I appreciate all the previous contributions about the identity of
Khvoshchinsky.  Some details were not known to me and are helpful for
the planned revised edition of the Dangel/Schmitz catalog of European
Welte-Mignon rolls.

John Cowles' notice in 200612 Digest was supplemented by Robbie's
link to a YouTube performance of Khvoshchinsky's composition Mazurka
Op.8 No.3.  There we find the Mazurka is dedicated to Monsieur Basile
Pokrovsky (the name there also in Cyrillic letters).  This person might
be a musician and identical with W. Pokrowsky, who recorded 3 rolls for
Welte (numbers 2045, 2046, and 2049) in St. Petersburg in January 1910.

An Ivan Vasilyevich Pokrovsky is mentioned as an older friend of
Stravinsky. He worked as a music teacher in St. Petersburg, but it is
assumed that he died of consumption in 1906 (Stravinsky and the Russian
Traditions, vol. I,  p. 307-308).

Could any reader help with some biographical details on this Welte
artist and has any collector the Welte roll no. 2046 (Rubinstein: Album
de Peterhof, Prelude), which was never released on the European
continent, but in Great Britain only.

Hans-W. Schmitz,
Stuttgart, Germany

 [ two rolls by Pokrowsky
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