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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 95. Chapters: Aleksandra Pakhmutova, Aleksandr Abdulov, Aleksey Batalov, Alexander Schirwindt, Alisa Freindlich, Alla Pugacheva, Anatoly Ravikovich, Andrey Petrov, Arthur Eisen, Boris Seidenberg, David Oistrakh, Dimitri Bashkirov, Edison Denisov, Edita Piekha, Eduard Khil, Elena Obraztsova, Elina Bystritskaya, Fyodor Khitruk, Galina Vishnevskaya, Georgiy Daneliya, Georgiy Zhzhonov, Georgi Vasilyev, Igor Moiseyev, Ilya Glazunov, Inna Churikova, Iosif Prut, Irina Arkhipova, Irina Muravyova, Irina Skobtseva, Ivan Dubasov, Ivan Dzerzhinsky, Joseph Kobzon, Kirill Kondrashin, Kirill Lavrov, Lazar Berman, Leonid Bronevoy, Leonid Leonov, Lyubov Polishchuk, Lyudmila Zykina, Mark Zakharov, Matvey Blanter, Maya Plisetskaya, Mikhail Schweitzer, Mikhail Zhvanetsky, Mstislav Rostropovich, Nikolai Arnoldovich Petrov, Nikolai Kryuchkov, Nikolay Annenkov, Nonna Mordyukova, Oleg Basilashvili, Oleg Lundstrem, Oleg Strizhenov, Oleg Yankovsky, Oleg Yefremov, Olga Lepeshinskaya (dancer), Oscar Feltsman, Reinhold Gliere, Samuil Feinberg, Sergei Nikonenko, Sergei Vasilyev, Sviatoslav Knushevitsky, Tamara Moskvina, Tatiana Doronina, Tatiana Tarasova, Tatyana Dogileva, Tatyana Lioznova, Tikhon Khrennikov, Viktor Avdyushko, Vissarion Shebalin, Vladimir Etush, Vladimir Sofronitsky, Vladimir Spivakov, Vladimir Zeldin, Vyacheslav Nevinny, Yevgeny Gabrilovich, Yevgeny Matveyev, Yuri Bashmet, Yuri Lyubimov, Yuri Ozerov (director), Yury Grigorovich, Yury Solomin, Yury Yakovlev, Zinovy Gerdt. Excerpt: Mstislav Leopoldovich Rostropovich, KBE (Russian: , Mstislav Leopol'dovi Rostropovi, pronounced; March 27, 1927 - April 27, 2007), was a Soviet and Russian cellist and conductor. He was married to the soprano Galina Vishnevskaya. He is widely considered to have been the greatest cellist of the second half of the 20th century, and one of the greatest of all...
