Musicology Annotation << Back D.Y. Struiskiy and his Opera «Parasha-Siberian» Elena Smagina Article is addressed to one of the forgotten names in the history of Russian Opera of the nineteenth century – Dmitriy Yuryevich Struiskiy, known in musicology as a prolific musical critic, writing in the late 1820s – 1840s, and less as a writer, translator and composer. In the publication for the first time touched pedigree pedigree of D.Yu. Struiskiy, belonging to the well-known in the days of Catherine the family; a review of his literary and musical heritage. Highlights the Opera «Parasha-Siberian», composed in the 1840s on his own libretto on the drama («the Russian were») N.A. Polevoy. Considered as lost, Opera for the first time presents the specialists ‘ attention as an interesting sample of genre and stylistic searches of the Russian Opera theatre in the period between «Life for the Tsar» and «Ruslan» by M.I. Glinka. Keywords: N.A. Polevoy, Praskovya Lupolova, a Passer-by, the Unknown, the leitmotiv-quote «God save the Tsar!». Contacts: E-mail: evsmagina@yandex.ru Pp. 27-35.