Yevgeny Mravinsky
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Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Mravinsky was a Soviet and Russian conductor, pianist, and music pedagogue; he was a professor at Leningrad State Conservatory.
Portrait of Mravinsky, 1957, by Lev Russov
Alexandra Kollontai
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Alexandra Mikhailovna Kollontai was a Russian revolutionary, politician, diplomat and Marxist theoretician. Serving as People's Commissar for Welfare in Vladimir Lenin's government in 1917–1918, she w
Yevgeny Mravinsky
…biology at the university in Leningrad, in 1924 he succeeded in entering the Leningrad Conservatory as a non–fee–paying student thanks to his half-aunt Alexandra Kollontai, who recommended him to the rector, Alexander Glazunov, and the commissar for enlightenment, Anatoly Lunacharsky. Mravinsky's first public conducting…
Kollontai, c. 1900
1888 portrait
International Socialist Congress, Copenhagen 1910. Alexandra Kollontai holds a delegate's hand.
Alexander Shliapnikov, Kollontai's fighting comrade and, for some time, her lover