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| {{picture|file=Kondratyev_Gennady.jpg|caption='''Gennady Kondratyev''' (1834–1905)}}
| | Nikolay Kondratyev (1832-1887) |
| Russian baritone (b. 5/17 February 1834; d. 1905), born '''''Gennady Petrovich Kondratyev''''' (Геннадий Петрович Кондратьев).
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| 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.
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| ==Correspondence with Tchaikovsky==
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| One letter from Tchaikovsky to Gennady Kondratyev has survived, dating from 1886, and has been translated into English on this website:
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| * '''[[Letter 3100]]''' – 14/26 November 1886, from [[Maydanovo]].
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| 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).
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| ==Bibliography==
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| * {{bib|1940/113}} (1940)
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| ==External Links===
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| * [[wikipedia:ru:Кондратьев,_Геннадий_Петрович|Wikipedia]] (Russian)
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| [[Category:People|Kondratyev, Gennady]]
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| [[Category:Correspondents|Kondratyev, Gennady]]
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| [[Category:Singers|Kondratyev, Gennady]]
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