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When he filmed Ten Days That Shook the World in 1927, ten years after the October Revolution that the movie recreated, Sergei Eisenstein had all Leningrad at his disposal. He took over the dead Tsar's Winter Palace, gleefully had himself photographed on the throne, and used the imperial bed for a director's seat. Restaging the revolution with the nightly help of 3000 citizens, Eisenstein broke more palace windows in 1927 than had the real revolutionaries ten years before...
...Russia's Empress Elizabeth summoned 14-year-old Sophia to Moscow to marry Grand Duke Peter (later Tsar Peter III), Elizabeth's nephew and heir. Peter, a German-born second cousin of his bride-to-be, at 16 was a pockmarked, childish lad who prattled only of soldiers and toys, and in the next 18 years expanded his interests to include mistresses, hounds and drinking. Catherine, as Sophia was rechristened when she entered the Russian Orthodox Church, soon sized him up: "I believe that the Crown of Russia attracted me more than his person...
...first lover. Courtier Serge Saltikov, was "handsome as the dawn; there was no one to compete with him in that." But as soon as the required heir, the future Tsar Paul II, was born, Saltikov was snatched away by Empress Elizabeth and discreetly dispatched to Sweden...
...taking over the Orchestra in Dr. Koussevitzky's absence. Mr. Burgin showed excellent taste in choosing a program: the concert opened with Brahms' often-played Third Symphony, continued with the never-played Adagio from Bruckner's String Quintet, and finished with a suite from "The Fairy Tale of Tsar Saltan" by Rimsky-Korsakov...
Rimsky-Korsakov took the material for his opera "Tsar Saltan" from a poem by Pushkin, and later drew from the score a set of musical pictures. Tuesday's program included three--the well-known March, the Introduction to Act II, and the Three Wonders. It is truly "picture music" of the light sort which lends so well to the Boston Symphony's precise and colorful execution. As for the Brahms, little can be said. Like all good Symphony players, the men of the Boston Symphony have played the familiar classics so often that they automatically give each part exactly...