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Conductor Serge Koussevitsky was born in Vyshni Volochek, Russia, on July 26, 1874. As a child he studied music in Moscow, mainly the double bass, and it wasn't long before he was considered a virtuoso on the instrument; while still a teenager he gave concerts not only in Russia but in Germany and England.
In addition to studying music, he also studied conducting. He made his debut as a conductor in Berlin in 1908. The next year he organized his own orchestra in Moscow and later that year started a music publishing company, which eventually published works by Sergei Prokofiev, Igor Stravinsky, Sergei Rachmaninoff and other notable composers. In the years between 1910 and 1914 he and his orchestra toured small towns up and down the Volga River, bringing to many of the residents the type of music that they had never heard before.
After the Russian Revolution of 1917, Koussevitsky was appointed director of the State Symphony Orchestra in Petrograd (later renamed Leningrad). He left Russia in 1920 for Paris to organize concerts; he stayed in France until 1924, when he moved to the US and settled in Boston, where he was hired to lead the Boston Symphony Orchestra. He remained its conductor and director until he retired in 1949 (he became an American citizen in 1941). Over the 25 years he was in Boston he was responsible for the premieres of the works of many major American composers, such as Aaron Copland and Walter Piston.
In 1934 he began the annual Berkshire Symphonic Festival (now known as the Berkshire Festival), a series of outdoor concerts by the Boston Symphony. Starting in 1938 the concerts were held in Tanglewood, an estate in Lenox, Massachusetts. In 1940 he founded the Berkshire Music Center at Tanglewood, a summer school where promising musical students would work with and be taught by prominent musicians.
He died in Boston on June 4, 1951.- Ivan Dmitriyev was a Russian character actor known as Gorelov in the criminal drama Krutye gorki (1956) by director Nikolai Rozantsev.
He was born Ivan Petrovich Dmitriyev on 30 July 1915, in Vyshny Volochiok, Tver Province, Russia. From 1932 to 1936 he studied acting under the legendary Yuri Yuriev at the Leningrad Institute of Theatre, Music, and Cinematography, graduating with honors in 1936. That same year he made his stage debut in the Lermontov's "Masquerade" by director Vsevolod Meyerhold.
Ivan Dmitriyev had a stellar career as a stage actor. For several years he worked at various stage companies in Leningrad, such as, Theatre of Comedy and Theatre of the Baltic Fleet. From 1948 to 1973 he was a permanent member of the troupe and the leading actor at the Theatre of Komissarzhevskoi in St. Petersburg. There his stage partners were such actors as Alisa Freyndlikh, Galina Korotkevich, Ivan Krasko, Vladimir Chestnokov, Valentina Chemberg, Tamara Abrosimova, Natalya Chetverikova, Tatiana Samarina, Sergey Boyarskiy, Nikolay Boyarskiy, Yefim Kamenetsky, Mikhail Khrabrov, Stanislav Landgraf, Georgiy Korolchuk, Vladimir Osobik, Boris Sokolov, Petr Shelokhonov, and other notable Russian actors. There, Ivan Dmitriyev made memorable appearances in various classic and contemporary plays under such directors, as Leonid Vivyen, Aleksandr Belinsky, Zinovi Korogodsky, Igor Vladimirov and Ruben Agamirzyan.
From 1974 to 2000 he was a permanent member of the troupe and the leading actor of the Pushkin Drama Theatre in Leningrad (St. Petersburg). There his stage partners were such remarkable actors as Nikolay Cherkasov, Nikolai Simonov, Vasiliy Merkurev, Konstantin Skorobogatov, Yuriy Tolubeev, Aleksandr Borisov, Bruno Frejndlikh, Vladimir Chestnokov, Vladimir Erenberg, Konstantin Adashevsky, Leonid Vivyen, Olga Lebzak, Nina Mamaeva, Lidiya Shtykan, Nina Urgant, Igor Gorbachyov, and other notable Russian actors. His most memorable stage appearance was as Satin in "The Lower Depths" by Maxim Gorky. Besides his appearance as Gorelov in the criminal drama Krutye gorki (1956) by director Nikolai Rozantsev, Dmitriev also appeared in several memorable supporting roles, such as, Starpom in Striped Trip (1961) and as Varentsov in criminal drama Menya eto ne kasaetsya (1976) by director Gerbert Rappaport.
Ivan Dmitriyev was designated People's Artist of the USSR (1980). He also taught acting as professor at the Institute of Theatre, Music, and Cinematography. He died of a heart failure on 23 October 2003, in St. Petersburg, and was laid to rest in the Necropolis of Masters of Art "Literatorskie Mostki" at the Volkovo Cemetery in St. Petersburg, Russia. - Lidija Franklin was born on 17 May 1917 in Vyshny Volochyok, Russia. She was an actress, known for Producers' Showcase (1954). She was married to Gustavo Franklin. She died on 5 December 2019 in Caracas, Venezuela.
- Yuriy Borisov was born on 31 December 1956 in Vyshny Volochyok, Kalinin Oblast, RSFSR, USSR [now Tver Oblast, Russia].
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Leonid Lyubashevsky was born on 26 December 1892 in Vyshny Volochyok, Tver Governorate, Russian Empire [now Tver Oblast, Russia]. He was an actor and writer, known for Yakov Sverdlov (1940), V dni oktyabrya (1958) and Baltic Deputy (1937). He died on 1 March 1975 in Leningrad, RSFSR, USSR [now St. Petersburg, Russia].- Valentina Karavayeva was born on 21 May 1921 in Vyshny Volochyok, Vyshnevolotsky uyezd, Tver Governorate, RSFSR [now Tver Oblast, Russia]. She was an actress, known for Mashenka (1942), Boyevoy kinosbornik 13: Nashi devushki (1942) and Povest o pervoy lyubvi (1957). She died on 25 December 1997 in Moscow, Russia.
- Nikolai Chistyakov was born on 29 November 1890 in Vyshny Volochyok, Tverskaya guberniya, Russian Empire. He was an actor, known for Girl Without an Address (1958), Bezumnyy den (1956) and Ubiystvo na ulitse Dante (1956). He died on 28 January 1966 in Moscow, USSR.