Fyodor Stravinsky

8 June] 1843, estate Novy Dvor (Aleksichi), Rechitsky Uyezd, Minsk Governorate  – 4 December [O.S.

His father Ignacy was a Catholic and came from a noble Polish family of Sulima-Strawiński[b]; his mother, Alexandra Ivanovna Skorokhodova, was a daughter of a Russian small landowner.

He was hailed as the successor to Osip Petrov, he was renowned for his outstanding dramatic talent as an actor, and he was considered the leading bass at the Imperial Opera.

Stravinsky created a number of roles in operas by Tchaikovsky: He also appeared in the premiere performance of Nikolai Soloviev's Cordelia (24 November 1880, St. Petersburg),[4] and created the role of Moroz (King Frost) in Rimsky-Korsakov's opera The Snow Maiden (1882; his son Igor studied under Rimsky-Korsakov).

Fyodor Stravinsky died in 1902 and was buried in the Artist's Cemetery in the Alexander Nevsky Monastery in Saint Petersburg.