sentences:  There his stage partners were Tatyana Doronina, Lyudmila Makarova, Kirill Lavrov, Vladislav Strzhelchik, Innokenti Smoktunovsky, Yefim Kopelyan, Oleg Basilashvili, Yevgeni Lebedev, Pavel Luspekayev, Sergei Yursky, Vsevolod Kuznetsov, Nikolai Trofimov, and other notable Russian actors.Borisov played memorable roles in several productions, such as, Grigori Melekhov in "And Quiet Flows the Don" by Mikhail Sholokhov, Prince Harry in "King Henry IV" (1969 adaptation) by Shakespeare, and Siply in "Optimistic Tragedy" by Vsevolod Vishnevskiy.At that time he was also invited by director Lev Dodin to perform the leading role in "Krotkaya" (aka "A Gentle Creature") an adaptation of the eponymous short story by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.