Dmitri Pokrovsky

Dmitri Pokrovsky

Dmitri Viktorovich Pokrovsky (Russian: Дмитрий Викторович Покровский, 3 May 1944  – 29 June 1996) was a Russian folk music researcher and musician best known for his efforts to rediscover authentic and often near extinct rural musical traditions from many different regions of Russia and re-enacting them with the Dmitri Pokrovsky Ensemble.

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• The Dmitri Pokrovsky Ensemble
• Orbituary: Kozinn, Allan (July 3, 1996), "Dmitri Pokrovsky, 52, Singer And Russian Ethnomusicologist", The New York Times

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