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People's Artist of the USSR, Il'ia Glazunov.

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Since his first exhibitions,

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public interest in his work
has never diminished.

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Some call Glazunov a Slavophile.

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I, dear friends — I'll say it plainly —
cannot be a Slavophile.

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I am a Slav. A Slavophile
is perhaps not a Slav himself.

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So I cannot be either
a Russophile or a Slavophile.

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I can only be a patriot, or not a patriot.

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A Chinese, a Frenchman, a Black man,
an American — any of them

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can be a Slavophile — or not
a Slavophile.

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But we cannot be.

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I come here and always feel joy —

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I always feel like a young student again.

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I dream of showing
my modest work to you.

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Why did I come to you?

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Here, in my homeland, I say what I think.

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And my life — that life is you.

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We are deeply grateful to the leadership
of the Leningrad city obkom,

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which in my view has placed Leningrad
first among cities in its love for

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and preservation of the monuments
of our culture.