Alexey Malobrodsky, a theatre manager and former general producer at Seventh Studio. (c). Kommersant Photo Agency/SIPA USA/PA Images. All rights reserved.Alexey Malobrodsky, the former director of Moscow’s Gogol Center, was hospitalised during court proceedings on 10 May after a judge refused an application for transfer under house arrest.
Malobrodsky was arrested in June 2017 as part of an embezzlement investigation into the performing arts centre, in which theatre director Kirill Serebrennikov, Yuri Itin, former director of the Seventh Studio, a project under the remit of the Gogol Center, Russian Academic Youth Theater director Sofia Apfelbaum and theatre accountant Nina Maslyaeva have also been arrested. Malobrodsky is the only accused still in pre-trial detention, the others have been released under house arrest. Seventh Studio producer Ekaterina Voronova fled the country.
I asked cardiologist Yaroslav Ashikhmin, who visited Malobrodsky on 4 May and 10 May, about the state of his health.
