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Sergey Prokofiev, a compulsive diarist and gifted and idiosyncratic writer, possessed an incorrigibly sardonic curiosity about individuals and events. When he left Russia after the 1917 Revolution, his diaries were recovered from the family flat in...
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| Key Features |
| Author(s) | Sergei Prokofiev |
| Publisher | Faber and Faber |
| Date of Publication | 02/11/2006 |
| Language | English |
| Format | Hardback |
| ISBN-10 | 080144540X |
| ISBN-13 | 9780801445408 |
| Subject | Autobiography: The Arts |
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| Publication Data |
| Place of Publication | London |
| Country of Publication | United Kingdom |
| Imprint | Faber and Faber |
| Content Note | illustrations |
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| Dimensions |
| Weight | 1450 g |
| Width | 167 mm |
| Height | 242 mm |
| Spine | 52 mm |
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| Credits |
| Edited by | Anthony Phillips |
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| Description |
| Author Biography | Anthony Phillips learnt Russian in the 'Secret Classrooms' of National Service in the 1950s and later at Oxford. The language continued to play an important part during his later career in music administration, during which he became general manager of London's Royal Festival Hall. Story of a Friendship, his translation of Shostakovich's letters to Isaak Glikman, was published by Faber in 2000, and Anton Chekhov: A Life in Letters (with Rosamund Bartlett) by Penguin Classics in 2004. |
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