Musicology Annotation << Back First Petersburg address of M.I. Glinka (To the 200th anniversary of the first training in Saint-Petersburg) Sergey V. Frolov Noting in 2017 the 200th anniversary of M.I. Glinka to St. Petersburg, we are considering the cultural and historical context of Petersburg at that time, the address of his first residence of the future composer in the house of one of the richest dignitaries of Russia. Engelhardt and those family relations that connect the tenants of this house, especially the role in these relations of Uncle Glinka I.A. Glinka. It is known that until the death of Engelhardt Ivan Andreevich served as the manager of his Smolensk estates and lived in his St. Petersburg home. However, even in his younger years, he married a woman who had survived until then with Engelhardt fi ve children and, in turn, became the father of her next six children. At the same time, all of them treated each other with respect and formed some sort of a big family. As a fairly close associate in this seven, the young Mikhail Glinka who came from the Smolensk out-of-the-way was also received. Both the address and the most complex collisions of the family life of Engelhardtov-Glinok included the future great composer in the wonderful world of St. Petersburg`s sociocultural myth, and warned of the peculiarities of his difficult but also fruitful dialogue with this city. Keywords: M.I. Glinka, St. Petersburg, V.V. Engelhardt and his house, the Engelhardt family–I.A. Glinka. Contacts: E-mail: volorf2@yandex.ru Pp. 17-23.