curprev09:3109:31, 7 May 2023 Michael Aureltalkcontribs 111,762 bytes−66 →top: Some rewriting of biography in lead, mostly small changes: don't need to list several late works, don't need to specify his teachers at the conservatory, etc.undo
curprev11:4411:44, 30 March 2023 Ponsonby100talkcontribs 113,023 bytes−10 Europe was not 'war torn' on 23 August 1939/The USSR was not at war with Germany for the first part of WWII, so 'throughout WWII is hardly accurate.undo
curprev15:4915:49, 3 February 2023 108.20.240.39talk 113,082 bytes−26 Identified his secretary as Dagmar Barclay. See https://www.bookvica.com/pages/books/1333/rachmaninoff-s-friends-and-colleagues-about-the-composer-pamyati-rakhmaninova-sbornik and https://archiv.ub.uni-marburg.de/ed/2008/0002/pdf/dpck.pdf, which quotes Sokolova, O.I.: Sergej Vasilevič Rachmaninov. 3rd ed. Moscow: Izd-vo Muzyka 1978. S. 31.undoTag: Visual edit
curprev19:1919:19, 26 June 2022 Steveshelokhonovtalkcontribs 112,714 bytes+32 The photo was taken in Saint Petersburg. The Rachmaninoff family lived at 133, Fontanka River Embankment, Saint Petersburg, Russia. Please see talk page.undo
curprev18:4918:49, 26 June 2022 Wretchskulltalkcontribs 112,256 bytes−526 Restored revision 1094836813 by Grimes2 (talk): Please.. please.. PLEASE stop adding information from discredited obituaries. Everything added so far is contested by every single biography of Rach, from Seroff's in the 1950s to 2 news books in 2022 (Mitchell and Bullock). See talkundoTags: TwinkleUndo
curprev21:2221:22, 24 June 2022 Steveshelokhonovtalkcontribs 112,665 bytes+409 Sergei Rachmaninoff's birth record in Semyonovo church book (now in Church archives of Staraya Russa), more sources supporting his birth in Semyonovo. See talk page for more information.undoTag: Reverted
curprev22:5622:56, 18 June 2022 Steveshelokhonovtalkcontribs 112,539 bytes+538 Sergei Rachmaninoff Obituary in NYT is the document of historic fact and reliable source. We are not willing to dispute, or argue with the obituary published in the reputable New York Times. The 1943 NYT publication of Sergei Rachmaninoff obituary is a reliable source.undoTag: Reverted
curprev22:0122:01, 18 June 2022 Wretchskulltalkcontribs 112,001 bytes−2,000 Reverted good faith edits by Steveshelokhonov (talk): Please discuss everything on the talk page first. 1) The obituary is wrong; every single reliable book biography states that melanoma is the cause of death. Also, please do not use unreliable websites as sources rather than said biographiesundoTags: TwinkleUndo