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Specialty Museum Attractions In Tikhvinsky District

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Tikhvin Memorial Museum of History, Architecture and Art

Monument Glory to Heroes

Rimsky-Korsakov House Museum

Transfiguration Cathedral

Tikhvin Assumption Monastery

Memorial Russian Khatyn

Tikhvinsky District is an administrative and municipal district , one of the seventeen in Leningrad Oblast, Russia. It is located in the southeast of the oblast and borders with Lodeynopolsky District in the north, Podporozhsky District in the northeast, Babayevsky District of Vologda Oblast in the east, Boksitogorsky District in the southeast, Lyubytinsky District of Novgorod Oblast in the south, Kirishsky District in the west, and Volkhovsky District in the northwest. The area of the district is 7,018 square kilometers . Its administrative center is the town of Tikhvin. Population : 12,529 ; 14,637 ; 17,104 .
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Specialty Museum Attractions In Tikhvinsky District

1. Rimsky-Korsakov House Museum Tikhvin
Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov was a Russian composer, and a member of the group of composers known as The Five. He was a master of orchestration. His best-known orchestral compositions—Capriccio Espagnol, the Russian Easter Festival Overture, and the symphonic suite Scheherazade—are staples of the classical music repertoire, along with suites and excerpts from some of his 15 operas. Scheherazade is an example of his frequent use of fairy tale and folk subjects. Rimsky-Korsakov believed, as did fellow composer Mily Balakirev and critic Vladimir Stasov, in developing a nationalistic, Moscalski style of classical music. This style employed Russian folk song and lore along with exotic harmonic, melodic and rhythmic elements in a practice known as musical orientalism, and eschewed tra...
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2. Staraya Ladoga Archeological Museum Preserve Staraya Ladoga

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