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The Italian musician and brute Pietro Mira, fleeing prosecution for murder in a duel, arrived in Russia in the winter of 1735. In Petersburg, he intended to get a job as a musician in the Empress's Italian chapel. But the head of the chapel, the omnipotent at court Señor Francesco Araya, hated Pietro because of the singer Maria Doriot, who preferred Pietro to the court musician.The road to a music...