The Golden Cockerel
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov also reacted to the war by composing the satirical opera "The Golden Cockerel", completed in 1907. Although it was ostensibly based on a verse fairy tale by Alexander Pushkin written in 1834, the authorities quickly realised its true target and immediately banned it from performance. The opera was premiered in 1909, after Rimsky-Korsakov's death, and even then with modifications required by the censors.