Zalesskaya-Mazurovskaya, Yadviga Feliksovna

Jadwiga Zaleska-Mazurovsk ( Polish Jadwiga Zaleska-Mazurowska , in Russia Jadwiga Feliksovna Zalesskaya , nee Ivanovskaya ; February 21, 1869 , Oksanino , Umansky district , Kiev province - August 6, 1944 , Warsaw , Okhota district) - Polish pianist . Sophia Ivanovskaya-Ploshko’s sister.

Yadviga Feliksovna Zalesskaya-Mazurovskaya
Jadwiga Zalesskaya (circa 1900)
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Date of Birth	February 21, 1869 ( 1869-02-21 )
Place of Birth	Oksanina , Kiev province , Russian Empire (modern Umansky district , Cherkasy region )
Date of death	August 6, 1944 ( 1944-08-06 ) (75 years old)
Place of death	Warsaw , Poland
Buried
A country	Russian empire Poland
Professions	pianist
Instruments

After graduating from high school in Kalisz , she entered the Warsaw Conservatory , where she studied with Alexander Mikhalovsky . Immediately after completing the conservative course in 1888, she married the chemist Stanislav Stefan Zalesky and followed him to Tomsk , where the university department was waiting for him. Until 1894, she lived with her husband in Tomsk, gave concerts both publicly and privately (in private, she played a duet with the rector of Tomsk University N. A. Gesekhus , a capable amateur musician who reported this to his friend Mitrofan Belyaev ^{[1 ]} ). For some time she was in charge of the Tomsk branch of the Imperial Russian Musical Society . In 1892, she traveled from Tomsk to Vienna, where she took several lessons from Theodore Leshetitsky .

After the Zalessky family moved to St. Petersburg in 1894, became close to Belyaev’s circle, became friends with Caesar Cui , who dedicated the comic book “Yadvina Polka” to her ^[2] . She performed a lot in Russia and Europe. In 1898 she performed in Kiev ^[3] , in 1899 she went on tour to Irkutsk ^[4] . In 1903, in connection with the appointment of her husband as director of a balneological resort in Slavyansk , she performed there in a charity concert. In 1910, together with her sister, violinist Zofia Ivanovskaya-Ploško, she gave two concerts in Bechstein’s London Hall ^[5] , in the same year the sisters performed in Smolensk , performing, among other things, “The Kreutzer Sonata” by Ludwig van Beethoven , the Smolensk reviewer (young A. R. Belyaev ) noted:

Yadviga Zalesskaya has long made up a name for herself as a pianist with a completely finished technique and great artistic taste. Her genre is the melancholic Tchaikovsky , gentle and moody Schumann , deeply feeling and sincere Chopin ^[6] .

In 1911, divorcing his first husband, he remarries the artist Victor Mazurovsky , continuing to live in St. Petersburg. With the outbreak of World War I, he gives charity concerts in the capital in favor of the Polish wounded ^[7] .

After the October Revolution, Zalesskaya-Mazurovskaya fled east from the Bolsheviks, reaching Vladivostok , where she remained and spoke for some time while the city was controlled by whites. Then she went back to Europe through Asian countries, performing on the road with concerts in Tianjin , Hong Kong , Singapore and other cities.

She was killed with her husband during the Nazi suppression of the Warsaw Uprising .