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St. John's Night on the Bare Mountain ( 1867 ) was not performed until the 20th century.

Musicologist Aleksandra Orlova claims that the original manuscript of this version was discovered in the library of the Leningrad Conservatory by musicologist Georgiy Orlov in the late 1920s, that it was performed once by the Leningrad Philhamonic Society, and that Nikolay Malko brought along a copy of it when he emigrated to the West.

Gerald Abraham states that this version was performed by Malko on 3 February 1932, apparently in England.

Michel-Dimitri Calvocoressi claims that Malko performed this version in several countries in 1933.

According to the Grove Dictionary of Music this version premiered in Moscow in 1968, presumably in Georgiy Kirkor's edition.