Biography
Alexei Nikolayevich Verstovsky was born in 1799 in Tambov Governorate and died in Moscow in 1862. He studied at the Engineering Institute in St Petersburg while taking piano lessons from Daniel Steibelt and John Field and violin lessons from Louis Wilhelm Maurer. From 1825 he served as music inspector at the Imperial Theatre in Moscow, and from 1848 to 1860 he headed its theatre office. With operas such as "Askold's Grave" (1835), which drew on Russian folklore, he is regarded as an important forerunner of Russian national opera before Glinka.
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