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Two. A Story by Shostakovich's Wife

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History loves such coincidences. Elena Yakovich's film "Two: The Story of Shostakovich's Wife" was released on Russian television on March 5, 2022—the anniversary of the deaths of Stalin, Prokofiev, and Akhmatova, and the anniversary of the first performance of Dmitri Shostakovich's famous Seventh Symphony, known as the Leningrad Symphony. The author visited Irina Antonovna Shostakovich at her dacha in Zhukovka and recorded her moving account of her 13 years of marriage with the brilliant composer. They shared much in common—the tragic Russian 20th century, with its arrests, repressions, war, and siege, rolled over their lives like a steamroller. They met in Moscow, in the Great Hall of the Conservatory, and married in 1962—never to be separated again.

Naturally, everything Irina Antonovna said could not be included in the film, but it was included in this book. This is a love story between two people connected by common values and who have never betrayed them.
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