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My Take
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.
Overview
Vsevolod Emilyevich Meyerhold (Russian: Всеволод Эмильевич Мейерхольд, romanized: Vsevolod Èmilijevič Mejerholjd; born German: Karl Kasimir Theodor Meyerhold; 9 February [O.S. 28 January] 1874 – 2 February 1940) was a Russian and Soviet theatre director, actor and theatrical producer.
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1. Profile
- 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
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- actor / theatre director / playwright / politician / film director
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- 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
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
Actor — see all → · Theatre director — see all → · More people from Russia →
7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.