Alexander Dubuque was a Russian pianist, composer, and music teacher. He was born into the family of an aristocratic émigré, Jean‑Louis Bern‑Dubuque de Brimo, who fled the French Revolution and settled in Russia. Alexander received his general education at his father’s boarding school. He studied music with the Irish pianist John Field and, under his guidance, refined his piano technique. After his father’s death in 1830, Alexander took up music teaching. Owing to his success, he was invited by Nikolai Rubinstein, the founder of the Moscow Conservatory, to join the Conservatory as a piano teacher. He worked there from 1866 to 1872 and wrote the theoretical manual “The Technique of Piano Playing”, which was later used at the Conservatory as a teaching aid. He later gave private lessons. Dubuque wrote a considerable number of piano and vocal works — pieces, études, variations, dances, fantasies, and arrangements of songs by Franz Schubert, as well as piano arrangements of works by Alexander Alyabyev and Niccolò Paganini. He is best known, however, for his songs and romances, including “Night”, “The Little Farmstead” (“Khutorok”), and “The Troika Rushes, the Troika Gallops”. At various times these works were performed by such renowned singers as Fyodor Chaliapin, Nadezhda Obukhova, Andrey Labinsky, Elena Obraztsova, Yuri Gulyaev, and Lyudmila Zykina, and they remain popular today. In addition, the composer arranged Russian folk songs and Romani romances for piano and for voice and piano. He compiled the three-volume collection “Songs of the Moscow Gypsies” and two anthologies titled “Collection of Russian Songs with Variations for Piano”. The Bakhrushin Theatre Museum’s collection includes Alexander Dubuque portraits, letters, and other materials related to his life and work.