Larisa Sokolov is the wife of Aleksandr S. Sokolov Russian: (Александр С. Соколов)

Aleksandr Sergeyevich Sokolov

Aleksandr Sergeyevich Sokolov is a Russian politician and former Minister of Culture and Mass Communication for then-President Vladimir Putin's government. He was nominated to the post by the then-Prime Minister, Mikhail Fradkov, and held it from 9 March 2004 to 12 May 2008.Sokolov was born on 8...

 the former Minister of Culture and Mass Communication of Russia. She is a member of the Russian composers union, and has a doctorate in Musicology. Currently the Head Chair of musicology and composition in the Musical Pedagogical Institute. MM Ippolitov-Ivanov.

Early life

Born Larisa Pamfilovna RUSSIAN: (Лариса Панфиловна) in Belarus

Belarus

Belarus , officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, bordered clockwise by Russia to the northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Its capital is Minsk; other major cities include Brest, Grodno , Gomel ,...

, March 3, 1955 her family re
located to Saint Petersburg

Saint Petersburg

Saint Petersburg is a city and a federal subject of Russia located on the Neva River at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea...

 where her father was stationed in the army. She studied piano and graduated from the Saint Petersburg Conservatory

Saint Petersburg Conservatory

The N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov Saint Petersburg State Conservatory is a music school in Saint Petersburg. In 2004, the conservatory had around 275 faculty members and 1,400 students.-History:...

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She has two children.

External links

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• http://www.museum.ru/N33875
  
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