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Article: Wagner in Russia.
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By Rosamund Bartlett. (Cambridge Studies in Russian Literature.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. [xx, 405 p. ISBN 0-521-44071-8. $59.95.]
Wagner in Russia by Rosamund Bartlett examines Vagnerovshchina - Russia's reception of Richard Wagner's operas and aesthetics and their effect on cultural development from late imperial Russia through the end of the Soviet period. The monograph surveys the performance history of Wagner's operas in Russia and presents a wealth of critical response to Wagner translated into English. After documenting the earliest interest shown in Wagner by Russians (1841), Bartlett chronicles the gradual inroads made by devoted ...