When the young Soviet violinist Viktoria Mullova took a taxi across the border from Finland into Sweden in 1983, she left her government-owned Strad[avarius violin] on the hotel-room bed. As a result, her KGB minders wasted valuable hours on the assumption that she could not possibly be defecting.
Thursday, July 05, 2007
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Toby Faber, Stradivari's Genius at iv-v (2004):
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