Gallery of Illustrations
Ivan Bilibin made the following illustrations for Pushkin's tale in 1905. Bilibin would later provide designs for the premieres of Rimsky-Korsakov's version of Boris Godunov (1908), and The Golden Cockerel (1909). The "Flight of the mosquito" episode was not included in the opera by Rimsky-Korsakov (nor that of the fly) for the sake of brevity, but Bilibin's illustration otherwise corresponds to the "Flight of the Bumblebee" from Act 3.
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Tsar Saltan at the window (Prologue)
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The island of Buyan (Act 2)
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Flight of the mosquito
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The Merchants visit Tsar Saltan (Act 3)
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