[19] Reprinted in “Twenty-five Years of Russian Art.” The collected works (Sobranie Sochinenie) of Vladimir Stassov. Vol. I.
[20] “Accept life as it comes.” (Nie tak iivi kak khochetsya.)
[21] He also visited England, making his appearance at one of the concerts of the Philharmonic Society, in May 1857.
[22] Henceforth alluded to as the I. R. M. S., or the Musical Society.
[23] “The Chronicle of my Musical Life” (Lietopis moi muzykalnoi Jizn), 1844-1906. N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov (Edited by his widow). St. Petersburg, 1909.
[24] Mme. Maleziomova, whom I met in St. Petersburg, was for many years dame de compagnie, or chaperon, at Rubinstein’s classes at the Conservatoire. She was a devoted friend of the master’s, and few people knew more of his fascinating personality or spoke more eloquently of his teaching.
[25] Eight Russian and eleven German operas. Six of the latter were secular and five based on Biblical subject.
[26] “A History of Russian Opera” (Istoriya Russ. Opera). V. Cheshikin. St. Petersburg, 1905. P. Jurgenson.
[27] Dmitri Donskoi was produced in St. Petersburg in 1852; Esmeralda, first staged in Moscow in 1847, was brought out in the modern capital in 1853.
[28] For a fuller analysis of Lermontov’s poem see “Poetry and Progress in Russia,” by Rosa Newmarch. John Lane, The Bodley Head, London and New York.