Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky (Russian: Модeст Петрович Мусоргский), was born on March 21, 1839 in Karevo, near Toropets in the government of Pskov, and died on March 16, 1881 (March 28, 1881 in the Gregorian calendar) in Saint Petersburg. He is first famous for the opera Boris Godunov, for the symphonic poem A Night on Bald Mountain and for the piano suite Pictures at an Exhibition (1874) – orchestrated by Maurice Ravel in 1922.