Abstract
The author of the article revives the forgotten pages of the history of the Moscow Conservatory of the prerevolutionary period. One of the important factors of the educational-pedagogical process at that time was the awarding of scholarships, which in those days served as financial aid partially or fully covering tuition costs. Scholarships were granted to talented, albeit poor young people who thereby obtained the possibility to receive advanced musical education. The role of the beneficiaries was played by organizations (the Moscow Section of the Imperial Russian Musical Society and the Moscow State Duma), as well as by private individuals. Among these scholarships of special interest are those that were named after the outstanding professors of the Moscow and St. Petersburg Conservatories: Nikolai G. Rubinstein, Anton G. Rubinstein, Piotr I. Tchaikovsky, Vasily I. Safonov, Dmitri V. Razumovsky, Nikolai I. Zaremba and Nikolai A. Gubert. Scholarships named after conservatory professors were received by such musicians as Alexander A. Litvinov, pianists Elena F. Gnesina, Vladimir K. Miller, Maria S. Nemenova-Luntz, singer Sergei A. Borisglebsky, as well as composer and pianist Sergei Rachmaninoff. Another great musician, Alexander Scriabin, carried out his artistic tour abroad by means of the P.I. Tchaikovsky Scholarship. The article provides extracts from archival documents which served as guidelines by which the rules for assigning scholarships and the financial conditions for their provisions were activated. Previously unpublished materials from the funds of the Russian State Archive of Literary and Art are included. The personal scholarships established in honor of celebrated pedagogues of that educational institution in which the recipients were educated served as strong motivating factors for them. Keywords: Moscow Conservatory, honorary scholarships, Nikolai G. Rubinstein, Anton G. Rubinstein, Piotr I. Tchaikovsky, Dmitri V. Razumovsky, Nikolai I. Zaremba, Nikolai A. Gubert, Vasily Safonov, Ivan Hřimalý, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Alexander Scriabin.
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