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Music and Books on Music from the Russian Imperial Collection in the Library of Congress

Collection Bibliography

The information in this guide is based on a 2011 publication and has not been updated.

"A Life for the Tsar" by Mikhail Glinka. Grand opera in four acts with an epilogue. Vocal Score, M1500.G52 R65 Case (Folio).

Engraving of Mikhail Glinka with eight bar musical quotation titled "March," found in A Life for the Tsar. Grand opera in four acts with an epilogue. Vocal Score, M1500.G52 R65 Case (Folio).

"Slavonic dance," dedicated to His Imperial Highness, the Sovereign Heir Apparent Tsarevich, from the director of the trumpet choir of the Cavalry-Artillery Guard Brigade, Iosif Platsatko, M1757.P Case.

"Chants for the Office of the Dead [of the Russian Orthodox Church] with a supplement [describing] their application in the order of the service" by Nikolai Bakhmetev, M2158.B2 Case.

Portrait of His Royal Highness, Tsarevich Aleksei Nikolaevich, found in "Hymn to His Imperial Highness and Heir Apparent, the Tsarevich and Great Prince Aleksei Nikolaevich" by A.A. Radonezhskii. Unaccompanied four-part mixed (SATB) chorus, M1757.P Case.