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  • Sergei Diaghilev

    Russian impresario, curator, publisher, critic. Born in the family of Lieutenant General Pavel Dyagilev (1848–1914) and Yevgenia Yevreinova (1848–1872) in the village of Selischi in Novgorod Province...

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  • Mathilde Kschessinska

    Mathilde Kschessinska was born on 31 August 1872 in the resort of Ligovo near St Petersburg. She came from a family of famous Polish ballet dancers who performed at the imperial theatres, including h...

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  • Fyodor Chaliapin

    Opera singer, amateur artist. Born in Kazan in the family of a poor clerk called Ivan Chaliapin (1873). Performed at Savva Mamontov’s Russian Private Opera (1896), Bolshoi Theatre (1899), Mariinsky T...

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  • Arvids Jansons

    Latvian conductor. Father of Mariss Jansons. Conducted the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra (from 1952). Accompanied the orchestra on tours of Europe and Japan and gave more than four hundred concert...

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  • Mariss Jansons

    Latvian conductor. Son of Arvids Jansons. Born in German-occupied Riga in the Reichskommissariat Ostland (1943). Won the Herbert von Karajan Conductors Competition (1971) and began working with the L...

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  • Kurt Sanderling

    German conductor. Born in the town of Ayrs in East Prussia (now Orzysz in Poland) in a Jewish family (1912). Fled to the Soviet Union to escape the Nazis (1936). Appointed a conductor of the Leningra...

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  • Yevgeny Mravinsky

    Conductor. Born in St Petersburg in the family of lawyer and actual state councillor Alexander Mravinsky (1903). Graduated from the Petrograd Conservatoire as a composer and conductor. Worked at the ...

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  • Antonio Tamburini

    Italian baritone. Born in Faenza in the Papal States (1800). Debuted in Cento (1822). Performed at La Scala in Milan (from 1822) and in St Petersburg (1843–49, 1851–52). Left the stage (1855). Died i...

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  • Pauline Viardot

    Spanish mezzo-soprano, teacher, composer. Born Michelle Ferdinande Pauline García in Paris (1821). Debuted in Brussels (1837). Soloist of the Italian opera (from 1839). Married Louis Viardot (1840). ...

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  • Vasily Karatygin

    Tragic actor. Born in St Petersburg in the family of actors Andrei Karatygin and Alexandra Polygalova (1802). Performed at the Alexandrinsky Theatre in St Petersburg. Died in St Petersburg and buried...

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