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Vsevolod Emilyevich Meyerhold was a Russian and Soviet theatre director, actor and theatrical producer.!
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Vsevolod Meyerhold was a personality of great contradictions, and one of the movers and shakers in the 20th-century theatre. It’s not an exaggeration to say that he influenced the art of performance as much as Fyodor Dostoevsky influenced the world of literature.
Six o’clock in the morning had never looked so bad as on June 20, 1939, when acclaimed Russian theater director Vsevolod Meyerhold received a knock on his door.
The 65-year-old artist looked at his wife, actress Zinaida Reich, in bewilderment. They didn’t expect any surprise guests at this time of day.
Meyerhold was born into a prosperous German family in the small town of Penza.Meyerhold opened the door and let three people in. They presented the director with a search warrant and an order for his arrest. It was a done deal.
Vsevolod Meyerhold foresaw that his life would end tragically.
Photo from the Bakhrushin State Central Theatre Museum/Sputnik.
However, all of this could have been resolved in a different way, had Meyerhold listened to his friend Konstantin Stanislavsky’s most successful st