Text by guest blogger Maria Vinogradova; artwork by Asja Dolgikh. Exactly 93 years ago, on December 29th, 1930, composer Sergei Prokofie wrote in his diary: We are having a holiday party: both children and grown-ups. Among the latter is the old lady Meindorff whom I drove in and back by car. The old lady is wonderful, fresh – found something to talk about with everyone. I ran the cinematograph with our summer movies, which had greater success than the ones we rented. Exactly four descriptions of those “summer movies” survive in Prokofiev’s diary (or its published part, which is known
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