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Russia bade farewell to its musical legend Rostropovich · 2007-04-29 14:11
Russia bade farewell on Sunday to Mstislav Rostropovich, the music legend who became a powerful emblem of resistance to the Soviet communist system.
A funeral service for the master cellist, who died on Friday at the age of 80, was due to be held in the golden-domed Christ the Saviour cathedral in Moscow, where hundreds of mourners came to pay their last respects.
Rostropovich will then be buried in the grounds of Moscow's 16th-century Novodevichy convent, joining his mentor, celebrated composer Dmitry Shostakovich, and other leading cultural and political figures.
Ilham Aliyev, the president of Azerbaijan, the former Soviet republic where Rostropovich was born in 1927, said he would attend the funeral and other major figures from the musical and political world were expected to come.
Mourners laid flowers by the cathedral, which was rebuilt with funds that Rostropovich helped raise, as an exact replica of a grandiose church in the same location that was destroyed in Soviet times, France24 reports.
"He was a guide in life. He had the kind of character traits that make you want to be like him. He was an extraordinary man, not just because he was a very talented musician," said a tearful Leila Kacharava, 49.
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