Khovanshchina
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Khovanshchina is an opera in five acts by Modest Mussorgsky. The work was written between 1872 and 1880 in St. Petersburg, Russia. The composer wrote the libretto based on historical sources. The oper
Scene design by Apollinariy Vasnetsov for the Russian Private Opera, Moscow, 1897), showing the Red Square
Autograph vocal score of Khovanshchina, featuring "Dawn on the Moscow River" (1874)
Affiche for a performance at the Solodovnikov Theatre (Moscow, 1897)
Fyodor Shalyapin as Dosifey (Russian Private Opera (Mamontov's Private Russian Opera in Moscow), Moscow, 1897)
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 and strove to achieve a uniquely Russian musical i
Khovanshchina
…Khovanshchina (Russian: Хованщина, IPA: , sometimes rendered The Khovansky Affair) is an opera (subtitled a 'national music drama') in five acts by Modest Mussorgsky. The work was written between 1872 and 1880 in St. Petersburg, Russia. The composer wrote the libretto based on historical sources. The opera was almost…
The aristocratic Mussorgsky brothers—Filaret (also known as "Yevgeniy", left), and Modest (right) in 1858
Monument on the site of the Mussorgsky family house in Karevo, Pskov Oblast
Mussorgsky in 1856 as a cadet in the Preobrazhensky Regiment of the Imperial Guard
Alexander Dargomyzhsky