It was originally divided into seven tableaux, of which the third was set in a cell and the fourth at an inn at the border.
One of its central scenes in Act I contains a tune that Beethoven first used in the scherzo to one of his Razumovsky quartets. It was originally divided into seven tableaux, of which the third was set in a cell and the fourth at an inn at the border. The second version was modified to have an interlude of a "Polish" third act and a scene of the title character going mad with guilt, but still included the character of Pimen and the famous Coronation Scene. FTP, identify this opera that drew partly on the work of Karamzin and more on that of Pushkin, the magnum opus of Mussorgsky.
One of its central scenes in Act I contains a tune that Beethoven first used in the scherzo to one of his Razumovsky quartets.
{Boris Gudonov}