Alexey Nikolayevich Verstovsky (1799-1862), Russian composer, inspector and then director of the Moscow Imperial Theatres; composer of six operas of which Askoldova mogila (Askolds Grave, 1835) was much the most successful. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexey_Verstovsky . Dates corroborated by the back inlay of Consonance 81-0015, scanned in the rip folder, which heads the cast list Alexei Nikolayevich Verstovsky (1799-1862). Created so that a commercial world-premiere recording of Askolds Grave already in the archive can be filed; findopera held no Verstovsky at all.