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Rostropovich Has Soviet Citizenship Restored: Cellist and conductor Mstislav Rostropovich and his wife, opera singer Galina Vishnevskaya, have had their Soviet citizenship restored to them 12 years after the government took it away and less than a month before he is scheduled to take his National Symphony from Washington to Moscow to perform. The official news agency Tass reported Tuesday that the Soviet legislature gave them back their citizenship and also nullified the decree that stripped them of all their medals and honorary titles. Rostropovich, 62, gained international renown with the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, but in the early 1970s he incurred the Soviet government’s disfavor by giving refuge to dissident author Alexander Solzhenitsyn. He left the Soviet Union with his family and was stripped of his citizenship in 1978. Rostropovich is scheduled to be in Moscow for concerts on Feb. 13 and 14 and is scheduled to play on Feb. 14.