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Aleksandra Pakhmutova

Aleksandra Nikolayevna Pakhmutova (Russian: Александра Николаевна Пахмутова; born 9 November 1929) is a Soviet and Russian composer. She has remained one of the best known figures in Soviet and later Russian popular music since she first achieved fame in her homeland in the 1960s. People's Artist of the USSR (1984). She was born on 9 November 1929 in Beketovka (now a neighbourhood in Volgograd), Russian SFSR, Soviet Union, and began playing the piano and composing music at an early ag...

Mariya Pakhomenko

Mariya Leonidovna Pakhomenko (25 March 1937 - 8 March 2013) was a Soviet and Russian pop singer. People's Artist of Russia (1998). Maria Pakhomenko was born on 25 March 1937 in Leningrad. There were four children in her parents' family: Ivan, Maria, Lyudmila and Galina. Her mother, Daria Mikhailovna, and father, Leonid Antonovich, were from the village of Lyutnya, Krasnopolsky district of the Belorussian SSR (now the Mogilev region of Belarus). Maria studied at an ordinary scho...

Boris Pasternak

Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (/ˈpæstərnæk/; Russian: Борис Леонидович Пастернак, IPA: [bɐˈrʲis lʲɪɐˈnʲidəvʲɪtɕ pəstɛrˈnak]; 10 February [O.S. 29 January] 1890 – 30 May 1960) was a Russian poet, novelist, composer, and literary translator. Composed in 1917, Pasternak's first book of poems, My Sister, Life, was published in Berlin in 1922 and soon became an important collection in the Russian language. Pasternak's translations of stage plays by Goethe, Schiller, Calderón de la Barca and Shak...

Raimonds Pauls

Ojārs Raimonds Pauls (born 12 January 1936 in Iļģuciems, Riga, Latvia) is a Latvian composer and piano player who is well known in Latvia, Russia, post-Soviet countries and world-wide.

Pesniary

Pesniary (also spelled Pesnyary, Belarusian: Песняры, [pʲesʲnʲaˈrɨ]) was a popular Soviet Belarusian folk rock VIA. It was founded in 1969 by guitarist Vladimir Mulyavin. Before 1970, the band was known under the name Liavony (Лявоны).

Andrey Petrov

Andrey Pavlovich Petrov (Russian: Андре́й Па́влович Петро́в; September 2, 1930 – February 15, 2006) was a Soviet and Russian composer. He was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1980. Andrey Petrov is known for his music for numerous classic Soviet films such as Walking the Streets of Moscow, Beware of the Car, and Office Romance.

Olesya Petrova

Олеся Петрова — российская оперная певица, меццо-сопрано, окончила Санкт-Петербургскую государственную консерваторию имени Н.А. Римского-Корсакова (класс Ирины Богачёвой). После успешного выступления на престижном конкурсе «Певец мира» в Кардиффе в 2011 году получила приглашения Греческой национальной оперы (Афины) и Оперы Цюриха, где и дебютировала в следующем сезоне 2011–2012 в партиях Ульрики («Бал-маскарад» Верди) и Кончаковны («Князь Игорь» Бородина). С 2012-го была приглаше...

Natalia Petrozhitskaya

Наталья Петрожицкая — российская оперная певица, сопрано. Окончила Московскую государственную консерваторию имени П.И. Чайковского и там же аспирантуру. С 2002 по 2005 годы участвовала в спектаклях Оперной студии при Московской консерватории. Исполнила партии Татьяны («Евгений Онегин» П. Чайковского), Донны Эльвиры («Дон Жуан» В. Моцарта), Графини, Марцелины («Свадьба Фигаро» В. Моцарта), Гориславы («Руслан и Людмила» М. Глинки), Мими («Богема» Дж. Пуччини). С 2006 года — солистка опе...

Francesco Maria Piave

Francesco Maria Piave (18 May 1810 – 5 March 1876) was an Italian opera librettist who was born in Murano in the lagoon of Venice, during the brief Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy. His career spanned over twenty years working with many of the significant composers of his day, including Giovanni Pacini (four librettos), Saverio Mercadante (at least one), Federico Ricci, and even one for Michael Balfe. He is most well known as Giuseppe Verdi's librettist, for whom he was to write 10 librettos, ...

