Alexander Dargomyzhsky Alexander Dargomyzhsky (Portrait by Konstantin Makovsky, 1869) (14 February [O.S. 2 February] 1813 – 17 January [O.S. 5 January] 1869) was a 19th-century Russian composer. He bridged the gap in Russian opera composition between Mikhail Glinka and the later generation of The Five and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. «Bolero» (1839) 볼레로 (bol..