Photo portrait of Modest Mussorgsky. Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky (1839 – 1881) was a Russian composer, one of the group known as "The Five". He was an innovator of Russian music in the Romantic period. He strove to achieve a uniquely Russian musical identity, often in deliberate defiance of the established conventions of Western music.

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Size: 2556px × 3414px
Location: Russia
Photo credit: © Archive Collection / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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