Meyerhold by Nikolay Volkov. Complete set of two volumes. Published by Academia, Leningrad, 1929. Hardcover with giliding. Design by A.B. Shimanovsky. Illustrated. First volume has a dedication on the flyleaf. Vsevolod Meyerhold, 1874 to 1940, was a Russian and Soviet theatre director and producer of German descent who was executed during the Great Purge. Nikolay Volkov, 1894 to 1965, was a Soviet Russian playwright and first biographer of Meyerhold. Academia was a Soviet publishing house that functioned from 1922 till 1937. The publishing house employed many prominent Russian graphic artists and issued over one thousand books during its existence, mostly intellectual and classical literature. Antiquarian Librarian Books Albums For Collectors, Rare Soviet Books.