Music and Time Annotation << Back S. Rachmaninov. Creative Calm B.G. Gnilov, M.L. Novikova, I.D. Nikoltsev The article puts forward an alternative, de-ideologized concept of propagandizing the biased interpretation of the decline in the composer activity of Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninov (as a result of Rachmaninov’s parting with his Homeland). Along the way, the idea of the possibility of another more reasonable and balanced commentary accompanying the patriotic and military-political aspects of Rachmaninoff’s music as a whole is discussed. Keywords: S.V. Rachmaninov, piano creativity, piano concerto, bell-ringing. Pp. 03-07.