Nikolai Andreevich Rimsky-Korsakov ( ), as a young cadet and in 1866
The “Mighty Heap/Handful”: Musorgsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Balakirev, Cui, Borodin, at Nikolai Purgol’d’s home and St. Petersburg Conservatory, now the Rimsky-Korsakov St. Petersburg Conservatory of Music (1862)
Rimsky-Korsakov and wife Nadezhda Purgold Rimskaia-Korsakova ( )
Rimsky-Korsakov’s Grave in Tikhvin Cemetery, Aleksandr Nevsky Monastery, St. Petersburg
Igor Stravinsky and the Rimsky-Korsakovs, 1908
Portraits of Rimsky-Korsakov by artists Il’ya Repin and Valentin Serov
The Maid of Pskov: Veche Scene (a drawing for the opera) and Fyodor Chaliapin as Ivan IV (1896)
Revival of The Maid of Pskov, 2008, Mariinsky Theater, St. Petersburg
From May Night: Sobinov as Levko, 1909, and from Christmas Eve: Mravina as Oksana, 1895
The Snow Maiden: Set by Viktor Vasnetsov (1883); Costume by Nikolai Roerich (1912); Revival at Bolshoi Theater, 2013
Sadko: Chaliapin as the Varangian, 1898 and Set design by Nikolai Roerich, 1914
The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevronia: Paintings for stage sets by Ivan Bilibin (Maly Kitezh and Kitezh transformed)
The Golden Cockerel (Le Coq d’Or): Stage set by Bilibin; painting of Dodon and Shemakha by Bilibin; Astrologer in the opera
Images for Scheherazade, based on the Arabian Nights: costumes and set designs by Lev Bakst for Mikhail Fokin’s ballet production, 1910
Pascha 2009 at Christ the Savior Cathedral, Moscow
Some Links to R-K Music Dance of the Skomorokhi from Snow Maiden Cortege from Mlada Introduction and Dodon’s Sleep from The Golden Cockerel Scheherazade Or as a ballet: Russian Easter Overture Capriccio Espagnol