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Writer, composer, folklorist
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Male
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Birth:
23 January 1830(Perm)
Death:
22 April 1889(Saratov)
The details
Biography
Ivan Petrovich Larionov (Russian: Иван Петрович Ларионов) (January 23, 1830 – April 22, 1889) was a Russian composer, writer and folklorist. He is mostly remembered for the famous song "Kalinka", which he wrote in 1860.
Larionov was born to a noble family in Perm, and studied music in Moscow. He died in Saratov in 1889, from stomach cancer.