Wassily von Kwetzinsky-Stetzenkow (born 26 August or 7 September 1898 in

Nikolsk-Ussuriysky Ussuriysk (russian: Уссури́йск) is a types of inhabited localities in Russia, city in Primorsky Krai, Russia, located in the fertile valley of the Razdolnaya River, north of Vladivostok, the administrative center of the krai, and about ...

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, died 17 November 1970 in

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, Norway) (russian: Василий Михайлович Квецинский; Vasily Mikhailovich Kvetsinsky) was a Russian-born Norwegian music critic and writer. He came to

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in 1920 as a refugee from the

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together with his father, General

Mikhail Kvetsinsky :''Kvetsinsky leads here. For the Polish variant, see Kwieciński'' Mikhail Fyodorovich Kvetsinsky (russian: Михаи́л Фёдорович Квецинский) (January 3, 1866 – March 31, 1923), also known as Michael (von) Kwetzinsky ...

.Russisk flagg i et norsk kloster
" ''Hellige Nikolai Menighets Blad'', No. 3, pp. 12–13, 2009 He served in the Russian Army where he became a captain in the

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Chasseur Regiment on 25 September 1917. In July 1919 he joined the

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during the

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, where he served with his father, who was Chief of Staff to Governor-General

Yevgeny Miller Eugen Ludwig Müller (russian: Евге́ний-Лю́двиг Ка́рлович Ми́ллер, tr. ; 25 September 1867 – 11 May 1939), better known as Yevgeny Miller, was a Russian general of Baltic German origin and one of the leaders of t ...

. In December 1919 he evacuated to Finland, and in the following year he came to Norway. His father died as a cab driver and brewery labourer at

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in Norway in 1923. Wassily von Kwetzinsky wrote a series of articles on the Russian Revolution in Norwegian newspapers in 1920 and 1921. He was a teacher of

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at the

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from 1929 to 1948, and became known as a music critic and cultural figure. He was also active as a composer, translator from Russian and author of crime fiction set in Russia."En pioner fyller 60 år," ''

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'', 6 September 1958 p. 7 He became a Norwegian citizen under the legal name Wassily von Kwetzinsky-Stetzenkow, and was usually known as Wassily von Kwetzinsky, often in an abbreviated form, e.g. W. v. Kwetzinsky. He was the grandfather of the pianist

Joachim Kwetzinsky Joachim Victor Birkeland Kjelsaas von Kwetzinsky-Stetzenkow (born 8 April 1978), known as Joachim Kwetzinsky, is a Norwegian pianist. Background He is a son of the author Oddbjørn Birkeland and the pianist Berit Kjelsaas Kwetzinsky, and a steps ...

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