Nikolai Shishkin (

Kursk Kursk ( rus, Курск, p=ˈkursk) is a city and the administrative center of Kursk Oblast, Russia, located at the confluence of the Kur, Tuskar, and Seym rivers. The area around Kursk was the site of a turning point in the Soviet–German stru ...

, 1845-1911) was a

Ruska Roma The Ruska Roma (russian: Руска́ Рома́), also known as Russian Gypsies (russian: Русские цыгане) or ''Xaladitka Roma'' (russian: Халадытка Рома, translit=Khaladytka Roma, ''i.e.'' "Roma-Soldiers"), are the ...

guitarist and singer in the

Sokolovsky Gypsy choir The Sokolovsky gypsy choir (Russian "Соколовский хор") was founded by Count Orlov-Chesmensky in the 1770s who called on Ivan Sokolov, leader of the Roma among his serfs, to perform at his estate outside Moscow. The enslaved Roma peopl ...

(Соколовский хор). After the death of choir leader Grigory Sokolov Shishkin he led the choir and inherited the role of lead ''sokolovskaya'' guitar. He was a composer and arranger of Russian songs and one of several Romani singer-composer arrangers from Kursk called Shishkin. He is not to be confused with A. I. Shishkin (А. И. Шишкин, fl.1887) composer of the romance ''"No, it's not you I love so fervently"'' (Russian «Нет, не тебя так пылко я люблю») set to the words of

Lermontov Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov (; russian: Михаи́л Ю́рьевич Ле́рмонтов, p=mʲɪxɐˈil ˈjurʲjɪvʲɪtɕ ˈlʲɛrməntəf; – ) was a Russian Romantic writer, poet and painter, sometimes called "the poet of the Caucas ...

.'' There is also a contemporary singer called Nikolai Shishkin.

Songs

* "Listen if you wish" «Слушайте, если хотите». * "Bright is the night" «Ночь светла». In the catalog of the

National Library of Russia The National Library of Russia (NLR, russian: Российская национальная библиотека}), located in Saint Petersburg, is the first, and one of three national public libraries in Russia. The NLR is currently ranked amo ...

the only edition of this song attributed to "Shishkin" actually attributes to "Mikhail Shishkin", although this could just indicate the arranger, as with the song ''Sharaban'' ("Шарабан"). The lyricist is often miscatalogued in Russian sources as "M. Yazykov" (муз. Н. Шишкина, ст. М. Языкова = Николай Михайлович Языков) who lived half a century later. The actual author is Yakov Prigozhi (Яков Пригожий, 1840-1920), pianist at the Moscow restaurant

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(" Яр"). Prigozhi made many arrangements of Gypsy melodies.

References

1845 births 1911 deaths Russian male composers Russian Romani people Romani guitarists Romani singers 19th-century male singers from the Russian Empire 19th-century guitarists {{Russia-singer-stub