Alexander Borodin, Russian composer and chemist (died 1887)

Alexander Borodin

Russian Romantic composer and chemist (1833–1887)

Alexander Porfiryevich Borodin was a Russian Romantic composer and chemist of Georgian–Russian parentage. He was one of the prominent 19th-century composers known as "The Five", a group dedicated to producing a "uniquely Russian" kind of classical music. Borodin is known best…