He later admitted, however, to a second musical programme, drawn from a story by Anton Chekhov titled "Along the Way", in which a young girl meets an older man during a stormy, overnight stop at a roadside inn on Christmas Eve. The man shares with her the story of his life, beliefs, and past failures, as a blizzard rages on through the night.
| Librettist | (Based on a couplet from a poem of Mikhail Lermontov) |
| Date of composition | 1893 (Summer 1893) |
| Premiered | 1894, March 20th in Moscow, Russia |
| Dedicated to | Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov |
| Type | Symphonic Poem |
| Catalogue | Op. 7 |
| Approx. duration | 15 minutes |
| Instruments | Orchestra |
| Autotranslations beta |
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