among them Alexander Pushkin, Vasily Zhukovsky, Aleksander Griboyedov, Pyotr Vyazemsky, Vladimir Odoevsky, and Aleksander Pisarev. However he was not so popular among his colleagues. Glinka avoided mentioning him in his memoirs; Modest Mussorgsky nicknamed him Gemoroy (Haemorrhoid) by association with the title of his opera Gromoboy. He died in Moscow in 1862, aged 63. His wife a famous Russian actress and singer Nadezhda Repina survived her husband for five years. Works Operas Pan Tvardovsky (, libretto by Mikhail Zagoskin, 1828); Vadim, or the wakening of the twelve sleeping maidens (Вадим, или пробуждение двенадцати спящих дев – Vadim, ili probuzhdenie dvenadtsati spyashchikh dev, after Vasily Zhukovsky, 1832) Askold's Grave (also: Askold's Tomb, Аскольдова могила – Askol'dova mogila, 1835) Longing for Home (Тоска по родине – Toska po rodine, 1839) Day Dream or The Chur Valley (Сон наяву, или Чурова долина – Son nayavu, or Churova dolina, 1844) Gromoboy (Громобой, after Zhukovsky, composed 1854, staged 1857) Operas-vaudevilles (more than 30) including: The Sentimental Landlord in the Steppe’s Village (to the text translated from French by Verstovsky, 1817) Grandmother's Parrots (Бабушкины попугаи – Babushkiny popugai, to the text translated from French by N. I. Khmelnitsky, 1819) The Crazy House, or Strange Wedding (to the text translated from French by Verstovsky, 1822), Who is a Brother, Who is a Sister, or a Trick after a Trick (to the text written together with Aleksander Griboyedov, 1824) Music to Dramatic Theatre Cantatas including The Feast of Peter the Great (after Pushkin) Choruses Songs, Romances and Ballads including famous The Black Shawl or Moldavian Song (to the poem by Alexander Pushkin) Piano music, etc. Music and sound sample References Bibliography Abraham G.: The Operas of Alexei Verstovsky, 19th Century Music, 7 (1983) no. 3, 326–335. Dobrokhotov, B.: A.N. Verstovsky, Zhizn', Teatral'naya Deyatelnost', Opernoye Tvorchestvo, Moscow/Leningrad, 1949 Keldysh, Yu. V.: Istoriya Russkoy Muzyki, 1948. Vol. 1, p. 345–368. Levasheva O. E.: Istoriya Russkoy Muzyki ed. by N.V. Tumanina, 1957. Tom 1, p. 216–234. Shcherbakova M.: Introduction to piano score of Askold's Grave, 1983. Tvorcheskiye Portrety Kompozitorov (Reference book), Moscow, Muzyka, 1989 Verstovsky, Alexey Nikolayevich by Richard Taruskin, in 'The New Grove Dictionary of Opera', ed. Stanley Sadie (London, 1992) External links classical composers database on Russian page Askold's Grave, you can listen some tracks sheet music free download some interesting but disputable stories about Verstovsky, Varlamov and Gurilyov 1799 births 1862 deaths People from Staroyuryevsky District People from