Konstantin Alexandrovich Varlamov (russian: Константин Александрович Варламов, 23 May 1848 – 15 August 1915) was a Russian stage actor associated with the Alexandrinsky Theatre. Konstantin Varlamov was born in

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, to the composer Alexander Varlamov. In the course of his thirty-year career with the Alexandrinsky Theatre, he played more than one thousand parts (640 of them leads); among his best-remembered roles were Varravin (''

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Aleksandr Sukhovo-Kobylin Aleksandr Vasilyevich Sukhovo-Kobylin (russian: Александр Васильевич Сухово-Кобылин) (, Moscow - , Beaulieu-sur-Mer, France), was a Russian philosopher and playwright, chiefly known for his satirical plays criticizi ...

), Yaichnitsa ('' The Marriage''), Lyapkin-Tyapkin ('' Revizor'') and Chichikov (''

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; Bolshov (''

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''), Yusov ('' A Profitable Position''), Rusakov (''

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''), Krutitsky (''

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'') and Kuroslepov ('' An Ardent Heart''), all by

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; Lebedev (''

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; and Skalozub (''

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. Varlamov, who regularly staged popular 'kapustniks' (amateur comedy performances) in his own home, was considered the heir to

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and

Vasily Zhivokini Vasily Ignatyevich Zhivokini (russian: Василий Игнатьевич Живокини, born Giovannio Lammona; 1805 in Moscow, Russian Empire – 30 January 1874 in Moscow, Russian Empire) was a prominent Russian stage actor, a comic, associa ...

, and was a cult figure in his native city, where special trademark Dyadya Kostya cigarettes were produced at one time in his honour.Константин Александрович Варламов
at the Russian Theatre Encyclopedia / Театральная энциклопедия. In 1896 he was honored with the medal for Meritorious Artist of the Imperial Theaters. Konstantin Varlamov died in Petrograd, Imperial Russia, on 15 August 1915 and is interred in

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