In 1980 he graduated from GITIS - The State Institute of Theatrical Art named after Lunacharsky, the actors department (art workshop of Oleg Tabakov). After graduating he was invited to the Moscow State Theatre «Sovremennik» where he played many roles of the tragicomic genre in the plays by Shakespeare and Saltykov-Shedrin, Moliere and Ostrovsky, Olby and Vampilov, Bulgakov, Gogol, Goncharov, etc. He was working at the opening of the Moscow Theatre-Studio under the guidance of Oleg Tabakov and since 1986 he has been one of the theatre actors, directors and managers. For many years there was not a single play in which he did not perform the main parts. In 1990 he debuted as a film director with the film «Crazy» which was awarded the Grand-Prix of The Young European Filmmakers Festival in Angers (France). In 1991 he founded a private film company «Nikita And Piotr». In 1991 he staged the play «The General Inspector» («Revizor») in Oleg Tabakov Theatre-Studio awarded The Union Of Theatrical Workers' prize for the best director's debut of the year. In 1993 he shot a TV version of a philosophical parable «Helen & The Navigator» awarded as the best TV film of the year. In 1996 he directed «The General Inspector» («Revizor»), «Nikita And Pyotr» and «Most-Group» co-production.
