He became a professor of fortification at the academy of military engineering in St. Petersburg in 1878, where his pupils included Czar Nicholas II.
He became a professor of fortification at the academy of military engineering in St. Petersburg in 1878, where his pupils included Czar Nicholas II. His one-act Feast in the Time of Plague, unlike most of his works, has a Russian setting. His most successful operas were based on Heinrich Heine's "William Ratcliff" and Maupassant's "Mademoiselle Fifi." As a critic of music, he popularized Russian music in Belgium and France, but he himself preferred the French flavor, as he was the son of a French officer. FTP, name this Russian five composer of The Prisoner of the Caucasus and The Captain's Daughter.
He became a professor of fortification at the academy of military engineering in St. Petersburg in 1878, where his pupils included Czar Nicholas II.
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