The modern Russian music critic Viktor Korshikov thus summed up: "There is not the development of Russian musical culture without...three operas – Ivan Soussanine, Ruslan and Ludmila and the Stone Guest have created Mussorgsky, Rimsky-Korsakov and Borodin. "Soussanine" is an opera where the main character is the people, "Ruslan" is the mythical, deeply Russian intrigue, and in "Guest", the drama dominates over the softness of the beauty of sound." Two of these operas – "Ivan Soussanine" and "Ruslan and Ludmila" – were composed by Glinka.