Prokip Mykhailovych Pidhorodynskyi, according to other sources his patronymic is Mykolaiovych (23 March 1796 or 1 March 1796, the village of Herbyne, Podilska province - 18 January 1884 or 25 December 1883, St. Petersburg) was a Ukrainian and Russian singer. He sang in the Court Singing Chapel. He was acquainted with Taras Shevchenko.
Pidhorodynskyi's father was a nobleman and was engaged in renting estates. After his father's property was destroyed in a fire in 1803, Prokop was transported to Odesa and placed in the choir of St Nicholas Cathedral. In 1821, he moved to Chisinau and was approved as a member of the bishop's choir of the Chisinau diocese, from where he soon moved to St. Petersburg and thought about taking the priesthood, but after meeting D. Bortnyansky, director of the Court Singing Chapel, he changed his mind. In 1824, he was presented to Emperor Alexander I and accepted to the Court Chapel. In 1834, he made his first trip abroad in the retinue of Alexandra Feodorovna, where the Prussian king presented him with a gold snuffbox. Around this time he met Taras Shevchenko.
In 1838, he travelled abroad for the second time, to Darmstadt, in the retinue of Oleksandr Mykolaiovych. In Darmstadt, he met N. Gogol, V. Zhukovsky, and the label-medic Yenokhin.
In 1844, he was appointed inspector of all regimental choirs of the Guards Infantry, as well as manager of the right choir of the Court Chapel. In 1846 he travelled abroad again. In 1850, he was appointed chief supervisor of choirs in all military educational institutions. In 1856 and 1859 he travelled to Nice. In 1864, he was dismissed, but was recruited to the Court Chapel. 1875 marked the 50th anniversary of Pidhorodynskyi's tenure at the Chapel, on the occasion of which he was awarded the Order of St Stanislav, 3rd Class. He was dismissed on 4 April 1884.
