The Russian glinka was sent travelling in search of health.
"The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Volume 2"
Rupert Hughes
Some venturesome critics have hailed Verstoffsky as even more distinctively a predecessor of Moussorgsky than glinka; but the clamor of those who are preaching loudly that art must not exist for art's sake, and that the ugly is justified by the beauty of ugliness, has silenced the voices of these critical historians.
"A Second Book of Operas"
Henry Edward Krehbiel
He collaborated with glinka in writing "Ruslan and Liudmila."
"Letters of Anton Chekhov"
Anton Chekhov Translated by Constance Garnett