Photo of end of episode 7, Inspector General

End of episode 7, “Behind a Bottle of Tolstobriushka,” Inspector General, based on the play by Nikolai Gogol, adapted by Vsevolod Meyerhold and Mikhail Korenev, directed by Vsevolod Meyerhold, Meyerhold Theatre (GosTIM), Moscow (premiere: December 9, 1926). Photo by Alexei Temerin. Laurence Senelick Collection.

From The Director's Prism: E. T. A. Hoffmann and the Russian Theatrical Avant-Garde by Dassia N. Posner

In this photograph, the officer-in-transit (Kelberer) sprawls on the stage (left) and Khlestakov (Garin) lies collapsed in a chair (right), both in a drunken stupor, while the Major’s wife (Raikh) guides the town officials out on tiptoe. See book: p. 84, 85; figure 20
Creator(s)	Temerin, Alexei
Creator Role	photographer
Contributor(s)	Raikh, Zinaida (actor) Garin, Erast (actor) Kelberer, Alexei (actor) Gogol, Nikolai (author) Korenev, Mikhail (author) Meyerhold, Vsevolod (director and author)
Subjects	Performing Arts
Date	Premiere: December 9, 1926
Related Section	Chapter 1: Meyerhold-Dapertutto: Framing the Grotesque
Keywords	grotesque physical training doubles Meyerhold Theatre
Content Type	photograph
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Rightsholder	Laurence Senelick
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Credit Line	Laurence Senelick Collection
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