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Vsevolod Meyerhold

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Vsevolod Emilevich Meyerhold (Все́волод Эми́льевич Мейерхо́льд; born Karl Kasimir Theodor Meierhold; 2 February 1940) was a Russian and Soviet theatre director, actor and theatrical producer. [1]

77 relations: Academic art, Actor, Aleksandr Sukhovo-Kobylin, Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Alexander Blok, Anatoly Lunacharsky, Andrei Droznin, Anton Chekhov, Avant-garde, Biomechanics, Center of Theatrical Arts «House of Meyerhold», Circus, Commedia dell'arte, Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Constructivism (art), De-Stalinization, Eastern Orthodox Church, Erast Garin, Fernand Crommelynck, Futurism, Fyodor Sologub, Great Purge, Igor Ilyinsky, Intelligence agency, Joseph Stalin, Konstantin Stanislavski, Le Cocu magnifique, List of theatre directors in the 20th and 21st centuries, Lutheranism, Matvey Dubrovin, Method acting, Michael Chekhov, Moscow, Moscow Art Theatre, Moscow State University, Mystery-Bouffe, Nikolai Erdman, Nikolai Gogol, Nikolay Okhlopkov, Olga Kameneva, Penza, People's Commissariat for Education, Russian Academy of Theatre Arts, Russian Empire, Russian Revolution, Saint Petersburg, Sergei Eisenstein, Sergei Tretyakov (writer), Sergey Martinson, Socialist realism, ..., Soviet Union, Stanislavski and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Academic Music Theatre, Strike (1925 film), Suicide, Symbol, Symbolism (arts), The Bedbug, The Death of Ivan the Terrible, The Government Inspector, The Queen of Spades (opera), The Seagull, Theater of Youth Creativity, Theatre director, Theatrical producer, Tsar Fyodor Ioannovich, Tuberculosis, University of Massachusetts Press, Vera Komissarzhevskaya, Vladimir Lenin, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko, Vsevolod Garshin, Vsevolod Meyerhold, Vyacheslav Molotov, Yevgeny Vakhtangov, Zinaida Gippius, Zinaida Reich. Expand index (27 more) »

Academic art

Academic art, or academicism or academism, is a style of painting, sculpture, and architecture produced under the influence of European academies of art.

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Actor

An actor (often actress for women; see terminology) is a person who portrays a character in a performance.

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Aleksandr Sukhovo-Kobylin

Aleksandr Vasilyevich Sukhovo-Kobylin (Александр Васильевич Сухово-Кобылин) (Moscow -, Beaulieu-sur-Mer, France), was a Russian playwright, chiefly known for his satirical plays criticizing Russian imperial bureaucracy.

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Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy

Count Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, often referred to as A. K. Tolstoy (Алексе́й Константи́нович Толсто́й) (–), was a Russian poet, novelist and playwright, considered to be the most important nineteenth-century Russian historical dramatist, primarily on the strength of his dramatic trilogy The Death of Ivan the Terrible (1866), Tsar Fyodor Ioannovich (1868), and Tsar Boris (1870).

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Alexander Blok

Alexander Alexandrovich Blok (a; 7 August 1921) was a Russian lyrical poet.

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Anatoly Lunacharsky

Anatoly Vasilyevich Lunacharsky, – 26 December 1933) was a Russian Marxist revolutionary and the first Bolshevik Soviet People's Commissar ("Narkompros"), responsible for Ministry and Education, as well as active playwright, critic, essayist, and journalist throughout his career.

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Andrei Droznin

Andrei Droznin (Russian: Андрей Дрознин) is a Russian theatre director and movement coach.

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Anton Chekhov

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (ɐnˈton ˈpavɫəvʲɪtɕ ˈtɕɛxəf; 29 January 1860 – 15 July 1904) was a Russian playwright and short-story writer, who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short fiction in history.

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Avant-garde

The avant-garde (from French, "advance guard" or "vanguard", literally "fore-guard") are people or works that are experimental, radical, or unorthodox with respect to art, culture, or society.

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Biomechanics

Biomechanics is the study of the structure and function of the mechanical aspects of biological systems, at any level from whole organisms to organs, cells and cell organelles, using the methods of mechanics.

