>  _of_russian_composers if by "russian" you mean living in what is today russian federation, then technically maybe ... the first image on the list: dmitry stepanovich bortniansky was a russian imperial composer of ukrainian cossack origin. dmitry bortniansky was born on 28 october 1751 in the city of glukhov,[10][11][12] cossack hetmanate, russian empire (present-day hlukhiv, sumy oblast, ukraine). his father was stefan skurat (or shkurat), a lemko-rusyn orthodox religious refugee from the village of bartne in the maopolska region of poland. skurat served as a cossack under kirill razumovski; he was entered in the cossack register in 1755.
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