About the author:
Alexey I. Kondratenko (Orel, Russia), DSc in Philology, Professor, I.S. Turgenev Orel State University.
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Abstract:
The article examines the little-known facts of the biography of Zinaida Reich and her family. She was an actress, a wife of Sergey Esenin and later was married to Vsevolod Meyerhold. The unpublished materials stored in the Oryol archives are taken into consideration when this article has been written. In particular, the egodocuments held in the fund of the Gitterman gymnasium stored in the State Archives of the Oryol Region is published by the author. Special attention is paid to Zinaida Reich’s participation in the cultural life of the Oryol region during the Russian Civil War. At that time she was heading the theatrical and cinematographic section of the district military commissariat, then chairing the arts sub-department of the regional department of public education.