Gallery of Hartmann's Pictures
The surviving works by Hartmann that can be shown with any certainty to have been used by Mussorgsky in assembling his suite, along with their titles, are as follows:
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No. 5
Sketch of theatre costumes for the ballet Trilby -
No. 6a
Jew in a fur cap. Sandomierz -
No. 6b
Sandomierz Jew -
No. 8
Paris catacombs
(with the figures of V. A. Hartmann, V. A. Kenel, and a guide, holding a lantern) -
No. 9
The hut of Baba-Yaga on hen's legs–clock in the Russian Style -
No. 10
Project for a city gate in Kiev–main façade
Note: Mussorgsky owned the two pictures that together inspired No. 6, the 'Two Jews'. The title of No. 6b, as provided by the Soviet editors of his letters, is «Сандомирский » (Russian: Sandomirskiy , Sandomierz Jew). The bracketed word yevrey ('Hebrew') is the sanitized form of the actual word, very likely жид (zhid or yid). Mussorgsky, like many Russian intellectuals of his day, habitually used antisemitic epithets in his correspondence.
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