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Vasilii Prokunin

Vasilii Pavlovich Prokunin (Василий Павлович Прокунин) was a Russian composer, born at Sosnovka (near Tambov) on 16/28 January 1848.

Prokunin is best remembered for his collections of Russian folk songs, which he began to compile while he was in Tchaikovsky's class at the Moscow Conservatory in the early 1870s. Tchaikovsky revised and edited Prokunin's first collection of 65 Russian Folk Songs in 1872 and 1873.

Vasilii Prokunin died on 1/14 May 1910, aged 62.