Fyodor Fyodorovich Tomas

[Vladimir Alexandrov]

Dear Colleagues, 

I would be most grateful for references to any information about Fyodor
Fyodorovich Tomas, the Black American who owned the restaurant/cabaret
“Maksim” and managed the “Akvarium” theater/entertainment park in
pre-Revolutionary Moscow, and owned the restaurants/cabarets “Stella” and
“Maxim” in Istanbul circa 1919-1925.  

I would also be grateful for any information about several people who knew
Tomas in Istanbul:  “S. N. Krotkov,” a guitarist who performed in Tomas’
establishments in the early 1920s before moving to Paris in 1926 and then to
the United States in 1957 (this is possibly the same “Sergei Krotkoff” who
accompanied “Marusia” on two “Russian Gypsy Songs” LPs published by Monitor
Records circa 1960s); “S. F. Arzamanov,” who lived in Istanbul from
approximately 1920-1950; and “D. Dolinin,” ballet dancer and choreographer
in Istanbul circa 1923.

Please reply off-list to vladimir.alexandrov at yale.edu

Many thanks in advance for your help.

Vladimir Alexandrov
Slavic Department
Yale University

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