Soldiers' Radio Belgrade Winter Season Opening at the National Theatre. A frowned SS-Oberscharführer Josef Schifko, cameraman of the 8th Platoon, SS War Correspondent Battalion, adjusts the microphone to opera singer Tatjana Hitrina. This young Belgrader with melancholic eyes is of Russian origin, and came to the Yugoslav capital as a small child, two decades earlier. She is a daughter of White Guard Major General Alexander Nikolaevich Hitrin, former quartermaster general of the Armed Forces of South Russia, who found refuge in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia after the Russian Revolution, together with his family and thousands of his countrymen. (The general died in Belgrade in April 1940, a year before the occupation; he was buried in the New Cemetery, together with his wife.) The talented Hitrina attended the Music Academy in Belgrade, and started performing already at the age of 16. After the war and revolution in Yugoslavia, having left her second homeland, she spent several years in devastated Vienna, where she studied at the Vienna Conservatory. In late 1950, she left her third homeland and fled to distant Australia, to Brisbane. In the new continent, she worked first in a hospital (as a domestic) and then in a biscuit factory. However, her singing talent did not go unnoticed for long. Within just two years, from an anonymous refugee, Hitrina once again became a famous singer. She performed with the Sydney and Queensland symphony orchestras, organised aid concerts and held a singing school for children. (As far as could be established, Australia remained her final home.)
Text: Ivan Ž.
Photographer: Homann, SS War Correspondent Battalion.
Date: 3 October 1942.
Location: Belgrade, Yugoslavia.
Original caption: unknown.
Sources: National Archives, 242-JRP-34-22-25; "Concert for blind soldiers", Brisbane Telegraph, 25.03.1952, p. 14; "She doesn't have to act", Sunday Mail, Brisbane, 15.06.1952, p. 5; "In 1950 a refugee, in 1953 a celebrity", ibid., 11.10.1953, p. 3; "She helps sufferers", The Courier-Mail, Brisbane, 02.03.1954, p. 6; "From domestic to the concert stage", ibid., 23.09.1954, p. 11; "Хитрин Александр Николаевич", Русский Некрополь; "Участники Белого движения в России", Сайт историка Сергея Владимировича Волкова, Jan. 2016; "Tatjana Froimoff-Goutman", Ancestry. (Photo restoration: Ivan Ž.)
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Otvaranje zimske sezone Vojničkog radija Beograd u Narodnom pozorištu. Namrgođeni SS-oberšarfirer Jozef Šifko, snimatelj 8. voda Ratnodopisničkog bataljona SS-a, namešta mikrofon operskoj pevačici Tatjani Hitrini. Ova mlada Beograđanka melanholičnog pogleda ruskog je porekla, a u jugoslovensku prestonicu došla je kao malo dete, dve decenije ranije. Ona je kći belogardejskog general-majora Aleksandra Nikolajeviča Hitrina, bivšeg komandanta pozadine oružanih snaga Juga Rusije, koji je zajedno sa porodicom, i hiljadama svojih sunarodnika, posle ruske revolucije našao utočište u Kraljevini Jugoslaviji. (General je skončao u Beogradu aprila 1940, godinu dana pred okupaciju; sahranjen je na Novom groblju, zajedno sa suprugom.) Talentovana Hitrina pohađala je Muzičku akademiju u Beogradu, a počela je da nastupa već sa 16 godina. Posle rata i revolucije u Jugoslaviji, napustivši i svoju drugu domovinu, provela je nekoliko godina u razrušenom Beču, gde je studirala na Bečkom konzervatorijumu. Krajem 1950. godine napustila je i svoju treću domovinu, izbegavši u daleku Australiju, u Brizbejn. Na novom kontinentu isprva je radila u bolnici (kao čistačica), a potom i u fabrici keksa. Njen pevački talenat, međutim, nije dugo ostao neprimećen. U roku od samo dve godine, Hitrina je od anonimne izbeglice postala ponovo slavna pevačica. Nastupala je sa Sidnejskim i Kvinslendskim sinfonijskim orkestrom, priređivala dobrotvorne koncerte i držala školu pevanja za decu. (Koliko se moglo ustanoviti, Australija je i ostala njen konačni dom.)
Tekst: Ivan Ž.
Fotograf: Homan, Ratnodopisnički bataljon SS-a.
Datum: 3. oktobar 1942.
Mesto: Beograd, Jugoslavija.
Originalni natpis: nepoznat.
Izvori: National Archives, 242-JRP-34-22-25; "Concert for blind soldiers", Brisbane Telegraph, 25.03.1952, str. 14; "She doesn't have to act", Sunday Mail, Brisbane, 15.06.1952, str. 5; "In 1950 a refugee, in 1953 a celebrity", ibid., 11.10.1953, str. 3; "She helps sufferers", The Courier-Mail, Brisbane, 02.03.1954, str. 6; "From domestic to the concert stage", ibid., 23.09.1954, str. 11; "Хитрин Александр Николаевич", Русский Некрополь; "Участники Белого движения в России", Сайт историка Сергея Владимировича Волкова, jan. 2016; "Tatjana Froimoff-Goutman", Ancestry. (Foto-restauracija: Ivan Ž.)
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