In the summer of 2021, Dom Tvorchestva Peredelkino, together with the Union of Composers of Russia, held a competition for the creation of musical pieces titled “Lectures on Russian Literature.” The name is a reference to Vladimir Nabokov’s famous lectures. The participants of the competition were invited to reflect on the literature written in Peredelkino and tell about their impressions in the language of contemporary music. The winners of the competition spent a week at Dom Tvorchestva Peredelkino. There, they realized the ideas, shared experiences and conducted a number of open rehearsals with Contemporary Music Company. Irina Sopova plays viola d’amore in “Splashed Time” by Varvara Churakova.