People from Penza - Vsevolod Meyerhold, Vladimir Polukhin, Yuri Babenko, Yuliya Pakhalina, Olesya Belugina, Natalia Lavrova, Marat Kulakhmetov (Paperback)

Chapters: Vsevolod Meyerhold, Vladimir Polukhin, Yuri Babenko, Yuliya Pakhalina, Olesya Belugina, Natalia Lavrova, Marat Kulakhmetov, Igor Lukashin, Sergei Yashin, Sergei Svetlov. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 34. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Vsevolod Emilevich Meyerhold (Russian: born German: ) (10 February 1874 2 February 1940) was a great Russian and Soviet theatre director, actor and theatrical producer whose provocative experiments dealing with physical being and symbolism in an unconventional theatre setting made him one of the seminal forces in modern theatre. Vsevolod Meyerhold was born Karl Kasimir Theodor Meyerhold in Penza on 28 January (10 February) 1874 into the family of a Russian-German wine manufacturer Emil Meyerhold. Though he was by no means from a poor family, he was the last of many children. After completing school in 1895 he studied law at Moscow University but never completed his degree. On his 21st birthday, Meyerhold converted from Lutheranism to Orthodox Christianity and accepted "Vsevolod" as an Orthodox Christian name (the name of Russian writer Vsevolod Garshin, his prose Meyerhold loved). His acting career began when in 1896 he became a student of the Moscow Philharmonic Dramatic School under the guidance of Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko, co-founder of the Moscow Art Theatre. At the MAT, Meyerhold played 18 roles such as Vasiliy Shuiskiy in Tsar Fyodor Ioannovich and Ivan the Terrible in The Death of Ivan the Terrible (both by Aleksey Tolstoy), and Treplev in Chekhov's The Seagull. After leaving the MAT in 1902, Meyerhold participated in a number of theatrical projects, as both a director and actor. Each of his projects served as an arena for experiment and creation of new staging methods. Meyerhold was one of the most fervent advocates of Sy...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=743581