Ryabinin, Trofim Grigor'yevich
(1791–1885)
Ryabinin [Ribéeneen], Trofim Grigor'yevich (1791, Garnitsy, Petrozavodsk distr; 1885, Seredka, Petrozavodsk distr. [now Karelia Autonomous Republic]). Peasant singer and comp. of bylinas. Father of I. Ryabinin. This classical ballad-singer was “rediscovered” during the second half of the nineteenth century by P. Rybnikov and A. Gil'ferding (Hilferding), who notated over 20 of his bylinas. His tunes have been used by several composers: “O Volge i Mikule” appears in the Kromy Scene of Musorgsky's…