Modest Mussorgsky was a composer from Karevo, Russia. A son of a landowner, Modest grew up interested first in fairy tales, but later his interests grew to involve other things, such as the piano. Modest would join the military at a young age. After his career in the armed forces, Modest would transition to learning music and how to be a composer.
In 1869 he began his great work Boris Godunov to his own libretto based on the drama by Aleksandr Pushkin. The first version, completed in December 1869, was rejected by the advisory committee of the imperial theatres because it lacked a prima donna role. Modest would go on to revise his work and it would become a huge success. Criticism would not stop Modest, but rather it would make him work even
