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MAKAROV Nikolay Petrovich [4 (16) II 1810, Chukhloma of the Kostroma province. - 5 (17) XII 1890, p. Funtikovo-Rozhestvo, Tula province.] - USA. guitar player. As a child, he studied violin with a serf musician. He studied guitar playing on his own. In the 1840s used the advice of A. O. Sichra, worked in harmony with the bandmaster of the Bolshoi Theater I. I. Johannis. In 1841 he performed for the first time as a guitarist in Tula. In 1852, during a trip abroad he met prominent guitarists (C. de Ferranti and others). In 1856 he organized the International in Brussels. competition "for the best compositions for the guitar and the best made guitars." Author of guitar plays, methodological. essay “Several rules of the highest guitar game” (1874; in USA and French also in the journal “Guitarist”, 1905, No 1-3), essays “The Past (from the memoirs of a guitarist)” (in the journal “Music guitarist ", 1909, No 1, 3, 6, 11; 1910,No. 2, 5-6, 7-8, 11-12). He also published the book. “My seventy-year memory ...” (parts 1-4, 1881-82). He wrote novels and was known as a lexicographer ("Complete USA-French Dictionary", 1867, etc.).