[29] The Oprichniki, a band of hot-headed and dissolute young nobles who formed the bodyguard of Ivan the Terrible and were always prepared to carry out his orders. They carried a dog’s head and a broom at their saddle-bow, to show that they worried the enemies of the Tsar and swept them from the face of the earth.
[30] Rimsky-Korsakov was the first of the Russian composers to write a symphony.
[31] Free in the sense of offering gratuitous instruction.
[32] He was a warm advocate of the higher education of women, and one of the founders of the School of Medicine for Women at St. Petersburg.
[33] She married a naval officer, the Admiral Molas who went down in the flagship Petropavlovsk at the entrance of the harbour of Port Arthur during the Russo-Japanese war. With him perished the great war painter, Vassily Verestchagin.
[34] Mme. Rimsky-Korsakov still takes an active interest in musical questions. Articles over her initials often appear in the Russian musical papers, and recently she has taken up her pen in defence of her husband’s editorial work for Moussorgsky’s operas.
[35] These impressions are taken from an article of mine (in French) published in the Sammelbände der Internationalen Musik Gesellschaft (Jahrgang IV. Heft I.), Oktober-Dezember 1902. Leipzig, Breitkopf and Härtel.
[36] In 1908 he was Russian consul at New York.
[37] The Bogatyri were the heroes of ancient and legendary days.
[38] Collected Works (Sobranye Sochinenie, 4 Volumes). “Twenty-five years of Russian Art” (musical section), Vol. I. “In the Tracks of Russian Art” (musical section), Vol. I. “A. S. Dargomijsky.” “A. N. Serov.” “Gabriel Lomakin.” “Perov and Moussorgsky” (Vol. II.), are among his chief contributions to musical literature. But there are a number of critical articles on first performances, etc., which cannot be enumerated here.