Here I was, of course, and a merit of the artist, Lev Milchin whom he didn't leave all life . " The Tale Tsar Saltan " became their latest work.
22.
In 1832 he returned to Saint Petersburg, became acquainted with Alexander Pushkin and illustrated his works " The Queen of Spades " and " The Tale of Tsar Saltan ".
23.
Those familiar with the opera " Tsar Saltan " may recognize two leitmotifs used in the " Flight, " both of which are associated with Prince Gvidon from earlier in the opera.
24.
Matruh rebelled and took Huesca and Zaragoza in about 789 . However he was killed by Amrus ( who became a supporter of the Emir ) and Sarhabil ibn Saltan al-Zawagi in 791 or 792.
25.
The " Flight of the Bumblebee " was written by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, in 1899 1900, as part of his opera, " The Tale of Tsar of Saltan ".
26.
Still in 816, Muslim chroniclers attest not far from Pamplona a so-called'Saltan', " knight of the pagans ", certainly a distorted name maybe referring to Zaldun, literally in Basque " Knight ".
27.
The lengthy full title of both the opera and the poem is " The Tale of Tsar Saltan, of his Son the Renowned and Mighty Bogatyr Prince Gvidon Saltanovich and of the Beautiful Princess-Swan " ( ).
28.
The Saltan does not yet know that Gvidon is his son ( " Akh, moguchiy knyaz Gvidon " = " Ah, mighty Prince Gvidon " ), and expresses regret for his rash treatment of his wife many years earlier.
29.
The readers of Alexander Pushkin's original poem, upon which this opera is based, will note that Gvidon is supposed to go on three separate trips to Saltan's kingdom, each of which requires a transformation into a different insect.
30.
Across the courtyard on the left are two mausoleums with a connecting porch, the east mausoleum containing the tombs of Mahmud Begada, and of his son Saltan Muzaffar ll, and the west, the tomb of Rajbai, Muzaffar's queen.
