Russian tango from Paris: Vertinsky: Tango Magnolia, c. 1929

Aleksander Wertyński (Alexandre Vertinsky): Tango Magnolia, Columbia c. 1929 (Polish pressing) Alexandr Nicolaievich WERTYŃSKI (in Russian: Александр Huколаевич Вертинский) born 1889 in Kiev, died 1957 in Leningrad, USSR (Sankt Petersburg, Russia). ) A legandary Russian singer and composer of the romances, poet troubadour of the white emigrant Russian tearooms in Paris of the 1920s. As a member of the avantguarde Russian cabaret Blue Bird (Siniaja Ptica)