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    Boris Feodorovich Godunov (/ˈɡɒdənɒf, ˈɡʊdənɒf/; Russian: Борис Фёдорович Годунов; 12 August [O.S. 2 August] 1552  – 23 April [O.S. 13 April] 1605) was...
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    Boris Godunov (Russian: Борис Годунов, romanized: Borís Godunóv listen) is an opera by Modest Mussorgsky (1839–1881). The work was composed between 1868...
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    Boris Godunov (Russian: Борис Годунов, Borís Godunóv; variant title: Драматическая повесть, Комедия o настоящей беде Московскому государству, o царе Борисе...
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  • Boris Godunov (1551–1605) was a Russian tsar. Boris Godunov may also refer to: Boris Godunov (opera) (1874) by Modest Mussorgsky Boris Godunov (play) (1831)...
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    politics, and the country was effectively administered in his name by Boris Godunov, the brother of his beloved wife Irina. His childless death marked the...
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  • the Kremlin gate. Incited by boyars, the crowd implores Boris Godunov to accept the throne. Boris agrees though he knows that the crown is stained with...
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    however, and soon began his anti-Godunov campaign seemingly in favor of Simeon Bekbulatovich. Tsar Boris Godunov appointed Belsky okolnichy and hastily...
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    political police and unable to publish, Pushkin wrote his most famous play, Boris Godunov. His novel in verse Eugene Onegin was serialized between 1825 and 1832...
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    Russian folklore, and other national themes. Such works include the opera Boris Godunov, the orchestral tone poem Night on Bald Mountain and the piano suite...
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    Ivan Petrovich Shuisky, and Fedor's brother-in-law, Boris Godunov. On the day of the coronation, Boris was named koniushii boiarin (master of the house or...
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  • Boris Godunov (Russian: Борис Годунов) is a 1986 drama film directed by and starring Sergei Bondarchuk. An adaptation of Alexander Pushkin's 1825 play...
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    of Troubles. Fyodor II was born in Moscow, the son and successor to Boris Godunov. His mother Maria Grigorievna Skuratova-Belskaya was one of the daughters...
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    the late 16th century. Having been presented by Shah Abbas I to Tsar Boris Godunov it was called a "Persian throne with stones". The form of the throne...
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    mother, Maria Nagaya, anticipated the assassination attempt ordered by Boris Godunov and helped him escape to a monastery in the Tsardom of Russia, and the...
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    continued his directing career, steering toward political films, directing Boris Godunov before being dismissed from the semi-governmental post in 1986. In 1973...
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    chamber music. Among his most famous roles were those of Tsar Boris (Mussorgsky - Boris Godunov), Philip II (Verdi - Don Carlo), Mephistopheles (Gounod -...
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    Le veau d'or Mephisto in Gounod's Faust Monologue of Boris Godunov From Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov Ej, ukhnem! 1902 recording of The Song of the Volga...
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  • Mikhail I Romanov (1598-1645). It centers upon the fate of the Godunov family: Tsar Boris Godunov (1551-1605), his wife Maria Skuratova-Belskaya, his sister...
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  • Tsar Boris Fyodorovich Godunov a regent of Russia from 1584 to 1598 and then tsar from 1598 to 1605 Tsar Fyodor Borisovich Godunov son of Tsar Boris Godunov...
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    pretenders to the title of tsar of Russia against the crowned tsars Boris Godunov (r. 1598–1605) and Vasili IV Shuysky (r. 1606–1610). From 1605, Polish...
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    influence and played a major part in Boris Godunov's ascending to the Russian throne. Job did not approve, however, of Godunov's proposal to open a university...
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    premiere of the original version of Boris Godunov in 1929, and subsequently produced a symphonic synthesis of Boris for concert purposes. Despite the success...
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    Irina Godunova (category House of Godunov)
    days later. She remained the nominal ruler of Russia until her brother Boris Godunov was elected tsar on 3 March [O.S. 21 February] 1598. The precise dates...
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  • Addams. Badenov's name is a pun on that of 16th-century Russian tsar Boris Godunov (i.e., "good enough" vs. "bad enough"). His accent and explosive temper...
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    compositions, and particularly liked the "Scene by the Fountain" in his opera Boris Godunov. Mussorgsky had abandoned the scene in his original 1869 version, but...
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    to the Picaresque genre. Between Asia and Europe - From Ivan III to Boris Godunov / Между Азией и Европой - От Ивана III до Бориса Годунова (2015). History...
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    London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. Anthony played Grigory in Boris Godunov at the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon from November...
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    ideas and plans. Mussorgsky composed and orchestrated the Polish act of Boris Godunov and the folk scene 'Near Kromy.' I orchestrated and finished my Maid...
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  • he became the English ambassador to Russia during the reign of Tsar Boris Godunov. Meyrick was the second son of William Meyrick or Merick, at one time...
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    Tsardom of Russia during the reigns of Feodor I (r. 1584–1598) and Boris Godunov (r. 1598–1605). In the court intrigues of the Time of Troubles (1598–1613)...
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