Julius Block (2)

Julius (Yuli Ivanovich) Blok (German Julius Block; 1858, Pietermaritzburg, Natal - 1934, Vevey, Switzerland) is an entrepreneur and philophonist of German origin, a pioneer of Russian sound recording. Creator of a collection of phonographic recordings of musical and reading performances, voices of cultural figures of the late 19th - early 20th centuries, author of memoirs about famous contemporaries and the history of the collection.