Pyotr Karatygin was a Russian playwright and theatre actor. Born in St. Petersburg, he performed at the Alexandrinsky Theatre after graduating from the St. Petersburg Theatre School. His roles included Zagoretsky in “Woe from Wit”, Von Fonk in Turgenev's “The Bachelor”, Saint-Felix in his own vaudeville “The Eccentric Deceased, or The Mysterious Box”, and many others. In the late 1830s, he took up teaching. He also wrote vaudevilles and plays, the most popular of which were “Borrowed Wives, or You Never Know Where You'll Gain, Where You'll Lose”, “A First-Tier Box for Taglioni's Final Debut”, “The Bakery, or The St. Petersburg German”, and others. He wrote his last comedy, “The Scapegoat”, in 1878. The Bakhrushin Theatre Museum collection holds various materials related to his career, including portraits and his personal letters of the playwright.