Dear Yuri, there is no opera by Tschaikowsky called "Don Juan". The title of the romance is "Серенада Дон-Жуана", as I wrote originally. You can't always believe what the labels say.

You are right, thank you!

This label is closely related to the UK Metropole label like the Dora Stroeva side I uploaded.

For a small label they seem to have specialised in Russians. I have a record by the baritone Maxim Turganoff on the Piccadilly label.

The question remains: Who is "Kernoff"? There is a Piccadilly disc by tenor Emil (aka. Erik) Enderlein that's labelled "John Cootes" - in an obvious wordplay on the popular British tenor John Coates - and another by Sydney Coltham masquerading as "Frank Chamberlain", so I've learned not to trust the labelling of these discs. BTW the "Kernoff" was recorded in London in very late 1928.

Один из братьев Кедровых - Николай был баритон, его брат Константин - бас.
Или кто-то точно знает о существовании баритона Кернова?

Maybe Kernoff is the Maxim Turganoff I mentioned, who did exist and was a baritone and on the Piccadilly label. I will look for it and see if the matrix number is similar. What is on the other side of the record? My Turganoff has Mussorgsky's Ballade one one side and I can't remember the reverse.

Coltham I think recorded for Piccadilly under his own name also, so this could be a similar case.

My Turganoff record is actually of Mussorgsky's Gopak, he was a tenor - and the matrix number is completely different. So my theory is exploded.

Thanks for the more exact recording date.

Maybe it`s the Bulgarian baritone Aleksandre Kraieff/Alexander Krajeff who shortly afterwards recorded for Decca in London and thereafter for Küchenmeister (Ultraphon & Adler) in Berlin. He sounds quite similar.

The flipside is by a baritone Henry Luscombe singing "To-Morrow" from "Salt Water Ballads" (Music: James Frederick Keel/Lyrics: John Masefield).

On "Simcha" label (10026) the singer's name is given as "Mr Androff"...