Russian romance: Aleksander Wertyński Pani Irena ( Madame Irene), 1929

Aleksander Wertyński with piano acc. by A. Bloch Madame Irene (Pani Irena) Chanson, Parlophon c. 1929 (UK) NOTE: Aleksander Wertyński (Alexandre Vertinsky) was the legendary Russian romance interpreter and poet, who gained international recognition after 1919, when he left Soviet Russia after the Bolshevic revolution of October 1917 and settled first in Poland, then in Paris. That handsome, elegant, cold and refined morphinist with dreamy, affectionate tenor (who, moreover, proved later to be a Soviet br, br,