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PH/4/304
Mstislav Rostropovich proposes a toast at the Festival of British Music in Moscow
20 Mar 1963
Photograph of guests attending the Festival lunch. Seated on the left; Victor Hochhauser, Galina Vishnevskaya, Sir Humphrey Trevelyan (British ambassador), Ekaterina Furtseva (Soviet minister of culture), Dmitri Shostakovich, an unidentified lady and an unidentified man. Seated on the right; Mstislav Rostropovich, Benjamin Britten, Lady Trevelyan (wife of the British ambassador), David Oistrakh, Tikhon Khrennikov, Toya Sokolova (interpreter) and Kukharskiy Vasily Feodosyevich (Vice-minister of Culture).
Photographer: E. I. Iavno