Culture Minister Vladimir Medina suspected US privatization name of the composer Sergei Rachmaninoff – Ekho Moskvy radio station

As Medina said, “We need to let the world know that Rachmaninoff – a Russian composer, and not an American composer with Russian roots.”

The Ministry supports the return to Russia the remains buried in the US composer. Burial place should be Oneg manor in the Novgorod region, where the composer spent his childhood.

In order to rebury the ashes of Sergei Rachmaninoff in Russia is necessary to solve a number of problems. Chief among them – is that he died a US citizen, said our radio station director of the Museum-Estate Rachmaninoff “Ivanovka” Alexander Yermakov.

Medina acknowledged that it is a complicated legal procedure.