Nikolay Kashkin

There he met Herman Laroche, Nikolai Rubinstein and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. He contributed music criticism primarily to the Russian Register and the Moscow Register, sometimes under the pseudonym "Nikolai Dmitriev." As a critic, Kashkin would do valuable service in the promotion of Tchaikovsky's music. Beginning with Tchaikovsky's unfinished opera The Voyevoda which was half-destroyed by the composer and attemptively reconstructed starting in the 1930s, Kashkin was a strong advocate for Tchaikovsky's work. He was an early support of Tchaikovsky's penultimate opera, The Queen of Spades, arguing it would become a leading name in Russian operatic repertoire. It was he who provided the epithet "Little Russian" for Tchaikovsky's Second Symphony. Tchaikovsky dedicated the song "Not a Word, O My Friend", Op. 2 (1869) to him. Kashkin was also a support of the "National School" of Russian music developed by the group known as The Five. Kashkin published his recollections of Pyotr Tchaikovsky three years after the composer's death in 1893.

• Name — Nikolai Kashkin • Born — 1839 • Died — 1920 • Occupation — Music critic, professor

• 1897: "Essay on the history of Russian music" • 1897: "Opera stage of the Moscow Imperial Theater"

• 1896: "Memoirs" of Tchaikovsky

Brown, David, Tchaikovsky: The Early Years, 1840-1874 (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1978)

Nikolay Kashkin is recorded as a citizen of Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic. Recorded with the occupation music educator.