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Sadko in the Underwater Kingdom
Credit: Ilya RepinIlya Repin's 1876 painting, Sadko in the Underwater Kingdom. The Russian legend of Sadko, the minstrel who charmed the Sea King and his daughter and eventually returned to Novgorod a wealthy man, was the subject of Rimsky-Korsakov's 1896 opera Sadko.