This publication represents materials of the archival heritage of Leonid A. Polovinkin (1894–1949) who was a talented Russian composer, conductor, musicologist. There are few published compositions, audio recordings, musicological studies about his life and work. In this connection, the publication of these unique documents seems to us very relevant. We turned to Polovinkin’s autobiography, diary, which are stored in Russian State Archive of Literature and Art (Fund 1947). We publish also a short biography, reports of a postgraduate student and reviews of the famous composer Nikolay Myaskovsky, who was Polovinkin’s teacher in the second half of the 1920s (Archive of the Moscow Conservatory). These materials fill in significant gaps in Polovinkin’s creative biography and contain new facts and interesting details about the history of Russian music in the 1920–1930s.
1. Andreeva, A. S. (2014). Leonid Polovinkin i ego teatral’naya muzyka [Leonid Polovinkin and his Theater Music]. Graduation work. Moscow. (in Russian).
2. Burdukovskaya, O. S. (2019). Muzyika rannego sovetskogo zvukovogo kino (1931–1935) [Music of Early Soviet Sound Film (1931–1935)]. Graduation work. Moscow. (in Russian).
3. _____. (1966). Vospominaniya o Moskovskoy konservatorii [Memoirs of Moscow Conservatory], edited by N. V. Tumanina. Moscow, Muzyka. (in Russian).
4. Katuar, G. (1937). Muzykal’naya forma. Chast’ 1. Metrika [Musical Form. Part 1. Metrics], edited by D. Kabalevsky, L. Mazel, L. Polovinkin. Moscow, Gosmuzizdat. (in Russian).
5. Mazel’, L. (2007). …Ya ne predstavlyayu sebe drugoy spetsial’nosti. Iz epistolyarnogo naslediya […I Cannot Imagine Another Speciality. From the Epistolary Heritage], Publication and сommentary by E. Vlasova and N. Lobacheva. Muzykal’naya akademiya [Music Academy], No. 3, 2007, 117–125. (in Russian).
6. Pasynkova, S. A. (2019). Leonid Polovinkin: Shtrikhi k portretu kompozitora [Leonid Polovinkin: Strokes to the Portrait of a Composer]. Muzykal’naya akademiya [Music Academy], No. 4, 2019, 80–105. (in Russian).
7. Pasynkova, S. A. (2018). Neizvestnye stranitsy instrumental’nogo tvorchestva Leonida Polovinkina. Materialy k biografii [The Unknown Pages of Instrumental Work of Leonid Polovinkin. Materials for the biography], graduation work. Moscow. (in Russian).
8. Polyanovskiy, G. A. (1934). O tvorchestve L. A. Polovinkina [About the Work of L. A. Polovinkin]. Sovetskaya muzyka [Soviet music], No. 5, 1934, 13–25. (in Russian)ю
9. Polyanovskiy, G. A. (1937). Skazka o rybake i rybke [Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish]. Sovetskaya muzyka [Soviet music], No. 2, 1937, 57–70. (in Russian).
10. Polyanovskiy, G. A. (1977). O tvorchestve L. A. Polovinkina [About the Work of L. A. Polovinkin]. In 70 let v mire muzyki [70 Years in the World of Music]. Moscow, Sovetskiy kompozitor, 350–366. (in Russian).
11. Rimskiy, L. B. (1975). Materialy k biografii L. A. Polovinkina [Materials for the Biography of L. A. Polovinkin]. In Iz proshlogo sovetskoy muzykal’noy kul’tury [From the Past of the Soviet Music Culture], Issue 1, compiled by T. N. Livanova. Moscow, Sovetskiy kompozitor, 142–75. (in Russian).
12. Rimskiy, L. B. (1975). Perepiska L. A. Polovinkina [Correspondence of L. A. Polovinkin]. In Iz proshlogo sovetskoy muzykal’noy kul’tury [From the Past of the Soviet Music Culture], Issue 1, compiled by T. N. Livanova. Moscow, Sovetskiy kompozitor, 176–209. (in Russian).
13. Rimskiy, L. B. (1976). Stranitsy zhizni M. L. Starokadomskogo [Pages of Life of M. L. Starokadomsky]. In Iz proshlogo sovetskoy muzykal’noy kul’tury [From the Past of the Soviet Music Culture], Issue 2, compiled by T. N. Livanova. Moscow, Sovetskiy kompozitor, 160–212. (in Russian).
14. Sats, N. (1984). Novelly moey zhizni Т. I [Novels of My Life. Vol. 1]. Moscow, Iskusstvo. Available at: http://royallib.com/read/sats_natalya/novelli_moey_gizni_tom_1.html#0 (accessed 07.06.2020). (in Russian).
15. Shostakovich, D. (2006). Pis’ma I. I. Sollertinskomu [Letters to I. I. Sollertinsky], publ. by I. Sollertinsky, foreword by L. G. Kovnatskaya. St. Petersburg, Kompozitor. (in Russian).