 Ivan Samarin (actor)

Ivan Vasilyevich Samarin (, 19 January 1817, Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire, — 1885, Moscow, Russian Empire) was a Russian stage actor (later theatre director and playwright), associated with the Maly Theatre, who achieved his greatest success with the parts of Chatsky (from 1839 onwards) and later (starting from 1863) Famusov in Alexander Griboyedov's "Woe from Wit", as well as Khlestakov in Gogol's "Revizor".As a comic he excelled in several plays by William Shakespeare.