Archive of Materials Related to Russian-Ukrainian Violinist and Conductor Paul Cherkassky. [ BOSTON POPS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INTEREST ]

[Boston], 1921. The collection consists of letters and correspondence in English, Russian, and Finnish, family photographs, and immigration and other official documents in English, Russian, and Finnish or Swedish. Dates range from the late 19th and early 20th centuries to the 1970s. Some materials may be older. The materials are not arranged in any particular order and photographs from all time periods are somewhat mixed in with each other. Dating is sporadic and many items in the collection are not dated. The collection is contained in one bankers box which holds photographs, albums, negatives, notebooks, journals, passports, immigration documents, and correspondence. [Please inquire for specifics) Paul Cherkassky was a violinist and frequent guest conductor with the Boston Pops and Boston Symphony Orchestra. He was born in 1891 in Odessa, Ukraine (listed in immigration documents as Russia). He traveled in Europe extensively and was invited to play in Finland a number of times. At the start of the October Revolution (Second Russian Revolution), he decided to remain in Finland and become a Finnish citizen. He immigrated to the United States in 1923 and became a naturalized US citizen in 1924.