Vasily Andreevich Karatygin (1802-1880) was a leading actor of Russia

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n Romanticism

Romanticism

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, sometimes styled the Russian Kean

Edmund Kean

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Karatygin joined the Bolshoi Theatre

Mariinsky Theatre

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 in St Petersburg in 1820 and moved to the Alexandrine Theatre in 1832. He particularly excelled in the numerous productions of Shakespeare's and Schiller's plays, rivalling Moscow

Moscow

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's Pavel Mochalov

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 as the greatest Russian actor of his time. The two volumes of his Memoirs are invaluable.

Like other actors of his theatre, Karatygin was buried at the Smolensky Cemetery

Smolensky Cemetery

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 on Vasilievsky Island

Vasilievsky Island

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. His remains were later transferred to the national pantheon, the Alexander Nevsky Lavra

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