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Arseny Arkad'yevich Golenishchev Kutuzov
(1848 - 1913) Russia

Arseny Kutuzov

Poet

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Mussorgsky found a companion in Count Arseny Golenishchev Kutuzov, a distant relative. This impoverished 25-year-old poet inspired Mussorgsky's two cycles of melancholy melodies, Bez solntsa (Sunless) and Pesni i plyaski smerti (Songs and Dances of Death) and became his librettist.

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