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Despite (or because of) official appropriation, underground movements kept the original memory alive:
* In 2016, a clandestine performance of Study for One Step Forward, Two Back—Frankhezka’s final solo—was staged in a drained municipal pool in Nizhny Novgorod. The dancer was arrested for “unauthorized cultural disturbance.”
* A samizdat zine, Night Without Applause, circulated among Moscow university students, pairing Yakob’s darkest pieces with new protest poetry against Putin’s regime.
* The Rozanova family, now based in Berlin, released digitized scans of all known Gershovitz manuscripts—free, unlicensed, unfiltered. They included Franka’s diary entries, Israel’s private notes, and Yakob’s never-performed final string quartet: “For Those Who Died Standing.”