Mira Mendelson

Mira Mendelson
Мира Мендельсон
Mira Mendelson and Sergei Prokofiev in 1946 at their dacha in Nikolina Gora
Born	Mariya-Cecilia Abramovna Mendelson (1915-01-08)January 8, 1915 Kiev, Kiev Governorate, Russian Empire
Died	June 8, 1968(1968-06-08) (aged 53) Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Resting place	Novodevichy Cemetery
Nationality	Russian
Occupations	Poet writer translator
Spouse	Sergei Prokofiev ​ ​ (m. 1948; died 1953)​

Mariya-Cecilia Abramovna Mendelson-Prokofieva (Russian: Мария-Цецилия Абрамовна Мендельсон-Прокофьева), typically referred to as Mira Mendelson (Russian: Мира Александровна Мендельсон), (January 8, 1915 [O.S. December 26, 1914] – June 8, 1968) was a Russian poet, writer, and translator who was the second wife of the composer Sergei Prokofiev.^[1] She was the co-librettist of her husband's operas Betrothal in a Monastery, The Story of a Real Man, and War and Peace, as well as the ballet The Tale of the Stone Flower.^[2]