Museum of St. Petersburg avant-garde

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Сообщение от Maroussia

He - an aristocrat, with a conservatory education, "the first violin of the Imperial Orchestra", and then later: writer, philosopher, artist.

It is not an aristocrat by birth.
Matyushin was born in Nizhny Novgorod in the family castle landowner Grave year abolition of serfdom. October 16, 1861
And a full course of the conservatory he never graduated.
And he was the first violin is not "of the Imperial Orchestra, and the court music of the chorus, which in 1897 was renamed the Court Orchestra.
There, he worked for over 30 years, from December 82 nd to September 1913.
Entered it in the orchestra on a competitive basis. The competition was great. By the way, the work in the orchestra Mikhail Vasilyevich released from military service.