books.google.com.au - The "Golden Age" of opera-going in Russia, from the 1840s through the 1880s, coincided with the flourishing of Russian prose realism. During this period, opera and literature exerted a reciprocal influence on one another, each adopting and providing a new context for the other's artistic conventions....http://books.google.com.au/books/about/The_literary_lorgnette.html?id=Kk0KnZOwtsAC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe literary lorgnette
