Vsevolod Meyerhold

Addresses you can still visit

Every place in this city with a documented tie to this person.

• Burial place

  Donskoy Cemetery and Former Crematorium

  The executed theater director's remains were deposited in a communal grave at Donskoy Cemetery.

• Created here

  Former Pittoresk Café — San-Galli Passage

  He staged Alexander Blok's The Stranger in the café's performance space.

• Created here

  Mayakovsky Theatre — Former Theatre of the Revolution

  He led the Theatre of the Revolution here from 1922 to 1924 and directed its defining early productions.

• Lived here

  Meyerhold Apartment Museum

  He lived here with his family during the final decade of his theatrical career.

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  Performed here

  Moscow Art Theatre

  As a young company member, he played roles including Treplev in the theater's celebrated production of The Seagull.

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  Studied here

  Russian Institute of Theatre Arts

  The largest and oldest independent theatrical arts school in Russia.

• Created here

  Tchaikovsky Concert Hall — Former Meyerhold Theatre

  His company performed here, and he helped conceive the uncompleted experimental theater incorporated into the present hall.

• Lived here

  Vsevolod Meyerhold Apartment Museum

  Meyerhold lived and worked in this apartment with his family from 1928 until his 1939 arrest.