Background
DOGADIN, Aleksandr was born in 1869.
Collector of Cossack folk songs
DOGADIN, Aleksandr was born in 1869.
Graduate Orenburg Cossack Cadets College.
Until 1907 served in Cossack units. As an expert in folk songs, worked for a commission collecting historical materials on Astrakhan’ and the Cossack Army. Recorded and prepared for publ a collection of songs for male-voice choir Byliny i pesni astrakhanskikh kazakov (Ballads and Songs of the Astrakhan’ Cossacks) (1911).
This collection, the only ed of Astrakhan’ Cossack’s songs, contains 210, mainly historical, songs (about Stepan Razin, Suvorov, the 1812 Franco-Russian War, etc).