Tamara Tsereteli

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| name = Tamara Semyonovna Tsereteli

| image = Tamara tsereteli.jpg

| imagesize = 200px

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| birthname = თამარ წერეთელი
Тамара Семёновна Церетели

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1900|8|14|df=y}}

| birth_place = Kutais Governorate, Georgia, Russian Empire

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1968|4|3|1900|8|14|df=y}}

| death_place = Moscow, USSR

| occupation = singer

| years_active = 1923-1960

| alma_mater = Tbilisi State University

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Tamara Semyonovna Tsereteli ({{lang-ka|თამარ წერეთელი}}, {{langx|ru|Тама́ра Семёновна Церете́ли}}, 14 August 1900, in Sveri, Kutais Governorate, Georgia, Russian Empire – 3 April 1968, in Moscow, USSR) was a Georgian Russian singer, contralto, who specialized in the Russian romance and was the first to record in 1925 Boris Fomin's "Dorogoi dlinnoyu".{{cite web | author = Elena and Valery Ukolovs| date = 2010| url = http://www.tunnel.ru/view/post:591147|title = The Happy Unfortunate. The Romances and the Life of B. Fomin | publisher = Sovremennaya Muzyka Publishers | accessdate = 16 May 2015}}{{cite web | author =Znatnov, Alexander | date =2013 | url = http://www.nash-sovremennik.ru/archive/2013/n11/1311-13.pdf|title = Pogodoi lunnoyu. The Life of the Famous Romance's Author| publisher = Nash Sovremennik, No. 11| accessdate = 16 May 2015}}

In the 1920s the singer's repertoire consisted largely of the songs written for, and dedicated to her by her mentor and partner Boris Prozorovsky, a prominent romance author, arrested in 1933 and executed in 1937 during the Great Purge. Tsereteli who gave more than 5500 concerts in her lifetime, retired in 1960.Ebralidze, Malkhaz. [http://www.georgianpress.ru/tbilisi-week/our-past/11795-pesni-tamar-cereteli.html Песни Тамар Церетели]. Songs by Tamar Tsereteli[http://kkre-46.narod.ru/cereteli.htm Tamara Tsereteli biography] at Красная Книга российской эстрады // The Red Book of the Russian Popular Music