Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky
In 1920, Prokudin-Gorsky remarried and had a daughter with his assistant Maria Fedorovna née Schedrimo. The family finally settled in Paris in 1922, reuniting with his first wife and children. Prokudin-Gorsky set up a photo studio there together with his three adult children, naming it after his fourth child, Elka. In the 1930s, the elderly Prokudin-Gorsky continued with lectures showing his photographs of Russia to young Russians in France, but stopped commercial work and left the studio to his children, who named it Gorsky Frères. He died in Paris on September 27, 1944, a month after the Liberation of Paris. He is buried in the Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois Russian Cemetery.
Cantata for the 20th Anniversary of the October Revolution (Prokofiev)
Upon the première of "Songs of Our Days" in 1938, Prokofiev hoped that the success of the piece would "soften hard hearts". Sadly, the Cantata never received official approval during Prokofiev's lifetime. The cantata was forgotten until 1966, when it finally premiered, being conducted by Kirill Kondrashin. However, the piece suffered from censorship. Stalin had died in 1953, and had been publicly denounced. Through the de-stalinization of the piece, the two movements "The Pledge" and "Constitution" were completely removed. Still a third movement, the 9th, "Symphony", was heavily modified. Having removed the finale of the piece, Kondrashin finished the piece by reprising the second movement; "The Philosophers".