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Misha Donates Painting: Mikhail Baryshnikov is donating a Picasso painting worth $250,000 to a Moscow telethon to help restore historic monuments in Leningrad, where he began his ballet career, Tass reported. Business leaders, scholars and cultural figures from 100 nations are planning to attend the Jan. 6-7 “revival telethon,” which will be held at the Leningrad Opera and Ballet Theater. Other emigre artists who have agreed to participate in the event include conductor Mstislav Rostropovich and dancers Natalia Makarova and Rudolf Nureyev, Tass said. Baryshnikov, 42, defected from the Soviet Union in 1974.