Facts:   - imagesize: 210px    - death place: moscow , russian sfsr    - years active: 1911-1922    - birth name: yevgeny bagrationovich vakhtangov    - death date: 29 may 1922      - birth date: 1 february 1883    - name: yevgeny vakhtangov    - image: vakhtangov yevgeny-1 . jpg    - birth place: vladikavkaz , terek oblast , russian empire    - occupation: actor theatre director   Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of yevgeny vakhtangov .
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yevgeny bagrationovich vakhtangov -lrb- also spelled evgeny or eugene ; ; 13 february 1883 -- 29 may 1922 -rrb- was a russian actor and theatre director who founded the vakhtangov theatre .he was a friend and mentor of michael chekhov .vakhtangov was born to an armenian father and a russian mother in vladikavkaz , northern ossetia .he was educated at moscow state university for a short time and then joined the moscow art theatre in 1911 and rose in the ranks , so that by 1920 he was in charge of his own theatre studio .four years after his death , the studio was named vakhtangov theatre in his honor .vakhtangov was greatly influenced both by the theatrical experiments of vsevolod meyerhold and the more psychological techniques of his teachers , konstantin stanislavski and leopold sulerzhitsky , and the co-founder of the mat vladimir nemirovich-danchenko .his productions incorporated masks , music , dance , abstract costume , avant-garde sets as well as a detailed analysis of the texts of plays and the psychological motivations of its characters .his most notable production was `` turandot '' by carlo gozzi , which has played at the vakhtangov theatre ever since 1922 -lrb- the year of his death -rrb- .another famous production directed by vakhtangov in the same year was s. ansky 's `` the dybbuk '' with the habimah theater troupe .on the actors studio webpage , lee strasberg is quoted as saying : `` if you examine the work of the stanislavski system as made use of by stanislavski , you see one result .if you examine it in the work of one of his great pupils , vakhtangov -- who influenced our thinking and activity -- you will see a completely different result .vakhtangov 's work was skillfully done , his use of the method even more brilliant and more imaginative than stanislavski 's , and yet vakhtangov achieved totally different results . ''the german theatre practitioner bertolt brecht argued that vakhtangov 's approach was `` the stanislavski-meyerhold complex `` before '' the split rather than...