Dmitri Shostakovich

Dmitri Shostakovich (second from left), Russian composer and other delegates to the recent Scientific and Cultural Conference for World Peace, prepare to board a plane at LaGuardia Field in New York on April 3, 1949, enroute to Moscow. From left are Ivan D. Rujansky, an interpreter; Shostakovich; Alexander I. Oparin, acting secretary of the Biological Sciences section of the USSR Academy of Sciences. Mikhail Chiaurely motion picture director; and Alexander A. Fadeyev, secretary general of the secretariat of Soviet writers. (AP Photo/ Tom Fitzsimmons