RUSSIAN composers and performers in CYRILLIC alphabet (help please!)

[XB-70 Valkyrie]

We're going to St. Petersburg soon and will be visiting the cemetary at Alexander Nevsky Monestary, where several great Russian composers, including Tchaikovsky, are buried. I would like a little help in recognizing these names (Glinka, Moussorgsky, Shostakovich, etc. etc.) in Cyrillic. I have learned this alphabet somewhat but don't consider myself proficient enough to spell out these names myself.

I'm also looking to find some interesting CDs and LPs in that city and will need help recognizing names such as Sviatoslav Richter, David Oistrakh, Mstislav Rostropovich, Boris Christoff, Feodor Chaliapin, Leonid Kogan, etc. 

[Mark]

XB, if you find Rach's Vespers out there (1965 Sveshnikov, USSR State Choir, Melodiya), PLEASE buy it for me! We'll settle up on your return.

Thanks in advance!

[XB-70 Valkyrie]

I'll try! 

[Maciek]

XB, I think the simplest thing to do would be to search out the names you're looking for in the English Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page). When you find one of the names that interest you go to the article, then scroll down a bit and look at the tab on the left. It lists addresses for the same entry in other languages. Find Русский on that list (it comes right were R would be in the Latin alphabet) and click on it - and you will be taken to the appropriate page in the Russian Wikipedia.

I hope this makes sense? It's very simple, really - I just don't know how to explain it properly... 0:)

[Maciek]

Oh, and just to make it work faster - go to the Russian composers category:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Russian_composers

[XB-70 Valkyrie]

Thanks a lot!

Here's Tchaikovsky: Пётр Ильич Чайкoвский

[Mark G. Simon]

Wikipedia also has a table that helps you transliterate from cyrillic to Roman characters.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transliteration_of_Russian_into_English

Several different romanization schemes are presented here. I'm most conversant with the ALA-LC scheme.

[Archaic Torso of Apollo]

We're going to St. Petersburg soon and will be visiting the cemetary at Alexander Nevsky Monestary, where several great Russian composers, including Tchaikovsky, are buried. I would like a little help in recognizing these names (Glinka, Moussorgsky, Shostakovich, etc. etc.) in Cyrillic.

Don't wish to disappoint you in advance, but Shostakovich (Шостакович) is actually buried in Moscow, at Novodevichy Cemetery (his tombstone is decorated with the DSCH motif). Prokofiev (Прокофьев) is also buried there.

[Symphonien]

XB, I think the simplest thing to do would be to search out the names you're looking for in the English Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page). When you find one of the names that interest you go to the article, then scroll down a bit and look at the tab on the left. It lists addresses for the same entry in other languages. Find Русский on that list (it comes right were R would be in the Latin alphabet) and click on it - and you will be taken to the appropriate page in the Russian Wikipedia.

I hope this makes sense? It's very simple, really - I just don't know how to explain it properly... 0:)

Or you can just go to the English article and most of the Russian composers will have their names given in Cyrillic characters afterwards, eg. "Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka (Russian: Михаил Иванович Глинка, Mihail Ivanovič Glinka)".

[XB-70 Valkyrie]

According to my guidebook, Tikhvin Cemetary at the Alexander Nevsky Monestery is the burial place of Glinka, Tchaikovsky, Moussorgsky, Rimsky-Korsakoff, and Dostoyevsky.

[tab]

Tchaikovsky - Петр Ильич Чайковский
Glinka - Михаил Иванович Глинка
Moussorgsky - Модест Петрович Мусоргский
Shostakovich - Дмитрий Дмитриевич Шостакович
Sviatoslav Richter - Святослав Теофилович Рихтер
David Oistrakh - Давид Федорович Ойстрах
Mstislav Rostropovich - Мстислав Леопольдович Ростропович
Feodor Chaliapin - Федор Иванович Шаляпин
Leonid Kogan - Леонид Борисович Коган
Rimsky-Korsakoff - Николай Андреевич Римский-Корсаков
Dostoyevsky - Федор Михайлович Достоевский

Что-нибудь еще?  (Anything else?)

[Maciek]

Or you can just go to the English article and most of the Russian composers will have their names given in Cyrillic characters afterwards, eg. "Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka (Russian: Михаил Иванович Глинка, Mihail Ivanovič Glinka)".

[slaps forehead]

[karlhenning]

We're going to St. Petersburg soon and will be visiting the cemetary at Alexander Nevsky Monestary, where several great Russian composers, including Tchaikovsky, are buried. I would like a little help in recognizing these names (Glinka, Moussorgsky, Shostakovich, etc. etc.) in Cyrillic.

Shostakovich is buried in Novodevichy in Moscow, I believe.

[karlhenning]

According to my guidebook, Tikhvin Cemetary at the Alexander Nevsky Monestery is the burial place of Glinka, Tchaikovsky, Moussorgsky, Rimsky-Korsakoff, and Dostoyevsky.

And Stravinsky's father, Fyodor Ignatyevich.

[tab]

Shostakovich is buried in Novodevichy in Moscow, I believe.

True. And Rostropovich too 

[Sergey]

 XB, actually if you are after the CDs on sale in St. Petersburg, most (90%?) of them come with titles and names both in Russian and in English so you are unlikely to face great diffiulties. Be prepared, though, to meet rather weird transliteration sometimes that makes some names look vaguely but hardly familiar. :-)

[XB-70 Valkyrie]

Thanks for all the replies.

I am looking for both CDs and LPs. I figure the old Melodiya LPs will probably be mostly, or entirely in cyrillic. Any ideas where I should go to find LPs?

[karlhenning]

Welcome, Sergei!

[Maciek]

And Happy Birthday!

[Sergey]

Thank you, karlhenning, Maciek!