Aleksander Wertyski (Alexandre Vertinsky): Tango Magnolia, Columbia c.1929 (Polish pressing)-------------------------------------Alexandr Nicolaievich WERTYSKI (in Russian: Александр Huколаевич Вертинский) born 1889 in Kiev, died 1957 in Leningrad, USSR (Sankt Petersburg, Russia). ) A legandary Russian singer and composer of the romances, poet & troubadour of the „white" emigrant Russian tea-rooms in Paris of the 1920s. As a member of the avant-guarde Russian cabaret „Blue Bird (Siniaja Ptica) in the midddle of 1920s, he also spent some time in Warsaw, where he felt in love with a Polish upper class lady, to whom he dedicated one of his most beautiful romances „Madame Irene".