Abstract: The article is devoted to the graphical and musical realisation of the Resurrection concept in Sergey Rachmaninov's small performance lyrics and other compositions. Being one of the basic Orthodox concepts of a great spiritual and cultural importance, the Resurrection concept was practiced by the composer by the means of various genres which once again proved the historical and genetic affinity of the two branches of Russian musical culture (church and secular) and complementarity of their ideals and values. Thus, the methodological principle selected by the author is aimed at discovering the composer's artistic devices that convey the spiritual message of the secular composition. As a result of the analysis, the author discovers that Rachmaninov used different approaches to the realisation of the Resurrection concept in his religious compositions that expressed the cathedral praise of the divine event, and secular compositions that described the expressive romantic and tragic concept of the Russian Temple's death. At the saime time, the analysis of the concept in his small performance lyrics (based on the example of the romances 'Christ is Risen!' and 'The Raising of Lazarus') demonstrates that the theme is quite similar in compositions of both kinds, not only at the level of emotions and meanings but also at the level of music and text.