Bohuslavsky, Kostiantyn

Bohuslavsky, Kostiantyn [Богуславський, Костянтин; Bohuslavs'kyj, Kostjantyn], b 21 May 1895 in the village of Pavlivka, Kharkiv gubernia, d 7 December 1943 in exile. Composer, singer (bass), and conductor. Bohuslavsky studied at the Kharkiv Conservatory. In 1922–33 he conducted the Red Army Officers’ School Choir. He wrote over 300 works of choral music, a string quartet based on the folk song The Mosquito, the children's operas Andriiko the Cossack and The Clock, musical comedies, and arrangements of folk songs. He was exiled in 1933.

[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 1 (1984).]