person
Mikhail Glinka
Glinka
also: Глинка
Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka (1804-1857), the composer often called the father of Russian classical music, best known for the opera "A Life for the Tsar" and "Ruslan and Lyudmila"; jokingly credited by Aivazovsky as a co-author of the latter in one of the painter's tall tales about his acquaintance with the great and famous.
Reading notes
- To the Chekhovs, 23 July 1888. Feodosia. §4 with Glinka
Mikhail Glinka, the composer of the opera "Ruslan and Lyudmila"; Aivazovsky's claim to have written the opera together with Glinka is one of the old painter's self-aggrandizing tall tales, part of the comic portrait Chekhov is drawing.