Background
TOROEV, Apollon was born in 1891 in village Bokhan, now Buryat Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.
legends and stories Narrator of Buryat-Mongolian folk tales
TOROEV, Apollon was born in 1891 in village Bokhan, now Buryat Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.
Blinded at age 18; tells Mongolian folk poems and sings folksongs, accompanying himself on a homemade “khur” (a Mongol stringed folk instrument).