Borodin, Aleksandr Porfirevich
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
...lyiksan d r p rfe rivich borodyen , 1833 87, Russian composer, chemist, and physician. He studied...helped found a school of medicine for women. An amateur musician, he had little musical...Petersburg in 1890. He was one of a group of Russian nationalist composers known as The Five...