2003Nominee
Best Performance
Meyerhold's theatre and biomechanics
Zinaida Reich
Actor
Odessa, Ukraine
June 21, 1884
Biography
Zinaida Nikolayevna Reich was a Russian actress and became one of the main stars of the Meyerhold Theatre until it was closed under Joseph Stalin. She married poet Sergey Yesenin and had two children with him. After their divorce, she married the director Vsevolod Meyerhold. In 1939 Meyerhold was arrested by the NKVD, and she was brutally stabbed in her apartment by NKVD agents who staged a robbery.
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