Monthly Archives: February 2016

Pictures and Promenades – Mussorgsky goes for a walk

It was to the Academy of Arts in St Petersburg  [above] –  now known as the Russian Academy of Fine Arts –  that Mussorgsky went in 1874 to visit his deceased friend’s paintings. Quite an impressive building in itself, and … Continue reading

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