Konstantin Boguslavsky
Konstantin Boguslavsky (21 May [2 June] 1895 – 24 November 1937) was a Ukrainian Soviet composer, choirmaster, and bass singer. He was born in Pavlivka, in Bohodukhiv County of the Kharkiv Governorate, into a family of hereditary clergymen. His father, Yevhen Bohoslovsky, was a deacon at the Church of Saints Peter and Paul.
Boguslavsky studied at the Kharkiv Theological Seminary. From 1915 he took private singing lessons with the opera singer Pyotr Golubev, and in the early 1920s he studied composition with Semion Bohatyrev at the Kharkiv Conservatory. He also gave concerts with Nikolai Fomenko.
From 1922 to 1933, he directed the choir of the Kharkiv School of Red Commanders and worked as a music editor at Kharkiv Radio. He died on 24 November 1937.
Boguslavsky wrote several operas, choral works, more than 300 songs, songs and choruses for schoolchildren, and arrangements of Ukrainian folk songs. His output includes the folk-themed string quartet Komaryk, the children’s opera-game Andryusha the Cossack (1930), and the musical comedies The Godfather and The Night Before Christmas.