Eugène-Auguste Ysaÿe was a Belgian violinist, composer, and conductor. He was regarded as "The King of the Violin", or, as his former student Nathan Milstein put it, the "tsar".
Nathan Milstein
…Petersburg in June 1917." Additionally, Milstein's name does not appear in the registry of the St. Petersburg Conservatory. Milstein also studied with Eugène Ysaÿe in Belgium. In the documentary Nathan Milstein – In Portrait, Milstein told director Christopher Nupen that he learned very little from Ysaÿe but greatly…
Eugène Ysaÿe, around 1915
Ber Zalkind. "Cartoon of Violinist Eugène Ysaÿe" (1913)
Eugène Ysaÿe in Russia, 1883
Eugène Ysaÿe's grave in Brussels (Ixelles Cemetery)