Галина Максимова

Galina Maximova, or Галина Максимова (1914 — 2004) was a Soviet pianist, wife of a composer / arranger Leonid Feigin. She attended a class of Heinrich Neuhaus at the Moscow Conservatory, and graduated in 1939. As a soloist of Moscow Philharmonia, Galina Maximova had been performing with many prominent Soviet musicians, including Busya Goldshtein, Igor Oistrach, and Mstislav Rostropovich. With different ensembles, Galina toured in Europe, Asia, and North America. Since 1988, Galina Maximova had been living in London. Leonid Feigin, her husband, was a nephew of Véra Nabokov-Slonim, Vladimir Nabokov's wife and editor, who used her connections to put Leonid's name on the short list which Margaret Thatcher brought to Gorbachev during her visit to Moscow in 1987, with a personal request to grant these individuals permission to leave USSR.