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18.02.2007, 03:20
While Italy is usually credited with being the birthplace of the violin, many in the southern Russian Republic of North Ossetia-Alania believe the instrument originated there, but under another name.
22.03.2008, 13:56
A rare Guarneri violin that was kept for a century in a private collection has been played for the first time in public in Moscow. The Guarneri instruments are even more revered by some players than those made by the legendary Antonio Stradivari.
Published: 01 November, 2008, 08:02
A Russian virtuoso violinist, who was arrested in Italy on Friday on suspicion of fraud, has hanged himself. Sixty-four-year-old Sergey Dyachenko was suspected of selling his students fake 18th-century violins.
