same old story…
From today’s online
New York Times:
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for The New York Times
“Mstislav Rostropovich, a cellist and conductor who was renowned not only as one of the great instrumentalists of the 20th century, but also as an outspoken champion of artistic freedom in Russia during the final decades of the Cold War, died in Moscow today. He was 80 and lived in Paris, with homes in Moscow, St. Petersburg, London and Lausanne, Switzerland….
Mr. Rostropovich… was widely known by his diminutive, Slava (which means glory in Russian)….”
Related material:
I. “Established on 8 November 1943, the Order of Glory (Orden Slavy – Орден Славы) was an Order (decoration) of the Soviet Union…. The Order of Glory… was modelled closely upon the Tsarist Cross of St. George….” —Wikipedia
II. Also on the 8th of November, in 2006 and 2002: Grave Matters and Religious Symbolism at Princeton.
III. “Mr. Rostropovich will be buried in Moscow at the Novodevichy Cemetery, where on Wednesday his friend, Boris Yeltsin, post-Soviet Russia’s first president, was laid to rest.” —New York Times
IV. “A graveyard smash.” –Bobby (Boris) Pickett, who died Wednesday.
