К истории эмиграции С. В. Рахманинова (1917–1918 годы)

Abstract

The years 1917 and 1918 marked the deepest and most painful breakdown in the creative biography and human destiny of S. V. Rachmaninov. It was the time of the imminent decision to leave revolutionary Russia and the first efforts for everyday and creative adaptation to the new conditions, first in Scandinavia, then in the USA. The events and facts that filled Rachmaninov’s life during these two fateful years are of particular interest for scientific biographical research. The article focuses for the first time on the event logic of these two years. Some less known evidence supplements the well-known plot — the responses of provincial newspapers to Racmaninov’s concerts, fragments of the memoirs of the writer L. F. Zurov, non-textbook pages of the memoirs of S. A. Satina. All this makes it possible to offer new accent and observations — to clarify the time and circumstances that led to the decision to leave, to show the rigid rational organization of Rachmaninov’s activities in the first year of the break with the Motherland.