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Forbes Lists Valery Gergiev, at $16.5 Million a Year, as Russia's Highest-Paid Musician

In [post]-Soviet Russia, Valery Gergiev makes more than YOU! In [post]-Soviet Russia, Valery Gergiev makes more than YOU! According to the Russian bureau of Forbes, with an estimated 2011-12 salary of $16,500,000, the richest Russian musician is, in fact, Valery Gergiev.