Edita Piekha

Edita Stanislavovna Piekha (born Edith-Marie Pierha (French: Édith-Marie Pierha; Polish: Edyta Maria Piecha); born 31 July 1937 in Noyal-sous-Lan, France) is a Soviet and Russian singer and actress of Polish descent. 31 July 1937, Noailles-sous-Lan, France) is a Soviet and Russian singer and actress of Polish descent. People's Artist of the USSR (1988). The performer's repertoire includes more than 500 songs, including those in foreign languages, including "Our Neighbour", "City of Childhood"...

Aleksey Pleshcheyev

Aleksey Nikolayevich Pleshcheyev (Russian: Алексе́й Никола́евич Плеще́ев; 4 December [O.S. 22 November] 1825 – 8 October 1893) was a radical Russian poet of the 19th century, one of the Petrashevsky Circle. Pleshcheyev's first book of poetry, published in 1846, made him famous: "Step forward! Without fear or doubt..." became widely known as "a Russian La Marseillaise" (and was sung as such, using French melody), "Friends' calling..." and "We're brothers ...

Mikhail Pletnev

Mikhail Vasilievich Pletnev (Russian: Михаи́л Васи́льевич Плетнёв, Mikha'il Vas'ilevič Plet'nëv; born 14 April 1957) is a Russian concert pianist, conductor, and composer.

Mikhail Plyatskovsky

Mikhail Spartakovich Plyatskovsky (Russian: Михаи́л Спарта́кович Пляцко́вский; 1935–1991) was a Soviet songwriter and playwright.

Rostislav Plyatt

Rostislav Yaunovich Plyatt (30 November [13 December] 1908, Rostov-on-Don, Voyskoy Donskoy Oblast, Russian Empire - 30 June 1989, Moscow, RSFSR, USSR) was a Soviet film and theatre actor, a master of the spoken word (elocutionist). Hero of Socialist Labour (1989), People's Artist of the USSR (1961), winner of the USSR State Prize (1982). Commander of two Orders of Lenin (1978, 1989). Rostislav Ivanovich Pliat was born on 30 November (13 December) 1908 in Rostov-on-Don. His early enth...

Viktoria Postnikova

Viktoria Valentinovna Postnikova (born 12 January 1944) is a Russian pianist. Postnikova was born in Moscow into a family of musicians. She entered the Central Music School of the Moscow Conservatory at age six, studying with E.B. Musaelian. She graduated in 1967, having studied there and in postgraduate courses with Professor Yakov Flier. In 1965 she won a prize at the International Chopin Piano Competition. She subsequently also won prizes at the Leeds International Piano Competitio...

Francis Poulenc

Francis Jean Marcel Poulenc (French: [fʁɑ̃sis ʒɑ̃ maʁsɛl pulɛ̃k]; 7 January 1899 – 30 January 1963) was a French composer and pianist. His compositions include songs, solo piano works, chamber music, choral pieces, operas, ballets, and orchestral concert music. Among the best-known are the piano suite Trois mouvements perpétuels (1919), the ballet Les biches (1923), the Concert champêtre (1928) for harpsichord and orchestra, the Organ Concerto (1938), the opera Dialogues des Carmélites (1...

Poyushchiye Gitary

Pojuschie Gitary (Russian: Поющие гитары [pɐˈjʉɕːɪɪ ɡʲɪˈtarɨ], The Singing Guitars) are among the most popular bands of Russia and the former USSR. They were the Soviet Union's first rock band to reach a phenomenal rate of success and popularity in the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe and in other countries. The band was founded in 1966 in Petersburg by Vladimir Vasilyev - (guitar, vocal) and Evgeny Bronevitsky (vocal, bass guitar) and other pro-western Russian musicians. Initially inspired by th...

Vladimir Presnyakov

Влади́мир Петро́вич Пресняко́в (род. 26 марта 1946, Ходоров, Львовская область) — российский композитор, аранжировщик, саксофонист. Заслуженный артист России (1996). Заслуженный деятель искусств России (2007). Муж солистки ВИА «Самоцветы» Елены Петровны Пресняковой, отец певца Владимира Преснякова-младшего, дед актёра и певца Никиты Преснякова.

