Word: khovanshchina
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After Boris, his supreme triumph, only a few years were left to Musorgsky. Sinking toward dissolution, he still continued to .create music-the unfinished opera Khovanshchina, many songs, e.g., The Song of the Flea, Songs and Dances of Death. Then, after a last desperate effort to make money by touring Russia as accompanist for a singer, he collapsed. Finally put in a hospital early in 1881, he lived only long enough for Artist Ilya Repin to finish his famous drunkard's-nose portrait...
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