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Postlude

Konstanty Kazimierz Regamey, the 1920s; from the collection of the Revutsky Institute in the Ukraine.

My conclusion will be positive. Despite the tragic and historically unjust NKVD sentence, which in 1938 led to the death of this eminent pianist-composer, much respected professor of Ukraine’s two most important music schools (the Mykola Lysenko Music and Drama Institute and the Pyotr Tchaikovsky Conservatory), his work and figure are gradually being restored to their proper place in musical and cultural life. Mainly due to the efforts of his daughter Svetlana Regame, the artist’s family in Moscow successfully petitioned the highest Soviet authorities to exculpate Konstanty Kazimierz Régamey from all charges. They obtained his public posthumous rehabilitation.

Jerzy Stankiewicz, "The Forgotten figure...

Konstanty Kazimierz Regamey, the 1920s; from the collection of the Revutsky Institute in the Ukraine.