Music
Mikhail Glinka
Addresses you can still visit
Every place in this city with a documented tie to this person.
Created here
Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre
His opera A Life for the Tsar (Ivan Susanin) premiered at the Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre on 27 November 1836 OS — conventionally the founding moment of Russian national opera.
Created here
Mariinsky Theatre
A Life for the Tsar opened the new Mariinsky Theatre in 1860 and has remained a cornerstone of the company’s Russian opera repertoire.
Burial place
Tikhvin Cemetery
Died in Berlin in 1857; remains were brought to St Petersburg and reinterred at Tikhvin Cemetery of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra, where his monument still stands.
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