Author: Raikh, Zinaida (1894–1939); aka Zinaida Reich; Paul Nadar (1856 - 1939), photographer Title: Portrait of Josephine Baker on an Als Card from the Russian Actress Zinaida Reich. First Edition of the Photograph. Signed
Description: Paris: Sept. 9, 1928. Original photograph and Als. 14 x 9cm. Addressed toi Liza (Kogan?) referencing Meyerhold's health. Zinaida Nikolayevna Reich (the last name also spelled Raikh or Raih; Russian: ??????? ?????????? ????; (1894-1939) was a Russian actress and one of the main stars of the Meyerhold Theatre until it was closed under Joseph Stalin.. Reich married poet Sergey Yesenin and had two children with him, one of which was Konstantin. After their divorce, she married the theater director Vsevolod Meyerhold, who adopted the children. In 1939 Meyerhold was arrested by the NKVD, and she was brutally stabbed in her apartment by NKVD agents who staged a robbery..Valentin Kataev, a writer, journalist, dramatist, prose writer, poet and scriptwriter was born in Odessa in 1897..Yury Karlovich Olesha was a Russian and Soviet novelist. He is considered one of the greatest Russian novelists of the 20th century (1899-1960)... Provenance: From the collection of Alma Law, the American scholar of the Russian theater. .
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Price: US$ 400.00 Seller: Wittenborn Art Books
- Book number: 51-5598
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