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THE WORLD-FAMOUS ORIGINAL
Don Cossack Chorus Serge Jaroff

Karp Peter Mikhalenkoff

Karp Peter Mikhalenkoff
(May, 26 1898 - June, 14 1940)

Karp Peter Mikhalenkoff was born 1898 in Gapkine in the Don province as the son of a Russian priest; he died in Brooklyn in June 1940 after an illness lasting several weeks.

During the world war he served as a Sotnik (Lieutenant) in a cossack regiment. He left Russia after the revolution in 1917 and fled to France.

There he worked in the Cossack refugee student fund.

When the choir gave concerts in Paris, he sang in the choir, and that same week he left for a tour and stayed with the choir for almost 2,000 concerts!

Karp was a member of the choir from around 1930-1937, voice range tenor. He also worked as a manager and secretary in the choir.

In 1937 he left the choir and became assistant director at the New York Music School Settlement, later he was director for two years until his death in 1940. Later a scholarship fund was set up there in his honor.

He was married to Isabel Alliger (1889-1987), he always believed throughout his life that his relatives in Russia had been murdered by the revolutionaries.









Clipping from «The Brooklyn Daily Eagle», June 15, 1940:
https://img4.newspapers.com/image/53862488


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