Senia Shostiakoff (Chostiakoff), Russian tenor of the Don Cossack Choir, photographs and papers, wit...
Senia Shostiakoff (Chostiakoff), Russian tenor of the Don Cossack Choir, photographs and papers, with notes by Alla Kamarelli, ca. 1915-2007
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Date
ca. 1915-2007
Call Numbers
PXA 1164
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Physical Description
Contents
45 photographic prints - ca. 29 x 35 cm. or smaller - gelatin silver
10 photomechanical prints - 9 x 14 cm. - postcards
Textual records (1 box) - clippings, ephemera, manuscript, music, poster, printed, programs, typescript
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Scope and Contents
Contents
BOX 1
Photographs of Senia Shostiakoff, friends and family, the Don Cossack Choir
BOX 2
Textual records, including letters from Kamarelli to John Cargher, his reply, sheet music, Kamarelli's notes on Shostiakoff's life, newspaper clippings and programs for Shostiakoff's performances, Kamarelli's notebook detailing press citatio...
Alternative Titles
Full title
Senia Shostiakoff (Chostiakoff), Russian tenor of the Don Cossack Choir, photographs and papers, with notes by Alla Kamarelli, ca. 1915-2007
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Artists
Notes
Signature / Inscriptions
Some of the postcards inscribed in Russian
Photographers' stamps
Various photographers
Description source
Reference:
Entertaining Australia : an illustrated history / Katharine Brisbane (ed.). Sydney : Currency Press, 1991 (p.205)
Contextual Information
Source
Presented by Alla Kamaralli, February 2006
Administrative / Biographical history
Senia Shostiakoff was born Semon Holostiakov in Orel, Russia, ca. 1900. His father was a colonel and by the age of 14 he was fighting the Germans in the Great War. He later became part of the Don Cossack Choir of White Russians when they were formed in one of the allied camps at Gallipoli in 1922. On the way to perform with the Choir in western Eur...
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
PXA 1164
Record Identifier
9arpMDAn
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/9arpMDAn
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Reference code
826099
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