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a professor at Petersburg University
Alexander Ivanovich Rubets was a professor at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory, not Saint Petersburg University.
Full reasoning
Multiple biographical sources identify Oleksandr/Alexander Rubets as a longtime teacher and later professor at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory.
- The official Saint Petersburg Conservatory biography for Alexander Ivanovich Rubets lists him under the conservatory's music theory department and states that at the conservatory he served as a teacher and then "professor 2nd degree (1879–1895)."
- Ukrainian Musical World likewise says Rubets graduated from the St. Petersburg Conservatory and later taught music theory and choral singing there, adding that he became a professor at the conservatory in 1879.
So the article's wording that he was "a professor at Petersburg University" is incorrect: the institution was the Saint Petersburg Conservatory.
2 sources
- РУБЕЦ, Александр Иванович (1837-1913) | Saint Petersburg Conservatory
The official biography lists Rubets in the conservatory and states: "At the conservatory: teacher (1866), senior teacher (1868), professor 2nd degree (1879-1895)."
- Rubets Oleksandr Ivanovych - Ukrainian Musical World
"He graduated from the St. Petersburg Conservatory ... where he later taught music theory and choral singing" and "Rubets himself became a professor at the conservatory in 1879."