Basil Bolotin became a member of the Don Cossack Chorus Serge Jaroff in 1929 an was soloist there over 50 years.

http://www.russian-records.com/articles.php?article=zharoff-bernikov/member/bolotine&cat_id=367&l=english

I can document Bolotin's presence in the choir till about 1968, but no later. Was he in the final concert in Paris in 1979? He would have been 84 by then!

Wassily Flustikoff (born 1902) was, I suppose, the oldest member beside Serge Jaroff (born 1896) at the Farewell Tour 1971/72.

http://russian-records.com/articles.php?article=zharoff-bernikov/member/flustikoff&cat_id=367&l=english

I don't know whether Basile Bolotine was there at the 1979 concert in Paris. I have never seen a photo or a members list of that concert.

So the information that Bolotine was a member 50 years since 1929 could be wrong.

Complete matrix number is 808 bm, recorded late 1927/early 1928 in Berlin.

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Complete matrix number is 808 bm, recorded late 1927/early 1928 in Berlin.

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Thank you! Is the original matrix Polydor or Gramophone ?

"Polydor" was an export label of Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft for outside Germany (like "Nordisk Polyphon" for Scandinavian countries). The label "Grammophon" was only sold in Germany, as this trade mark (for the international market) belonged to the British Gramophone Company.

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"Polydor" was an export label of Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft for outside Germany (like "Nordisk Polyphon" for Scandinavian countries). The label "Grammophon" was only sold in Germany, as this trade mark (for the international market) belonged to the British Gramophone Company.

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Thank you, I will reformat the Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaf catalog.

you can correct the date to
Berlin February 1928
for all sides of the session

Thank you, Rainer!
I will do it through the "back door" when I come back from the vacation.