Dear dear friends!!! Thank you so much for your words and congratulations!!!
Dear opus 23#10 - yes, we remember Rachmaninoff in Saint-Petersburg and the head of the Saint-Petersburg Rachmaninoff society wrote a book about Rachmaninoff's days in SPB, and there was the first edition - very good one, and now we collect money for the second edition. I will gladly post some photos of Saint-Petersburg places connected with Rachmaninoff's name a bit later... because I have more happy news for today:
This year is good for our region - not far away from Saint-Petersburg - three or four hours driving by car there is Novgorod, the town in which Rachmaninoff spent so much time.
And next weekend there will be an official opening of the monument to SVR there!!!
Rachmaninoff's great-granddaughter - Natalie Wanamaker-Javier is coming with her family
The money for the monument were donated by the big companies
Here are the photos of the sculpture in project (by Alexander Rukavishnikov):



and in process of erecting it these week:



The opening will happen on the 14th of June this year!