The agency TASS has made public the death of the Russian violinist Dmitry P. Kogan who died in Moscow at the age of 38. He died from cancer, according to his assistant. Dmitry Kogan was born in 1978. His father was Pavel Kogan, a conductor, his grandfather was the violinist Leonid Kogan and his grandmother, Yelena Gilels, came from the family of the pianist Emil Gilels. Dmitry Kogan was a confidant of Vladimir Putin.