Maxim Karolik, born in what is Ukraine, he became a featured tenor for the Imperial Russian Grand Opera.
13 Facts About Maxim Karolik
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Maxim Karolik left Russia during the Bolshevik Revolution and moved to the United States to continue study of music.
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Maxim Karolik became a noted collector of early American art, and the couple were influential in promoting eighteenth and nineteenth American art and antiques.
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Maxim Karolik was born on November 21,1893, in Akkerman, Ukraine.
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Maxim Karolik became a professional opera singer, and made his debut as a tenor at the old Imperial Russian Grand Opera, later known as the Petrograd Opera.
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Maxim Karolik toured in Europe, including to Italy, England, and other countries, and made his debut in New York City in 1924.
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Maxim Karolik moved to the United States to continue his study of music.
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In 1927 in Washington, DC Karolik met Martha Catharine Codman, a wealthy socialite who was 30 years older than he.
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Maxim Karolik was a daughter of J Amory Codman and his wife Martha Pickman Rogers Codman of Boston.
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Mrs Maxim Karolik had inherited many of the pieces of silver, engravings, and other artifacts from her colonial ancestors.
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Maxim Karolik recorded Russian Art Songs, thirty songs collected in a three-album set from Unicorn Records in Boston.
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In 1963 Maxim Karolik traveled from Newport to New York for a meeting to arrange lectures and other events related to his art philanthropy.
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Maxim Karolik died on December 20,1963, at Trafalgar Hospital in Manhattan.