To teach to understand the beautiful

The article tells about the life and creative work of V.S. Sokolova (1907-1996), a piano teacher of children's school of music No. 1, who came to the republic at the beginning of XXth century, the time marked by a steep breakdown of political, economic and cultural life. At this particular time, however, despite general ruin and hunger a centre of musical enlightenment arose spontaneously. It eventually gave birth to an extensive system of musical education including the music college (now the College of Arts) as well as 73 schools of music under the Soviet regime .