TCHAIKOVSKY AND TRAGEDY-SATIRE OF THE 20TH CENTURY: "CRIME AND PUNISHMENT"
The article examines the process of the national tragedy concept development from the 19th to the 20th century, from Pushkin and Dostoyevsky to Tchaikovsky and Mussorgsky and further to tragedies-satires of Prokofiev and Shostakovich. Repudiation growth patterns in the national tragedy, poetic and musical, are brought to light. It is stated that the formation of the future tragedy-satire foundation takes place in the bosoms of the Dostoyevsky «crime and punishment» poetics, the characteristics of which are traced in the historic dramas of Mussorgsky and lyrical ones of Tchaikovsky. Born on the intersection of these two tendencies the innovative opera synthesis of tragedy-satire reflected the tendency of the final breakdown of bonds between personality and society. It is the reflection of the musical historic realities of this process that defines the theoretical value of this article.