Aylen Pritchin

Айлен Притчин родился в 1987 году в Ленинграде (Санкт-Петербург). Окончил Среднюю специальную музыкальную школу при Санкт-Петербургской консерватории (класс Елены Зайцевой) и Московскую государственную консерваторию (класс профессора Эдуарда Грача). В настоящее время – ассистент Эдуарда Грача. Победитель Международного юношеского конкурса имени П. И. Чайковского (Япония, 2004), международных конкурсов имени А. И. Ямпольского в Москве (2006), имени Панчо Владигерова в Шумене (Болгария, 200...

Sergei Prokofiev

Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev (Russian: Сергей Сергеевич Прокофьев, tr. Sergej Sergeevič Prokof'ev; 15/27 April 1891 – 5 March 1953) was a Russian composer, pianist and conductor. As the creator of acknowledged masterpieces across numerous musical genres, he is regarded as one of the major composers of the 20th century. His works include such widely heard works as the March from The Love for Three Oranges, the suite Lieutenant Kijé, the ballet Romeo and Juliet – from which "Dance of t...

Gennady Provatorov

Gennady Provatorov (Проваторов, Геннадий Пантелеймонович) (Moscow, 11 March 1929 - Minsk 4 May 2010) was a Soviet and Belarusian conductor. Gennady Provatorov was invited to Minsk when he was nearly 60 to work at the Minsk Philharmonic and National Opera and Ballet Theatre of Belarus. He was a Belarus State Award holder and a National Artist of RSFSR.

Giacomo Puccini

Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini (UK: /pʊˈtʃiːni/ puu-CHEE-nee, US: /puːˈ-/ poo-, Italian: [ˈdʒaːkomo putˈtʃiːni]; 22 December 1858 – 29 November 1924) was an Italian opera composer who has been called "the greatest composer of Italian opera after Verdi". Puccini's early work was rooted in traditional late-19th-century romantic Italian opera. Later, he successfully developed his work in the realistic verismo style, of which he became one of the leading exponents...

Alla Pugacheva

Alla Borisovna Pugacheva (Russian: Алла Борисовна Пугачёва; sometimes transcribed to English as Pugachova, Russian pronunciation: [pʊɡɐˈtɕɵvə]; born 15 April 1949), is а Soviet and Russian musical performer. Her career started in 1965 and continues to this day, even though she does not give live performances anymore. For her "clear mezzo-soprano and a full display of sincere emotions", she enjoys an iconic status across the former Soviet Union as the most successful Soviet performer in te...

Alexander Pushkin

Алекса́ндр Серге́евич Пу́шкин (26 мая [6 июня] 1799, Москва — 29 января [10 февраля] 1837, Санкт-Петербург) — русский поэт, драматург и прозаик, заложивший основы русского реалистического направления, критик и теоретик литературы, историк, публицист; один из самых авторитетных литературных деятелей первой трети XIX века. Ещё при жизни Пушкина сложилась его репутация величайшего национального русского поэта. Пушкин рассматривается как основоположник современного русского литературного я...

Borodin Quartet

The Borodin Quartet is a string quartet that was founded in 1945 in the then Soviet Union. It is one of the world's longest-lasting string quartets, having marked its 70th-anniversary season in 2015. The quartet was one of the Soviet Union's best known in the West during the Cold War era, through recordings as well as concert performances in the United States and Europe. The quartet had a close relationship with composer Dmitri Shostakovich, who personally consulted them on each ...

Sergei Rachmaninoff

Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff (Russian: Серге́й Васи́льевич Рахма́ниновъ; Russian pronunciation: [sʲɪrˈɡʲej rɐxˈmanʲɪnəf]; 1 April [O.S. 20 March] 1873 – 28 March 1943) was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor. Rachmaninoff is widely considered as one of the finest pianists of his day and, as a composer, one of the last great representatives of Romanticism in Russian classical music. Early influences of Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, and other Russian composers gave way to a personal...

Stahan Rakhimov

Stahan Mamadzhanovich Rakhimov (Uzbek: Staxan Rahimov, Russian: Стаха́н Мамаджа́нович Рахи́мов; December 17, 1937 – March 12, 2021) was a Soviet Uzbek and Russian singer, People's Artist of Russia (2002).

Jean-Philippe Rameau

Jean-Philippe Rameau (French: [ʒɑ̃filip ʁamo]; 25 September 1683 – 12 September 1764) was one of the most important French composers and music theorists of the 18th century. He replaced Jean-Baptiste Lully as the dominant composer of French opera and is also considered the leading French composer for the harpsichord of his time, alongside François Couperin. Little is known about Rameau's early years. It was not until the 1720s that he won fame as a major theorist of music with his Tr...

