Обучаясь в кадетском корпусе, Александр Николаевич брал уроки музыки у знаменитого педагога Н.С. Зверева. Именно на воскресных вечерах у Зверева впервые стали играть свои сочинения юные Скрябин и Рахманинов.
Nikolai Sergeyevich Zverev with his pupils: Samuelson, Scriabin, Maksimov, Rachmaninoff, Chernyaev, Presman. Moscow, 1880s.
While studying at the Cadet Corps, Alexander Scriabin took music lessons with the famous teacher N.S.Zverev. It was on Zverev's Sunday evenings that the young Scriabin and Rachmaninoff first began playing their own compositions.