Trivia

Co-wrote the librettos of Prokofiev's operas "War and Peace" (1946), "Betrothal in a Monastery" (1946), and "The Story of a Real Man" (1948), and his ballet "The Stone Flower" (produced in 1954, after his death).

Mira was the dedicatee of Prokofiev's Piano Sonata No. 8 (1944), the third in his famous trilogy of "war sonatas". He told her she directly inspired its opening movement.

She met Prokofiev in August 1938 in the spa city of Kislovodsk, where both were on holiday with their families. Prokofiev told his suspicious wife that Mira was "just some girl who wants me to read her bad poetry", but they secretly arranged to keep in touch and meet again in Kislovodsk the following summer. They did, and began their relationship in earnest.

A note was found in Mira's purse after her death, dated February 1950 and signed by her and Prokofiev. It read, "We wish to be buried next to each other". They are interred together at Moscow's Novodevichy Cemetery.

Was the only child of a Jewish academic couple from Ukraine.