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Mira Mendelson

Mira Mendelson
Мира Мендельсон
Mira Mendelson and Sergei Prokofiev in 1946 at their dacha in Nikolina Gora
Born
Mariya-Cecilia Abramovna Mendelson

(1915-01-08)January 8, 1915
Kiev, Kiev Governorate, Russian Empire
DiedJune 8, 1968(1968-06-08) (aged 53)
Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Resting placeNovodevichy Cemetery
NationalityRussian
Occupations
  • Poet
  • writer
  • translator
Spouse
(m. 1948; died 1953)

Mariya-Cecilia Abramovna Mendelson-Prokofieva (Russian: Мария-Цецилия Абрамовна Мендельсон-Прокофьева), typically referred to as Mira Mendelson (Russian: Мира Александровна Мендельсон), (January 8, 1915 [O.S. December 26, 1914] – June 8, 1968) was a Russian poet, writer, and translator who was the second wife of the composer Sergei Prokofiev.[1] She was the co-librettist of her husband's operas Betrothal in a Monastery, The Story of a Real Man, and War and Peace, as well as the ballet The Tale of the Stone Flower.[2]

  1. ^ Schlifstein 1957, p. 330.
  2. ^ Morrison 2009, p. 158.

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