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Posted: **Mon Sep 17, 2018 10:48 am**

This is a Soviet propaganda cartoon showing a record producer trying to shield the classical composers from pop music.

From left to right I see

Tchaikovsky
???
Glinka
Moussorgsky
Rimsky-Korsakov

Any theories as to the second composer's identity? I'm presuming he is a Russian like the others.

Posted: **Mon Sep 17, 2018 11:53 am**

Balakirev?

Posted: **Mon Sep 17, 2018 12:10 pm**

boneagain wrote: ↑Mon Sep 17, 2018 11:53 amBalakirev?

Possibly. One of my initial suspects.

He had the hair and he had the beard but never both at the same time in any picture I find of him

, so i'm thinking it's someone else.

The other caricatures are close matches to iconic portraits.

Posted: **Mon Sep 17, 2018 12:26 pm**

How about Caesar Cui?

Another of the Mighty Five

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