Why did he only make two recordings?

On a Rubini LP from the 1970s there was a title, different from this one. I remember the notes said that the echoing sound was because it had been recorded in a hotel room. The recording quality seemed very different from this recording and I think it might have been a private electrical recording.

http://www.biografija.ru/show_bio.aspx?id=90331

Quote: Recorded in St.-Petersburg ("Gramophone", 1914), in Japan ("Nipponophone", 1925)

But he made two Gramophone recordings, so the 'Nipponophone' is different.

This is the one that I remember was recorded in a hotel room.
Dargomizhskii The Kiss. The Fair-Haired Maiden. It is on Rubini GV15, Famous Russian Singers Vol 1, LP issued about 1973.
The original record came from the Stuart-Liff collection.

It is not the other Gramophone recording which was a song by Cui.

Now I check and there's no Dargomizhskii opera called the Kiss. But one by Smetana. No aria with that title by either composer.

Look at this link

But I could not find "Fair-Haired Maiden". May be I incorrectly understand it as "Blond Girl" ? Can it be understood as "Well Behaved Maiden" or "Favourite Maiden" using analogy with "Fair-Haired Boy"?

I can't remember after 35 years the music he sang, but now I remember it was a song and not an opera aria. I had assumed the two titles must be opera and aria titles. Could they actually be two different songs? Rubini did mislabel things at times, perhaps omitting a different composer for the second title.

I don't think there is an English idiom using fair hair in this way. (There is one with "Blue-Eyed Boy"). And I'm sure an English translator would not use an idiom to translate a Russian title not much known in the West. So I think, whatever the Russian form is, it means 'Blond Girl' exactly as you say.

Ivan Mozhukhin recorded more 20 titles for 'Nipponophone' - ca 1924-1925. Excepts from Boito's Mefistofele, Judith (Serov), and romances (Dargomyzhky, Shumann, e t.c.). All titles with piano acc. Aria from Mefistofele sung by in Italian, others titles - in Russian. All known records - 25 cm, double/sided.

Иван Мозжухин записал еще больше 20 произведений для "Ниппонофон" - ок.1924-1925г. Арии из "Мефистофеля" Бойто, "Юдифи" Серова, романсы Даргомыжского, Шумана, песни. Ария из Мефистофеля - по итальянски, остальные - по русски, все с акк. фортепиано. Все известные пластинки - 25 см, двусторонние.

Thank you Alec

I don't remember the Dargomyzhskii showed such a wonderful voice, but I'd like to hear more of these records.

MOZHUKHIN's 'Nipponophone':
11409 Midnight Review (Glinka)
11411 Mefistofele (Boito): Ecco il mondo (In Italian)
11412 In Tiefen Kellar (Fisher) Two takes: 11412 and 11412-2
11414 Die Beiden Grenadiere (Schumann)
11415 Im a peasant (Kochetova)
11416 Hey-Hey, Honor to the Fellow (Sokhnovsky)
11417 Song of the Flea (Moussorgsky)
11418 Hawe left is proud we (Dargomizhsky) Two takes: 11418 & 11418-1-x
11425 Judith (Serov): Over the hot steppe
11427 Faust (Gounod): Serenade
11428 Faust (Gounod): Le veau d'or & Invocation des fleurs
11429 Ich Grolle Nicht (Schumann)
11430 The Prisoner (Rubinstein)
11431 Farwell, joy (Siberian prisoner's song, arr.Karatygin)
11433 band *a*: And at Night I Saw all You; band *b*: By the Mill (both: Schubert)
11434 Prince Igor (Borodin): I hate a dreary
11435 The Seminarist (Moussorgsky)
11487 The Old Corporal (Dargomyzhsky)
These titles known for me. Maybe he recorded few others. Im sorry, but I not know original German titles for side 11433.

for the info. But the one that I heard on an LP doesn't seem to be listed here. I wonder where it came from.