Many composers -- Russian and otherwise -- wrote operas based on the works of Pushkin.

Verse Works

The Triumph of Bacchus...............Aleksandr Dargomyzhskii (1848) Ruslan and Liudmila.....................Mikhail Glinka (1842) Eugene Onegin.............................Piotr Chaikovskii (1879) Mazeppa [Based on Poltava]............Piotr Chaikovskii (1884) Rusalka.......................................Aleksandr Dargomyzhkii (1856) The Captive of the Caucasus............Cesar Cui (1883) Aleko [Based on "The Gypsies"]........Sergei Rakhmaninov(1893) Mavra [Based on "The Little House at Komna"].........Igor Stravinskii (1922)

Fairy Tales

The Tale of Tsar Saltan.......... Nikolai Rimskii-Korsakov (1900)

The Golden Cockerel............. Nikolai Rimskii-Korsakov(1909)

Little Tragedies

The Stone Guest.......................Aleksandr Dargomyzhskii (1872)

Mozart and Salieri....................Nikolai Rimskii-Korsakov(1898)

A Feast in the Time of Plaque......Cesar Cui (1901)

The Covetous Knight.................Sergei Rakhmaninov (1906)

The Big Tragedy

Boris Godunov...................Modest Musorgskii (1869)

Prose Works

La Dame du pique....................Fromental Halevy (1850)

Pique dame............................ Franz von Suppe (1865)

The Queen of Spades.................Piotr Chaikovskii (1890)

The Captain's Daughter.............Cesar Cui (1911)

Dubrovskii..............................Eduard Napravnik(1895)

Winter Night [Based on "The Snowstorm"]............Ivan Dzerzhinskii (1946)

Lizinka [Based on "Mistress into Maid"].................Ivan Zajc(1878)

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