Against Bare Bottoms
Simon Morrison: Prokofiev’s Diaries, 21 March 2013
Diaries 1924-33: Prodigal Son
by Sergey Prokofiev, translated by Anthony Phillips.
Faber, 1125 pp., £30, November 2012,978 0 571 23405 9 Show More
by Sergey Prokofiev, translated by Anthony Phillips.
Faber, 1125 pp., £30, November 2012,
“... In April 1955, two years after Prokofiev’s death from a stroke, his widow and his two sons arranged for two chests of documents to be shipped to Moscow from New York. Prokofiev had left them in a safe during his final overseas tour in 1938, presumably because he worried that his personal papers might fall into the hands of Soviet agents ... ”
