This Tuesday, December 28, Grichka Bogdanoff died at the age of 72, as his agent informed Agence France Presse.
“Surrounded by the love of his family and his loved ones, Grichka Bogdanoff passed away peacefully, on December 28, 2021, to join his stars”, it is with these words that those close to Grichka Bogdanoff announced her death, which occurred in a Parisian hospital. The scientist was 72 years old.
If the causes of his death were not revealed by his family, the scientist would have died of Covid-19 according to information from the newspaper Le Monde. The media specifies that Grichka Bogdanoff was hospitalized on December 15 in the intensive care unit of the Georges-Pompidou hospital, after having tested positive for the coronavirus. His twin brother, Igor, was also admitted to this hospital for the same reasons, but it is not known if he is still there. “According to a source close to the two brothers, they were not vaccinated against Covid-19“, writes the newspaper.
Grichka and Igor Bogdanoff, a thousand lives
The Bogdanoff twins became known through the Temps X program, broadcast on TF1 from 1979 to 1987. It was the first science fiction and popular science television program in France. Unheard of in the television landscape of the time. They subsequently produced two other scientific programs: Rayons X from 2002 to 2007 and À deux pas du futur from 2010 to 2011. They were also columnists for the program Touche pas à mon poste.
Writers, doctors in physics and mathematics, and descendants of the Austrian aristocracy, Grichka and Igor Bogdanoff have lived many lives, always tinged with a certain mystery around their childhood but also their physical appearance. From what we know, Grichka had no children, nor a partner at the time of her death.