Solomon Volkov
Solomon Moiseyevich Volkov (born 17 April 1944 in Uroteppa, Tajik SSR) is a Russian journalist and musicologist. He is best known for Testimony, which was published in 1979 following his emigration from the Soviet Union in 1976. He claimed that the book was the memoir of Dmitri Shostakovich, as related to him by the composer.
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