Born and raised in Los Angeles, California, Pollack began his studies at the age of four and made his debut with the New York Philharmonic at the age of nine, performing the Chopin Piano Concerto No. 1.
 He is a graduate of the Juilliard School from the class of the legendary Rosina Lhévinne.
 He also studied with Ethel Leginska and Lillian Steuber in Los Angeles.
 Pollack continued his graduate studies at the Hochschule für Musik in Vienna under a Fulbright scholarship with Bruno Seidlhofer, at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena, Italy with Guido Agosti, and was selected as one of 12 pianists internationally to participate in a special Beethoven Master Class with the late Wilhelm Kempff in Positano, Italy.
 While in Italy, he also attended masterclasses with Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli.
Count Alexis de Sakhnoffsky (12 November 1901, Kiev, Ukraine, then under control of the Russian Empire – April 29, 1964, Atlanta, the USA) was a Russian Empire - American industrial designer, known principally for his Streamline-style automotive designs.
 Born in Kiev, Ukraine in 1901 in the family of Vladimir Sakhnovsky/Sahnovski.
Mikhail Efimovich Krichevsky (, Russian: Михаил Ефимович Кричевский ; 25 February 1897, Karlovka, Poltava Governorate, Russian Empire – 26 December 2008, Donetsk, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine) was a Jewish-Ukrainian supercentenarian and the last surviving World War I veteran who fought for the Russian Empire.
 Krichevsky was mobilized into the Imperial Russian Army in 1917 and was sent to the Southwestern Front, after graduating from the Kiev Military Engineering School as an engineer-"praporshchik".
 After the October Revolution he returned home, where he settled and lived in Donetsk.
Pavel Koshetz (Russian: Павел Алексеевич Кошиц ; real last name is Poray-Koshetz (); December 14, 1863 in Kiev Oblast, Russian Empire – March 2, 1904 in Moscow) was a Russian opera singer (tenor).
Rosina Lhévinne (née Bessie; March 29, 1880, Kiev, Ukraine, Russian EmpireNovember 9, 1976, Glendale, California) was a pianist and famed pedagogue.
Pyotr Nikolayevich Kudryavtsev (Russian: Пётр Николаевич Кудрявцев , 16 August 1816, Moscow, Russian Empire, — 29 January 1858, Moscow, Russian Empire) was a Russian writer, historian, pedagogue (professor of world history at Moscow University in 1851-1858), literary critic, philologist and journalist who in 1856-1858 was the head of "Russky Vestnik"' s political review section.
Sofia Ivanovna Blyuvshtein (also spelled as Bluvstein, Bluvsztejn; better known as Sonia the Golden Hand; 1846–1902), was a legendary female con artist who lived in Russian Empire and was eventually convicted of theft.
 She committed several carefully planned robberies, and was eventually captured and exiled to the Sakhalin penal colony.
 She become the basis of several books and films, in which she is romanticized as a Robin Hood figure, who never killed, and who stole only from the rich.
Pyotr Alexandrovich Yefremov (Russian: Пётр Александрович Ефремов , born November 17 (O.S., 2), 1830, Moscow, Russian Empire, - died January 8, 1908 [O.S. December 26, 1907], Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire) was a Russian literary historian, publisher, editor and essayist whose works were published regularly by "Sovremennik" (where he debuted in 1857), "Otechestvennye Zapiski", "Russky Arkhiv", "Russkaya Starina", "Istorichesky Vestnik", newspapers "Golos", "Novoye Vremya", "Russkiye Vedomosti".
 In 1864-1865 he edited the "Knizhny Vestnik" (The Books Herald) magazine.
 Praised as one of the most competent literary scholars of the 19th century, Pyotr Yefremov compiled, edited and published the series of The Works of: Denis Fonvizin (1866), Valerian Maykov (1867), Antiochus Kantemir (1867-1868), Vladimir Lukin (1868), Bogdan Yelchaninov (1868), Alexander Radishchev (1872, Saint Petersburg; banned at the time), Kondraty Ryleyev (1872, 1874), Mikhail Lermontov (1873, 1880, 1887, 1889, also the "Early Dramas" compilation, 1880), Vasily Zhukovsky (1878, 1885), Alexander Pushkin (1880, 1882, 1905, plus two "Yevgeny Onegin" editions, 1874, 1882), Alexander Polezhayev (1889).
 He is credited with having discovered, published and written analytical essays on numerous hitherto unknown autographs by classics like Pushkin, Ryleyev, Lermontov, Radishchev, Fonvizin, Zhukovsky.
Southwestern Krai (Russian: Юго-западный край, "Yugo-zapadny kray" ), also known as Kiev General Governorate or Kiev, Podolia, and Volhynia General Governorate (Russian: Киевское, Подольское и Волынское генерал-губернаторство ) was a subdivision (a krai) of the Russian Empire that included some of the territory of modern-day Ukraine mostly on the right bank of the Dnieper River.
 The territory corresponded to the Kiev Military District.
Nikolai Osipovich Massalitinov (Russian: Николай Осипович Массалитинов , 24 February 1880, Yelets, Oryol Governorate, Russian Empire, — 22 March 1961, Sofia, Bulgaria) was a Russian (later Bulgarian) stage actor, theatre director and pedagogue, associated originally with the Moscow Art Theatre and, since 1925, with Ivan Vazov National Theatre in Bulgaria.
 The actress Varvara Massalitinova was his sister.

Question: (née Bessie; March 29, 1880, From what school did a legendary female pianist and pedagogue, with the former last name of Bessie, born March 29, 1880 in Kiev, Ukraine, Russian Empire graduate?
Answer: Juilliard School