Do you know what the famous rock opera "Unona and Avos"
Do you know what the famous rock opera quot;Unona and Avosquot; is about? Read about some of the historical facts the opera was based on. Then complete the sentences with the verbs in their appropriate forms.
The rock opera quot;Unona and Avosquot; was based on a real story. It is the love story of a Russian traveller Nicholai Rezanov and a Spanish girl Conchita.
In 1806 Nicholai Rezanov, one of the heads of the Russian-American Trading Company, (1) arranged an expedition to California. Two ships, quot;Unona and quot;Avosquot; sailed from Novo-Archangelsk to San Francisco. California was a Spanish colony in those times, and the aim of the expedition (2) was to establish trading relations with the Spanish colonists. Rezanovs mission was very important as Russian settlements in Alaska (3) needed food badly. He knew that people were starving there, as he (4) had been to those settlements himself.
In California the Russian traveller met a young daughter of the governor of California and they (5) fell in love with each other. They wanted to get married, but they (6) needed church permission as Conchita was a Catholic. It took Rezanov six weeks to buy the food, and the ships sailed back to Alaska. Conchita expected him to return in a year and bring church permission.
However, Rezanov didnt return. Kanchita waited for him for many years before she learned that he (7) had died in Krasnoyarsk on his way to St Petersburg. She never married any other man and spent her life taking care of the native people and the poor
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