Template:Did you know nominations/Boris Gusman

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The result was: promoted by  Ohc ^¡digame! 12:09, 3 February 2014 (UTC)

Boris Gusman

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• ... that Soviet artist Boris Gusman (pictured), who commissioned Prokofiev's musical commemoration of the Russian Revolution, was killed in the purges before he could hear it performed?

• Alt1 ... that Soviet artist Boris Gusman (pictured), who commissioned Prokofiev's Cantata, was killed in the Great Purge before he could hear it performed?
• Alt2 ... that Soviet artist Boris Gusman (pictured) was killed in the Great Purge before he could hear Prokofiev's Cantata, which he commissioned, performed?
• Comment: Perhaps we should write "died" rather than "killed" in the great purge? There's no cite for "killed," though he died in a forced labor camp, which in my view amounts to the same thing as "killed."

Created by Darouet (talk). Self nominated at 02:31, 14 January 2014 (UTC).

• New enough. Long enough. Well written. Neutral tone. Well cited throughout. Online sources (Smirnov 2012) and (Medvedeva 2008) check out. ((Smirnov 2012) is in Russian; I relied on the accuracy of Google Translate.) AGF on offline sources. Facts for all three proposed hooks are cited, except for him being "killed". I like ALT1 except the "killed" part. How about...

• ALT3: "... that Soviet artist Boris Gusman (pictured), who commissioned Prokofiev's Cantata, died in the Great Purge before he could hear it performed?" Hybernator (talk) 18:17, 2 February 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for reviewing! I understand re: "died" versus "killed." In the end, I think that his placement in a forced labor camp, as for hundreds of thousands of others, was practically equivalent to a death sentence. But either would work, if conveying a similar meaning. -Darouet (talk) 19:51, 2 February 2014 (UTC)

* Good to go for ALT3. Hybernator (talk) 23:01, 2 February 2014 (UTC)