Alexander Ramm

Алекса́ндр Алекса́ндрович Рамм (род. 9 мая 1988, Владивосток) — российский виолончелист.

Daniil Ratgauz

Даниил Максимович Ратгауз (25 января [6 февраля] 1868, Харьков — 6 июня 1937, Прага) — русский поэт, автор слов нескольких известных романсов.

Maurice Ravel

Joseph Maurice Ravel French: [ʒɔzɛf mɔʁis ʁavɛl]; 7 March 1875 – 28 December 1937) was a French composer, pianist and conductor. He is often associated with impressionism along with his elder contemporary Claude Debussy, although both composers rejected the term. In the 1920s and 1930s Ravel was internationally regarded as France's greatest living composer. Born to a music-loving family, Ravel attended France's premier music college, the Paris Conservatoire; he was not well regarded b...

Ilya Reznik

Ilya Rahmielevich Reznik (Russian: Илья Pахмильeвич Peзник; born April 4, 1938, Leningrad) is a Russian poet and songwriter, People's Artist of Russia (2003). Honorary member of the Russian Academy of Arts. People's Artist of Ukraine (2013).

Sviatoslav Richter

Святосла́в Теофи́лович Ри́хтер (7 (20) марта 1915, Житомир — 1 августа 1997, Москва) — советский российский пианист. Герой Социалистического Труда (1975). Народный артист СССР (1961). Лауреат Ленинской (1961), Сталинской (1950), Государственной премии РСФСР им. М. Глинки (1987) и Государственной премии Российской Федерации (1996). Один из крупнейших пианистов XX века, чья вир...

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov (Russian: Николай Андреевич Римский-Корсаков, IPA: [nʲɪkəˈlaj ɐnˈdrʲejɪvʲɪtɕ ˈrʲimskʲɪj ˈkorsəkəf]; 18 March [O.S. 6 March] 1844 – 21 June [O.S. 8 June] 1908) was a Russian composer, and a member of the group of composers known as The Five. He was a master of orchestration. His best-known orchestral compositions—Capriccio Espagnol, the Russian Easter Festival Overture, and the symphonic suite Scheherazade—are staples of the classical music repertoire, along...

Felice Romani

Felice Romani (January 31, 1788 – January 28, 1865) was an Italian poet and scholar of literature and mythology who wrote many librettos for the opera composers Donizetti and Bellini. Romani was considered the finest Italian librettist between Metastasio and Boito.

Alexander Rosenbaum

Alexander Yakovlevich Rosenbaum PAR (Russian: Александр Яковлевич Розенбаум, Aleksandr Jakovlevič Rozyenbaum) (born September 13, 1951) is a Russian bard from Saint Petersburg. He is best known as an interpreter of the blatnaya pesnya (criminal song) genre. Modern singers in this genre, such as Mikhail Shufutinsky often sing Rosenbaum's songs. Graduated from the First Pavlov State Medical University of St. Peterburg in 1974, and worked in the medical field for four years. His musical ...

Gioachino Rossini

Gioachino Antonio Rossini (29 February 1792 – 13 November 1868) was an Italian composer who wrote 39 operas as well as sacred music, chamber music, songs, and some instrumental and piano pieces. His best-known operas include the Italian comedies Il barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville) and La Cenerentola, and the French-language epics Moïse et Pharaon and Guillaume Tell. A tendency for inspired, song-like melodies is evident throughout his scores, which led to the nickname "Th...

Mstislav Rostropovich

Mstislav Leopoldovich "Slava" Rostropovich (Russian: Мстисла́в Леопо́льдович Ростропо́вич, romanized: Mstislav Leopol'dovič Rostropovič, pronounced [rəstrɐˈpovʲɪtɕ]; 27 March 1927 – 27 April 2007) was a Soviet and Russian cellist and conductor. He is considered to be one of the greatest cellists of the 20th century. In addition to his interpretations and technique, he was well known for both inspiring and commissioning new works, which enlarged the cello repertoire more than any cellist b...

Gennady Rozhdestvensky

Gennady Nikolayevich Rozhdestvensky, CBE (Russian: Генна́дий Никола́евич Рожде́ственский; 4 May 1931 – 16 June 2018) was a Soviet and Russian conductor, People's Artist of the USSR (1976), and Hero of Socialist Labour (1990).

