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Modest Petrovich Musorgsky (1839-81) Photo, 1865. Young Musorgsky as an Officer in the Prestigious Preobrazhensky Guard, St. Petersburg. Musorgsky, Photo, 1870. Musorgsky, Portrait by Repin (1881) Musorgsky ’ s Grave, Tikhvin Cemetery, Aleksandr Nevsky Monastery, St. Petersburg.
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Young Musorgsky as an Officer in the Prestigious Preobrazhensky Guard, St. Petersburg
Musorgsky, Portrait by Repin (1881)Musorgsky’s Grave, Tikhvin Cemetery, Aleksandr Nevsky Monastery, St. Petersburg
Opera: Boris Godunov (1874)Stars: Ivan Melnikov (Tsar Boris); Yuliya Platonova (Marina Mniszek); Fyodor Komissarzhevsky (False Dmitrii II); Gennady Kondratiev/Osip Petrov (Misail and Varlaam)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CuhwXbfZ-I (Holy Fool, 1954 film)
“Night on Bald Mountain”(Various visual versions, from left: full score; CD cover; original soundtrack of Disney’s Fantasia, with Leopold Stokowski conductinghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCEDfZgDPS8 (NY Philharmonic; Leonard Bernstein)
Pictures at an Exhibition (1874) First Edition, 1886, for piano • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8ei1NF0oic (Yevgenii Kissin) • Ravel orchestra version (1922): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXy50exHjes (Chicago Symphony: Georg Solti)
Gnomus (Hartmann’s costume design for the evil dwarf in Pushkin’s narrative poem Ruslan and Lyudmila, Chernomor)
The Old Castle (Il Vecchio Castello); Costumes for the dance “Chicks in their Shells” in the ballet “Trilby”
Portraits from Hartmann’s collection of Sandomierz’s Jewish residents (Poland); subtitled by Vladimir Stasov as “A rich Jew and a poor Jew”
Catacombs beneath Paris (Hartmann’s self-portrait); Clock designed after Baba Yaga’s hut on chicken’s legs
Monument to Musorgsky at his birthplace on the Lovat River in the south of Pskov Province