| GAKhN | Academy of Art Sciences (All-Russian, and after 1926, State) |
| GARF | State Archive of the Russian Federation |
| GINKhUK | State Institute of Art Culture (Petrograd) |
| INKhUK | Institute of Art Culture (Moscow) |
| Mastfor | ‘Masterskaia Foreggera’ (Foregger’s theatre-workshop) |
| MGU | Moscow State University |
| Narkompros | People’s Commissariat of Enlightenment |
| NEP | New Economic Policy |
| NOT | scientific organization of labour |
| Okna ROSTA | ‘Windows of the Russian Telegraph Agency’, propaganda posters created by artists and poets within the ROSTA system |
| OPOIaZ | Petrograd Society for the Study of Poetic Language |
| Proletkul’t | Proletarskaia kultura (proletarian culture), Soviet institution to promote culture and art of working people |
| RATI | Russian Academy of Theatre Art |
| RGALI | Russian State Archive of Literature and Art |
| RGGU | Russian State Humanities University |
| RSFSR | Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic |
| tefizkul’t | Teatralizatsiia fizkul’tury (theatrialization of physical culture), a project of Ippolit Sokolov and Vsevolod Meyerhold supported by Vsevobuch |
| TEO | Theatrical Section of Narkompros |
| TsIT | Central Institute of Labour |
| UNOVIS | Utverditeli Novogo Iskusstva (The Champions of the New Art), a group of Russian artists founded by Kazimir Malevich in Vitebsk |
| Vsevobuch | Main Directorate of General Military Education |
| VSFK | All-Russian Council of Physical Culture |
FIGURE 1 Vera Maya’s Studio. Photo: S. Rybin, 1927. Courtesy A. A. Bakhrushin State Central Theatre Museum, Moscow.