Musicology Annotation << Back An Interrupted Dialogue with the Past. Ivan Gardener’s Unpublished Letters Ekaterina N. Sadikova The article informs the reader about two letters of the well-known Russian scientist Ivan Gardener, discovered in Germany in a private archive (for the photocopies see pages 2 and 3 of the cover). The addressee of the letters is the Russian emigrant Sergey Pavlovich Tovstoles, who has been working for a long time as a regent of the Russian Orthodox Church of St. Procopius from Ustjug in Hamburg. The letters contain several reflections about church-singing in practice. They give a vivid picture of how to form and to widen the repertoire of a choir, how to public and distribute notes in the Non-Orthodox world and under the circumstances of a rigid isolation of the motherland. They also contain interesting notes from an scientist-paleographer about the existence of different types of the eight church modes used in the pre-revolutionary Moscow. Keywords: Russian emigration, Ivan Johann von Gardener, Sergey Tovstoles, Church of St´Prokopius from Ustjug, Fjodor Gerasimets, liturgical chant, private archives. Contacts: E-mail: horsadikova@mail.ru Pp. 26-32.