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Borys Mykolayovych Lyatoshynsky (January 3, 1895 - April 15, 1968) was a composer, conductor, teacher, and leading member of the new generation of twentieth century Ukrainian composers. Borys Lyatoshynsky was born in Zhytomyr (also the birthplace of Sviatoslav Richter), in the Russian Empire (now Ukraine). His father, Mykola Leontiyovych Lyatoshynsky, was a history teacher and was an activist in historical studies. He was also the director of various gymnasiums in Zhytomyr, Nemyriv, and Zlatopol. Lyatoshynsky's mother played the piano well and sang. Lyatoshynsky started out playing piano and violin. At 14, he wrote a few musical pieces including a mazurka...

The prominent opera singer, composer, dancer Boris Rubashkin has been popularizing the Russian songs and the Russian culture all over the world all his life. He was born in Bulgaria (17.6.1932) to a family of Don Cossack Semen Chernorubashkin (his real name is Boris Chernorubashkin) and Bulgarian woman Teodora Lilova. Over 50,000 Russians escaped to Bulgaria in the Soviet era. The White Guard emigration has become his "collective teacher". He never lived in Russia, but his father and Russian emigrants inculcated the love for this country in him forever. If he didn't have this love to Russia, he wouldn't be...