Robert Rozhdestvensky

Robert Ivanovich Rozhdestvensky (Russian: Ро́берт Ива́нович Рожде́ственский; 20 June 1932 – 19 August 1994) was a Soviet-Russian poet and Songwriter who broke with socialist realism in the 1950s–1960s during the Khrushchev Thaw and, along with such poets as Andrey Voznesensky, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, and Bella Akhmadulina, pioneered a newer, fresher, and freer style of poetry in the Soviet Union.

Anton Rubinstein

Anton Grigoryevich Rubinstein (Russian: Антон Григорьевич Рубинштейн, tr. Anton Grigor'evič Rubinštejn; 28 November [O.S. 16 November] 1829 – November 20 [O.S. November 8] 1894) was a Russian pianist, composer and conductor who became a pivotal figure in Russian culture when he founded the Saint Petersburg Conservatory. He was the elder brother of Nikolai Rubinstein who founded the Moscow Conservatory. As a pianist, Rubinstein ranks among the great 19th-century keyboard virtuosos. He ...

Alexander Rudin

Alexander Israilevich Rudin (born 1960) is a Russian classical cellist and conductor.

Klara Rumyanova

Klara Mikhailovna Rumyanova (Russian: Кла́ра Миха́йловна Румя́нова; 8 December 1929, Leningrad – 18 September 2004, Moscow) was a Soviet and Russian actress and singer. She was active from 1951 to 1999. Her childlike and endearing voice was easily recognized by generations of Soviet people from their early childhood, because she voiced numerous Russian animated films and sang countless children's songs. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union her songs have been heard even more, be...

Lidia Ruslanova

Lidia Andreyevna Ruslanova (sometimes spelt Lidiya or Lydia, Russian: Лидия Андреевна Русланова; 27 October 1900 in Saratov Governorate – 21 September 1973 in Moscow) was a performer of Russian folk songs.

Alexey Rybnikov

Alexey Lvovich Rybnikov (Russian: Алексе́й Льво́вич Ры́бников; born July 17, 1945) is a modern Russian composer. He is the author of music for Soviet and Russian musicals (rock-operas) Star and Death of Joaquin Murrieta (Звезда и смерть Хоакина Мурьеты, 1976) and Juno and Avos (Юнона и Авось, 1981, shown more than 700 times), for numerous plays and operas, for more than 80 Russian movies. More than 10 million discs with his music have been sold to 1989.

Camille Saint-Saëns

Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns (French: [ʃaʁl kamij sɛ̃ sɑ̃(s)]; 9 October 1835 – 16 December 1921) was a French composer, organist, conductor and pianist of the Romantic era. His best-known works include Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso (1863), the Second Piano Concerto (1868), the First Cello Concerto (1872), Danse macabre (1874), the opera Samson and Delilah (1877), the Third Violin Concerto (1880), the Third ("Organ") Symphony (1886) and The Carnival of the Animals (1886). Saint-Sa...

Samuil Samosud

Samuil Abramovich Samosud (Russian: Самуи́л Абра́мович Самосу́д) (Tbilisi, Georgia, 14 May [O.S. 2 May] 1884 — Moscow, 6 November 1964), PAU, was a Soviet and Russian conductor. He started his musical career on the cello, before conducting in the Mariinsky Theater, Petrograd in 1917. From 1918 to 1936 he conducted at the Maly Operny, Leningrad. In 1936 he became musical director at the Bolshoi Theater, Moscow. He founded what became the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra in 1951. He premie...

Samotsveti

"Samotsveti" is a Soviet and Russian vocal and instrumental ensemble (musical group). The founder and permanent leader is People's Artist of Russia Yury Malikov. It is best known for performing such songs as "I'll Take You to the Tundra", "My Address is the Soviet Union", "All Life Ahead", "All That I Have in Life".

Kurt Sanderling

Kurt Sanderling, CBE (19 September 1912 – 18 September 2011) was a German conductor. Sanderling was born in Arys, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire (now Orzysz, Poland), to Jewish parents. His early work at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, where he served as repetiteur (rehearsal director) for Wilhelm Furtwängler and Erich Kleiber, was cut short when the Nazi regime removed him from his post because he was Jewish. He then left for the Soviet Union in 1936, where he worked with the Moscow Rad...

