1. Zinaida Nikolayevna Reich was born in the village of Blizhniye Melnitsy near Odessa.
20 Facts About Zinaida Reich
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Zinaida Reich's mother was Anna Ivanovna Viktorova, a Russian noblewoman and niece of a notable Russian linguist and archaeologist, Alexey Viktorov.
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Zinaida Reich studied in a gymnasium in Bendery but was expelled for her political activities before completing the eighth grade.
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Zinaida Reich enrolled in the Kiev Higher Education Courses for Women, and in 1913 she became a member of the Socialist-Revolutionary Party.
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Zinaida Reich worked as a technical editor for Delo Naroda, a newspaper of the Socialist-Revolutionary Party.
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In September 1917 the couple returned to Saint Petersburg, where Zinaida Reich worked for the People's Commissariat for Food.
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Zinaida Reich returned to Moscow when their daughter, Tatiana, was one year old, but she and Yesenin quarrelled.
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In February 1920 Zinaida Reich gave birth to their son Konstantin, but the couple continued to live separately.
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At that time Zinaida Reich lived in a shelter for mothers with infants.
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Zinaida Reich wrote that Yesenin allegedly was upset when he saw his black-haired son, Konstantin.
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Zinaida Reich had dark hair, which is genetically dominant over light hair.
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Zinaida Reich was of German-Russian ancestry and Russian Orthodox by faith.
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Zinaida Reich studied at the State Experimental Theatre Workshops, headed by famous theatrical director Vsevolod Meyerhold.
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Zinaida Reich ended up getting a divorce, and Reich and Meyerhold married in 1922.
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Yesenin and Zinaida Reich had a relationship after her second marriage.
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Zinaida Reich worked as an actress and was featured as a star of the Meyerhold Theatre from 1923 until her death in 1939.
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The actor Igor Ilyinsky was so upset that Zinaida Reich received all the major roles that he left the Meyerhold Theater.
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Twenty-five days later, his wife Zinaida Reich was found dying in their Moscow apartment on 15 July 1939.
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Zinaida Reich had sent both her children out of the apartment that night, and nothing was taken from the apartment.
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Zinaida Reich was buried at Vagankovo Cemetery near the grave of her first husband, Sergey Yesenin.