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Sasha Starostenko was a well known jazz guitar player in SSSR and Eastern Europe. In his home city of , where he has been professor of guitar at the Mussorgsky College of Music, he was a teacher and performer. His presence in USA (2000) in a step in a personal odyssey following a tragic accident last spring (1999) in which he lost his sight. While on a religious retreat at a monastery near , he was asked to mix some lime with water. Unfamiliar with the hazard involved in the operation, he poured water on the lime. In the resulting violent chemical reaction the lime exploded into his eyes, destroying his vision
