His most popular play was "Chelovek s ruzhyom" ("Man with a Gun", 1937), about Shadrin, a soldier who comes to Petrograd in October 1917 and gets involved in the Revolution; the climax of the play is his meeting with Lenin. The second play in his Lenin trilogy, "Kremlyovskie kuranty" ("The chimes of the Kremlin", 1940), was set in 1920 and featured a scene in which Lenin talks with an old Jewish watchmaker engaged in repairing the Kremlin chimes so they can play the Internationale; the third, "Tretya pateticheskaya" ("The Third: Pathetic", 1958) used the news of Lenin's death as a tragic leitmotif. "Kogda lomaiutsya kop'ya" ("When the Spears Break", 1953) was a comedy; "Sonet Petrarki" ("Petrarch's Sonnet", 1956) "takes the position that there are certain individual matters--personal feelings and affairs of the heart--which are none of the collective's or the Party's business."