Singer Antonina Nezhdanova (second from right) among the cast of the "Barber of Seville". Left to right: V.Lossky, Karakash, Fodor Chaliapin, Antonina Nezhdanova and Andrei Labinsky. 11.09.1913#7072
Russian opera singer Fyodor Shalyapin, bass, the first People's Artist of the Republic, 1911.03.10.1911#5851670
Composer Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) (left in the background) writing down lyre playing. 01.05.1908#55632
Vladimir Stasov was an outstanding art historian, art and music critic. For more than 50 years he worked at the Public Library in St Petersburg. In 1872 he was appointed head of the Art Department, then repeatedly served as head of the library. He was one of the most influential figures in the artistic life of the post-reform era, an ideologist of the Peredvizhniki Society and the Mighty Handful.20.04.1900#8762872
People's Artist of the RSFSR Leonid Sobinov as Lensky in the opera "Eugene Onegin" by Peter Tchaikovsky. Reproduction of 1900 photo.13.01.1900#367724
In May 1893 Pyotr Tchaikovsky was conferred upon the honorary title of Doctor of Music by the Cambridge University. Pyotr Tchaikovsky wears a gown of the university doctor. Courtesy of Pyotr Tchaikovsky House and Museum in Klin.01.05.1893#5646327
Russian composer Pyotr Tchaikovsky (third right in the first row) among teachers of the Kharkov Music School.01.02.1893#70229
Moscow state conservatory professors: Sergei Taneev (left) and Alexander Goldenreiser (right) playing music in Yasnaya Polyana at the Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy's place. 01.01.1890#91463
Composer Peter Tchaikovsky, 2nd right foreground, with Tiflis music school professors21.04.1887#65207
The Tchaikovsky family in 1848. Leftmost is the would-be composer Pyotr Tchaikovsky. Sitting from left: the composer's mother Alexandra Andreyevna, sister Alexandra, brother Ippolit, father Ilya Petrovich; sister Zinaida and brother Nikolai are standing. The Tchaikovsky House Museum, Klin.04.03.1848#377884
