Ivan Olexiyovych Alchevs'ky

Ivan Olexiyovych Alchevs'ky, known as Jean Alchevs'ky, was a Ukrainian tenor born in Kharkiv in 1876 who died in Baku in 1917. His career unfolded between Russia and Europe, and he championed Ukrainian music.

Between 1901 and 1905 he was a soloist at the Mariinsky Theatre. In 1906 he sang Lensky in London and, between 1913 and 1914, took part in Beecham's Russian season. At the Paris Opéra (1908–1910) he was Shuisky in the local premiere of Boris Godunov and sang Gounod's Romeo, Faust and Raoul. Between 1910 and 1914 he appeared at the Bolshoi in Moscow.

In 1915 he directed Gulak-Artemovsky's Zaporozhets za Dunayem at the Bolshoi, and the following year he did the same in Odesa.