Two widows Prokofiev

Composer Sergei Prokofiev.

Composer Sergei Prokofiev died on 5 March 1953, the same day the leader of the peoples, comrade Stalin. The recent death overshadowed the death of the musician. Everyone who wanted to come say goodbye to Prokofiev, came to the memorial service in the House of composers with potted flowers in pots – other in Moscow that day was to buy all the colors" went" to Stalin. At the tomb of the composer was his widow – humble and sad World"s. And few people knew at that time, his other widow @Lina - zechka the Lyuber – pushing a barrel of mud in the village of Abez. She did not know knew is no longer the person she loved most in the world.

the Name that forgot


the First wife of Sergei Prokofiev @- Carolina Кодина-Любера.

Carolina Codina-Любера... Is the name for a long time I remembered, it was not in any biography of Prokofiev. And all because of six-time winner of the Stalin prize, one of the most famous composers ought not to have a wife-иностранку. But with this fragile Spaniard, in whose veins flowed the" enemy" of the French, Polish and Catalan blood, Sergei Prokofiev lived for 20 happy years. But this woman ruthlessly struck the first of the composer"s life, and then from the memories of him. In the biography of the composer remained only for Mira Mendelson –" exemplary" on all counts. She was the daughter of the" old Bolshevik" Abram Mendelson, member of the Komsomol, a graduate of the literary Institute and, say, the niece of Lazar Kaganovich.


Sergey and Carolina

Karolina grew up in a musical family. Her father, Juan Codina and mother Olga Nemaska – Hispanic and polka were the singers. From Spain they moved to new-Йорк, and in 1918 the highlight of the music program at Carnegie-Холле was Prokofiev. Manner of performance of Prokofiev brought Olga Nemiscau in delight, and she literally forced her daughter, who at the time was an aspiring singer, to get acquainted with Prokofiev after the concert. The very same Lena did not like neither the music nor the 27-летний lanky Russian composer.


Music, love, Carolina

At the time Lina was 21, she was remarkably similar to silent movie star Teresa Brooks, knew his worth, and men just could not pass up. She not only sang beautifully, but he knew five foreign languages. And to portray before Prokofiev enthusiastic fan she didn"t want. Lina was hoping to go unnoticed among the other girls, but Prokofiev is immediately noticed in the crowd a beautiful dark-haired girl and invited her in. So it all started. Later in his diary he wrote:" Lena has impressed me with their vividness and brilliance of their black eyes and what-то young trepidation. In short, it was the type of Mediterranean beauty that always attracted me"


a happily married couple.

it took quite a long time, and Sergei and Lena were together almost constantly. Prokofiev called Carolina" Bird" and wrote for her the song cycle. they performed together @- Russian pianist and composer Prokofiev and the Spanish mezzo-сопрано the Lyuber (as a creative pseudonym she took the surname of the maternal grandmother). Carolina quickly learned Russian. Between tours the couple were married. The wedding took place on 20 September 1923 in the Bavarian town of Ettal. In February 1924-го in their family has a little Svyatoslav. And 4 years later @- second son @- Oleg.


Prokofiev Lina,Sviatoslav and Oleg.

Lina is Fragile with the years became only more beautiful. It was considered a model of elegance in the music salons of Paris and London, new-Йорка and Milan. Her style was highly valued by Diaghilev, Picasso and Matisse, Balmont devoted to her poems, Rachmaninoff and Stravinsky, the music of Prokofiev"s opponents, he gave it to her. And Lina miraculously managed to combine three seemingly incompatible roles – of a society lady, singer and wife of the composer.


Family Prokofievich.

Carolina cared about the life of Prokofiev, organized tours, moving, negotiating, doing translations into different languages. And all of it has turned out elegantly, effortlessly and beautifully. Husband she supported always and in everything. And when Prokofiev wanted after long 18 years on tour, back in the USSR, the Bird has put the final point in his throws. As in the USSR, Prokofiev promised the ability to write music, whereas in the West it was forced, like Stravinsky and Rachmaninoff, to engage in performing activities in order to feed themselves. Lena loved her husband and knew that for him in the first place – creativity, and thus @- no need to move.


Prokofiev works.

In 1936 the family Prokofiev returned to the Soviet Union. Children learn in English-американской school. Lina and the Union in the spotlight, she shone at receptions at many embassies. To create Prokofiev really allowed, but rather quickly said, how to actually should do a Soviet composer. Almost in parallel with the" Romeo and Juliet", he writes an Opera about Ukrainian collective farm @ - Semyon Kotko" and" Lenin cantata". Circle of friends Prokofievich catastrophically thins – this was missing, another arrested and the third shot or declared a spy. But Lina continues to write to her mother to France to visit the embassies and chat with my foreign friends.


work, Work, work...

In 1938, Sergei Prokofiev had a rest in Kislovodsk. From there it is literally in the first days he wrote to his wife:" Here with me mooning a charming Jewess, but you don"t think anything bad..." Lina didn"t tense up, but in vain. Before the chases Worlds Mendelssohn, Prokofiev could not resist. Not only that – a holiday romance has grown into something much bigger. In 1941 Prokofiev left the family. Carolina"s heart was torn to pieces, but she" keep the brand" @- no tears, no scandals, no requests. She continued to love her husband and was sure that their breakup is temporary.


World Mendelson-Прокофьева

But a few years later when Prokofiev started talking about divorce, she reared. And we can only guess whether it was wounded pride, love or fear for the fate of their children. Prokofiev also knowledgeable people explained that marriage was in Bavaria, the Soviet Union is considered invalid, which means he can marry safely. January 15, 1948, he did. Less than a month after the wedding as Lina Codina arrested and sentenced to 20 years in prison for espionage.


a Monument to Prokofiev

About the death of her husband Lina Codina learned in the camp one of the prisoners heard on the radio a concert in memory of Prokofiev and told her. It seems incredible, but she bitterly mourned the man who abandoned her sons in a difficult time adrift, the person by whose fault she came to the camp. In 1956, Lena came back from the Kolyma. As contemporaries recalled, two days later she was again the picture of elegance. Almost immediately, she said their rights to heritage of the composer. Here-то and found that genius left behind two widows. It is a piquant circumstance entered into the practice of law under the title" casus Prokofiev".


Equal...

Stalin died, the marriage between Lina and Prokofiev declared legal, so she and the children got almost all the property of the composer. Lina wanted to go to the West. She repeatedly appealed to Brezhnev, to give her the opportunity to see the mother. In 1974 she was given 3-месячную a visa to the UK. At 77 years old she went West and never returned. But a refugee of the Soviet government to declare it was not in a hurry for fear of a political scandal: the widow of the great Prokofiev asked for political asylum in the West. Therefore, the Soviet Embassy in London had no problem renewing her visa.


the Last picture of Lina Prokofiev.

In the West of Lina Prokofiev divided time between London and Paris, which later moved her eldest son with his family. Much time she spent in the United States and Germany. In London in 1983, she founded the Fund of Sergei Prokofiev, transferred its extensive archives, which included correspondence with her husband. Your last 91-ый birthday, she celebrated hospital in Bonn with his sons. Terminally ill woman even had a SIP of champagne. She died 3 Jan 1989 in the name of Winston Churchill in London. Record singing soprano Lina Lubero not preserved.

Source: http://www.kulturologia.EN/blogs/260916/31525/

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