person
Nikolai Rubinstein
N. G. Rubinstein
also: покойного Н. Г. Рубинштейна
Nikolai Rubinstein, the celebrated pianist, conductor, and founder of the Moscow Conservatory, who had died in 1881 -- shortly before this piece's fictional date, giving the joke about his pawned wreaths and tailcoat a topical, slightly macabre edge.
Reading notes
- The Alarm Clock's Calendar §216 Rubinstein
Nikolai Rubinstein, the celebrated pianist, conductor, and founder of the Moscow Conservatory, who had died in March 1881 -- making the joke about his pawned funeral wreaths and tailcoat a topical and slightly macabre one for the calendar's original 1882 readers.
- Something About A. S. Dargomyzhsky §18 N. G. Rubinstein
Nikolai Rubinstein, the celebrated pianist, conductor, and founder of the Moscow Conservatory, who headed the Moscow branch of the Russian Musical Society.