Tamara Tsereteli

Tamara Semyonovna Tsereteli (Georgian: თამარ წერეთელი, Russian: Тама́ра Семёновна Церете́ли, 14 August 1900, in Sveri, Kutais Governorate, Georgia, Russian Empire – 3 April 1968, in Moscow, USSR) was a Georgian Russian singer, contralto, who specialized in the Russian romance and was the first to record in 1925 Boris Fomin's "Dorogoi dlinnoyu".^[1][2]

Tamara Semyonovna Tsereteli
Born	თამარ წერეთელი Тамара Семёновна Церетели (1900-08-14)14 August 1900 Kutais Governorate, Georgia, Russian Empire
Died	3 April 1968(1968-04-03) (aged 67) Moscow, USSR
Alma mater	Tbilisi State University
Occupation	singer
Years active	1923-1960

In the 1920s the singer's repertoire consisted largely of the songs written for, and dedicated to her by her mentor and partner Boris Prozorovsky, a prominent romance author, arrested in 1933 and executed in 1937 during the Great Purge. Tsereteli who gave more than 5500 concerts in her lifetime, retired in 1960.^[3][4]