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Boris Feodorovich Godunov (/ ˈ ɡ ɒ d ə n ˌ ɔː f, ˈ ɡ ʊ d-/; Russian: Борис Фёдорович Годунов, romanized: Boris Fyodorovich Godunov; 12 August [O.S. 2 August] 1552 – 23 April [O.S. 13 April] 1605) was the de facto regent of Russia from 1585 to 1598 and then tsar from 1598 to 1605 following the death of ...
Boris Godunov (Russian: Борис Годунов, romanized: Borís Godunóv listen ⓘ) is an opera by Modest Mussorgsky (1839–1881). The work was composed between 1868 and 1873 in Saint Petersburg , Russia.
Boris Godunov (born c. 1551—died April 13 [April 23, New Style], 1605, Moscow, Russia) was a Russian statesman who was chief adviser to Tsar Fyodor I (reigned 1584–98) and was himself elected tsar of Muscovy (reigning 1598–1605) after the extinction of the Rurik dynasty.
Boris Godunov is probably best known as the ruthless ill-fated Tsar of Mussorgsky’s opera. The libretto of the opera was provided by Pushkin’s historical drama, Boris Godunov, and he took his material wholly from N. M. Karamzin’s History of the Russian State.
Boris Godunov, historical blank verse drama in 23 scenes by Russian poet and playwright Aleksandr Pushkin, written in 1824–25, published in 1831, and considered one of the most important plays of the early 19th century. Its theme is the tragic guilt and inexorable fate of a great hero, Boris.
The Coronation Scene from Modest Musorgsky's Boris Godunov in Rimsky-Korsakov's Edition. The group of Russian composers who began to assemble after 1857, consisting of Mily Balakirev, César Cui, Modest Musorgsky, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, and Alexander Borodin, came to be known as the moguchaia kuchka (literally, "the mighty little heap," ...
A pinnacle of the Russian operatic canon, Boris Godunov operates on both the most epic and the most intimate levels, with huge crowd scenes and monumental monologues juxtaposed with snippets of smaller (but crucial) folk-based melodies.
