, after graduating from the academy santsov offered sergei alekseevich his father prokofiev, a places parents ended up in this village. vetoslavskaya province, where the future outstanding composer was born. he left for st. petersburg at a young age, but how, when children grow up and are already looking for their calling, he left and entered the st. petersburg conservatory. and, of course, all the music of him and his subsequent return after his life in america, in paris. all the time he said, only in russia can i truly feel such creative freedom. why did he leave, why did he come back? in the eighteenth year prokofiev left for the usa, he lived in america and after that in france he always felt a connection with russia, according to his memoirs he said the following: i was not in russia for 9 years, i lived in america, in recent years i lived in europe, in my compositions i was looking for new paths, he left to look for new paths, like many cultural figures, like many representatives of the intelligentsia, i was looking for a new path, but my music remains forever russian, this is