1. Nikolai Andreevich Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908), as a young cadet and in 1866

2. 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)

3. Rimsky-Korsakov and wife Nadezhda Purgold Rimskaia-Korsakova (1848-1919)

4. Rimsky-Korsakov’s Grave in Tikhvin Cemetery, Aleksandr Nevsky Monastery, St. Petersburg

5. Igor Stravinsky and the Rimsky-Korsakovs, 1908

6. Portraits of Rimsky-Korsakov by artists Il’ya Repin and Valentin Serov

7. The Maid of Pskov: Veche Scene (a drawing for the opera) and Fyodor Chaliapin as Ivan IV (1896)

8. Revival of The Maid of Pskov, 2008, Mariinsky Theater, St. Petersburg

9. From May Night: Sobinov as Levko, 1909, and from Christmas Eve: Mravina as Oksana, 1895

10. The Snow Maiden: Set by Viktor Vasnetsov (1883); Costume by Nikolai Roerich (1912); Revival at Bolshoi Theater, 2013

11. Sadko: Chaliapin as the Varangian, 1898 and Set design by Nikolai Roerich, 1914

12. The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevronia: Paintings for stage sets by Ivan Bilibin (Maly Kitezh and Kitezh transformed)

13. The Golden Cockerel (Le Coq d’Or): Stage set by Bilibin; painting of Dodon and Shemakha by Bilibin; Astrologer in the opera

14. Images for Scheherazade, based on the Arabian Nights: costumes and set designs by Lev Bakst for Mikhail Fokin’s ballet production, 1910

15. Pascha 2009 at Christ the Savior Cathedral, Moscow

16. Some Links to R-K Music Dance of the Skomorokhi from Snow Maiden https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-OuMNBzWuA Cortege from Mlada https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWw2HzRNQxA Introduction and Dodon’s Sleep from The Golden Cockerel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNQeVPEtXd4 Scheherazade https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_pkRH2DZuw Or as a ballet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptC3szb4zHshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptC3szb4zHs Russian Easter Overture https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FHFJ0lU9Us Capriccio Espagnol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55Qx5liqqTQ