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Center of Theatrical Arts «House of Meyerhold»

Center of Theatrical Arts «House of Meyerhold» - State museum-theater in Penza in the house, where in 1881—1895 Carl Meyerhold was lived.

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Circus

A circus is a company of performers who put on diverse entertainment shows that include clowns, acrobats, trained animals, trapeze acts, musicians, dancers, hoopers, tightrope walkers, jugglers, magicians, unicyclists, as well as other object manipulation and stunt-oriented artists.

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Commedia dell'arte

(comedy of the profession) was an early form of professional theatre, originating from Italy, that was popular in Europe from the 16th through the 18th century.

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Communist Party of the Soviet Union

The Communist Party of the Soviet Union was the founding and ruling political party of the Soviet Union.

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Constructivism (art)

Constructivism was an artistic and architectural philosophy that originated in Russia beginning in 1913 by Vladimir Tatlin.

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De-Stalinization

De-Stalinization (Russian: десталинизация, destalinizatsiya) consisted of a series of political reforms in the Soviet Union after the death of long-time leader Joseph Stalin in 1953, and the ascension of Nikita Khrushchev to power.

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Eastern Orthodox Church

The Eastern Orthodox Church, also known as the Orthodox Church, or officially as the Orthodox Catholic Church, is the second-largest Christian Church, with over 250 million members.

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Erast Garin

Erast Pavlovich Garin (Эра́ст Па́влович Га́рин; – 4 September 1980) was a Soviet actor, director and screenwriter.

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Fernand Crommelynck

Fernand Crommelynck (19 November 1886 – 17 March 1970) was a Belgian dramatist.

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Futurism

Futurism (Futurismo) was an artistic and social movement that originated in Italy in the early 20th century.

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Fyodor Sologub

Fyodor Sologub (Фёдор Сологу́б, born Fyodor Kuzmich Teternikov, Фёдор Кузьми́ч Тете́рников, also known as Theodor Sologub; – 5 December 1927) was a Russian Symbolist poet, novelist, playwright and essayist.

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Great Purge

The Great Purge or the Great Terror (Большо́й терро́р) was a campaign of political repression in the Soviet Union which occurred from 1936 to 1938.

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Igor Ilyinsky

Igor Vladimirovich Ilyinsky (И́горь Влади́мирович Ильи́нский; 24 July 1901 – 13 January 1987) was a famous Russian film and stage actor, director and comedian.

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Intelligence agency

An intelligence agency is a government agency responsible for the collection, analysis, and exploitation of information in support of law enforcement, national security, military, and foreign policy objectives.

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Joseph Stalin

Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (18 December 1878 – 5 March 1953) was a Soviet revolutionary and politician of Georgian nationality.

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Konstantin Stanislavski

Konstantin Sergeievich Stanislavski (né Alexeiev; p; 7 August 1938) was a seminal Russian theatre practitioner.

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Le Cocu magnifique

Le Cocu magnifique is a Belgian play by Fernand Crommelynck.

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List of theatre directors in the 20th and 21st centuries

This is a list of theatre directors, living and dead, who have been active in the 20th and 21st centuries.

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Lutheranism

Lutheranism is a major branch of Protestant Christianity which identifies with the theology of Martin Luther (1483–1546), a German friar, ecclesiastical reformer and theologian.

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Matvey Dubrovin

Matvey Grigor'evich Dubrovin (a; born July 12, 1911 in Saratov, Russian Empire – died October 22, 1974 in Leningrad, USSR).

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Method acting

Method acting is a range of training and rehearsal techniques that seek to encourage sincere and emotionally expressive performances, as formulated by a number of different theatre practitioners, principally in the United States, where it is among the most popular—and controversial—approaches to acting.

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Michael Chekhov

Mikhail Aleksandrovich "Michael" Chekhov (Михаил Александрович Чехов, 29 August 1891 – 30 September 1955) was a Russian-American actor, director, author, and theatre practitioner.

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Moscow

Moscow (a) is the capital and most populous city of Russia, with 13.2 million residents within the city limits and 17.1 million within the urban area.

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Moscow Art Theatre

The Moscow Art Theatre (or MAT; Московский Художественный академический театр (МХАТ), Moskovskiy Hudojestvenny Akademicheskiy Teatr (МHАТ)) is a theatre company in Moscow.

