Yevgeny Bagrationovich Vakhtangov was a Russian-Armenian actor and theatre director who founded the Vakhtangov Theatre. He was a friend and mentor of Michael Chekhov. He is known for his distinctive style of theatre, his most notable production being Princess Turandot in 1922.
Yevgeny Vakhtangov
Carlo Gozzi´s Princess Turandot, performance by Yevgeny Vakhtangov (1922)
Mikhail Aleksandrovich Chekhov, known as Michael Chekhov, was a Russian-American actor, director, author, and theatre practitioner. He was a nephew of the playwright Anton Chekhov and a student of Konstantin Stanislavski. Stanislavski referred to him as his most brilliant student.
Chekhov, 1910s
Chekhov in 1922, from The Russian Theater by Oliver Sayler
Michael Chekhov as Erik in the 1921 production of August Strindberg's Erik XIV