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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: Russian composer (1833-1887) [syn: Borodin, Aleksandr Borodin, Aleksandr Porfirevich Borodin]

Merriam Webster's

biographical name Aleksandr Porfiryevich 1833-1887 Russian composer & chemist

Britannica Concise

Russian composer. From 1862 he took lessons from M. Balakirev; fired by nationalist sentiment, the two men became the core of the Mighty Five. A professor of chemistry for much of his life, he left a small compositional output, which includes the orchestral suite In the Steppes of Central Asia (1880), two string quartets, and three symphonies, the second of which has remained highly popular. The opera Prince Igor was left unfinished after 18 years of intermittent work..Russian diplomat. He joined the Bolshevik faction in 1903, was arrested (1906), and lived in exile in the U.S. He returned to Russia in 1917 and in 1923 was sent to China as an adviser to Sun Yat-sen. There he built the loosely structured Nationalist Party (Guomindang) into a highly centralized Leninist-style organization and helped the Chinese Nationalists develop their army. After leaving China (1927), he served as deputy director of the Tass news agency and editor of the Moscow Daily News (1932-49). He was arrested in a Stalinist purge of Jewish intellectuals and died in a Siberian labor camp.