2653941 Mitrofan Belyayev (oil on canvas) by Repin, Ilya Efimovich (1844-1930); Private Collection; (add.info.: Mitrofan Petrovich Belyayev (10/22 February 1836, St. Petersburg ??22 December 1903/ 4 January 1904) was an Imperial Russian music publisher, outstanding philanthropist, and the owner of a large wood dealership enterprise in Russia. He was also the founder of the Belyayev circle, a society of musicians in Russia whose members included Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Alexander Glazunov and Anatoly Lyadov. His surname is often transliterated as Belaieff or Belayev. In 1886 the important Russian painter Ilya Repin made a portrait of Belyayev.); Sputnik; Russian, out of copyright.