Dmitri Shostakovich is my favorite of the Russian/Soviet orbit. Also worth mentioning are Mikhail Glinka, Alexander Dargomïzhsky, Alexander Borodin, Modest Mugorgsky, Mily Balakirev, César Cui, Sergei Prokofiev, and Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov.
I have deliberately ommitted the derrivative Piotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky, as I feel his works hardly deserve attention.
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