Ivan Nikiforovych Dvornychenko (b. c. 1855 - d. 8 April 1913, Feodosia) was a Ukrainian conductor, actor, singer and entrepreneur.
Biography.
He was born around 1855. In 1884-1889, he worked in the troupe of Mykhailo Starytskyi; in 1890 - in the troupe of Petro Myrov-Bediukh. In 1892-1894, he was an entrepreneur of his own Ukrainian drama troupe (the repertoire included plays by Ukrainian and Russian authors), with which he toured Chernihiv region, Russian cities - Voronezh, Kostroma, Tambov (1892), Kaluga, Ryazan (1893); in the Volga region (1894). As a conductor, he took part in the productions of Mykola Lysenko's operas Natalka Poltavka and The Black Sea Fleet, which were staged by Marko Kropyvnytskyi.
In the early twentieth century, he worked as a singing teacher at the Feodosia Real School. He died in Feodosia on 26 March [8 April] 1913.
