Nikolay Nolinskiy

Russian and Soviet composer, brother of V.M. Molotov. From childhood, Nikolai was interested in music. In his youth, he played in a home string quartet with his brothers, including Vyacheslav. In 1910 he graduated from the law faculty of Kazan University. He studied at the regency courses at the Kazan Musical College (violin class; he studied harmony with R. Gummert). I studied composition theory on my own. During the Great Patriotic War, Nikolai Mikhailovich Nolinsky lived and worked in the city of Kirov, where in 1941 he wrote the first symphony dedicated to the heroes of the Patriotic War, as well as a cantata about Stalin (1943). Later, he wrote music for one of the best productions of the regional drama theater named after S.M. Kirov "The Great Sovereign", as well as to the patriotic play "Nadezhda Durova" and to the classic comedy by A. Ostrovsky "Poverty is not a vice". For the theater of the young spectator, he wrote the music for the play "The Tale of Truth", and for the puppet theater - the music for the production of "Don Quixote". He was buried at the Novodevichy cemetery in Moscow.