On August 20, 2009, actor Joseph Koshelevich will celebrate his 60^th birthday. Prior to his coming to the Pushkin Drama Theater’s Company in 1989, Joseph Koshelevich had been one of the leading actors of the Russian Samed Vurgun Drama Theater (Baku, Azerbaijan), where he had been playing the most diverse roles: from Armand Duval in the “Lady with Camellias” by A. Duma to Molliere’s Tartuffe; from ardent Cassio in “Othello” to scheming Shiruie (“Farkhad and Shirin” by S. Vurgun); from Prince Myshkin in “Idiot” by F. Dostoyevsky to Benya Krik in Babel’s “Sunset.” The role of provocateur Lippanchenko in the performance after Andrey Bely’s novel “Petersburg” turned into one of the most interesting roles in the period of his work at the Alexandrinsky Theater (2005). In the multipart polyphonic composition created by Andrey Moguchy, the actor was artfully leading his role, skillfully lining up its tonal and plastic sketch. A worthless and autocratic, ubiquitous and ever evading man, a mummer always changing masks with no real life behind them, Lippanchenko became a messenger of the fatal inevitability of events.  Presently, in Joseph Koshelevich’s repertoire there are roles of Petrushin in Valery Fokin’s performance “The Living Corps” by L. Tolstoy, Anton Prokofievich Pupopuz in Andrey Moguchy’s performance “The Ivans” after N. Gogol’s novel “How Ivan Ivanovich Quarreled with Ivan Nikifirovich” and other роль N. Gogol’s compositions. He is also engaged in the performance “Ksenia. The History of Love” by V. Levanov (director Valery Fokin, 2009).