Yury Saulsky

Yury Sergeevitch Saulsky (Russian: Юрий Серге́евич Саульский) was a Soviet and Russian composer, author. His works as a film composer include the score for A Glass of Water.

Valery Sautkin

Вале́рий Вениами́нович Са́уткин (20 сентября 1943, Ярославль, СССР) — известный советский и российский поэт-песенник.

Domenico Scarlatti

Giuseppe Domenico Scarlatti (Naples, 26 October 1685 – Madrid, 23 July 1757) was an Italian composer. He is classified primarily as a Baroque composer chronologically, although his music was influential in the development of the Classical style and he was one of the few Baroque composers to transition into the classical period. Like his renowned father Alessandro Scarlatti, he composed in a variety of musical forms, although today he is known mainly for his 555 keyboard sonatas. He spent much...

Alfred Schnittke

Alfred Garrievich Schnittke (Russian: Альфре́д Га́рриевич Шни́тке, Alfred Garriyevich Shnitke; 24 November 1934 – 3 August 1998) was a Soviet and German composer. Schnittke's early music shows the strong influence of Dmitri Shostakovich. He developed a polystylistic technique in works such as the epic Symphony No. 1 (1969–1972) and his first concerto grosso (1977). In the 1980s, Schnittke's music began to become more widely known abroad with the publication of his second (1980) and third (198...

Arnold Schoenberg

Arnold Schoenberg or Schönberg (/ˈʃɜːrnbɜːrɡ/, US also /ˈʃoʊn-/; German: [ˈʃøːnbɛɐ̯k]); 13 September 1874 – 13 July 1951) was an Austrian-born composer, music theorist, teacher, writer, and painter. He is widely considered one of the most influential, if highly controversial[not verified in body] composers of the 20th century. He was associated with the expressionist movement in German poetry and art, and leader of the Second Viennese School. With the rise of the Nazi Party, Schoenberg's works w...

Franz Schubert

Franz Peter Schubert (31 January 1797 – 19 November 1828) was an Austrian composer. Schubert died at 31 but was extremely prolific during his lifetime. His output consists of over six hundred secular vocal works (mainly Lieder), seven complete symphonies, sacred music, operas, incidental music and a large body of chamber and piano music. Appreciation of his music while he was alive was limited to a relatively small circle of admirers in Vienna, but interest in his work increased ...

Robert Schumann

Robert Schumann (German: [ˈʃuːman]; 8 June 1810 – 29 July 1856) was a German composer, pianist, and influential music critic. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest composers of the Romantic era. Schumann left the study of law, intending to pursue a career as a virtuoso pianist. His teacher, Friedrich Wieck, a German pianist, had assured him that he could become the finest pianist in Europe, but a hand injury ended this dream. Schumann then focused his musical energies on composing...

Alexander Scriabin

Aleksandr Scriabin, in full Aleksandr Nikolayevich Scriabin, Scriabin also spelled Skriabin, or Skryabin, (born Dec. 25, 1871 [Jan. 6, 1872, New Style], Moscow, Russia—died April 14 [April 27], 1915, Moscow), Russian composer of piano and orchestral music noted for its unusual harmonies through which the composer sought to explore musical symbolism. Scriabin was trained as a soldier at the Moscow Cadet School from 1882 to 1889 but studied music at the same time and took piano lessons...

Vladimir Selivohin

Vladimir Selivoknin (23.04.1946 - 08.02.2015) Among the outstanding contemporary pianists - Honored artist of Russia, Professor Vladimir Selivokhin is the largest representative of the Russian Romantic Piano School. His work is a continuation of the best traditions of Russian pianism and, at the same time, the discovery of his direction in art, is a unique phenomenon in the world of music. A brilliant victory at the International Competition Feruccio Busoni in 1...

Igor Severyanin

Igor Severyanin (Russian: И́горь Северя́нин, pen name, real name Igor Vasilyevich Lotaryov (И́горь Васи́льевич Лотарёв) (May 16, 1887, Petersburg – December 20, 1941, Tallinn) was a Russian poet who presided over the circle of the so-called Ego-Futurists. Igor was born in St. Petersburg in the family of an army engineer. Through his mother, he was remotely related to Nikolai Karamzin and Afanasy Fet. In 1904 he left for Manchuria with his father but later returned to St.Pete...