Boris Christoff
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Boris Christoff was a Bulgarian opera singer, widely considered one of the greatest basses of the 20th century.
Boris Christoff
A Monument of Boris Christoff near Alexander Nevsky Cathedral in Sofia, Bulgaria
The Grave of Boris Christoff and his parents at Sofia Central Cemetery (42°42′48.1″N 023°19′58.5″E / 42.713361°N 23.332917°E / 42.713361; 23.332917)
Modest Mussorgsky
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Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky was a Russian composer, one of the group known as "The Five". He was an innovator of Russian music in the Romantic period. He strove to achieve a uniquely Russian musical identity, often in deliberate defiance of the established conventions of Western music.
The aristocratic Mussorgsky brothers—Filaret (also known as "Yevgeniy", left), and Modest (right), 1858
Monument on the site of the Mussorgky family house in Karevo, Pskov Oblast
Young Mussorgsky as a cadet in the Preobrazhensky Regiment of the Imperial Guard, 1856
Alexander Dargomyzhsky