(This name uses Eastern Slavic naming customs; the patronymic is Pavlovich and the family name is Anosov.) To be distinguished from Anosov Nikolai Pavlovich (1835–1890), head engineer of Amur District. Nikolai Pavlovich Anosov (Russian: Никола́й Па́влович Ано́сов; 17 February [O.S. 5 February] 1900 – 2 December 1962) was a Soviet conductor and pedagogue who conducted the Moscow State Symphony Orchestra (МГАСО) after Lev Steinberg. He is father of Gennady Rozhdestvensky, who adopted the maiden name of his mother, soprano Natalya Rozhdestvenskaya in its masculine form to avoid the appearance of nepotism when making his own career, and the painter P. N. Anosov.