OREANDA-NEWS  The property of composer Rodion Shchedrin may be transferred to the state. Lawyer Alexander Khaminsky made such a development in an interview with RIA Novosti.

The artist's property may pass to the state, since Rodion Shchedrin and Maya Plisetskaya had no children. According to the current legislation, the children, spouses and parents of the testator are recognized as heirs of the first stage, the lawyer explained. Plisetskaya herself left back in 2015, so the composer has no heirs of the first stage.

In the absence of heirs of the first stage, heirs of subsequent stages may claim the property. However, their establishment period is limited to six months. If the heirs do not appear within six months, the property is recognized as extortionate and goes to the state, Khaminsky stated.

Rodion Shchedrin died at the age of 93. The outstanding composer staged the ballets "The Hunchback Horse", "Anna Karenina", "The Lady with the Dog", "The Seagull", as well as the opera "Dead Souls". He was married to Plisetskaya for 57 years. It is known that they met in 1955 at one of Lily Brick's creative evenings. Rodion Shchedrin's ashes, as it became known, will be scattered over Russia along with his wife's ashes.