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Title: Maxim Panteleieff papers
Date (inclusive): 1917-1952
Collection Number: 2001C13
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material: In Russian and English
Physical Description:
1 microfilm reel
(0.15 Linear Feet)
Creator:
Panteleieff, Maxim, 1887-1958
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives
The collection is open for research; materials must be requested in advance via our reservation system. If there are audiovisual
or digital media material in the collection, they must be reformatted before providing access.
For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Materials were acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 2001
[Identification of item], Maxim Panteleieff Papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Originals in: Museum of Russian Culture, San Francisco.
| 1887 | Born, Russia |
| 1914 | Made his debut in "Faust" |
| 1914-1918 | Sang in the Musical Drama Theater in St. Petersburg, Russia |
| 1918 | Left Russia for a concert tour of China and Japan |
| 1922 | Toured the United States with the Russian Art Grand Opera Company |
| 1958 | Died, United States(?) |
M. P. Panteleieff was a baritone who had a successful career in Russia and the United States. Born in 1887, he began his operatic
career in the Musical Drama Theater of St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1914, where he played the part of Valentine in Gounaud's
version of"Faust." In 1918, he left Russia to tour the Far East, eventually gravitating to the west coast of the United States.
Early in the 1920s he founded the Russian Grand Opera Company, which gave performances across the U.S.
Panteleieff himself appeared as Boris Godunov in the opera of the same name, as the demon in Anton Rubenstein's composition
based on Lermontov's poem, as King Dodon in Rimsky-Korsakoff's "Le Coq d'Or," and in many other roles. Critics consistently
extolled his performances and some even compared him to Fedor Shaliapin. After many years of touring with Russian opera companies,
he died in the United States in 1958.
Maxim (Max) Panteleieff was an opera baritone and the founder-director of the Russian Art Grand Opera Company, which toured
the United States and other countries. He was well known for his concert and oratorio appearances throughout the United States,
Europe, and the Orient. This collection contains programs of his performances, clippings about him and the Russian Art Grand
Opera Company, as well as photographs of him in different opera costumes.
Detailed processing and preservation microfilming for these materials were made possible by a generous grant from the National
Endowment for the Humanities and by matching funds from the Hoover Institution and Museum of Russian Culture. The grant also
provides depositing a microfilm copy in the Hoover Institution Library & Archives. The original materials remain in the Museum
of Russian Culture, San Francisco as its property. A transfer table indicating corresponding box and reel numbers is available
at the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
The Hoover Institution assumes all responsibility for notifying users that they must comply with the copyright law of the
United States (Title 17 United States Code) and Hoover Rules for the Use and Reproduction of Archival Materials.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Russians -- United States
Opera
Russian Art Grand Opera Company