Talk:Alexander Borodin

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Year of birth

I noticed that the year of his birth varies between 1833 (in the article and other sources) and 1834 (on his grave at Tikhvin cemetery, a photo of which is in the article) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.54.186.51 (talk) 16:09, 2 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Anime mention

If I might say so, the Polovtsian Dances have been used often enough that mentioning an anime specifically seems unnecessary; othewise, one would need to mention every single other thing in which they have been used, which I imagine is significant. If anything were to be mentioned, it would seem to me that Kismet would be the choice. (Mind, I'm not sufficiently familiar with Wikipedia to propose making the change myself; for I'm not entirely certain on Wikipedia policies. Hence why I propose it here, for more experienced minds to choose, rather than make the change myself.)

Anime reference removed by 142.177.224.171 at 02:32, 20 January 2005 (UTC). ~ Jeff Q (talk) 11:29, 15 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Sound sample

I've removed the "sound sample" section because its only content was an Ogg file tagged "Polovtsian Dances from Prince Igor" (not very specific) that was itself removed by OrphanBot for having no source information. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 11:49, 15 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

A. Borodin was son of Georgian Prince (Tavadi) not "saeklesio aznauri". Source: Georgian Soviet Enciclopedia (ქართული საბჭოთა ენციკლოპედია) ბოროდინი, ალექსანდრე. --მოცარტი (talk) 11:33, 3 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Whose serfs?

The paragraph on his birth has a dangling thingy: Borodin's "mother...had him registered as one of his serfs". I assume that is referring to his father's serf, although I guess it is possible that a newborn could inherit serfs of his own, which is why I'm not going to fix it. Could someone in the know clarify the sentence structure? David Brooks (talk) 05:20, 25 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

' ... held a postdoctorate in Heidelberg'

What does this mean? One can have a postdoctoral position or hold some postdoctoral qualification, such as the German Habilitation, but one can't '[hold] a postdoctorate'. Norvo (talk) 16:01, 29 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Polovtsians as a noun sound a bit strange. Polovtsian is an adjective formed from the Russian noun Polovtsy (Cumans). Polovtsy (Cumans) may sound better. And they were real people, not just apparent :)

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Borodin's death

Far too brief a mention of his unexpected and unfortunate death. -- Derek Ross | Talk 17:10, 10 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]