Humanities & Social Sciences 8 (2016 9) 1863-1873 ~ ~ ~ УДК 304.44 The Musical Symbol of Russia’s Fate in Sergey Rachmaninoff’s Music Vera P. Lozinskaya* Siberian Federal University 79 Svobodny, Krasnoyarsk, 660041, Russia Received 20.03.2016, received in revised form 15.04.2016, accepted 18.06.2016 The turn of the 19th-20th centuries in Russian history is characterized by outstanding achievements, discoveries, economic modernization, strong personalities and talents, on the one hand, and on the other, by social disasters, revolutions and wars. <...> Russian music at that time was at the forefront of musical culture. <...> Sergey Rachmaninoff is a typical representative of the classical traditions of the Russian culture. <...> He is a major and original composer, whose work is connected with the historical memory of the people, with centuries-old traditions of the spiritual life of Russia, with all its cultural and artistic heritage. <...> This article considers three symphonies and the symphonic poem “The Bells”. <...> The relevance of Sergey Rachmaninoff’s creative work consists in the revival of the musical culture of ancient Russia, use of the znamenny chant not only in religious pieces, but also in instrumental ones. <...> Almost all his music contains chime melodies. <...> The value of his music is in its national, Russian character, the ability to express the time, thoughts and feelings. <...> The love for Russia is felt in every piece, every note of the great artist. <...> The music of the composer was modern in spirit then and it is now. <...> Keywords: Russia, spiritual music culture, znamenny chant, symphony, chiming, Russian folk melodies, medieval catholic sequence. <...> The Divine Providence endows artists (icon Vera P. Lozinskaya. <...> The Musical Symbol of Russia’s Fate in Sergey Rachmaninoff’s Music painters) with spiritual sight, and musicians with a special spiritual ear open to the sounds of the Divine harmony. <...> One of them is Sergey Rachmaninoff, a great composer, pianist and conductor (Vinarova, 2013). <...> Sergey Rachmaninoff belongs to the composers that had recreated spiritual musical culture of ancient Russia at the new level. <...> In many of his music pieces he used the znamenny chant. <...> Znamenny singing is not just a form of music recorded by symbols, but it is the most spiritual <...>