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

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 conducting

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCEDfZgDPS8 (NY Philharmonic; Leonard Bernstein)

Viktor Aleksandrovich Gartmann (Hartmann)(1834-73)

• 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

Great Gate of Kiev

• Monument to Musorgsky at his birthplace on the Lovat River in the south of Pskov Province