So What Exactly Is (And Isn’t) The Alexandrov Ensemble, Whose Members Died In That Plane Crash?

For a start, it’s not the group that sang Pharrell’s “Happy” and the theme from Skyfall on YouTube. (That group is the successor to the KGB’s house choir.) The Alexandrov is altogether more prestigious. An explainer from Zachary Woolfe and Bolshoi Confidential author Simon Morrison.