Rudolf Kerer plays Chopin Etude op. 10 no. 12 for Lenin and Gorky - video 1963

Vladimir Lenin and Maxim Gorky eavesdrop on Rudolf Kehrer playing Chopin's Revolutionary etude, op. 10 no. 12, before sitting down with Gorky's wife Yekaterina Peshkova to listen to Kerer play the piece. At the end Gorky says it's beautiful and thanks Kerer for playing. This comes from a Sovet film entitled Appassionata in which Lenin and Gorky sit around listening to Kerer play Chopin and Beethoven while discussing revolutionary politics. Incredible and amazing. I've also uploaded Kerer playing Beethoven's Appassionata and Moonlight Sonata from the same film: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0312373/ Apparently Boris Smirnov was officially appointed to play Lenin throughout the '50s and '60s.

Рудольф Керер - Фредерик Шопен - Владимир Ленин - Екатерина Пешкова - Максим Горький - Аппассионата 1963