Vladimir Stasov
In May 1867 the critic Vladimir Stasov wrote an article, titled "Mr. Balakirev's Slavic Concert", covering a concert that had been performed for visiting Slav delegations at the "All-Russian Ethnographical Exhibition" in Moscow. The four Russian composers whose works were played at the concert were Mikhail Glinka, Alexander Dargomyzhsky, Mily Balakirev, and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. The article ended with the following statement: