Всеволод Владимирович Топилин

Vsevolod Vladimirovich Topilin (1908, Yanov, Lublin district, Poland. - 1970, Kiev.) - Russian and Ukrainian pianist, teacher. 1924-1928 - student of the Kharkov Conservatory, piano prof. P.K.Lutsenko (1937 -.? ..) - post-graduate student of the Moscow Conservatory, fellow student of S.T.Rikhter in the piano class, then assistant to G.G. Neuhaus. 1929 - began an active concert activity. From 1930 to 1941 he was mainly accompanist D.F. Oistrakh, and also often performed with M.B. Polyakin, Z.P. Lodiy, French cellist M.Mareschal, and others. tied long-term creative friendship. Laureate of international competitions. 1941 - a member of the Moscow militia, a prisoner of war, was taken to Germany. In Germany he was saved by N.V. Timofeev-Resovsky, having arranged in his genetic laboratory, in which Topilin was listed as an employee until May 1945. 1946 - after voluntarily returning to the USSR, he was repressed, sentenced to death, which was replaced for 10 years in the Kolyma camps (Igarka, Ozerlag), where he worked as a medical assistant. 1954-1956 After his release, he taught and gave concerts in Krasnoyarsk. 1956-1962 taught at the Kharkov Conservatory and in the Kharkov musical ten-year 1962-1970 - professor, head of the special piano department of the Kiev Conservatory. 1967-1968 combined work in Kiev and at the Rostov Musical Pedagogical Institute, later transformed into a conservatory.