Tag: street musicians

Uncle Misha Is Back (He Was Never Gone)

Vadim F. Lurie
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May 7, 2016

I have run into Uncle Misha around town two days in a row.  Yesterday, I said hello to him, asked him whether he knew what people had been writing about him (if you recall, they had been writing he had died), and wished him a long life. Uncle Misha said he knew about all of it, and everything was cool. Today, he rocked Ploshchad Vosstaniya. People reacted very positively.

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Street trumpeter Uncle Misha outside the Ploshchad Vosstaniya subway station in Petersburg. All photos by Vadim F. Lurie

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Uncle Misha playing outside the Nevsky Prospekt subway station in downtown Petersburg. Photo by Vadim F. Lurie
Uncle Misha playing outside the Nevsky Prospekt subway station in downtown Petersburg. Photo by Vadim F. Lurie

Translated by the Russian Reader. Thanks to Vadim Lurie for permission to reproduce parts of his photo reportage here.