WORLD : Prokofiev’s Widow Dies

Carolina Prokofiev, widow of the celebrated Russian composer Serge Prokofiev, has died of cancer in London, her son said today. She was 91.

Carolina Prokofiev, who survived a Soviet prison camp, narrated her husband’s classic children’s work “Peter and the Wolf” two years ago at Lincoln Center in New York to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the work. She died Tuesday about three months after falling ill, said her son, Oleg Prokofiev. In 1948, Prokofiev was one of the composers denounced by the Stalin government for writing “bourgeois” music. His wife was accused of having contact with anti-Soviet elements and was sent to Ubez prison camp in the northern Urals. Prokofiev died in 1953 and she was freed three years later.