Vsevolod Meyerhold (1874-1940) was a Russian theatre director, an actor and a tutor. He was a theorist and practitioner of the theatrical grotesque, the author of the Theatrical October program and a developer of the dramatic system referred to as "biomechanics".
In 1898, he graduated from the Theatre and Music School of the Moscow Philharmonic Society (class of V. Nemirovich-Danchenko) and joined in the company of the originating Artistic and Public Theatre.
In 1902, Meyerhold began independent stage directing activity, taking the lead, together with A. Kosheverov, of a company in the city of Kherson. In 1902-1905, about 200 performances were staged.
From 1906, he was the chief director of the Vera Komissarzhevskaya Drama Theatre. At the Alexandrinsky Theatre, Meyerhold staged such plays as At the Tsar's Gate by K. Hamsun (1908), Don Juan by Moliere (1910), Thunderstorm by A. Ostrovsky (1916) and others.
In 1920, the Vsevolod Meyerhold State Theatre (GosTiM) was founded in Moscow. Simultaneously, V. Meyerhold directed the Theatre of the Revolution in 1922-1924.
In May of 1938, K. Stanislavsky offered him the position of a stage director at the opera theatre he was leading. After the Stanislavsky’s death, V. Meyerhold became the Chief Director of the Stanislavsky State Opera Theatre and worked on opera Rigoletto.
The postage stamp provides a portrait of Vsevolod Meyerhold against the background of a scene from play Banya (The Bathhouse) at the Meyerhold State Theatre.
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Offset + security system |
Comb 12:11¾ |
42 × 30 mm |
105 thousand stamps |