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10.03.2010 Irina Meyerhold’s Pin at the Russian Drama Museum
 

A new unique item appeared in the collection of the Russian Drama Museum affiliated with the Alexandrinsky Theater. People’s Artist of Russia Galina Karelina presented an amber pin which had once belonged to Irina Meyerhold, a theater pedagogue and director and daughter of Vsevolod Meyerhold. Irina Meyerhold was fond of this pin and gave it to Galina Karelina after the first night of A. Ostrovsky’s “Last Victim” play. Galina Karelina played the role of Yulia Tugina in this performance which Irina Meyerhold had directed in 1971. People’s Artist of Russia Vasily Merkuriev, Irina Meyerhold’s husband, was Galina Karelina’s partner in this performance. He played the role of Pribytkov. This was a long-awaited performance for Irina Meyerhold; it was her hard-won and very personal artistic statement (a daughter of an executed director, she had had no ways to practice her profession, direct performances, and teach for a long while). As for Galina Karelina, this joint work with the famous Merkuriev and Meyerhold turned into a significant event in her life, a landmark in her artistic career and a new level of her professional perfection. Galina Karelina and the Merkuriev and Meyerhold family were connected not only through professional ties, but also a friendship of many years. Galina Karelina considers Merkuriev and Meyerhold as her teachers, meeting with whom had influenced her entire creative career and outlined her attitude to the theater and life. The Merkurievs were generous people and had accumulated no material wealth in the course of their long and laborious life. The amber pin was one of the very few jewelry pieces Irina Meyerhold had been wearing. This makes this gift only more precious and turns it into a true theater relic.

 
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