Musicology Annotation << Back «Boris Godunov»–1937: from the musical history of Moscow Art theatre Alexander V. Naumov The article devoted to Pushkin’s «Boris Godunov» staged by V. Nemirovich-Danchenko and S. Radlov with music by P. Tchesnokov and B. Asaf’ev in Moscow Art Theatre in 1935–1937th and based on archive sources reached in MAT museum. The main method of the study is the comparison the Regisseur’s declarations and their realization in composer’s scores. All the more interesting if you have in sight that composer mostly did not attend repetitions. It is also important to follow the way of both musicians to «Godunov» trough all their biographies, including the conductor practice, science and theatrical experience. That tragedy project was not fi nished lake several others in MAT earlier, but it leaved an important trace in subsequent «musical history» of the famous theatre and seriously marked it’s aesthetic for the future. Keywords: Moscow Art theatre, Asaf’ev, Tchesnokov, Nemirovich-Danchenko, Radlov, theatrical music, «Boris Godunov». DOI: 10.25791/musicology.08.2018.114 Contacts: E-mail: alvlnaumov@list.ru Pp. 38-45.