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Rachmaninov's Family Dismisses Russian Govt Plea

Newsday

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Russia's Culture Minister wants the remains of Sergei Rachmaninov, who died in exile in 1943, to be returned. But the composer's great great granddaughter, Susan Wanamaker, says he'll remain in New York in accordance with his last wishes. Picture: Sergei Rachmaninov who was born in Russia in 1873 but died in Beverley Hills in 1943. Credit: BBC

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