On August 7, 2010 actress Tatyana Kulish passed away after siege of illness. She came to Pushkin Theater in 1979 and immediately turned into the leading young actress with the lyrical line of roles. In the very first season, she played Sasha in A. Chekhov’s “Ivanov,” Nastyona in V. Rasputin’s “Live and Remember,” Neghina in A. Ostrovsky’s “Talents and Admirers.” Her characters had always uniquely combined gracefulness and natural elegancy with firmness and ability to withstand attacks of destiny. There is no surprise that one of her best early roles was Masha Mironova in Rostislav Goryayev’s “Captain’s Daughter” after A. Pushkin (1984). In the years of her work at the Alexandrinsky Theater, Tatyana Kulish had played about forty roles. These included: Asya (“The Bounds of Possibility” by I. Gerasimov, 1981), Victorine Taillefer (“Father Goriot” by H. de Balzac, 1982), Shura (“Lukia” by M. Garayeva, 1982), Natasha (“While the Heart is Beating” by D. Khrabrovitsky, 1983), Sonya (“Death Penalty” by V. Arro, 1983), Percy (“Airport” by A. Hailey, 1983), Yana (“A Prelude in Minor Key” by O. Zagradnik, 1985), Anya (“I Request a Court Trial!..” by O. Perekalin, 1986), Solveig (“Per Gynt” by H. Ibsen, 1986), Victosha (“The Fairy Tales of Old Arbat” by A. Arbuzov, 1986), Zina (“Uncle’s Dream” by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 1987), Roxana (“Cyrano de Bergerac” by E. Rostand, 1987), Mother (“The Mother of Jesus” by A. Volodin, 1989), Nina Zarechnaya (“The Seagull” by A. Chekhov, 1990), Agnia (“Not Every Day Is Sunday” by A. Ostrovsky, 1991), Olga (“The Three Sisters” by A. Chekhov, 1995), Natalya Dmitrievna (“The Old Russians” by B. Ratser, 1997), Mrs. Pearce (“Pygmalion” by B. Shaw, 1998), etc. After some time, comedian and sharp character roles started to appear in the actress’s repertoire. Her latest roles were Turusina (“Enough Stupidity in Every Wise Man” by A. Ostrovsky) and Shishnarfneh in Andrey Moguchy’s performance “Petersburg” after A. Bely (2006). The role of an eccentric creature, a snide merry-andrew and ruthless murderer Shishnarfneh taking away the characters’ souls Tatyana Kulish played in a sharp and provocative manner. In the last seasons, the actress did not appear on the stage, but, despite the uphill struggle against the terrible disease, she had never stopped her theater and pedagogical job at the School of Russian Drama where she had been teaching acting since 1992, and which she became the Head of after Igor Gorbachev’s, its founder, death in 2003. The School of Russian Drama was the major job in the last years of the actress.