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Solomon Moiseyevich Volkov ( Russian: Соломон Моисеевич Волков; born 17 April 1944) is a Russian journalist and musicologist. He is best known for Testimony, which was published in 1979 following his emigration from the Soviet Union in 1976. According to him, the book was the memoir of Dmitri Shostakovich, as related to him by the composer. Life.
Learn about Solomon Volkov, a cultural commentator and author of books on Russian figures such as Shostakovich, Balanchine, and Brodsky. Find out his biography, works, and recommendations.
Testimony ( Russian: Свидетельство) is a book that was published in October 1979 by the Russian musicologist Solomon Volkov. He claimed that it was the memoirs of the composer Dmitri Shostakovich.
- Dmitriĭ Dmitrievich Shostakovich, Solomon Volkov, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Antonina W. Bouis
- 1979
This is the powerful memoirs which an ailing Dmitri Shostakovich dictated to a young Russian musicologist, Solomon Volkov. When it was first published in 1979, it became an...
Solomon Moiseyevich Volkov (born 17 April 1944 in Uroteppa, Tadzhik SSR) is a Russian journalist and musicologist. He is best known for Testimony, which was published in 1979 following his emigration from the Soviet Union in 1976. He claimed that the book was the memoirs of Dmitri Shostakovich, as related to himself.
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- April 17, 1944
May 4, 2008 · By Solomon Volkov. May 4, 2008. Part One: THE GATHERING STORM. On November 8, 1910, people all over Russia snatched up the latest editions of newspapers reporting the death of Count Leo Tolstoy...
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May 4, 2008 · And the next day, the American publisher Alfred A. Knopf released Solomon Volkov’s “Magical Chorus,” a history of 20th-century Russian culture. The more things change, the more they. ...
