Alexander Nikolayevich Vertinsky (Russian: Ð Ð»ÐµÐºÑ Ð°Ð½Ð´Ñ€
Риколаевич Ð'ÐµÑ€Ñ‚Ð¸Ð½Ñ ÐºÐ¸Ð¹, 21 March [O.S. 9 March]
1889 â€" 21 May 1957) was Ukrainian and Soviet artist, poet, singer,
composer, cabaret artist and actor who exerted seminal influence on
the Russian tradition of artistic singing.Alexander Vertinsky and his
elder sister Nadezhda were born in Kiev (modern-day Ukraine) out of
wedlock: their parents couldn't marry since his father's first wife
("Varvara, an elderly, evil and unattractive woman") refused a
divorce, so he had to adopt his own children. Both parents belonged to
the Russian Orthodox Church. His father Nikolai Petrovich Vertinsky
(1845â€"1894) came from a railwayman's family. He was a well-known
lawyer â€" according to Alexander, especially popular among poor
people, because he defended them for free and even helped financially,
â€" and an occasional journalist (he published feuilletons under a pen
name Graf Niver).While Alexander considered himself Russian in
general, he recognised his Ukrainian ancestry and Ukrainian as one of
his native languages. In his letters Vertinsky recalled a time when he
was working at Dovzhenko Film Studios and Ukrainian actress Natalia
Uzhviy was surprised to hear his Ukrainian accent:
Риколаевич Ð'ÐµÑ€Ñ‚Ð¸Ð½Ñ ÐºÐ¸Ð¹, 21 March [O.S. 9 March]
1889 â€" 21 May 1957) was Ukrainian and Soviet artist, poet, singer,
composer, cabaret artist and actor who exerted seminal influence on
the Russian tradition of artistic singing.Alexander Vertinsky and his
elder sister Nadezhda were born in Kiev (modern-day Ukraine) out of
wedlock: their parents couldn't marry since his father's first wife
("Varvara, an elderly, evil and unattractive woman") refused a
divorce, so he had to adopt his own children. Both parents belonged to
the Russian Orthodox Church. His father Nikolai Petrovich Vertinsky
(1845â€"1894) came from a railwayman's family. He was a well-known
lawyer â€" according to Alexander, especially popular among poor
people, because he defended them for free and even helped financially,
â€" and an occasional journalist (he published feuilletons under a pen
name Graf Niver).While Alexander considered himself Russian in
general, he recognised his Ukrainian ancestry and Ukrainian as one of
his native languages. In his letters Vertinsky recalled a time when he
was working at Dovzhenko Film Studios and Ukrainian actress Natalia
Uzhviy was surprised to hear his Ukrainian accent:
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