Vladimir Molchanov, the Soviet and Russian television and radio host, journalist, has died at the age of 75. He hosted the show "Before and After Midnight" in the late 1980s and early 1990s on Soviet television and was a member of the Academy of Russian Television since 1994. Yuri Rost reported Molchanov's death. Vladimir Molchanov has passed away. For our family, he was simply Volodya; we lived in the same building and were friends with his parents – his father, composer Kirill Molchanov, a former director of the Bolshoi Theatre, and his mother, Marina Vladimirovna Pastukhova-Dmitrieva, an actress of the Soviet Army Theatre, as well as his sister, the legendary tennis player and Wimbledon finalist Anna Dmitrieva, writer Sergey Medvedev writes on Facebook. And indeed, before our eyes, from a stately handsome young man, the champion of the Union in tennis with an irresistible smile, he transformed into an international journalist, and then into a star of perestroika TV, who enchanted millions of viewers of "Before and After Midnight" with his velvety baritone and artistic fingers. He left the program "Vremya" and exited the Communist Party after the attack on the Vilnius television center in January 1991. He returned to TV during the coup but finally said goodbye to political journalism after the elections in 1996, and how right he was. Since then, he only worked on cultural and historical projects, documentaries (including the poignant "Melody of the Riga Ghetto"), and in the last 15 years, until 2020, he worked at Radio Orpheus, hosting the Sunday "Rendezvous with a Dilettante," where I was a guest several times – the last time, it seems, in 2020, just before COVID. I remember the studio in the old House of Radio on Pyatnitskaya, 25, the carpeted hallways, the leatherette doors, the old-fashioned editorial ladies, tea, and the homey atmosphere. We talked about some forgotten antiquities, the House of Composers on Studencheskaya, the Creative Houses in Ruza and Ivanovo, about Shostakovich and Vainberg, about the audience of the Grand Hall. Then came COVID, and then everything collapsed. In 2022, his wife Consuelo Segura, a Spaniard of Russian descent, journalist, director, and the love of his life, passed away. Then there was cancer, a liver transplant, a heart attack, more cancer, all of last year spent in hospitals, and he died on May 11. He will remain for me a standard of gallantry, aristocratism, and human dignity – he did not betray himself and his views, unlike many of his colleagues from perestroika TV. His appearance, intelligence, kindness, and soft voice were from a completely different era – and now it has ended. May he rest in peace.