Volga land was one of the sources that feed the great musical creativity
A Russian composer. L. Borodin - bright representative of the musical culture of the second polovmny
XIX century. member of the circle <Mighty Handful>.
Summer 1880
Borodin held around Kineshma, the estate clamp <Sokolovo>.
<I gathered in Kostroma Kineshma county, eight miles from Kineshma, - he wrote
In. V. Stasov. - I settled on a high steep hill, at the foot of which stretches a monstrous zveremzmeem Volga. Thirty miles to spread out before my eyes, with his whimsical stretches, with ridges yes rifts, with green banks, forests, villages, churches, mansions and the endless blue of the distant. Type-simply would not take his eyes off him. Wonder what!>
Among the Volga freestyle nature evolved from Borodin's best music pages
<Prince Igor>. Here he wrote a second picture of the first. In the monumental-sounding
niyah orchestra and choir composer expressed his invincible force of the Russian people. In the music embedded Volga tunes that reflect not only the suffering and sorrow of the people, but also his unwavering fortitude.
