Victoria Bachke

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Victoria on wedding journey. Stockholm, February 1920. Photo by Wolfenstein

Victoria Bachke

Victoria Bachke (1897-1963; maiden name Rostin) is one of the very few, if not the only Russian in Norway who left a trace in its modern history. She is most widely known as the founder and first director of Ringve Museum - the National museum of music and musical instruments in Trondheim. She also wrote a book about the Norwegian naval hero Tordenskiold and set up an exhibit about him, which is however closed now.

Ringve Museum
- Victoria! Ringve Museum - 50 years - anniversary exhibit (2002).
Short bio on trondheim.com - one of the few bios of people who, according to the site, contributed a great deal to Trondheim and to its identity.
Victoria is remembered in Trondheim - short article by Nina Samuelsen in RussianWomenMagazine.com.
Record about Ringve Museum in Norway - Russia database.
Short bio (with inaccuracies).
Article about Ringve Museum
Short article about Ringve Museum (scroll down).

You can read about Victoria's life in this book, which contains many photographs and interesting stories:

Jan Voigt. Fru Victoria til Ringve. Cappelen, 1984. 124 pages.

The book can be purchased from Ringve Museum (the museum shop can sell it via mail order).
Trondheim Public Library has many copies of it. We have this book in our club library, too.

Chamber opera about Victoria (sheet music):

JOHANSEN, Bertil Palmar, 1954
HjerterDame til Ringve : En portrettopera om Victoria Bachke
<1999/2000>. - [Trondheim : Eget forlag, 2000].
Besetning: 4 voices(SMTBar), vln, vla, vcl, cl, bsn, perc, pf
Libretto(Nor): Cecilie Løveid

Victoria's book about Tordenskiold:

Victoria Bachke. Tordenskioldiana. Trondheim: Ringve museum: Tordenskioldmuseet, 1958. 478 pages.
(the book is available in Trondheim Public Library)

Victoria in her festive Russian-inspired costume

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