Word: godunov
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin have never seen cause to suppress Boris Godunov, Eugene Onegin or even excessively bourgeois Madame Butterfly goes far to explain how Soviet Russia is now managing to like supercapitalistic Mr. & Mrs. Davies and support quietly a growing bureaucracy of Babbitt Bolsheviks...
Pushkin's widely known work, the tragedy "Boris Godunov," which formed the basis of a famous opera by Moussorgsky, is represented by a first edition copy, published in St. Petersburg, 1831, and originally part of the library of Grand Duke Constantine Nikolaevich. This book was written in 1826, but the Russian Czar refused Pushkin permission to publish it, urging that he rewrite the story in the form of an historical romance like those of Sir Walter Scott. Finally Pushkin prevailed upon the ruler to grant permission, saying that he needed money for his impending marriage...
...connection with the centenary of the death of Poet Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837), to do special music for a cinema and two plays, in all three of which his performance will perforce be compared with those of Russians who have made use of the same Pushkin works: Boris Godunov (Moussorgsky), Pique-Dame and Eugene Oniegin (Tchaikovsky...
...took pains to make his first concert of the New York season glitter, made the new symphony wait till last. Devoted to Oriental instruments, he swelled the percussion section with a group of weird brass Oriental gongs, had them bong dolefully through his own transcription of music from Boris Godunov...
...conquest by their nation, poured across the Moscow River to greet the aeronauts. Pilot George Prokofiev mounted the gondola, harangued the crowd with a lecture in which he credited the flight's success entirely to the Proletarian Revolution and the Communist Party. His companions, Ernest Birnbaum and Constantin Godunov, declared the balloon's scientific apparatus had worked perfectly. They found the sky at 11 mi. altitude a deep, soft violet ; they had been unable to detect the earth's curvature...