Music
Sergei Prokofiev
Addresses you can still visit
Every place in this city with a documented tie to this person.
Burial place
Novodevichy Cemetery
Final resting place of many notable Russian figures, including authors, musicians, and political leaders.
Traces in other cities
- Kislovodsk
- Chaliapin’s Dacha Museum — The young composer rented accommodation in the estate’s guest wing in 1911.
- Kislovodsk
- Former Grand Hotel — He lived at the hotel from late 1917 into 1918 and wrote music during his stay.
- Saint Petersburg
- Mariinsky Theatre — As a Conservatory student he was a constant Mariinsky operagoer; in 1916 the Imperial Theatres accepted his opera The Gambler for the Mariinsky (rehearsals halted by the Revolution; company premiere 1991).
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