Real name: Святослав Николаевич Кнушевицкий

Effective period / Period of releases: 1950 - 2012

Svyatoslav Knushevitsky (December 24, 1907 [January 6, 1908], Petrovsk, Saratov province - February 19, 1963, Moscow) - Soviet cellist, professor at the Moscow Conservatory.
Family:
The elder brother is composer and conductor Viktor Nikolaevich Knushevitsky = Виктор Кнушевицкий.
First wife: Elena Pavlovna Lapisova - doctor.
Son - Arseny Svyatoslavovich Lapisov = Arsenny Lapisov (1929-2007), cellist, music editor of Mosfilm = Мосфильм.
Daughter Olga Arsentievna Suvorova (Lapisova) (03.10.1958 - 04.09.2012), pianist, public and musical figure.
The grandson of Arseny Svyatoslavovich is cellist Sergei Suvorov (1984), soloist of the Moscow State Philharmonic.
Second wife: Irina Semyonovna Kozolupova = Ирина Козолупова (1910-1993), daughter of S. M. Kozolupov = Семен Козолупов and cousin of Mstislav Rostropovich (on her mother’s side), aunt of Georgy Rerberg (son of Galina Kozolupova’s sister), pianist, teacher at the Moscow Conservatory .
Son - Igor Svyatoslavovich Knushevitsky (November 28, 1932 - July 16, 2016), cellist.
Third wife: Natalya Dmitrievna Shpiller = Наталия Шпиллер (1909-1995), Soviet opera singer (lyric soprano), teacher, musical and public figure.
Daughter - Maria Svyatoslavovna Knushevitskaya = Мария Кнушевицкая (b. 1933), actress of the Mossovet Theatre = Государственный Академический Театр Им. Моссовета.
Transliteration in Cyrillic - Святослав Кнушевицкий