Ruslan and Lyudmila (opera)
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Ruslan and Lyudmila is an opera in five acts composed by Mikhail Glinka between 1837 and 1842.
Title page of a score (A. Gutheil, Moscow, 1885)
Aleksandra Krutikova as Ratmir (1880s)
Fyodor Shalyapin as Farlaf (1901)
Lidiya Zvyagina as Ratmir (1900s)
Mikhail Glinka
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Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka was the first Russian composer to gain wide recognition within his own country and is often regarded as the fountainhead of Russian classical music. His compositions were an i
Ruslan and Lyudmila (opera)
…Ruslan and Lyudmila (Russian: Руслан и Людмила, romanized: Ruslán i Lyudmíla ) is an opera in five acts (eight tableaux) composed by Mikhail Glinka between 1837 and 1842. The libretto was written in Russian by Valerian Shirkov, with minor contributions by Mykola Markevych, Nestor Kukolnik, and the…
Portrait of Mikhail Glinka by Karl Bryullov, 1840
Glinka in 1856
Ilya Repin's portrait of Glinka was painted thirty years after the composer's death
Grave of Mikhail Glinka in Tikhvin Cemetery in Saint Petersburg