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By the late 1880s
Komissarzhevsky's second marriage had also foundered, and he was to spend the rest of his life essentially alone, although he frequently corresponded with his first wife and with his daughter Vera, who would also visit him as much as she could. Towards the end of his life he wrote
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Russian Department of Taxation. However, after three years and against the wishes of his father, he gave up his career as a lawyer to study singing in Italy with Pietro Repetto. He then sang, under the name "Teodoro di Pietro", in Milan, Rome, Florence and Genoa, as well as in Odessa,
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in 1910, while on a theatrical tour. Olga lived in Paris for a while and became a sculptor of some note. She returned to Russia in 1910 and after 1914 disappeared while serving as a missionary. Nadezhda also became an actress. Known as
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Vera!? To say that she is often in my thoughts... would be an understatement, for never a moment passes without my thinking of her! My whole being rests on my feelings and my thoughts about her. She is to my spirit what air is to physical existence! Human being, friend, daughter, sister,
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403:"Teodoro Komisarjevsky di Pietro. Artista lirico dell'opera italiana e dell'opera imperiale a Pietroburgo, professore al conservatorio di Mosca e combattente nelle legioni garibaldine, morì sul suolo della sua amata Italia"
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Madrid, Barcelona, and even Rio de
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as small but with a "velvety timbre" and as a singer was known for not only for his clear diction and beautiful phrasing but also for his skill as an actor. He was the father of the actress
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Gaideburov, ran a travelling theatre troupe and a successful theatre in Moscow. She also acted in several early
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