Successful when published in 1831, it was a failure when it was first performed 40 years later.
Successful when published in 1831, it was a failure when it was first performed 40 years later. Written as a study of personal ambition, it opens with Shuiskys' investigation of the assassination of the tsarevich Dimitry. Father Pimen advises the young monk Grigory Otrepyev to abandon the material world, but instead Grigory claims to be the murdered tsarevich and wages war on the title character, who dies and whose wife and son Feodor take poison. FTP name this dramatic poem about a Russian leader by Alexander Pushkin.
Successful when published in 1831, it was a failure when it was first performed 40 years later.
Boris Godunov