Nikolai Sergeyevich Zverev was a Russian pianist and teacher known for his pupils Alexander Siloti, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Alexander Scriabin, Konstantin Igumnov, Alexander Goldenweiser, and others.
Zverev (center) and the students he housed, from left to right, Samuelson, Scriabin, Maximov, Rachmaninoff, Chernyaev, Keneman, and Pressman.
Image: Nikolai Zverev
Alexander Ilyich Siloti was a Russian virtuoso pianist, conductor and composer.
Siloti (left) with Tchaikovsky (right).