блікований некролог про прекрасне артиста, композитора і талановитого поета Олега Прокоф'єву («Obituary: Oleg Prokofiev»): «The son of the composer Sergei Prokofiev, Oleg Prokofiev was in his own right an artist, painter, sculptor and poet, a cultivated man with a lively interest in every form of artistic expression. He was a passionate and knowledgeable promoter of his father's music, a devoted father and a faithful friend. He had a touching and infectious enthusiasm for the new. Yet his life had not been straightforward, and he went through a series of personal tragedies and losses. The second son of Sergei Prokofiev and the singer Lina Codina, he was born in Paris in 1928. He and his elder brother, Sviatoslav, were often separated from their parents who spent long periods touring the Western world and, increasingly often, Russia »[ 73].
У даному контексті автор розповідає, яким чудовим, талановитим і багатогранним був Олег Прокоф'єв, перераховуючи лише частина його заслуг.
Не забуває автор розповісти і про важке життя Олега Прокоф'єва: коли сім'я Прокоф'євим переїхала до Москви, там вже проходили «Сталінські зачистки». Цей факт не міг не відбитися і на сім'ї Прокоф'євим. Тиску з боку влади не витримала дружина Прокоф'єва і залишила чоловіка з дітьми, покинувши сім'ю.
Через деякий час батька Олега Прокоф'єва заарештували і відправили до Сибіру, ??залишивши дітей нікому непотрібними. Однак ці підступи долі не змогли зломити Олега Прокоф'єва, він ріс у високохудожній середовищі і навіть вчився в Московському училищі мистецтв («When in 1936 Prokofiev were decided to settle back in Moscow, he took his family to a country already in the grip of Stalin's purges . The following years were sombre; In spite of these difficulties, Oleg was highly stimulated by the artistic environment he lived in, and he studied art at the Moscow School of Art from 1944 to 1947 »).
З особливою експресією автор некролога виділяє факти втрати дітей і невдалого шлюбу композитора: «After a first unsuccessful marriage, he met and married a young British art historian, Camilla Gray, who would later on write a ground-breaking study of Russian avant-garde art, The Great Experiment: Russian art, 1863 - 1922 (1962) »[73].
По-особливому підноситься сміливість і витримка Прокоф'єва: «In spite of these terrible upheavals and even though the legacy left him by his father forced him to relive and recall the past over and over again, Oleg Prokofiev looked and moved forward. Over the past 20 years, he successfully struck a balance in his own life, making his name as an artist, while dedicating a considerable part of his time too to his father's music. Some of his poems have also been published »[73].
На закінчення некролога автор з доброї сумом згадує про те, яким був Олег Прокоф'єв: «Just as his father had spent years of his emigre life promoting the music of many contemporary Soviet composers, Oleg Prokofiev helped and patronised a great number of Russian artists in this country. «He was a man I saw little of», said one young Russian artist to me, «but every time we met, he gave a new dimension to my life over here, to the life of so many creative people» »[73] .
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