Konstantin Alexandrovich Varlamov (, 23 May 1848 – 15 August 1915) was an actor from the

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associated with the

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. Konstantin Varlamov was born in

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, to the composer Alexander Varlamov. In the course of his thirty-year career with the Alexandrinsky Theatre, he played more than one thousand parts (640 of them leads); among his best-remembered roles were Varravin (''

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), Yaichnitsa ('' The Marriage''), Lyapkin-Tyapkin (''

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; Bolshov (''

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''), Yusov (''

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''), Rusakov ('' Stay in Your Own Sled''), Krutitsky (''

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'') and Kuroslepov (''

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; Lebedev (''

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; and Skalozub (''

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. Varlamov, who regularly staged popular 'kapustniks' (amateur comedy performances) in his own home, was considered the heir to Yakov Shumsky and Vasily Zhivokini, and was a cult figure in his native city, where special trademark Dyadya Kostya cigarettes were produced at one time in his honour.Константин Александрович Варламов
at the Russian Theatre Encyclopedia / Театральная энциклопедия. In 1896 he was honored with the medal for Meritorious Artist of the Imperial Theaters. Konstantin Varlamov died in Petrograd, Imperial Russia, on 15 August 1915 and is interred in

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