Beautiful, interesting, incredible cinema.
Like Mussorgsky’s earlier Boris Godunov, Khovanshchina deals with an episode in Russian history, concerning the rebellion of Prince Ivan Khovansky, the Old Believers, and the Muscovite Streltsy against the regent Sofia Alekseyevna and the two young Tsars Peter the Great and Ivan V.
Like Mussorgsky’s earlier Boris Godunov, Khovanshchina deals with an episode in Russian history, concerning the rebellion of Prince Ivan Khovansky, the Old Believers, and the Muscovite Streltsy against the regent Sofia Alekseyevna and the two young Tsars Peter the Great and Ivan V.