sentences:  Since 1959 Basilashvili has been a permanent member of the troupe at the BDT in St. Petersburg.There his stage partners were such stars as Kirill Lavrov, Tatyana Doronina, Alisa Freindlich, Lyudmila Makarova, Svetlana Kryuchkova, Zinaida Sharko, Valentina Kovel, Innokenti Smoktunovsky, Oleg Borisov, Pavel Luspekayev, Sergei Yursky, and many other remarkable Russian actors.Basilashvili's most memorable stage works were in the play "Uncle Vanya" by Anton Chekhov, "Kholstomer" based on the eponymous story of Leo Tolstoy, "The Lower Depths" by Maxim Gorky, and other classic plays directed by Georgi Tovstonogov at the BDT in St. Petersburg.