Lina Prokofiev

Lina Prokofiev (born Carolina Codina, 21 October 1897 – 3 January 1989) was a Spanish singer and the wife of Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev. She spent eight years in the Soviet Gulag.

Lina Prokofiev
Left to right: Sergei, Sviatoslav, Oleg, and Lina Prokofiev in 1936.
Born
Carolina Codina

21 October 1897
Madrid, Spain
Died3 January 1989(1989-01-03) (aged 91)
London
Spouse(s)Sergei Prokofiev
ChildrenSviatoslav Prokofiev (1924–2010)
Oleg Prokofiev (1928–98)

Life

Carolina Codina was born in Madrid on 21 October 1897 to Olga (née Nemïsskaya) and Juan Codina. Both of her parents were singers, her mother from Ukraine and her father from Spain. Carolina traveled with her parents to Russia when she was young. The family lived in Switzerland before sailing across the Atlantic on the Statendam to New York City in 1907. Lina graduated from Brooklyn's Public School No. 3; the graduation was held at the nearby Commercial High School on 24 June 1913.[1]

She worked for a month as an assistant to Russian socialist Catherine Breshkovsky in 1919.[2]

She married Prokofiev in 1923. Her stage name was Lina Llubera.[3]

By around 1943, Sergei's relationship with the younger writer Mira Mendelson (1915–1968) had finally led to his separation from his wife Lina, although they never divorced. Prokofiev tried to persuade Lina and their sons to accompany him as evacuees out of Moscow, but Lina opted to stay.[4] On 20 February 1948, Lina was arrested for 'espionage', as she tried to send money to her mother in Spain. She was sentenced to 20 years, and spent 8 years in Gulag, being eventually released in 1955, earlier than scheduled, and legally rehabilitated during Khrushchev Thaw. In 1974 she left the Soviet Union.[5]

Lina outlived her estranged husband by many years, dying in London on 3 January 1989.[6] Royalties from her late husband's music provided her with a modest income. Their sons Sviatoslav (1924–2010), an architect, and Oleg (1928–1998), an artist, painter, sculptor and poet, dedicated a large part of their lives to the promotion of their father's life and work.[7] She was the subject of Lina and Serge: The Love and Wars of Lina Prokofiev.

Notes
  1. Morrison 2013, pp. 19–20
  2. Morrison 2013, p. 25
  3. Prokofiev Diaries 1915–1923, trans. Phillips: p. 428.
  4. Morrison 2008, p. 177
  5. Prokofiev Biography: Twilight (1945–1953) Archived 2012-01-20 at the Wayback Machine. Prokofiev.org (1953-03-05). Retrieved on 28 August 2010.
  6. "Lina Prokofiev, 91, Widow of the Composer". The New York Times. January 5, 1989. Archived from the original on March 24, 2013.
  7. Norris, Geoffrey (23 January 2003). "My father was naïve". The Daily Telegraph. London. Retrieved 23 May 2010.
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