Ariy Moiseyevich Pazovsky (Арий Моисеевич Пазовский)(2 February 1887 – 6 January 1953) was a Russian Jewish conductor.

He was a junior conductor at the Bolshoi from 1923-1928, and then director 1943-1948. As a conductor of the Bolshoi Opera, he is credited with having returned parts of Modest Mussorgsky

Modest Mussorgsky

Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky was a Russian composer, one of the group known as 'The Five'. He was an innovator of Russian music in the romantic period...

's opera Boris Godunov

Boris Godunov (opera)

Boris Godunov is an opera by Modest Mussorgsky . The work was composed between 1868 and 1873 in Saint Petersburg, Russia. It is Mussorgsky's only completed opera and is considered his masterpiece. Its subjects are the Russian ruler Boris Godunov, who reigned as Tsar during the Time of Troubles,...

which had been censored in Tsarist Russia. On his arrival in 1943 Pazovsky was required to enliven the repertoire with some 19th Century operas, and thus had to postpone Prokofiev's War and Peace

War and Peace (Prokofiev)

War and Peace is an opera in two parts , sometimes arranged as five acts, by Sergei Prokofiev to a Russian libretto by the composer and Mira Mendelson, based on the novel War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy...

, but made this good with putting on Prokofiev's Cinderella.