Musicology Annotation << Back Contexts of Antonida’s Romance Mikhail A. Lobanov In this small study is made an attempt to consider the Romance Antonida in connection with the traditional rite of the wedding. The author came to the conclusion that the first evidence of the existence in the Russian wedding lamentations of the bride, accompanied by the lamentations of bridesmaids, contained in this fragment of the Opera M.I. Glinka. Only after a hundred years more, this phenomenon has got into the field of view of the musical Ethnography. Keywords: Glinka, A Life for the Tzar, wedding ceremony, lamentations. Contacts: E-mail: lobanov@ML1337.spb.edu Pp. 28-32.