Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: In the Shadow of Literature -- 1. Sound and Discourse: On Russian National Musical Style -- 2. Farewell to the Enchanted Garden: Pushkin, Glinka's Ruslan and Ludmila, and Nicholas's Russia -- 3. Eugene Onegin in the Age of Realism -- 4. Khovanshchina: A Musical Drama, Russian-Style (Wagner and Musorgsky) -- 5. Lost in a Symbolist City: Multiple Chronotopes in Chaikovsky'sThe Queen of Spades -- 6. A Testimony: Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony and the End of Romantic Narrative -- 7. ''Popolo di Pekino'': Musorgsky's Muscovy in Early Twentieth-Century Europe -- Epilogue. ''Prima la musica, dopo le parole'': Musical Genealogy of a National Anthem -- Notes -- Index.