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    Vsevolod Meyerhold

    Russian theatre director

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  1. Vsevolod Meyerhold was born Karl Kasimir Theodor Meyerhold in Penza on 9 February [ O.S. 28 January] 1874 to Russian-German wine manufacturer Friedrich Emil Meyerhold and his Baltic German wife, Alvina Danilovna ( née van der Neese ). [1] . He was the youngest of eight children. [2]

  2. Vsevolod Yemilyevich Meyerhold (born Jan. 28 [Feb. 9, New Style], 1874, Penza, Russia—died Feb. 2, 1940, Moscow, Russia) was a Russian theatrical producer, director, and actor whose provocative experiments in nonrealistic theatre made him one of the seminal forces in modern theatre.

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  4. May 29, 2018 · The Russian director Vsevolod Emilievich Meyerhold (1874-1940/42) is noted for his stylistic experiments with nonrealistic performances in constructivist settings. Vsevolod Meyerhold was born to German parents on Jan. 28, 1874, in Penza about 350 miles southeast of Moscow.

  5. Vsevolod Meyerhold was born Karl Theodor Kazimir Emil Meyerhold in 1874, in Penza, Russia, into the Russian-German family of Emil Meyerhold. He converted to Orthodox Christianity on his 21st birthday and took the name of Vsevolod in memory of the Russian writer Vsevolod Garshin .

    • February 9, 1874
    • February 2, 1940
  6. Meyerhold was born in Penza on January 28 (February 10), 1874 into the family of a Russian-German wine manufacturer Emil Meyerhold. After completing school in 1895 he began the study of law at Moscow University which he never completed.

  7. Vsevolod Meyerhold was born in Penza in 1874. Although he came to Moscow to study law, in 1896 he left law school and enrolled in the sacting classes taught by Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko at the Moscow Philharmonia. In 1898, he was invited to join the trope of the newly founded Moscow Art Theater.

  8. Early years. Meyerhold was born into a prosperous German family in the small town of Penza. His father owned a vodka distillery. Born with the name Karl Kazimir Theodor Mayergold, he had five...

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