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Vertinsky Alexander. Alexander Nikolaevich Vertinsky (March 21, 1889 -- May 21, 1957) -- film actor, composer, poet, famous Russian chansonnier of the 20th century. Was born in Kiev. He was the illegitimate son of a private attorney journalist Nikolai Vertinsky. The boy's mother, Evgenia Skolatskaya, a noblewoman by birth, gave birth to two ...
18 de mar. de 2023 · He was known to them as Alexander Vertinsky. But there was a secret that he concealed beneath the various masks he wore as an artist, and one that troubled him until he finally came to terms with it in his final years – that he, Oleksandr Vertynsky, was a Ukrainian obliged by circumstances, as in the case of so many of his compatriots, to act more Russian than the Russians.
Alexander Vertinsky is certainly the pride and soul of Russian musical culture, whose gift appears to withstand anything. When Vertinsky, who had emigrated from Russia during the Soviet revolution, asked the authorities for permission to come back during World War II, the horrible dictator strangely feeling some interest in the artist’s songs, allowed him to return and even let him perform ...
Alexander Nikolayevich Vertinsky was a Russian and Soviet artist, poet, singer, composer, cabaret artist and actor who exerted seminal influence on the Russian tradition of artistic singing.
