VYACHESLAV PAKULIN (1901–1951) Costume design for an Auntie

Inscribed in Cyrillic 'Tetushka' (along the lower edge) 38.5 × 23.8 cm Executed circa 1920s–1930s Pakulin began working as a theatre designer in 1918 and attended stage production courses organized by Vsevolod Meyerhold. During the 1920s he collaborated with several theatres, including Volnaya Komediya, Balaganchik, Krasny Puti-lovets, the Theatre of Satire, the First Artistic Studio and the theatre Klub. He designed the majority of productions staged by the Balaganchik theatre, including Baby, Vir-ineya, Romeo and Juliet, Richard III, The Descent of Hans into Hell, Passion, The Secret of Cassandra, The Impresa-rio, The Gadfly and Love and Gold. A number of his theat-rical designs are preserved in the collection of the Theatre Museum in St Petersburg.