
Portrait m. L. Rostropovich
The artist is a clionic In the 1970s, an outstanding cellist and conductor Mstislav Leopoldovich Rostropovich (1927–2007) was persecuted by the authorities, mainly for the open protection of the disgraced writer a. AND. Solzhenitsyna. The ban on concert performances was followed by expulsion from the country, as well as the deprivation of Soviet citizenship, which…