XX век Лины Прокофьевой

Pervai͡a zhena velikogo russkogo kompozitora Lina Kodina-Prokofʹeva prozhila dlinnui͡u, pochti v t͡selyĭ vek, zhiznʹ. Ona vmestila dvadt͡satʹ let zhizni s Prokofʹevym v Amerike, Evrope, a potom v Sovetskom Soi͡uze, obshchenie s Rakhmaninovym,Stravinskim, Gorovit͡sem i Toskanini, Di͡agilevym i Balʹmontom, Pikasso i Matissom, Meĭerkholʹdom i Ėĭzenshteĭnom… Eĭ dovelosʹ perezhitʹ krushenie semʹi, arest, ti͡urʹmu i sovetskie lageri͡a. Ona byla vydai͡ushcheĭsi͡a lichnostʹi͡u, dostoĭnoĭ svoego genialʹnogo supruga. Odnako do samykh poslednikh let my nichego ne znali o neĭ: sovetskai͡a t͡senzura vycherknula Linu i iz zhizni Prokofʹeva, i iz istorii. Kniga Valentiny Chemberdzhi, khorosho znavsheĭ vsi͡u semʹi͡u Prokofʹevykh, - dokumentalʹnyĭ roman, osnovannyĭ na ranee ne publikovavshikhsi͡a arkhivnykh materialakh.

The first wife of the great Russian composer Lina Kodina-Prokofiev lived a long, almost a century-long life. It contained twenty years of living with Prokofiev in America, Europe, and then in the Soviet Union, communicating with Rachmaninoff, Stravinsky, Horowitz and Toscanini, Diaghilev and Balmont, Picasso and Matisse, Meyerhold and Eisenstein… She had experienced the collapse of her family, arrest, prison, and Soviet camps. She was an outstanding person, worthy of her brilliant husband. However, we didn't know anything about her until very recent years: Soviet censorship had deleted Lina from Prokofiev's life and from history. The book by Valentina Chamberjee, who knew the entire Prokofiev family well, is a documentary novel based on previously unpublished archival materials.