Glinka [Gléenkuh], Mikhail Ivanovich (5–20/6–1–1804, Novospasskoye, Smolensk distr.; 2–3/15–1857, Berlin). Uncle of Ber. Glinka was the son of a retired army captain. As a boy he was receptive to folk music and the music of the Orthodox Church and throughout his life was fascinated by the sonorities of church bells. During his early years Glinka was brought up by his grandmother, who thoroughly spoiled him, thus laying, perhaps, the foundations for the poor health and need for female adulation…