Evgeni Mikeladze, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Georgian musician
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Place of Birth: Baku
About Evgeni Mikeladze
- Evgeni Mikeladze (Georgian: ?????? ????????) (July 27, 1903 – 1937) was a leading Georgian orchestra conductor of the 1930s, executed during the Joseph Stalin's Great Purges.
- Born in Baku, Azerbaijan, then part of Imperial Russia, he moved, with his family, to Tbilisi, Georgia in a few years.
- He attended musical classes at the Cadet Corps, Tbilisi Real School and finally entered the Tbilisi National Conservatory.
- Since his childhood, he played various wind instruments, chiefly the trumpet and the French horn, and decided to become a conductor in the mid-1920s.
- He then took courses at the Leningrad State Conservatory under the guidance of eminent Soviet conductors, Nikolai Malko and Aleksandr Gauk.
- Back to Tbilisi in 1931, he quickly gained notability as a talented conductor and a promoter of classical music, and earned appraisal from several Soviet and foreign musicians.
- He organized and led, in 1933, the National Symphony Orchestra of Georgia.
- A year later, he became a chief conductor at the Tbilisi Opera House.
- At the age of 33, he was awarded the title of Honored Artist of the Georgian SSR (1936).
- Mikeladze’s productive career was soon to be abruptly terminated, however.
- He was married to the daughter of Mamia Orakhelashvili, an Old Bolshevik who was purged under Stalin in 1937.
- Mikeladze was also arrested in November 1937 and subjected to forty-eight days of interrogation and torture, being allegedly questioned and beaten also by Lavrentiy Beria.
- Eventually, Mikeladze was sentenced to be shot by the NKVD troika.In a newly independent post-Soviet Georgia, his name has been given to the National Symphony Orchestra founded and led by Mikeladze. His son, Vakhtang Mikeladze, is a documentary film maker currently working for the Channel One.
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