Museums and societies Works by and on Turgenev
Russian composers Opera librettos and synopses
Russian music University of Cambridge

Museums and societies

  • «Turgenev Society» (mainly in Russian)     I.S.Turgenev
    A project supported by the Turgenev Museum and Nature Reserve in Spasskoe-Lutovinovo (the writer's native village, near the city of Oryol). Here you can find a lot of interesting information on Turgenev's life and works.
  • Turgenev Memorial Museum in Spasskoye
    Information (in English) on the Turgenev Museum near Oryol. There is also a link to the museum's official site (which is only in Russian, though).
  • Turgenev Museum in Bougival (in French)
    This site/blog on the Turgenev Museum in Bougival (a small place near Paris where Turgenev and the Viardot family would spend the summer months from 1874 onwards) is administered by the «Society of Friends of Ivan Turgenev, Pauline Viardot, and Marie Malibran" (A.T.V.M.). Here you can also find details of the concerts and recitals, mostly with a Russian theme, which are regularly held on the premises of the Turgenev villa.
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Works by and on Turgenev

  • Turgenev's main works (in Russian)
    Here students of Russian language and literature will find the complete texts of almost all of Turgenev's works (including all his novels), as well as various memoirs and articles about him.
  • English translations of works by Turgenev
    In this section of the «Project Gutenberg» library, you will find a list of classic translations (e.g. by Constance Garnett) of many of Turgenev's works into English. The texts can be freely downloaded in various convenient formats.
  • English translations of works by Turgenev (2)
    A further selection of classic translations, as well as of various useful links (although some of them no longer work).
  • Turgenev: International Bibliography 1983-
    An up-to-date bibliography on the books and articles that have appeared on Turgenev since 1983. It is maintained by Nicholas Žekulin at the University of Calgary in Canada.
  • The Novels of Turgenev: Symbols and Emblems
    A study of each of Turgenev's novels by Richard Peace, Professor Emeritus of the University of Bristol.
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Russian composers

  • Glinka: biography
    An excellent Wikipedia article on the "father of Russian music".
  • Dargomyzhsky: biography
    A brief but useful Wikipedia article on the composer whom Musorgsky considered his "great teacher in musical truth".
  • Balakirev: biography
    An excellent Wikipedia article with a detailed list of Balakirev's works, very few of which are still actually performed.
  • Cui: biography
    A remarkably detailed Wikipedia article on a composer whose works have been all but forgotten, but whose highly polemic feuilletons are still worth reading to understand why the «Mighty Handful» initially had so many enemies!
  • Rimsky-Korsakov: biography
    An informative Wikipedia article.
  • Borodin: biography
    This Wikipedia article deals with both Borodin's achievements as a composer and as a chemist, providing links to other articles on such topics as the "aldol reaction" or the "Borodin reaction" which are very helpful for non-scientists!
  • Musorgsky: biography
    An excellent Wikipedia article.
  • Tchaikovsky: A Life
    A short biography of the composer by Alexander Poznansky.
  • Tchaikovsky Research
    A website launched in 2006 and regularly updated, which brings together information provided by Tchaikovsky scholars and enthusiasts from around the world.
  • Taneyev: biography
    A very informative Wikipedia article.
  • Sergei Taneyev: Tchaikovsky's Heir or the Russian Bach?
    An article by Gavin Dixon providing an excellent survey of Taneyev's œuvre and of recent recordings.
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Opera librettos and synopses

For the full Russian texts of the librettos of operas mentioned on this site, please open the Russian version of this page. There are not many full-text English translations available on the web, so listed below are the excellent articles and synopses for these operas provided by Wikipedia. With Spanish, however, the situation is considerably better, since the KAREOL website (only in Spanish) of translations of operas and songs has extremely useful parallel Russian / Spanish texts of several of these operas.

  1. English opera synopses  English plot synopses from Wikipedia
  2. Spanish / Russian parallel librettos  Spanish / Russian parallel librettos from KAREOL
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