem, not the theater’s problem. This is the problem of a person who was unable to move away or did not coordinate. And this is not a decoration problem. Due to safety precautions, the scenery is lowered, at this time a person must move away, but he did not move away, "he said.
Kaplevich clarified that such incidents are extremely rare. He recalled that the opera, during which Kulesh died, had not been staged at the theater for the first time. Therefore, the actors already had to develop the skill to move in the right direction during the change of scenery. “In the theater, everyone knows that during a performance something comes down, in a theater something always comes down from above,” the artist pointed out.
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