28 October 1917. Sergey Prokofiev

Non-fiction

Project 1917 is a series of events that took place a hundred years ago as described by those involved. It is composed only of diaries, letters, memoirs, newspapers and other documents

Sergey Prokofiev

Yessentuki, Russian Republic

My concert took place yesterday. For the first time, I publicly played the 3rd Sonata and the “Transience”. Of course, the premiere should have been given in Petrograd, and not Kislovodsk, but I look at this performance as a rehearsal before the concert in the capital.

I believed that it would be full: Kislovodsk was filled up to the brim with people from Petrograd and Moscow, who could have potentially known me, but there were very few of them. Through the hole in the curtain I saw, in the fifth row, TaliaPrincess Vera Meshcherskaya, cousin of Peter Struve, the maid of honor of one of the great princesses. After the October Revolution, she emigrated to France, where she became head of the "Russian House". Organized a cemetery for Russian emigrants in Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois. and Vera Nikolaevna; despite my intense search, I didn’t see NinaNina Meshcherskaya is the daughter of the banker Alexei Meshchersky. Sergei Prokofiev was in love with her.. The concert was averagely successful: the public liked how I played, but it did not understand what I was playing.

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