Blaramberg, Pavel Ivanovich

Blaramberg [Bluhrimbyérk], Pavel Ivanovich (9–14/26–1841, Orenburg; 3–15/28–1907, Nice). Studied pf with Balakirev and theory with A. A. Herke . In 1860 grad. from the Aleksandrovskiy Lyceum in P. Worked in the Statistical Dept. of the Russian Geographic Soc.; also was chief of the foreign section of the newspaper Russkiye vedomosti (from 1876). Taught at the Mus.-Dramatic Sch. of the M. Philh. Soc. (1883–98), then lived in the Crimea and France. Among his...