More Glinka (very brief info)

Lecture Notes on Glinka

Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Wikipedia)

More Tchaikovsky

A catalogue of Tchaikovsky's works

Lecture Notes on Tchaikovsky

Russian Folk Music

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--Great Composers: The Five

Cesar Cui

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Modest Mussorgsky

Mili Balakirev

Aleksandr Borodin

Links:

Lecture notes

"The Mighty Five"

Cesar Cui

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov:

Modest Mussorgsky

Wikipedia Entry on "Pictures at an Exhibition"

Alexander Borodin (Wikipedia)

Milii Balakirev (Wikipedia)

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Pictures from Yasnaya Polyana (Tolstoy's Estate)

Ivan Turgenev

Lecture Notes on Turgenev

Lecture Notes on "Objective Realism"

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