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Sadko in the Underwater Kingdom
Sadko in the Underwater Kingdom
Sadko in the Underwater Kingdom
Credit: Ilya Repin
Ilya Repin's 1876 painting, Sadko in the Underwater Kingdom. The Russian legend of Sadko, the minstrel who charmed the Sea King and his daughter and eventually returned to Novgorod a wealthy man, was the subject of Rimsky-Korsakov's 1896 opera Sadko.