Natalia Zhemchuzhina as folk music researcher
The article is devoted to musicologist and folk music researcher Natalia Zhemchuzhina, alumnus and Professor of the Leningrad Conservatory, pupil of Roman Gruber and Eugeny Gippius. Analyzing the documents preserved at the St. Petersburg State Conservatory and at the Russian Institute of History of Arts, as well as Zhemchuzhina’s published works, the author attempts to estimate the significance of Zhemchuzhina’s creative heritage in the field of collecting and studying musical folklore in the 1930s — 1950s.