Musicology Annotation << Back V.I. Safonov and his «Draft Statute of the Imperial Russian Musical Society's Conservatories» (1891, 1898) Grigory A. Moiseev The relevance of the study and its scientifi c novelty are determined by the fact that in it for the fi rst time analyzes in detail the Draft Statute of the Conservatoires prepared by V.I. Safonov . The history of the Draft's creation is reconstructed in the context of the emergence of other similar documents of the Russian Musical Society. The subject of consideration are sources of text. The erroneous point of view about its occurrence in 1901 is refuted and the exact date of the first publication in 1891 is established. The second edition of the Draft of 1898 is also considered. Safonov’s Draft Statute takes an extraordinary place in the history of the statutory documents of the RMS. It was not put into operation de jure and remained known only to a selected circle of persons, while for its creator it was a program document and a guide to action from 1889 to 1905, when V.I. Safonov headed the Moscow Conservatory. Keywords: V.I. Safonov, Moscow Conservatory, Conservatory’s Statutes, Imperial Russian Musical Society, Anton and Nikolay Rubinstein, S.I. Taneev, P.I. Tchaikovsky, Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich, T.E. Tsytovich. Contacts: E-mail: gmoiseev@yandex.ru Pp. 36-47.