Reinhold Glière was born on January 11, 1875 in Kiev, Kiev Governorate, Russian Empire [now Kyiv, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine]. He was a composer, known for Zemlya zhazhdet (1930), Druzya vstrechayutsya vnov (1939) and Cervený mak (1955). He died on June 23, 1956 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia].