Counter-culture: Tchaikovsky’s home town gets rid of his statue
mainThe shocking news from Klin, where Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky lived, is that the authorities have removed his statue from the central square and banished it to the outskirts of the town.
The town said it wanted a different monument for its 700th anniversary.
The conductor Vladimir Fedoseev says, ‘I can not believe that this is happening today in Klin, which I love so much, in Klin… For the whole world, Klin is inextricably linked with the name of Tchaikovsky.’
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