Some facts from the life of 'a colorless person' (an unknown letter of N.I. Zaremba)
The author realizes the attempt to rehabilitate in the history of musical culture the name of Nikolay Zaremba, who was a gifted teacher, a professor and headmaster of St. Petersburg Conservatory. He was also the first to teach P.I. Tchaikovsky the theory of composition. The argumentation of the main principles of the article is based on the data which is kept in the department of manuscripts of the Russian National Library (St. Petersburg). The complete text letter is published for the first time.