Oleg Yefremov role), "Duck hunting" (Zilov's role), "Party Committee Meeting" (Potapov's role), "Boris Godunov" (the title role). He staged Anton Chekhov's plays: "Ivanov" (1976), "The Seagull" (1980), "Uncle Vanya" (1985), "The Cherry Orchard" (1989), "The Three Sisters" (1997). His last, unfinished, directorial work was "Cyrano de Bergerac". Oleg Yefremov played about 70 roles in feature and television films, the most famous of which are: "The First Echelon" by Mikhail Kalatozov, "The Soldiers were Advancing" by Leonid Trauberg, "The Alive and the Dead" by Alexander Stolper, "Someone Is Ringing, Open the Door" by Alexander Mitta, "Beware of the Car" by Eldar Ryazanov, "Three
The Cherry Orchard In the darkness, Firs wanders into the room and discovers that they have left without him and boarded him inside the abandoned house to die. He lies down on the couch and resigns himself to this fate (apparently dying on the spot). Offstage we hear the axes as they cut down the cherry orchard. One of the main themes of the play is the effect social change has on people. The emancipation of the serfs on 19 February 1861 by Alexander II allowed former serfs to gain wealth and status while some aristocrats were becoming impoverished, unable to tend their