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Dec 21, 2022 · All the while, Voskresensky had to keep his plans secret from others, including most of his family. But eventually he, his wife and their four-year-old son escaped and applied for asylum.
- Gillian Tett
Nov 8, 2022 · Voskresensky, 87, was in Aspen for a few weeks in July after secretly defecting from the country because he was repulsed by Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. “He played for a board meeting,” said Alan Fletcher, CEO and president of AMFS, “but I didn’t tell any of the story.”
Oct 26, 2022 · To put it in the parlance of another time: Voskresensky—a beloved figure who had won many of his nation’s highest honors, including the People’s Artist of Russia—was ready to defect. The last...
Mikhail Voskresensky (Russian: Михаи́л Серге́евич Воскресенский; born on June 25, 1935, in Berdiansk, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union) is a Russian pianist and music pedagogue who left Russia for the United States in 2022 protesting against Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Sep 21, 2023 · Voskresensky was a young child during World War II, and remembers vividly the destruction Nazi occupiers left in their wake. " [There was] bombing every day. It was horrible," he...
Nov 23, 2022 · Mikhail Voskresensky is staunchly against the war that began when Russia invaded Ukraine in late February. The renowned 87-year-old piano player from Russia considers the violence a “real horror” and said there is no reason for the war that he considers a tragedy for all nations.
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Oct 27, 2022 · Voskresensky and his family now live in an apartment in New York’s Bronx borough. Opportunities to teach await paperwork from immigration authorities. Steinway offered him a piano, but movers couldn’t get it up a narrow staircase.
