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GRISHA: The Story of Russian-American Cellist Gregor Piatigorsky
by Margaret Bartley
Winner of the Adirondack Literacy Award for Non-Fiction, June 2006
Soft cover, 392 pages, 22 black & white photographs
Third Edition, 2006
ISBN 978-0-9760023-0-7
Ordering Information
GRISHA is the story of a struggle between father and son, both aspiring musicians. While the father fails in the musical world of Tsarist Russia, his son becomes a world famous cellist. For Gregor Piatigorsky, success meant escaping the grip of his father, surviving the murderous Russian pogroms, fleeing from the Bolshevik Revolution and twice escaping the Nazi Holocaust.
It also meant falling in love with the daughter of the Baron de Rothschild, the wealthiest family in Europe. While Piatigorsky found fame and fortune as a musical artist and entertained presidents, kings and emperors, he was still a man without a country.
As World War II destroyed everything he had ever known, Piatigorsky found sanctuary at Windy Cliff, an abandoned castle in Adirondack Mountains of Northern New York. In 1942, he achieved his dream of becoming an American citizen and finally stopped running.
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GRISHA is available at the following bookstores:
United States
CALIFORNIA
Gallery Bookshop, Mendocino (707) 937-2215
Metzlers Violins, Glendale (888) VIOLINS
Old Town Music, Pasadena (626) 793-4730
FLORIDA
Gainesville Violins, Gainesville (352) 331-5555
Temple Sinai Gift Shop, Sarasota (941) 924-1802
ILLINOIS
Bein & Fushi, Chicago (312) 663-0150
MARYLAND
Jewish Museum of Maryland, Baltimore (410) 732-6400
Hardy Violins, Catonsville (410) 747-1423
MASSACHUSETTS
Johnson Strings, Newton Center (800) 359-9351
MICHIGAN
Shar Music, Ann Arbor (734) 786-4426
NEW JERSEY
Borders Books & Music, Marlton (856) 985-5080
NEW YORK
Adirondack Museum, Blue Mountain Lake (518) 352-7311
Birch Store, Keene Valley (518) 576-4561
Bookstore Plus, Lake Placid (518) 523-2950
Borders Books & Music, Plattsburgh (518) 566-7006
Brewer Bookstore, St Lawrence University, Canton (315) 229-5011
Cellos 2 Go, Schenectady (518) 527-5789
Essex County Historical Society, Elizabethtown (518) 873-6466
Fact & Fiction Bookshop, Saranac Lake (518) 891-8067
Hoss’s Country Store, Long Lake (800) 952-HOSS or (800) 952-4677
Juilliard Bookstore, New York City (212) 799-5000 x237
Mountaineer, Keene Valley (518) 576-2881
North Country Books, Utica (315) 735-4877
Old Forge Hardware, Old Forge, (800) 821-1454
Patelson's Music, New York (212) 582-5840
Plattsburgh State University Book Store, Plattsburgh (518) 564-2082
Singer Violins, New York (212) 724-4476
String House, Rochester, (585) 442-9272
NORTH CAROLINA
Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh (800) 672-6789
PENNSYLVANIA
Borders Books & Music, Philadelphia (215) 568-7400
Borders Books & Music, Wynnewood (610) 642-0362
VERMONT
Bear Pond Books, Montpelier (802) 229-0774
Borders Books & Music, Burlington (802) 865-2711
Green Mountain Books, Lyndonville (802) 626-5051
Norwich Bookstore, Norwich (802) 649-1114
Vermont Violins, Burlington (802) 862-0349
Canada
Remenyi Music House, Toronto (416) 961-3111
Sound Post, Toronto (416) 971-6990
France
Libraire Monnier, Paris 85-305-190-704
Schools, Book Clubs & Reading Groups
GRISHA: The Story of Cellist Gregor Piatigorsky has been selected by a number of Book Clubs in Florida, Maryland and New York. Groups that would like to read GRISHA as a club selection may contact Otis Mountain Press and order copies of the books at a discount price. Orders of five or more books may be purchased at a 20% discount per book when shipped to a single address. Please contact us for group purchase.
Join an online book club for GRISHA, where you can share your ideas, questions and comments about the book, as well as get ideas for discussion questions for your book club.
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