 He wrote a large number of operas with Russian librettos, often within Russian national settings, some of which were written by Yakov Knyazhnin.The most successful of them was "Sbitenshchik" ("Сбитеньщик — Sbiten Vendor"), comic opera in 3 acts, written to the libretto by Yakov Knyazhnin.It was a remake of Molière's "L'école des femmes".