The twentieth century Lina Prokofieva. Chembergzhi V.N.

The first wife of the great Russian composer Lina Kudina-Procrus lived a long, almost for a whole century. She accommodated twenty years of life with Prokofiev in America, Europe, and then in the Soviet Union, communication with Rachmanin, Stravinsky, Gorovitsa and Toscanini, Diaghilev and Balmont, Picasso and Matisse, Meyerhold and Eisenstein... She had the opportunity to survive the collapse of the family, arrest, prison and prison, and prison and she had the opportunity to survive the collapse of the family Soviet camps. She was an outstanding personality worthy of her ingenious spouse. However, until the very last years, we have not known anything about her: Soviet censorship crossed Lina both from Prokofiev’s life and from history.

The book of Valentina Chambergi, who knew the whole family of Prokofiev, is a documentary novel based on previously not published archival materials.