Timeline Friday 2 February 1940

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Friday 2 February 1940

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Events on Friday 2 February 1940 1

1874 – 1940 Vsevolod Meyerhold (1874-1940) Died 2 February 1940, aged 65 Russian theatre director and innovator of avant-garde staging. He was arrested during the Great Purge, tortured, and shot in Moscow.

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