Leonid Sobinov
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Leonid Vitalyevich Sobinov, born 7 June 1872 and died 14 October 1934 was a Russian operatic tenor. In 1923, he was made a People's Artist of the RSFSR.
Sobinov as Lensky
As Dubrovsky in Dubrovsky (1914)
Anton Rubinstein
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Anton Grigoryevich Rubinstein was a Russian pianist, composer and conductor who founded the Saint Petersburg Conservatory. He was the elder brother of Nikolai Rubinstein, who founded the Moscow Conser
Leonid Sobinov
…the city's Bolshoi Theatre. Following his audition, he was offered a two-year contract at the company. Sobinov debuted at the Bolshoi as the lead in Rubinstein's The Demon, and would go on to appear in Moscow and Saint Petersburg in operas such as Ruslan and Ludmila, Faust, Manon, Prince Igor, Eugene Onegin…
Portrait by Ilya Repin (1887)
Brothers Rubinstein: Nikolai (left) and Anton, 1862
"Van II": Liszt considered Rubinstein to have a physical likeness to Ludwig van Beethoven.
Rubinstein headstone in Tikhvin Cemetery, Saint Petersburg