Background
Shuckhmin Grigory Ivanovich was born on November 14, 1882 in Voronezh, Russian Federation. He was born into a family of bourgeoisie.
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Shuckhmin Grigory Ivanovich was born on November 14, 1882 in Voronezh, Russian Federation. He was born into a family of bourgeoisie.
Grigory Shuckhmin studied at a secondary school, graduated from courses in experimental pedagogy (Moscow, 1907), courses at a music studio (Saint Petersburg, 1912). In 1889-1899 he sang in the bishop’s choir in Voronezh.
Grigory Shuckhmin was an accountant in the store of the Shiryaev brothers (1903-1911), at the Stoll factory (1911-1917).
At the same time since 1906 he performed on the amateur stage as an actor and opera singer. He has such main parties as Onegin ("Eugene Onegin" by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky), Valentin ("Faust" by Charles Gounod), Don Andre ("Song birds" by Jacques Offenbach).
Grigory Shuckhmin worked in the art department of the provincial department of public education (1918-1925), played in the Free Theater, taught at the theater studio and art workshops, was a teacher of music technical school (1925-1930), music director of the radio station "Profintern".
Grigory Shuckhmin was a participant in musical evenings at the doctor’s apartment Slovtsova. Unreasonably repressed (1935), sentenced to 8 years in forced labor camps (served part of his term in Vorkuta, where he played in a drama theater).
Since 1947 Grigory Shuckhmin lived at the Grafskaya station of the Southeast Railway. In 1948 he was arrested, exiled to the Krasnoyarsk Territory, and in 1950 transferred to the Kzyl-Orda Oblast of the Kazakh SSR.