Bobylevka Village, Russia
Bobylevka School
Elena Zhukovskaya (née Kreutzer), piano. Natalia Rachmaninoff (née Satina), piano. Maximilian Kreutzer, cello. N.M. Despiov, conductor.
Notes
Despite his appearance being advertised, Rachmaninoff did not perform at this concert. Among the collection of photographs in Keldysh's book is an image of a concert poster. The concert was a fundraising event for the Bobylevka and Ivanovka public schools, the intent of which was to raise money for new libraries. The program image indicates that Rachmaninoff was to play a solo as the penultimate item but, as Elena Zhukovskaya (née Kreutzer) indicates in her contribution to Vospominania (vol. 2, p. 283), Rachmaninoff was ill and couldn't perform. As Zhukovskaya further recounts, the concert was successful, and a sum of 300 rubles was raised. This Diary entry is to clarify details of the event; an image of the poster from Keldysh's book is attached for reference.