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They were difficult years. Each foreign plaudit that fell upon Solzhenitsyn was followed by a turn of the Kremlin's screw at the dacha. As Rostropovich tells it, "Official people said I must kick him out. My wife and I did not find that reasonable. We explained our point of view?that each human being has a right to make of his life what he wants." In October 1970 Solzhenitsyn won the Nobel Prize. When the Soviet press increased its abuse of the author, Rostropovich became enraged and decided to write a letter of protest. Says he: "This was greatest...
...they did not know where they were, he asks, where might they be? Scotland? Almost anywhere, he decides, including where they are: Hilary, a former high official of the British Foreign Office, is a traitor, and they are in a Russian dacha...
...Soviet counterpart, Andrei Gromyko, and he and his wife were given the traditional bouquet of red carnations. They posed for pictures with Gromyko on a clear, 35° night and, after a short and inconsequential arrival statement, entered a black ZIL limousine and were whisked to a dacha in Lenin Hills, just up the road from the one in which predecessor Henry Kissinger used to stay." As Vance's meetings with Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev began, however, the atmosphere was expected to be considerably chillier. In fact, there was only limited hope in Washington that the trip would...
...went swimming. There were, however, compensations. He won the Stalin Prize and was thrice awarded the country's highest civilian medal, the Order of the Red Banner of Labor. He was the youngest member ever elected to the Soviet Academy of Sciences. He was given a suburban dacha, a sizable Moscow apartment and the princely salary (by Soviet standards) of $26,500 a year...
...very, very happy here." But though Rostropovich has been appointed director of Washington's National Symphony Orchestra, and though he vows he will not return to Russia until artists there get more freedom, he still has no plans to become an American. Says he: "I still think of the dacha in Moscow as my home." Much the same feeling inspires the superb dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov, who lives in New York City but says: "No other country in the world will be my home but Russia. My soul will always be a Russian...