Galina: A Russian Story
by Galina Vishnevskaya
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Author: Galina VishnevskayaEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1985-10-21
ISBN: 0156343207
Number of pages: 416
Publisher: Mariner Books
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Book Review: A true star
Summary: 5 Stars
In this age of trashy, ghost written 'celeb' auto-biographies a book of true quality like this is a rare experience. Why it hasn't beeen re-printed I cannot imagine.
Galina's story is one of endurance over hardship, starvation, political turmoil. She emerges as a iconic opera superstar and a beautiful, warm-hearted human being.
The book covers the era of Soviet repression, when artists and writers like Boris Pasternak, Dmitri Shostakovich and Alexander Solzhenitsyn were being hounded by ignorant and malicious apparatchiks of the Communist state.
Galina and her husband, the late, great Mtislav Rostropovich, were friends with many of the most celebrated artists and composers of the 20th century. Amongst them was Shostakovich - who dedicated many of his works to them both. Galina's descriptions of the composer and his life nail the lie still perpetuated by Marxist Western academics that he was a communist stooge. He was anything but.
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