 Biographer Mikhail Zetlin suggests that Azanchevsky's motives might have been twofold.First, Rimsky-Korsakov was the member of the Five least criticized by its opponents, and inviting him to teach at the Conservatory may have been considered a safe way to show that all serious musicians were welcome there.Second, the offer may have been calculated to expose him to an academic climate in which he would write in a more conservative, Western-based style.