High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! George, Duke of Mecklenburg (German: Georg Herzog zu Mecklenburg; 5 October [O.S. 22 September] 1899 – 6 July 1963) was the head of the House of Mecklenburg- Strelitz from 1934 until his death. He was born in Oranienbaum, Russia as Count George of Carlow; he was the youngest child and only son of Duke George Alexander of Mecklenburg (6 June 1859 - Saint Petersburg, 5 December 1909) and his morganatic wife (m. Remplin, 6 June 1889) Natalia Feodorovna Vonljarskaya (Saint Petersburg, 16 May 1858 - Cannes, 14 March 1921), daughter of Feodor Ardalionovich Vonljarsky (Dagoutze Chavli, Georgia, 23 December 1853 - 2 February 1903) and wife Maria Feodorovna Uvarova. Because his parents marriage was...

ISBN: 978-6-1326-6253-8
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Stone Guest (Каменный гость in Cyrillic, Kamennyj gost' in transliteration) is an opera in three acts by Alexander Dargomyzhsky. The libretto was taken almost verbatim from Alexander Pushkin's like-named play in blank verse (part of his collection Little Tragedies), with slight changes in wording and the interpolation of two songs indicated in the play. It was first performed at the Mariinsky Theatre, Saint Petersburg, 16 February 1872 (Old Style). According to the composer's wishes, the last few lines of Tableau 1 were composed by Cesar Cui, and the whole was orchestrated by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. Many years later, Rimsky-Korsakov revised his own orchestration of the opera,...

ISBN: 978-6-1341-7436-7
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Дата выхода: июль 2011