Russian cellist Mstislav Rostropovich recently returned to Moscow for a concert to help finance Russia’s ‘Sacred Samovar’by JAN CLEAVE OVER THE PAST FEW years, Mstislav Rostropovich has been a frequent visitor to Moscow, especially at times of crisis. The former dissident cellist and conductor – who was allowed to emigrate from the Soviet Union in 1974 after the authorities, responding […]

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