Nikolai Pavlovich Akimov, Russian, Soviet era, 1900 to 1968, a mixed media painting on paper depicting male theatre costume designs for the play, The Virgin Forest, by Ernst Toller, 1924. Signed, lower right. Matted. Nikolai Pavlovich Akimov is a Russian Soviet theater director, set designer, teacher, artist, publicist. Peoples Artist of the USSR. As a set designer, he collaborated with the Crooked Mirror theater and the Carousel cabaret; in 1924 to 1925 he worked on a permanent basis at the Bolshoi Drama Theater, now named after G. A. Tovstonogov. Cooperation with the theater continued until the end of the 1930s. Antique and Vintage Soviet era Original Theatre Set and Costume Designs, Paintings and Collectibles. One of a kind artwork.