Taganka Theatre
Vasiliev and the group of actors that had gathered around him left the Stanislavski theatre in 1982. In 1985, Yuri Petrovich Lyubimov invited him to work at the Taganka Theatre. The result was that Vasiliev directed a production of "Cerceau", by Victor Slavkin, which was voted best performance for the 1985–1986 Moscow theatre season.