Borodin was "popularized" by the musical "Kismet"
Listen to Prince Igor and the quartet #2.
https://www.earsense.org/chamber-music/alexander-borodin-string-quartet-no-2-in-d-major/
I have a piano reduction of most or all of these. Fun stuff. The orchestra failed to show up, as always.
Check out all the music they "stole" from Borodin.
Borodin source material
According to Richard E. Rodda in his 2008 liner notes to recordings of Borodin works, Robert Wright and George Forrest specialized in "turning melodies from classical music into film scores and popular songs". The following Borodin works were used as musical sources for Kismet:
• In the Steppes of Central Asia ("Sands of Time" )
• Symphony No. 2, Movement 1 ("Fate" )
• "Polovtsian Dances" from Prince Igor ("Bazaar of Caravans", "Not Since Nineveh", "Stranger in Paradise", "He's in Love", "Samaris' Dance" )
• String Quartet No. 2, Movement 2 ("Baubles, Bangles and Beads" ), Movement 3 ("And This Is My Beloved" )
• String Quartet No. 1 [it], Movement 4 ("Was I Wazir?" )
• Symphony No. 1 [it], Movement 4 ("Gesticulate" )
• "Serenade" from the Petite Suite ("Night of My Nights" )
• Act III trio from Prince Igor ("The Olive Tree" )
• "Aria of Khan Konchak" from Prince Igor (Introduction to "Gesticulate" )
• "Aria of Vladimir Galitsky" from Prince Igor ("Zubbediya" )
• Act II scene with Ovlur from Prince Igor ("My Magic Lamp" )
Borodin's day job was as a major physician and chemist.
FASCINATING
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Borodin
He learned from Mily Balakirev, in the time of Rimsky-Korsakov and Glazunov. Apparently not from them? What musical times!
Great music. 
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