Education and coming-of-age

K.K. Regamey, early 20th century, the detailed date and author unknown; from the collection of the State Archives of the Museum of Literature and Art of Ukraine, Kyiv.

Following his return from Odessa, Konstanty Kazimierz studied at the Saint Vladimir Imperial University in Kyiv. His musical vocation brought him, however, to Mykola Tutkovsky’s well-known music school in that city, where most teachers were of Polish descent. He then took up studies in Anna Esipova’s renowned piano class of at Saint Petersburg Conservatory, where he met his future wife, Lidya Slavitch, a Russian of Serbian-Swedish descent. On their return to Kyiv, the now married couple decided to open their own music school. For this purpose, Konstanty Kazimierz, a Polonised Swiss, was obliged to declare himself formally as the tsar’s subject. Hence the official form of his name, Konstantin Kazhimezh Rudolfovich Regame, including a patronymic that he consciously declined to use.

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K.K. Regamey, early 20th century, the detailed date and author unknown; from the collection of the State Archives of the Museum of Literature and Art of Ukraine, Kyiv.