MOSCOW - Olga Pushechnikova, a 17-year-old from Moscow, won Russia's first international Rachmaninov Piano Competition over the weekend, writes Helen Womack. She outshone 65 other pianists to take the prize of dollars 10,000 ( pounds 6,900) presented by Rachmaninov's grandson Alexander.
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