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by guimplen 883 days ago
He worked in Russia more than in any other country and died in St Petersburg being a Russian citizen.
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Oh, I thought this was riffing on the "shakespeare, in the original klingon" line.
I wonder what he would have considered himself - he spent more time in St Petersburg than anywhere else but was born in Basel and spent a good bit of time in Berlin. For what it's worth, the Opera Omnia are published by the Swiss Academy of Sciences.