Unlike some other foreign colleagues, Vitaly accepted every one of my invitations. When I brought a dozen ambassadors to the Public Theater’s performance of Shakespeare’s Cymbeline, he was the first to leap out of his chair to ignite a standing ovation. He did not hold it against me when the press covered his presence at the LGBT-themed musical Fun Home, an unusual night out for the representative of a famously homophobic government. At the intermission of Hamilton, he interrogated Cass, a professor of constitutional law, about whether creator Lin-Manuel Miranda had accurately depicted the
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