Studies at the Moscow Conservatoire
The start of a performing career
Contacts with composers I : from Glière to Prokofiev
Establishing new performance standards (1952-62)
Contacts with composers II : Shostakovich and his successors
Interlude 1 : Natalya Shakhovskaya
Interlude 2 : Aleksandr Knaifel
Interlude 3 : Natalya Gutman
Teaching principles : class 19 in the 1960s
Interlude 4 : Karine Georgian
Principles of interpretation
Interlude 5 : Victoria Yagling
Interlude 6 : Ivan Monighetti
The final years in the Soviet Union.
