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A very brief introduction to Vladimir Drozdoff by Gyorgy Borisov. Drozdov, Vladimir Nikolayevitch. 25 May 1882, Saratov. 10 March 1960, New York. Born May 25, 1882 in Saratov, Russia, VLADIMIR DROZDOFF was the winner of the Gold Medal and the coveted Rubinstein prize as a student of Anna Essipova at the St. Petersburg Conservatory of Music. After several European tours, during which the critics compared him with the two acknowledged masters, Reisenaur and Busoni, he returned to his Alma Mater as a professor of piano under the directorship of Alexander Glazounoff. In that capacity, he was a colleague of N. Rimsky-Korsakoff, A. Liadoff, N. Tsherepnine, Leopold Auer, and Anna Essipova. His students included Jasha Heifitz and Maria Yudina. Drozdoff fled Russia and the Revolution in 1920 and spent three years living in Istanbul, where he and his wife, Anna Schweiger-Drozdoff both taught. He also traveled to Vienna and Paris during this period, teaching and performing. In 1923, he emigrated to the United States
