Ильф и Петров
Among his popular roles were Alexander Koreiko in "The Little Golden Calf" (1958), Kisa Vorobyaninov in "The Twelve Chairs" (1960, both based on the novels by Ilf and Petrov), Vasily Tyorkin in Aleksandr Tvardovsky's "Tyorkin in the Other World" (1966), Anton Antonovich in Nikolai Gogol's "The Government Inspector" (1972), Nikolai Shubin in Grigori Gorin's and Arkady Arkanov's "Little Comedies of the Big House" (1973), Pavel Famusov in Alexander Griboyedov's "Woe from Wit" (1976), Roman Khludov in Mikhail Bulgakov's "Flight" (1977), Leonid Gayev in Anton Chekhov's "The Cherry Orchard" (1984), and others.