You can make 57 anagrams from letters in Serov (eorsv).
Under his influence Serov began to take an interest in modern German philosophy and particularly in the doctrines of Hegel.
For me Serov is not dead, says Wagner; for me he still lives actually and palpably.
Mme. Serov was another Russian woman of great musical talent.
Serov lays on with bludgeon and iron-headed mace; Stassov retaliates with a two-edged sword.
It was through journalism that Serov first acquired a much desired footing in the musical world.
And Serov had actually proved himself a gifted composer but not a genius of the first order.
The personality of Bakounin made a deep impression upon Serov, as it did later upon Wagner.
In 1858 Serov returned from a visit to Germany literally hypnotised by Wagner.
As I am considering Serov rather as a composer than as a critic, I need not dwell at length upon this side of his work.
This youth—a few years his junior—was Vladimir Stassov, destined to become a greater critic than Serov himself.