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However, some other witnesses support Volkov ’ s version.

In particular, the composer ’ s friend Flora Litvinova recalls Shostakovich saying, in reference to an unnamed Leningrad musicologist ( Volkov was from Leningrad ): “ We now meet constantly, and I tell him everything I remember about my works and myself.

He writes it down, and at a subsequent meeting I look it over .”