Heorhy Mokrytsky

I take a letter postmarked Tashkent 1983 from my local studies archive: “Sviatoslav Richter, my first cousin, was born on March 20, 1915, in Zhytomyr (Ukraine) at the Durylin Brothers’ Maternity Home, Velyka Berdychivska Street, on a bleak spring day,” Margaryta Krukovska- Runska wrote me. This...