Well-loved popular arias by Bach and Handel also rub shoulders with music from Tchaikovsky's The Snow Maiden and The Seasons.
Incredibly, Pravda also described an alleged retrieval of an alien artifact during archeological digs in Kiev, near the Tchaikovsky Conservatory.
It was however, the Tchaikovsky that gave us the best of our new helmsman.
But what do Bach and Tchaikovsky mean to the budding musicians of today?
True, Tchaikovsky wanted his Pushkin opera to be staged with rustic simplicity.