Vladimir Ashkenazy, The Vital Juices Are Russian

On the 8th of June 1968 Vladimir Ashkenazy, with his Icelandic wife Thorunn and their two children, arrived at their new home in Reykjavik in Iceland. It was a crucial moment in their lives. They had left the Soviet Union in 1963, with the help of Nikita Kruschev, and for five years had lived in London.