Talk:The Merchant Kalashnikov

A fact from The Merchant Kalashnikov appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 12 April 2010 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the composer Anton Rubinstein conducted his own opera The Merchant Kalashnikov so badly that the performance had to be stopped?

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Is this performed much today? The title gives rise to some interesting associations. Daniel Case (talk) 18:31, 12 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I know of no recent performances.--Smerus (talk) 02:29, 13 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Why isn't this article called The Merchant Kalashnikov? —innotata 21:36, 12 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

To prevent confusion with its source, the Lermontov poem The Song of the Merchant Kalashnikov.--Smerus (talk) 02:29, 13 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]