Ironie des Schicksals
In the 1960s and 1970s, Yakovlev branched out into further various roles, from the nobleman Stiva Oblonsky in the 1967 adaptation, the classic Soviet movie adaptation of Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina", directed by Alexander Zarkhi, to curiously jealous fiancé Ippolit in Ryazanov's "The Irony of Fate", 1975. Perhaps his most famous roles were the tsar Ivan the Terrible and his namesake Ivan Vasilevich Bunsha in Leonid Gaidai's 1973 comedy "" - the movie about the travel using the time machine (based on the play "Ivan Vasilievich (play)" by Mikhail Bulgakov).