"One can learn a lot from Wagner, including how not to write operas" : Sergey Taneyev and his road to Wagner / Anastasia Belina-Johnson -- "The end of opera itself" : Rimsky-Korsakov and Wagner / Stephen Muir -- How Russian was Wagner? : Russian campaigns to defend or destroy the German composer during the Great War (1914-1917) / Rebecca Mitchell -- Prophecy of a revolution : Aleksey Losev on Wagner's aesthetic outlook / Vladimir Marchenkov -- "The great little man" : Dvorák and Wagner / Jan Smaczny -- Wagnerism in Moravia : Janáček's first opera, Šárka / Michael Ewans -- "Where the king spirit becomes manifest" : Stanisław Wyspiański in search of the Polish Bayreuth / Radosław Okulicz-Kozaryn -- The reception of Wagner's music and ideas in Poland during the communist years (1945-1989) / Magdalena Dziadek