Cellist M. Rostropovich

USSR. Moscow. January 14, 1964. Soviet cellist Mstislav Leopoldovich Rostropovich and actress of the Greek Tragedy Theatre Aspasia Papathanasiou (left to right, foreground) during a meeting after M.L. Rostropovich's performance with the State Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Yevgeny Fyodorovich Svetlanov at the Moscow Conservatory named after P.I. Tchaikovsky. Alexander Konkov/TASS