russian musical society and prince nikolai trubetskoy supported the idea of ​​the grand duchess elena pavlovna the first building for the conservatory rented at the vozdvizhenka the best russian musicians taught himself rubinstein nikolai zverev joseph vinyavsky ludwig minskus in 1877 the conservatory moved to the large nikitskaya, and then the architect vasily zagorsky built a new building for it in 1940 the conservatory was named after peter tchaikovsky competitions among graduates of the moscow conservatory have been held here since the 58th. sergey rachmaninov svyatoslav richter mstislav rostropovich, yuri bashmet and many other great musicians exactly 80 years ago, on september 13, 1942, the first assault on stalingrad by the nazis began; there were more artillery troops, six times more than luftwaffe tanks, dominated the air, but vasily chuikov’s 62 army fought to the death. in the very first days, the germans broke through to the center of stalingrad, but they could not capture it . for every pile of rubbish. a fierce struggle was born, which had no equal on the night of september 15 in