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to emigrate to the United States, was the most creative time of her life.
“I was struggling against bitterness,” she said. She added that she sometimes wrote for 24 hours straight.
Mrs. Purnell said that St Petersburg has a tradition of support for the arts that she does not find in the United States. She gave credit to the “stupendous architecture,” and noted that Russians died in St Petersburg during the Second World War to preserve art. “We don’t have that history. TV takes away people’s desire to create,” she said.
Mrs. Ozemay suggested she visit Santa Fe, New Mexico. “I like American culture,” she added. “It is rich in traditions. People bring their traditions to the United States.”
Mrs. Purnell said that Russian artists received a very “rigid, classical training,” such as was taught in Paris 200 years ago. “There was no
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