Igor Terentiev
Russia (1892—1937)With a degree in law, Igor Terentiev turned to literature and art around 1918, when he joined the 41° group founded by Ilya Zdanevich. He moved to Petrograd, where he worked alongside Kazimir Malevich at the Museum of Artistic Culture. In the early 1920s, he began producing theatrical works, including John Reed, and later worked with the Theatre of the House of Press. He subsequently moved to Odessa, where he staged productions for the Theatre of Russian Drama and the Ukrainian Youth Theatre. After his arrest in 1931 and a period of imprisonment on the Belomor Canal, he was released early and moved to Moscow, where he began work on the film Rebellion of Stones, a project that remained unfinished. He then joined the construction of the Moscow–Volga Canal, where he led an agitprop theatre brigade photographed by Alexander Rodchenko. Arrested again in 1937, Terentiev was sentenced to death and executed in June of that year.
