Nikolai Shishkin

Who is Nikolai Shishkin?

Nikolai Shishkin was a Russian Gypsy guitarist and singer in the Sokolovsky Gypsy choir. After the death of choir leader Grigory Sokolov Shishkin he led the choir and inherited the role of lead sokolovskaya guitar. He was a composer and arranger of Russian songs and one of several Gypsy singer-composer arrangers from Kursk called Shishkin. He is not to be confused with A. I. Shishkin composer of the romance "No, it's not you I love so fervently" set to the words of Lermontov. There is also a contemporary singer called Nikolai Shishkin.