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|title=The Love and Wars of Lina Prokofiev

|sort=Love and Wars of Lina Prokofiev, The

|publisher=Harvill Secker

|date=March 2013

|summary=A biography of singer Lina Prokofiev, wife of one of Russia's most famous 20th-century composers, based on previously unpublished letters and diaries.

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This book is a biography of and based largely on the letters of Lina Prokofiev. Born Carlina Codina in Madrid in 1897, she spent most of her childhood in New York. After making her stage debut as a soprano in Verdi’s ‘Rigoletto’ under the name of Lina Llubera, she met the Soviet composer and pianist Serge Prokofiev, best remembered for the children’s musical fable ‘Peter and the Wolf’. They married in 1924 and for the first thirteen years of their marriage they lived in Paris, where two sons, Oleg and Svyatoslav, were born to them. Soon after moving to Moscow in 1936 their marriage fell apart. In 1941 he left her for a writer, Mira Mendelson, 24 years his junior, whom he married six years later.