He was Born into a
peasant family. He graduated from a theological school and a theological
seminary in Penza. In 1900 he entered the Moscow Philharmonic School of Music
and Drama, where he studied violin until 1903, teachers prof. M. I. Press and
V. Bezekirsky. For the last year and a half of his studies there, he
simultaneously took singing lessons from the singer prof. Y. Vishnevetskaya. Then
he began his artistic career, performing in 1903 in a charity performance on
the stage of the Moscow Bolshoi Theater as Ivan Susanin in "A Life for the
Tsar " by M. Glinka. In 1904 he performed in Penza on the stage of the
Summer Theater. Since that time, since 1904, he took part in concerts of the
Circle of Russian Music Lovers. He entered the vocal department at the Moscow
Conservatory (teacher M. Medvedev ). However, without completing his studies,
in 1905 he began performing in private opera houses.
His career was
developed as follows:
1906-1907 - M. K.
Maksakov's entreprise, on the stage of the Moscow Solodovnikov Theater.
1908, 1909 - in Kazan
Winter 1909-1910 - in
Saratov, Samara (as Boris Godunov); later he came on tour as part of the Yuzhin
enterprise.
1909 - made his debut
as Melnik in A. Dargomyzhsky 's Rusalka at the Bolshoi Theater.
1910 - in Tiflis.
1911-1914 or before
1921 - in St. Petersburg (Theater of Musical Drama). Since 1914 he
performed mainly as a chamber singer.
1915-1920 - toured a
lot, sang in the troupe of the permanent opera house under the direction of D.
Kh. Yuzhin.
In 1921 he organized
the Society of Chamber Music Lovers, where he taught.
1922-1923 - in
Moscow, Zimin's Opera.
1923 - in Petrograd
(People's House), Yekaterinburg.
He performed a number
of concerts abroad together with the accompanist-wife of K. Carini:
May - September
1923-1924 - a tour of Europe: Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Germany, Belgium,
France, England, Italy.
October 1923 - May
1924 - in America.
1924-1925 - in China
(Shanghai) and Japan (Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto).
1925 - in Tiflis and
Baku.
From 1926 he lived
abroad, in exile, where he continued his musical activity, performing both in
opera performances and in concerts. Collaborated with the Russian émigré opera
troupe A. Tsereteli.
He was buried in the
cemetery Cemetery Sainte-Genevieve-des-Bois.
His widow Cleo
Carini, returning to Russia from Paris, brought archival materials (over 5
thousand documents) and the singer's things, which are now kept in the Russian
State Archive of Literature and Art ( f. 2625), in the Bakhrushin Museum
(Moscow) and the Penza Regional Museum of Local Lore.
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