"…I’m not a priest, I’m a trade-union member…" (the Dramsoyuz Affair)
The article deals with archival documents related to the creation, activities, and liquidation of the Choral Section of Dramsoyuz (“Drama Union”, a copyright agency) in the 1920s. The section in question was quite numerous, its members included church music composers. The materials of Dramsoyuz are important for the history of Orthodox Church singing during the Soviet period, since they shed some light on the posterior development of church choral repertoire. Besides, these materials have a more universal value: they reveal the contradictions of the 1920s in a peculiarly pointed, paradoxical, sometimes absurd manner.