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  Although few details are known as to actually how  
  Misha and Pierre escaped from Soviet Russia...
  and while this is the most commonly accepted theory,
  there are those that maintain that the surrealist 
  artist/actor Dimitrii Gianovitch was in some manner
  connected with the forged documents. In support of
  this argument, it is often pointed out, that while
  at the Kublinikov Academy, Dimitrii studied welding
  and sculpture under the inspiring young artist 
  Ivan Yasonovitch. The course work included non an
  inconsiderable ammount of foundery and forging skills.
    [MAC Daily News and Independent Press; archive 
    (no date); used with permission of the Editor.]

  


  

  

     Dimitrii Gianavitch
  




 One of my passions is the way in which the problems of culture
 (especially government) are recognised (or not) by the artists
 of the time. In the book and excellent film (with Sir Ben
 Kinsley) "Testamony" -[imdb.com]- (1988), Dimitrii
 Shostakovich (affectionally refered to as "misha" or by me as
 "Shosty") was forced to denounce his own 9th symphony (a
 mere 25 minutes long - hardly on par with any Beetovanic
 expectations) and in his 10th symphony, there occur many
 music jokes - despite the massive nature of the work.
 But, then things got better (eventually Stalin died); or
 as we say in Russian "ffeh-sheh-voh xh-ah-roh-shih-vuh"
 "Tommorow, even better". Regardless, through a seriess 
 of "unfortunate events", my plans to earn a degree in
 Russian Literature and Polical EcConomy never came to
 fruition; well not yet - anyway.







  






  






  






  






  

  
 
   Abe Oncide








  

  
 
Dimitrii Gianavitch