Sergey Aydarov
Sergey Vasilyevich Aydarov was a Russian and Soviet stage actor and theatre director, associated with the Moscow's Maly Theatre where he debuted in 1898. His most acclaimed parts were those in the plays by Alexander Ostrovsky, as well in Julius Caesar and The Tempest by William Shakespeare.
As a theatre director, Aydarov produced several plays, including Pyotr Gnedich's Before the Dawn, as well as Ostrovsky's Vasilisa Melentyeva and A Busy Place. In 1925—1930 he was the head of the Maly Theatre Yermolova Studio, later to be reformed into the Yermolova Theatre.
