Mark Fyodorovich Poltoratsky was a Russian Imperial singer.
11 Facts About Mark Poltoratsky
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Mark Poltoratsky was of Ukrainian Cossack descent and an Active State Councillor of Russia.
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Mark Poltoratsky is the founder of the Russian noble Poltoratsky family.
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Mark Poltoratsky's father was Fyodor Poltoratsky, who settled in the centenary town of Sosnitsa of the Chernigov Regiment of the Hetman's Ukraine and accepted the priesthood.
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In childhood, Mark Poltoratsky had a beautiful voice and, as a student, he sang in an academic choir.
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In 1744 Mark Poltoratsky's voice was heard by Count Alexei Razumovsky, who accompanied Empress Elizabeth Petrovna on her trip to Ukraine.
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Mark Poltoratsky's career was appointed "installer" of the court choir.
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Mark Poltoratsky selected the "small singers", listening to church, monastic, school and other choirs in the hetman's regiments.
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In 1763 Mark Poltoratsky headed the Court Singing Chapel and received hereditary nobility.
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Mark Poltoratsky died in St Petersburg and was buried at the Lazarevskoe Cemetery of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra.
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Mark Poltoratsky "skillfully disposed of enormous wealth and large economy, holding her servants, kin and a bunch of already married children in her fists".