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    Aleksey Nikolayevich Pleshcheyev (Russian: Алексе́й Никола́евич Плеще́ев; 4 December [O.S. 22 November] 1825 – 8 October 1893) was a radical Russian poet...
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    words by Aleksey Pleshcheyev There Was an Old King (Был старый король) for voice and piano (1894); words by Heinrich Heine in translation by Aleksey Pleshcheyev...
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    were the writers Dostoevsky and Saltykov-Shchedrin, and the poets Aleksey Pleshcheyev, Apollon Maikov, and Taras Shevchenko. Nicholas I, alarmed at the...
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    Stoddard’s 1856 poem "Roses and Thorns", in a Russian translation by Aleksey Pleshcheyev, was set for voice and piano by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky as "Legend"...
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  • Tchaikovsky's song was originally set to a Russian translation by Aleksey Pleshcheyev of a poem in English called "Roses and Thorns" by the American poet...
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    his brother Valerian. In 1846, on the recommendation of the poet Aleksey Pleshcheyev, he joined the Petrashevsky Circle, founded by Mikhail Petrashevsky...
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    a text by Aleksey Koltsov "Leaves Rustled Sadly" 1859 1859 Original version, revised in 1863-1866; based on a text by Aleksey Pleshcheyev "What Are Words...
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    feet. With mysterious sadness the stars will shine down on us. (Aleksey Pleshcheyev) Juillet (July): Chant du faucheur (Song of the Reaper) Move the...
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    published Six Songs (Op. 8), a group of songs set to translations by Aleksey Pleshcheyev of Ukrainian and German poems. Rachmaninoff returned to Moscow, where...
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    (1822–1890), archaeologist worked as a tradesman based in Saint Petersburg Aleksey Pleshcheyev (1825–1893), poet Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin (1826–1889), writer...
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  • Plekhanov (1857–1918), writer, revolutionary and Marxist theoretician Aleksey Pleshcheyev (1825–1893), radical poet, Step Forward! Without Fear or Doubt Pyotr...
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  • the end of September. Still, in his 3 September letter he informed Aleksey Pleshcheyev, then closely associated with Severny Vestnik, that the story was...
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    Aleksey Pleshcheyev and was encouraged by the poet's favorable response. "Originality, soulfulness and deep passion" were the qualities Pleshcheyev liked...
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    "Iphigenia" and a song to words by Alfred Tennyson, translated by Aleksey Pleshcheyev, "Pale Arms Crossed on the Chest", which she herself set to Beethoven...
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  • love with you." wrote Dostoevsky to Alexandra Ivanovna in a letter. Aleksey Pleshcheyev, a poet who also knew details about the conflict between the doctor...
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    predecessor, including Pyotr Bykov, Gavriil Zhulev, Nikolai Leykin, Aleksey Pleshcheyev, Pyotr Sergeyenko and Liodor Palmin. Still, the political climate...
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    and befriended Yakov Polonsky, Apollon Maykov, Dmitry Grigorovich, Aleksey Pleshcheyev and Pyotr Veinberg. She became close to the group of authors associated...
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  • of regular contributors to Vek: Ivan Turgenev, Nikolai Nekrasov, Aleksey Pleshcheyev, Nikolai Leskov, Nikolai Uspensky, Mikhail Mikhaylov, and Pyotr Boborykin...
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  • Lidiya Pleshcheyeva-Muratova (1861–1953), a relative of the poet Aleksey Pleshcheyev. Salomea's real patronymic was "Ivanovna", but she thought that somewhat...
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    that survives in manuscript form. The first was Salomeya, which Aleksey Pleshcheyev called "a first-rate work", writing to Dostoevsky: It's been a long...
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    circle, which included brothers Fyodor and Mikhail Dostoyevsky, Aleksey Pleshcheyev, Nikolay Speshnev, Nikolai Grigoriev, P.N.Filippov, V.A. Golovinsky...
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  • the poet Aleksey Pleshcheyev and published in the Russian journal Семья и школа (Sem'ia i shkola [Family and School]) in 1877. Pleshcheyev described...
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    with Nadson) joined the Saint Petersburg's Literary Society, on Aleksey Pleshcheyev's recommendation. The latter introduced the young poet to the family...
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  • Us Нам звёзды кроткие сияли for mixed chorus a cappella words by Aleksey Pleshcheyev Choral Upon an Ancient Burial Mound На старом кургане for mixed chorus...
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    'Secret Fridays', establishing contacts with Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Aleksey Pleshcheyev. Later, having been interrogated about his involvement, Maykov avoided...
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  • Sonata Op.18 - Ах, сколько, сколько пало их (János Arany, transl. by Aleksey Pleshcheyev), for Mixed chorus a cappella Op.19 - Pieces, for Piano Princess...
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    Moscow, 1983. Pp. 155—156. Vestnik Literatury, Nos. 6—7, 1921. P. 14. Pleshcheyev, A. A. Some Things Remembered. Saint Petersburg, 1914. P. 201. The Comeback...
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