Anastasia Bardina (born 14 February 1962) is a Russian classical guitarist and graduate of the Russian Academy of Music. Bardina was born in

Moscow Moscow ( , US chiefly ; rus, links=no, Москва, r=Moskva, p=mɐskˈva, a=Москва.ogg) is the capital and largest city of Russia. The city stands on the Moskva River in Central Russia, with a population estimated at 13.0 millio ...

. She is the only virtuoso guitarist in

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who plays both the seven-string

Russian guitar The Russian guitar (sometimes referred to as a "Gypsy guitar") is an acoustic seven-string guitar that was developed in Russia toward the end of the 18th century: it shares most of its organological features with the Spanish guitar, although som ...

and the six-string Classical guitar. She also plays the twelve-string GRAN Guitar (Guitar Russian Acoustically New) which is similar to a Classical guitar but has six light steel strings and six nylon strings with the steel strings lower in relation to the soundboard.

Recordings

''GRAN-d Surprise'' 1996 Album Classical Music in Russia - Audio Archive
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Performance in Tartu, Estonia (August, 2005)
1962 births Living people Russian classical guitarists Soviet classical guitarists Seven-string guitarists Russian women guitarists Soviet women musicians Women classical guitarists Musicians from Moscow {{Classical-guitarist-stub