The life Of Mstislav Rostropovich

By Calebbutcher

  • Birth

    Azerbaijan

  • First cello concert

  • Moved To Moscow

  • Entered Moscow Conservatory

    Age of 16

  • Won the gold medal in the Soviet Union's first ever competition for young musicians

  • First prize at the International Music Awards

    Of Praveen and Budapest

  • Married Galina Vishnevskaya

    Leading soprano at the Bolshoi Theater

  • Played the Proms

    Eight-week summer season of daily orchestral classical music concerts in London

  • Sheltered Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

    Famous Dissident Russian Writer

  • Left Soviet Union

    Settled in the US
  • Period: to

    Musical director and conductor of the US National Symphony Orchestra

    Placed in Washington

  • Stripped of his Soviet citizenship

  • Returned to the Soviet Union

  • Founded the Rostropovich-Vishnevskaya Foundation

    Based in Washington D.C

  • Died

    Admitted to the Blokhin Russian Cancer Research Center