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Vasily Andreevich Karatygin (1802-1853) was the largest actor-tragedian. It has ended the mountain case, but became not the engineer, and the actor, was engaged in theatrics from A.A.Shahovskim, then from P.A.Kateninym. In a youth Karatygin acted in Sumarokov, Ozerov, Voltaire's tragedies. The is raised-heroic expressional manner (game differed aspiration to effektnosti and plastic completeness of the form, domination of the rational beginning over direct expression of feeling) was inherent in its game characteristic for classicism. In 30th

Karatygin aspired to typicalness, representing accurate, inconsistent, individual lines of characters.

Belinsky wrote about the role of commander Velizarija executed by Karatygin in the play with the same name of E.Shenka (1839): '... Its game all becomes easier and closer to nature '.