[QUOTE][FONT="Georgia"]My grandfather was born 28 January 1874 old style (February 9, new) in Penza in the family
German-Lutheran, winery owner Emil F. Meyerhold, was the eighth child in the family and at baptism he received the name of Carl Theodor Casimir. Shortly before his marriage Meyerhold took Orthodoxy and took the name Vsevolod in honor of the beloved writer then Garshina@
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The father Vsevolod Meyerhold, Frederick was born in 1786 in the town of Winzig, in the North of the Wrocław area, belonging to Prussia. In the book of records of the city Ele (1856-g.g.), he, his wife and all born by this time the children recorded by the Lutherans.