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Sadko in the Underwater Kingdom oil on canvas by Ilya Repin, 1876.
Credit: Ilya Repin

Ilya 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.