Pyotr Merkurev

Pyotr Vasilyevich Merkuryev-Meyerhold was born in 1943, in Tomsk province, Siberia, USSR. His father, Vasiliy Merkurev, was a famous Russian film star and stage actor of the St. Petersburg Pushkin (Aleksandrinsky) Theatre. His mother, Irina Vsevolodovna Meyerhold, was the daughter of the legendary director Vsevolod Meyerhold. Young Pyotr Merkuryev was brought up in a special intellectual environment in the family of his famous parents, and received an excellent education. He also received formal education in music history at the College of Leningrad Conservatory and as a choir director at the College of Moscow Conservatory. He received a masters degree in music from the Charkov Institute of Arts.