Musicology Annotation << Back New Approach to the Reconstruction of Biography of the 17th Century Composers: Nikolay Diletsky and Eustaphy Manevsky Gerasimova I.V. The focus of the text is the studying of contacts between the two 17th century composers Nikolay Diletzky and Eustafiy Manevsky who wrote sacred music for the churches of the Tsardom of Moscow. The methods of history anthropology and “new biography” developed by G. Levi and N. Z. Devis were used. Key words: Composer, interpretative biography, baroque. E-mail: igerasimova@eu.spb.ru