On article about Gilels published in Interlude

[kosulin]

https://interlude.hk/emil-gilels-born-october-19-1916-pioneering-soviet-music/
Unfortunately, the article distributes the same Neuhaus-promoting urban myths (which I would name direct lies) the Soviets pushed for decades.
Gilels studied in Odessa Conservatory with Berta Reingbald, whom he later named his main and only teacher, in 1930-1935. Flier once said that it was Berta who made Emil the world class pianist. Both Rubinstein and Borovsky, who heard him playing in 1932, gave him rapturous reviews at that time.
Reingbald believed Gilels had to move to Moscow for faster development, and brought him there in late 1932 for audition with Neuhaus who refused to accept him into Moscow Conservatory as somebody not good enough to study there.
Six moths later, in 1933, 16 yrs old Gilels won the All-Soviet Competition while still being Reingbald student.
Neuhaus offered him transfer to Moscow Conservatory after this triumph, but Gilels refused. Only after he graduated Odessa in 1935, he moved to Moscow Conservatory where he was assigned to the Neuhaus Post-Graduate class. He already formed as pianist by that time, and by some accounts spent more time with Igumnov there than with Neuhaus.
Around 1955 (don't remember exact year), after The Art of Piano Playing was published, Gilels even sent Neuhaus letter where he asked to never list him as one of his students.
I could write in length about the long and complicated history of their relationships, but honestly, I am tired reading again these Neuhaus-promoting myths. Why not publish the real history?