The Monument of Time: to the History of Creation of the House of Sciences and Arts in Tsaritsyn

The article considers the powerful socio-cul tural changes in Russia of the end of the 19th - begin ning of the 20th century, using the example of Tsaritsyn - a provincial town, named “Russian Chicago”, which was a marker of the Russian modernization. The disproportion of the town’s development was represented by the rela tively slow formation of its public institutions, taken place but in 1910s. The author studies the genesis of the fi rst and only musical society of Tsaritsyn in the context of the dia lectic of its relationship with other educational organiza tions and its impact on the formation of the cultural land scape of the region. The narrow circle of amateurs was transformed into the organization that united the repre sentatives of the intellectual and cultural elite of the re gion, and whose activity resulted in the “innovative” for Tsaritsyn forms of musical and educational activities and specifi c deliverables. The complex relationship between the local branch of the Imperial Russian Musical Society and the Society for Promotion of Out-of-School Education led to the building of the House of Sciences and Arts in Tsaritsyn. The arti cle describes its opening ceremony, which became a kind of “parade” of the educational and creative potential of the region. Some unexplored before particularities of the House’s “utilization” by different institutions are high lighted, the dramatic events preceding the conversion of the House into the object of the community with the func tions of hospital are described. The disproportion in the development of social and cultu ral sphere, lack of the necessary human potential for for mation of several public organizations, and the estrange ment of the authorities led to the fact that just a small group of altruists, who provided ideological and finan cial assistance in various projects, supported the social movement in Tsaritsyn. The most important thing is that the House of Sciences and Arts still exists in the city of such a difficult historical fate, representing a monument to the selfless activity.

charitable scientific and educational societies, selfless support of the centers of national culture, materialized memory, A.A. Repnikov

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