Victor Fasolt

(1891 - 1944)

 

Sofia (Onya) Dmitrievna Nabokov

(1899 - 1982)

 

 

Marina Ledkovsky (née Fasolt)

Boris Mikhailovich Ledkovsky

(German spelling Ledkowsky)

bd. 12 May 1924, Berlin

Professor of Slavic languages and literatures at Barnard College/Columbia University (retired in 1996), living in New York State

Book publications The Other Turgenev (1973) and Dictionary of Russian Women Writers (1994)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

bd. 9 May 1894, Agrafenovka near Novo-Cherkassk

dd. 6 Aug 1975, New York

Musician, composer, conductor. Volunteered for the White Army and on its demobilization emigrated to Sophia, Bulgaria, where he directed several church choirs. In 1937 he founded the Black Sea Cossacks which toured Germany until 1941. After WWII he was conductor of the Berlin Resurrection Cathedral Choir in East Berlin; moved over to West Berlin in 1948, reorganizing the Black Sea Cossacks. In 1951, he moved to New York City with his wife and his three children to become choir director at the Synod Cathedral. Professor of Orthodox liturgical music at St.Vladimir's Seminary

 

 

Children:

Alexander Ledkovsky

Dimitri Ledkovsky

Tatiana Selivonik (née Ledkovsky)

Michael Ledkovsky


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