1. Boris Fomin's father Ivan Yakovlevich was a high-ranking army official serving at the State Military control office, who counted Mikhail Lomonosov among his distant relatives.
12 Facts About Boris Fomin
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Boris Fomin had three sisters, Valentina, Lydia and Olga, 8 and 12 years younger, respectively.
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At his father's behest, Boris Fomin joined a realschule but his passion for music was impossible to ignore.
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Boris Fomin's education was disrupted by the 1917 Revolution and later he never attempted to complete it.
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In March 1918, invited personally by Vladimir Lenin to join the military apparatus of the new Bolshevik government, Ivan Boris Fomin came to Moscow and soon moved his family to a five-room-flat by Chistye Prudy.
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In 1921 Boris Fomin returned to Moscow and wrote the music for the operetta Career of Pirpoint Black, with lyrics by Konstantin Podrevsky and Alexey Fayko.
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Boris Fomin became a celebrity and for the next three years enjoyed himself as part and parcel of the artistic life in Moscow.
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In 1937 Boris Fomin was arrested, apparently as a result of violations in the Russian province, of the ban imposed on his songs.
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Boris Fomin spent a year in Butyrka, then was released.
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For many years Boris Fomin suffered from tuberculosis, even if totally refusing to consider himself a sick man.
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In 1948 Boris Fomin's health deteriorated and he went to the Vysokiye Gory clinic.
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Boris Fomin, who wrote more than 400 songs, three ballets and three operettas, became renowned in the 1920s as a master of the Russian romance.