Background
Ledkovsky was born near Novocherkassk in 1894 to Protopriest Mikhail and Sophia Ledkovsky.
Ledkovsky was born near Novocherkassk in 1894 to Protopriest Mikhail and Sophia Ledkovsky.
He studied at the Theology School in Novocherkassk, in the Royal School in Rostov-on-Don and at the Moscow Conservatory with Alexander Kastalsky.
He directed at the Saint Alexander Nevsky Cathedral in Sofia, Bulgaria. In Paris and in Berlin parishes and cathedrals. In 1937 Ledkovsky formed in Germany the all-male a cappella ensemble "Black Sea Cossacks Choir".
Ledkovsky married in 1943 to Marina V. Fasolt.
With her, he fathered four children: Alexander (also a Church musician of note), Dimitri, Tatiana, and Michael. He emigrated with his family to the United States in 1951.
Boris Ledkovsky died of lung cancer on 6 August 1975, and was buried in Jordanville, New York at the Holy Trinity Monastery.