that she submitted to Procurator General of the Soviet Union Roman Rudenko in 1954. They included "attempting to defect," "theft of a secret document," and "criminal ties" to foreign embassies. A fellow prisoner recalled that Lina attempted to follow her ex-husband's life and career, but that she only managed to learn of his death months after it had occurred: "[S]omeone came running from the bookroom and said: 'They just announced on the radio that in Argentina a concert was held in memory of the composer Prokofiev.' Lina Ivanovna began to weep and, without uttering a word, walked away." Release from the gulag After serving 8 years of her sentence, she was freed on 30 June 1956. Subsequent petitions to Dmitri Shostakovich and Tikhon Khrennikov, the latter a personal friend of Lina, resulted in her successful rehabilitation during the Khrushchev Thaw. Soon thereafter Lina petitioned the courts to have them reassert her rights as Prokofiev's sole and legitimate spouse. An initial ruling in her favor was reversed by the Supreme Court of the Soviet Union on 12 March 1958, which reaffirmed that their marriage had no legal validity. Shostakovich, Khrennikov, and Dmitry Kabalevsky were among the witnesses called upon by the court to give their testimonies in the case. Final years and death In 1974 Lina left the Soviet Union. She outlived her ex-husband by many years, dying in London on 3 January 1989, and being buried in the French town of Meudon. Royalties from his music provided her with a modest income. Their sons Sviatoslav (1924–2010), an architect, and Oleg (1928–1998), an artist, painter, sculptor and poet, dedicated a large part of their lives to the promotion of their father's life and work. She was the subject of Lina and Serge: The Love and Wars of Lina Prokofiev. Notes References Sergei Prokofiev 1897 births 1989 deaths Gulag detainees People from Madrid Spanish emigrants to the Soviet Union Spanish emigrants to the United States Spanish expatriates in France 20th-century Spanish women singers 20th-century Spanish singers Spanish people of Polish descent Spanish people of Lithuanian descent Spanish people of French descent Spanish people of Russian descent Christian Scientists