Московский комсомолец
In 1999, he entered the acting department of the Boris Shchukin Theatre Institute. In 2003 he graduated from the institute. He played a student Belyaev in the graduation performance "Beautiful People" based on the play of Ivan Turgenev, where actors Grigory Antipenko and Olga Lomonosova were also engaged. In September 2003, the performance "Beautiful People" won the prize of the newspaper Moskovskij Komsomolets as the best performance of the season in the nomination "Beginners".