during the period of close communication with igor strovinsky , prokofiev called it friendship.id that it was impossible to be truly friends with prokofiev. it is not surprising that prokofiev once wrote to ostrovinsky, whenever he hugs me, i wonder if it is a real kiss or the kiss of judas. the younger genius learned a lot from the older one, and in his free time he liked to play chess with stravinsky's future wife vera. in those years , both composers left russia and built their careers in western europe. prokofiev began to like igor stravinsky's music so much that at one of the concerts, having heard the cycle of vocal miniatures pribautki, he, by his own admission, demanded an encore and clapped. the communication of the geniuses became increasingly rare, and at some point the friends almost quarreled. once in warsaw, stravinsky, finding himself in guests, at the request of the hostess, he left a kind of autograph in her album. he traced his palm with a pencil. a few weeks later, madame made the same request to prokofiev, who was visiting her. without thinking twice, he wrot