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Nikolay Kondratyev (1832-1887)
Russian baritone (b. 5/17 February 1834; d. 1905), born '''''Gennady Petrovich Kondratyev''''' (Геннадий Петрович Кондратьев).
 
As a youth Kondratyev was in the Aleksandrinsky Academy and the [[Pavlovsk]] Military School, where he sang in the chorus, learned to play the violin and cello, and conducted the in-house orchestra. He left military school in 1856, and went to Italy to train as a singer in [[Milan]], later touring in [[Florence]]. He began his stage career in [[Tiflis]] in 1863, and made his debut in the Russian Opera in [[Saint Petersburg]] two years later in [[Glinka]]'s ''Ruslan and Lyudmila''. From 1872 until 1900 he was the chief director of the Imperial Theatres in [[Saint Petersburg]], and in his capacity as director he oversaw the premiere of Tchaikovsky's opera '' [[The Queen of Spades]]'' at the Mariinsky Theatre in 1890.
 
==Correspondence with Tchaikovsky==
One letter from Tchaikovsky to Gennady Kondratyev has survived, dating from 1886, and has been translated into English on this website:
* '''[[Letter 3100]]''' – 14/26 November 1886, from [[Maydanovo]].
 
5 letters from Kondratyev to the composer, dating from 1884 to 1892, are preserved in the {{RUS-KLč}} at [[Klin]] (a{{sup|4}}, Nos. 1534–1538).
 
==Bibliography==
* {{bib|1940/113}} (1940)
 
==External Links===
* [[wikipedia:ru:Кондратьев,_Геннадий_Петрович|Wikipedia]] (Russian)
 
[[Category:People|Kondratyev, Gennady]]
[[Category:Correspondents|Kondratyev, Gennady]]
[[Category:Singers|Kondratyev, Gennady]]

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Nikolay Kondratyev (1832-1887)