Anatoly Lunacharsky
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Anatoly Vasilyevich Lunacharsky was a Russian Marxist revolutionary and the first Soviet People's Commissar of Education, as well as an active playwright, critic, essayist, and journalist throughout h
Lunacharsky in 1899
Lunacharsky c. 1923
Lunacharsky, People's Commissar for Education, at the 13th All-Russian Congress of Soviets, April 1927
Lunacharsky alongside Vladimir Mayakovsky in 1924
Sergei Prokofiev
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Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor who later worked in the Soviet Union. As the creator of acknowledged masterpieces across numerous music genres, he is regard
Anatoly Lunacharsky
…to his cousin saying "so far, Lunacharsky has never refused to see Borya". Lunacharsky was the first Bolshevik to recognise the value of the composer Sergei Prokofiev, whom he met in April 1918, after the premiere of his Classical Symphony. In 1926, he wrote "the freshness and rich imagination characteristic of…
Prokofiev, c. 1918
Prokofiev, aged 9, with the score of his opera The Giant
Composer Reinhold Glière, Prokofiev's first composition teacher
Saint Petersburg Conservatory in 1913