Ukrainian singer (baritone). Cossack of the Sosnytsia Hundred of the Chernihiv Regiment. He was a state councilor at the St. Petersburg court of Russia. Grandfather of Anna Kern, to whom the Russian lyricist Alexander Pushkin dedicated the sentimental poem "I remember a wonderful moment...".
Biography
Her father, a Cossack Fedir Poltoratskyi, settled in the hundredth town of Sosnytsia of the Chernihiv Regiment of the Hetmanate and was ordained a priest of the Orthodox Church. During the reign of Hetman Danylo Apostol, his son Marko was born on 17 (28) April 1729. The boy grew up intelligent and inquisitive, and his father sent him to the "Latin school" in Chernihiv, where he studied for four years.
Then he continued his studies at the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. Since childhood, Marko had a beautiful voice and, as a student, sang in the academic choir. In 1744, Marko's voice was heard by Count Oleksiy Rozumovsky, who accompanied Empress Elizabeth Petrovna on her trip to Ukraine.
In 1745 Marko Poltoratsky said goodbye to his Kyivan comrades and "decided" to go to St. Petersburg to sing in the choir at the imperial court. Mark's career was successful, and he was soon appointed "charter member" of the court choir. Mark Poltoratsky was soon sent to Italy to improve his vocal skills. There he gained a reputation as a brilliant opera singer.
1750 - enrolled in the St. Petersburg Italian Opera Company (the first among Ukrainian artists, stage name "Marko Porturatsky").
1753 - Regent of the Court Singing Chapel (St. Petersburg). With personalized decrees from the Empress, he repeatedly traveled to Ukraine to select the best voices. In the register of "small singers" of October 30, 1760, whom he selected after listening to church, monastery, school, and other choirs in the Hetman's regiments, Dmytro Bortnyansky, 9 years old, was recorded, the son of a Cossack of the Hlukhiv Hundred of the Nizhyn Regiment.
1754 - colonel.
1746-1762 - singer and regent (1753) of the court choir, from 1763 - director of the court singing chapel (St. Petersburg), at the same time from 1750-1770 - soloist of the Italian Opera. His students were: M. Berezovsky, D. Bortnyansky, K. Davydov.
1763 - by Catherine's decree, he was elevated to the rank of nobleman.
1790 - Mark Fedorovich Poltoratsky built the Church of the Transfiguration in the village of Krasne, Staritsk district, Tver province (consecrated in 1803). Poltoratsky was promoted to the rank of full state councilor in 1791. The rank of "real state counselor" belonged to the category of the highest state ranks (4th class) and was equivalent to the army "major general" or court "chamberlain".
In the 1740s, the Georgina estate in the Novotorzhsky district of the Tver province came to belong to Mark Poltoratsky and was transformed into one of the richest estates in the Tver province. Until the twenty-first century, the estate has preserved the main house with an outbuilding, a service building, a smithy, a cellar, a boulder bridge, a Landscape Park, and stone peasant houses (21 houses).
He died in St. Petersburg. Buried at the Lazarevsky Cemetery of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra.
Family.
He was married to Agafoklia Oleksandrivna (born Shyshkov, from the nobility). The family had 22 children. The most famous descendants:
Dmitry, a famous horse breeder
Vira (wife of Oleksandr Vonliarskyi)
Serhii - bibliographer and writer
Fedir
Kostiantyn - lieutenant general, participant in the wars with Napoleon, governor of Yaroslavl
Yegor
Alexander - head of the St. Petersburg Mint
Alexander
Mikhail
Peter
Anna Kern
Elizabeth (also an acquaintance of Pushkin)
Pavel
Alexander
Vladimir - Russian general, cartographer, governor of Semipalatinsk, participant in the Turkestan campaigns
Alexei
Anna (wife of Ivan Rally)
Elizabeth (wife of Alexei Nikolayevich Olenin)
Alexei - Tver provincial leader of the nobility, since 1823 married to Varvara Dmitrievna Kiselyova, sister of Count P. D. Kiselyov
Vladimir - Major General, participant in the Caucasian and Turkestan campaigns and the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878.
Varvara (wife of Dmitry Borysovych Mertvago)
Agafokleia (wife of Alexander Sukharev)
In memory of.
The district children's music school in Sosnytsia was named after Marko Poltoratskyi. In 2011, a memorial plaque appeared on the school's facade.
