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MUSSORGSKY Modest Petrovich (1839-1881, St. Petersburg), composer. Lived in St. Petersburg from 1849, he studied at St. Petrischule and the Guards and Cavalry Cadets College in 1852-56, situated at the present-day 54 Lermontovsky Avenue ... | | MUSSORGSKY Modest Petrovich (1839-1881, St. Petersburg), composer. Lived in St. Petersburg from 1849, he studied at St. Petrischule and the Guards and Cavalry Cadets College in 1852-56, situated at the present-day 54 Lermontovsky Avenue. After leaving the school he was enlisted in Preobrazhensky Life-guards Regiment, to resign in 1858. He met and became a close friend of A. P. Borodin and M. A. Balakirev in 1856-57 to study composition under the latter and join the Mighty Five. A remarkable pianist, Mussorgsky was the life and soul of all music parties and salons. He made acquaintance with V. I. Lamansky, N. I. Kostomarov, K. D. Kavelin, and I. S. Turgenev and visited the so-called Stasov family's Sunday meetings, Balakirev's Wednesday meetings, C. A. Cui's Thursday meetings, and A. S. Dargomyzhsky's music parties. Close friends since the early 1870s, he and N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov lived together at 11 Panteleymonovskaya Street (today, Pestelya Street) until Mussorgksy rented a flat at 6 Shpalernaya Street (memorial plaque). After the composer died, Rimsky-Korsakov completed his opera Khovanschina, staged by the Amateur Circle of Music and Drama in 1886, and revised Boris Godunov on his own, which was first performed by the Society of Music Collections at the Grand Hall of the Conservatory in 1896 and played instead of the original version till the mid-1950s. His contemporaries would not recognize Mussorsky's innovation, his Boris Godunov was rejected twice by the Board of the Imperial Theatres and heavily distorted to be staged at Mariinsky Theatre and soon withdrawn. His Nursery, Sunless, Songs and Dances of Death, and Pictures at an Exhibition, though masterpieces of chamber music composed in 1872-78, were not really recognised by performers or audiences until the early 20th century. Mussorgsky lived in poverty and drank a lot, which brought to a sudden decline in his health. He died of erysipelas (also known as St. Anthony's fire) in the Nikolaevsky Military Hospital and was buried in the Necropolis of Artists. Mussorgsky's name was given to a music school and Maly Opera and Ballet Theatre (today, Opera and Ballet Theatre). A bust of Mussorgsky was placed in front of the former Guards and Cavalry Cadets College in 1916. A festival was held at Mariinsky Theatre in 1989, declared Mussorgsky's Year by UNESCO, to play all his operas, symphonies, and chamber compositions. References: Орлова А. А. Труды и дни М. П. Мусоргского: Летопись жизни и творчества. М., 1963; Ее же. Мусоргский в Петербурге. Л., 1974; М. П. Мусоргский в воспоминаниях современников. М., 1989. A. L. Porfiryeva.
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TURGENEV Ivan Sergeevich (1818-1883), writer, associate of the Petersburg Academy of Sciences (1860). In 1834 he transferred from the University of Moscow to the Philological Department of the Faculty of Philosophy of Petersburg University ... | | TURGENEV Ivan Sergeevich (1818-1883), writer, associate of the Petersburg Academy of Sciences (1860). In 1834 he transferred from the University of Moscow to the Philological Department of the Faculty of Philosophy of Petersburg University (graduated from it in 1837). He came to St. Petersburg occasionally; in 1843 he spent some time serving at the Ministry of Internal Affairs, in 1852 he was put into prison "at the Second Admiralteyskaya Chast" for his publishing a obituary entitled Letter from St. Petersburg on the death of N.V. Gogol. The works of Turgenev were rarely set in St. Petersburg; among the exceptions his plays The Poor Gentleman (subtitled Extracts from the Life of a Young Noble in St. Petersburg, 1846) and The Family Charge (1857), some chapters of Virgin Soil novel etc. can be mentioned. However, regular visits to the capital were essential for Turgenev, who was acquainted with all educated Russia; the same way they played a significant part in the cultural life of St. Petersburg. In the 1840-70s Turgenev took an active part in the work of V.G. Belinsky's circle, contributed to the Sovremennik journal which he changed for the Vestnik Evropy journal in the last years of his life, and participated in the foundation and work of the Literary Fund (its trustee from 1859). The production of his comedy A Month in the Country put on the stage of Alexandrinsky Theatre in 1879 was the beginning of his popularity as a playwright. When he came to St. Petersburg, he usually stayed in the centre, not far from Nevsky Prospect. Altogether, 17 of his St. Petersburg addresses are known; there is a memorial plaque on the house at 13 Bolshaya Konyushennaya Street where Turgenev lived in 1858-60. He died at Bougival, near Paris. He was buried at Literatorskie Mostki. His sumptuous funeral became a city wide event. In 1923 his name was attached to the former Pokrovskaya Square. The monument to Turgenev was placed on Manezhnaya Square in 2001 (sculptors Ya. Neiman and V. Sveshnikov, architect G.Chelbogashev). References: Бялый Г. А. Тургенев в Петербурге. Л., 1970. A. B. Muratov.
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The summer. Living in his country house in Tsarskoye Selo the composer and pianist A.M. Abaza wrote the romance "Utro tumannoye" ("Foggy Morning") based on I.S. Turgenev's poem. Aide-de-camp-General K.G ... | The summer. Living in his country house in Tsarskoye Selo the composer and pianist A.M. Abaza wrote the romance "Utro tumannoye" ("Foggy Morning") based on I.S. Turgenev's poem. Aide-de-camp-General K.G. Rebinder was appointed as the Manager of the Tsarskoye Selo Palace Board and Tsarskoye Selo Town. August. Guards Rifle batalions set out from Tsarskoye Selo to the Kolpino Station from where they left for the Danube front of the Russo-Turkish War.
Persons Abaza, Arkady Maksimovich Rebinder, K.G. Turgenev Ivan Sergeevich
Addresses Kolpino, town
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