Short answers, pulled from the story.
Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka was born in the village of Novospasskoye near the Desna River. His early ears were shaped by church bells tuned to dissonant chords and folk songs from peasant choirs using podgolosochnaya technique.
A Life for the Tsar premiered on the 9th of December 1836 under the direction of Catterino Cavos. The work tells the story of Ivan Susanin who sacrifices his life for the Tsar.
Mikhail Glinka died suddenly on the 15th of February 1857 following a cold while living in Berlin. He was initially buried in Berlin but his body was later reinterred in the cemetery of the Alexander Nevsky Monastery in Saint Petersburg.
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky described Mikhail Glinka's orchestral composition Kamarinskaya from 1848 as the acorn from which the oak of later Russian symphonic music grew.
The Supreme Soviet of Russia adopted Mikhail Glinka's Patrioticheskaya Pesya as the regional anthem in 1990. It was officially confirmed as the Russian national anthem in 1993 until it was replaced by the Soviet anthem with new lyrics in 2000.