drama actor character actor (comedian)
When finished the gymnasium (1888), started artistic activities. Worked at the theatres of St. Petersburg, Kiev, Odessa, Kazan, Kharkiv, Voronezh (1918-1926, the Bolshoi Soviet Theater, the Theater of Gubvoenkom, The Public Theater, the Art Theater of Gubpolitprosvet ( provincial department of political education), the Free Masters’ Theater).
Osip (The Government Inspector by Nikolay Gogol), Arkashka, Robinson, Shmyga ( The Forest, Without a Dowry, Guilty Without a Guilt by Alexander Ostrovsky ), Raspluev ( The Krechinsky’s Wedding by Alexander Suhov-Kobylin), Perchihin (The Philistines by Maxim Gorky), Zhivylya ( The Kashira Antiquity by Dmitriy Averkiev), a talor Gersh ( The King by Semyon Yushkevich) etc.