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Moscow State University

Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU; Московский государственный университет имени М. В. Ломоносова, often abbreviated МГУ) is a coeducational and public research university located in Moscow, Russia.

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Mystery-Bouffe

Mystery-Bouffe (Мистерия-Буфф; Misteriya-Buff) is a socialist dramatic play written by Vladimir Mayakovsky in 1918/1921.

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Nikolai Erdman

Nikolay Robertovich Erdman (a;, Moscow — 10 August 1970) was a Soviet dramatist and screenwriter primarily remembered for his work with Vsevolod Meyerhold in the 1920s.

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Nikolai Gogol

Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol (31 March 1809 – 4 March 1852) was a Russian speaking dramatist of Ukrainian origin.

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Nikolay Okhlopkov

Nikolay Pavlovich Okhlopkov (Никола́й Па́влович Охло́пков; 15 May 1900 – 8 January 1967), PAU, was a Soviet actor and theatre director who patterned his work after Meyerhold.

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Olga Kameneva

Olga Davidovna Kameneva (Ольга Давыдовна Каменева, Ольга Давидiвна Каменева; 1883 – 11 September 1941) (née Bronstein — Бронштейн) was a Russian Bolshevik revolutionary and a Soviet politician.

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Penza

Penza (p) is a city and the administrative center of Penza Oblast, Russia, located on the Sura River, southeast of Moscow.

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People's Commissariat for Education

The People's Commissariat for Education (or Narkompros; Народный комиссариат просвещения, Наркомпрос) was the Soviet agency charged with the administration of public education and most other issues related to culture.

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Russian Academy of Theatre Arts

The Russian Institute of Theatre Arts - GITIS (Российский институт театрального искусства — ГИТИС) was founded on 22 September 1878 as the Shestakovsky Music School, became the Musico-Dramatic School of the Moscow Philharmonic Society in 1883, and was elevated to the status of a conservatory in 1886.

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Russian Empire

The Russian Empire (Российская Империя) or Russia was an empire that existed across Eurasia and North America from 1721, following the end of the Great Northern War, until the Republic was proclaimed by the Provisional Government that took power after the February Revolution of 1917.

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Russian Revolution

The Russian Revolution was a pair of revolutions in Russia in 1917 which dismantled the Tsarist autocracy and led to the rise of the Soviet Union.

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Saint Petersburg

Saint Petersburg (p) is Russia's second-largest city after Moscow, with 5 million inhabitants in 2012, part of the Saint Petersburg agglomeration with a population of 6.2 million (2015).

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Sergei Eisenstein

Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein (p; 11 February 1948) was a Soviet film director and film theorist, a pioneer in the theory and practice of montage.

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Sergei Tretyakov (writer)

Sergei Mikhailovich Tretyakov (Russian: Серге́й Миха́йлович Третьяко́в; 20 June 1892, Goldingen, Courland Governorate (modern day Kuldīga, Latvia) – September 10, 1937, Moscow) was a Russian constructivist writer, playwright and special correspondent for Pravda.

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Sergey Martinson

Sergey Alexandrovich Martinson (Серге́й Александрович Мартинсон; – 2 September 1984) was a Russian eccentric comic actor, the master of pantomime, buffoonery and grotesque.

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Socialist realism

Socialist realism is a style of idealized realistic art that was developed in the Soviet Union and was imposed as the official style in that country between 1932 and 1988, as well as in other socialist countries after World War II.

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Soviet Union

The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was a socialist state in Eurasia that existed from 1922 to 1991.

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Stanislavski and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Academic Music Theatre

The Stanislavski and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Academic Music Theatre (Московский академический Музыкальный театр имени народных артистов К. С. Станиславского и Вл.) is a music theatre in Moscow.

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Strike (1925 film)

Strike (Стачка, translit. Stachka) is a 1925 silent film made in the Soviet Union by Sergei Eisenstein.

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Suicide

Suicide is the act of intentionally causing one's own death.

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Symbol

A symbol is a mark, sign or word that indicates, signifies, or is understood as representing an idea, object, or relationship.

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Symbolism (arts)

Symbolism was a late nineteenth-century art movement of French, Russian and Belgian origin in poetry and other arts.

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The Bedbug

The Bedbug (Клоп) is a play by Vladimir Mayakovsky written in 1928-1929 and published originally by Molodaya Gvardiya magazine (Nos. 3 and 4, 1929), then, as a book, by Gosizdat in 1929.

