Vladimir Vysotsky all his life suffered from two addictions. He smoked a lot, and with age he began to drink more and more often, periodically going into a real binge.
From acute alcohol intoxication, the famous actor and bard developed heart and kidney failure. Vysotsky's relatives tried to cope with the problem and periodically persuaded him to be treated.
Drug addiction
Doctors, in order to bring Vladimir Semenovich out of especially critical conditions, often used powerful drug stimulants. By doing this, they did Vysotsky a real disservice, turning the highly addictive actor into an inveterate drug addict.
From the middle of 1975, Vysotsky practically stopped drinking. Alcohol has now been replaced by more powerful substances - morphine and amphetamine. After 2 years, the actor began to use these drugs on an ongoing basis, unable to cope with withdrawal symptoms. His health deteriorated more and more. Doctors predicted a quick death for Vysotsky if he did not give up drugs.
These predictions were fully justified. In 1979, Vladimir Semenovich, while touring in Bukhara, experienced his first clinical death. A year later, Vysotsky again had a crisis due to problems with buying drugs.
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Expected death
Vladimir Vysotsky in recent years has worked furiously and toured a lot, as if feeling that he had little left. He literally did not feel sorry for himself, burning like a candle. Drugs did their job, and in 1980, Vladimir Semenovich died in his sleep from a massive heart attack. According to another version, he suffocated (second diagnosis: asphyxia). All relatives and friends, as one, concluded that drugs still killed Vysotsky.
The bard's father did not allow an autopsy to be performed, so the exact cause of death was never established. According to the testimony of relatives, Vysotsky had been feeling very bad in recent days, complaining of severe pain in the heart and lack of air. He needed to be hospitalized urgently, but for some reason the doctors delayed.
Anatoly Fedotov, the singer's personal doctor, said that they were going to transfer him to an artificial respiration apparatus. But Vladimir Semyonovich never got the help he needed so badly. He suffered greatly, but received only an injection of sleeping pills, from which he fell into a pacifying sleep. A few hours later, in the late night of July 25, he died.
Some acquaintances condemned Vysotsky's doctors, who first “put” him on drugs, and then literally slept through the moment when the singer had to be saved from them. Others believed that Vladimir Semenovich purposefully killed himself, using first alcohol and then amphetamine. Whether this is so is now impossible to establish.
After his tragic death, rumors spread throughout Moscow, each more incredible than the other. Some inhabitants said that Vysotsky committed suicide. Others - that he died in an accident, choking on a fish bone at dinner.