Musicologists and Slavicists have long recognized that Rimsky-Korsakov was an ecumenical artist whose folklore-inspired operas take up such issues as the relationship between paganism and Christianity and the seventeenth-century schism in the Orthodox Church.
Musicólogos e eslavistas recoñeceron durante moito tempo que Rimskii-Korsakov era un artista ecuménico cuxas óperas inspiradas no folclore abordan cuestións como a relación entre o paganismo e o cristianismo, e o cisma na Igrexa ortodoxa no século XVII.