Ivan the Terrible or Kazan's Conquest by G.R. Derzhvin and heroic opera genre's formation in Russian culture of the beginning of the nineteenth century

Abstract

Analysis of opera libretto «Ivan the Terrible or Kazan's Conquest» by G.R. Derzhavin as one of the earliest pattern of the Russian heroic opera in connection with urgent historical actuals of the beginning of the 19th century is presented in the article.

Keywords

• Г. Державин
• эпоха Просвещения
• музыка
• либретто
• Иван Грозный