Vsevolod Meyerhold

Vsevolod Meyerhold is one of the towering, tragic names in theater history for me. His biomechanics, training actors almost like athletes, blew the doors off naturalistic acting and still shapes how performers think about the body on stage. He embraced the Russian Revolution wholeheartedly, only for the Stalinist regime to turn on him, he was arrested and executed in 1940. That ending haunts me every time I revisit his work. The director who reinvented stagecraft, crushed by the very state he served. His ideas survived the man, and modern theater would be unrecognizable without him.

Name (English)

Vsevolod Meyerhold

Name (Japanese)

フセヴォロド・メイエルホリド

Reading

ふせゔぉろど・めいえるほりど

Born

January 28, 1874 – February 2, 1940

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aquarius / Dog

Origin

Penza, Penza Oblast, Russia

Occupation

actor / theatre director / playwright / politician / film director

High school

Classical high school number 1 named after V. G. Belinsky

University

Lomonosov Moscow State University

Awards & achievements

• People's Artist of the RSFSR

Motto

Private

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%95%E3%82%BB%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A9%E3%83%AD%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A1%E3%82%A4%E3%82%A8%E3%83%AB%E3%83%9B%E3%83%AA%E3%83%89

Tags

• Penza Oblast
• actor
• theatre director
• playwright

Last updated

2026-06-02

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