"Fate"fully, Alexander Borodin won a 1954 Tony as composer of this musical-- even though he'd died in 1887!
..... in large 
part by Alexander Borodin (1833-1887) and completed after his death by Nikolai
... [DOC] [TLE] MUSSORGSKY : PICTURES AT AN EXHIBITION - Naxos [PAR] Alexander Porfiryevich Borodin (1833 -1887) ... and poets and in which music 
sought development through recourse to Russian traditions, sacred and secular.