M. I. Glinka's Opera A Life for the Tzar: a Historical-Archaeological Perspective of Research

摘要

The scientific matter, which is associated with the name of a real historical person, but somewhat mythologized folk hero, the peasant Ivan Susanin, has been discussed in many dozens of books and hundreds of articles in various fields of domestic Humanities. Among them, a significant part of this research is musicology, which is the key value in the history of Russian music opera masterpiece by Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka. The objective of this article consists consequently in an attempt to show how naturally the musical drama is associated with the creatively comprehended system of historical facts in the opera "A Life for the Tsar".