Lev Nikolayevich Oborin (1907–1974) was the first ever winner of the International Chopin Piano Competition in 1927 and one of the great interpreters of Soviet classical art.
He was also awarded the Stalin Prize (1943) and the title of People’s Artist of the USSR (1964). Photo from 1927.
Editors note: Solzhenitsyn was the rights favourite anti-communist propagandist during the Soviet era. Everything he said was taken as fact. Much in the same way […]
Sovetskaia Rossiia, March 13, 1988 I decided to write this letter after lengthy deliberation. I am a chemist, and I lecture at Leningrad’s Lensovet Technology […]