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The Death of Ivan the Terrible

The Death of Ivan the Terrible (translit) is a historical drama by Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy written in 1863 and first published in the January 1866 issue of Otechestvennye zapiski magazine.

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The Government Inspector

The Government Inspector, also known as The Inspector General («Ревизор», Revizor, literally: "Inspector"), is a satirical play by the Russian and Ukrainian dramatist and novelist Nikolai Gogol.

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The Queen of Spades (opera)

The Queen of Spades, Op.

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The Seagull

The Seagull (translit) is a play by Russian dramatist Anton Chekhov, written in 1895 and first produced in 1896.

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Theater of Youth Creativity

Theater of Youth Creativity (Театр Юношеского Творчества) (TYUT for short) - youth theatre school in Leningrad was founded by Matvey Dubrovin in 1956.

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Theatre director

A theatre director or stage director is an instructor in the theatre field who oversees and orchestrates the mounting of a theatre production (a play, an opera, a musical, or a devised piece of work) by unifying various endeavours and aspects of production.

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Theatrical producer

A theatrical producer is a person who oversees all aspects of mounting a theatre production.

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Tsar Fyodor Ioannovich

Tsar Fyodor Ioannovich (Царь Фёдор Иоаннович, old orthography: Царь Ѳедоръ Іоанновичъ) is a 1868 historical drama by Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy.

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Tuberculosis

Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease usually caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB).

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University of Massachusetts Press

The University of Massachusetts Press is a university press that is part of the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

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Vera Komissarzhevskaya

Vera Fyodorovna Komissarzhevskaya (Ве́ра Фё́доровна Комиссарже́вская; 8 November 1864 – 23 February 1910) was one of the most celebrated actresses and theatre managers of the late Russian Empire.

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Vladimir Lenin

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known by the alias Lenin (22 April 1870According to the new style calendar (modern Gregorian), Lenin was born on 22 April 1870. According to the old style (Old Julian) calendar used in the Russian Empire at the time, it was 10 April 1870. Russia converted from the old to the new style calendar in 1918, under Lenin's administration. – 21 January 1924), was a Russian communist revolutionary, politician and political theorist.

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Vladimir Mayakovsky

Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky (Владимир Владимирович Маяковский; – 14 April 1930) was a Russian Soviet poet, playwright, artist, and actor.

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Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko

Vladimir Ivanovich Nemirovich-Danchenko (Владимир Иванович Немирович-Данченко; – 25 April 1943, Moscow), PAU, was a Russian and Soviet theatre director, writer, pedagogue, playwright, producer and theatre administrator, who founded the Moscow Art Theatre with his colleague, Konstantin Stanislavski, in 1898.

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Vsevolod Garshin

Vsevolod Mikhailovich Garshin (Все́волод Миха́йлович Гáршин); (14 February 1855 – 5 April 1888) was a Russian author of short stories.

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Vsevolod Meyerhold

Vsevolod Emilevich Meyerhold (Все́волод Эми́льевич Мейерхо́льд; born Karl Kasimir Theodor Meierhold; 2 February 1940) was a Russian and Soviet theatre director, actor and theatrical producer.

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Vyacheslav Molotov

Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov (né Skryabin; 9 March 1890 – 8 November 1986) was a Soviet politician and diplomat, an Old Bolshevik, and a leading figure in the Soviet government from the 1920s, when he rose to power as a protégé of Joseph Stalin.

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Yevgeny Vakhtangov

Yevgeny Bagrationovich Vakhtangov (also spelled Evgeny or Eugene; Евге́ний Багратио́нович Вахта́нгов; 13 February 1883 – 29 May 1922) was a Russian actor and theatre director who founded the Vakhtangov Theatre.

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Zinaida Gippius

Zinaida Nikolayevna Gippius (– 9 September 1945) was a Russian poet, playwright, novelist, editor and religious thinker, one of the major figures in Russian symbolism.

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Zinaida Reich

Zinaida Nikolayevna Reich (the last name also spelled Raikh or Raih; Зинаида Николаевна Райх; – 15 July 1939) was a Russian actress and became one of the main stars of the Meyerhold Theatre until it was closed under Joseph Stalin.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vsevolod_Meyerhold

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