Zinaida Reich

Zinaida Reich
Born
Zinaida Nikolayevna Reich

(1894-07-03)3 July 1894
Odessa, Russian Empire
Died15 July 1939(1939-07-15) (aged 45)
Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Cause of deathMurder (Stab Wounds)
OccupationActress
Spouses
Children

Zinaida Nikolayevna Reich (the last name also spelled Raikh or Raih; Russian: Зинаида Николаевна Райх; 3 July [O.S. 21 June] 1894 – 15 July 1939)[1] 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. After their divorce, she married the theatre 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.[2]

  1. ^ Goltsova, Antonina. Сергей Есенин и Зинаида Райх (in Russian). RU. Retrieved 10 July 2011.
  2. ^ Зинаида Райх (in Russian). RU. Retrieved 10 July 2011.