The Jewel of St Petersburg lover of a married Countess but later saw Valentina performing at a party and later had an affair with her and fell in love. One of Valetina's father's servants was actually a Bolshevik leader. The Jewel of St Petersburg The Jewel of St Petersburg is a 2010 prequel to "The Russian Concubine" and "The Concubine's Secret" by Kate Furnivall. It is about Lydia Ivanova Friss's parents Valentina Ivanova and Jens Friss love, set against the backdrop of Russia. Valentina Ivanova was the daughter of the finance minister to Tsar Nicholas II and an aspiring pianist. She wanted to become a
20th-century music gestures and formlessness of late Romanticism which revived the balanced forms and clearly perceptible thematic processes of earlier styles. There were three distinct "schools" of neoclassicism, associated with Igor Stravinsky, Paul Hindemith, and Arnold Schoenberg. Similar sympathies in the second half of the century are generally subsumed under the heading "postmodernism". A compositional tradition arose in the mid-20th century—particularly in North America—called "experimental music". Its most famous and influential exponent was John Cage (1912–1992). According to Cage, "an experimental action is one the outcome of which is not foreseen", and he was specifically interested in completed works that performed an