The Spanish singer Lina Codina, conquered by the composer Sergei Prokofiev, moves with him to the USSR in the dangerous year of 1936. And in 1948, this beauty, who shone at all receptions and twittered in six languages, was innocently convicted and sent to Vorkuta — for «espionage» …
The Spanish singer Lina Codina, conquered by the composer Sergei Prokofiev, moves with him to the USSR in the dangerous year of 1936. And in 1948, this beauty, who shone at all receptions and twittered in six languages, was innocently convicted and sent to Vorkuta — for «espionage» … Only in 1974 did she finally go to her sons in the West, where she lived happily until she was 90 years old . Philologist Valentina Chemberdzhi, the daughter of Soviet composers Nikolai Chemberdzhi and Zara Levina, knew her heroine well personally. And she not only wrote about her difficult life with a wayward genius, but also for the first time collected evidence of Lina’s painful stay in exile, beyond the Arctic Circle. Members of the camp recall how she made a ballet barre in the barracks to raise her spirits and staged the opera Rural Honor as an amateur … This book is a poignant guide to preserving human dignity.
Classics-XXI, 333 p.