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- ↑ Nestyev, Israel (1961). Prokofiev. Stanford: Stanford University Press. pp. 374. ISBN 978-0804705851.
- ↑ Nestyev, Israel (1961). Prokofiev. Stanford: Stanford University Press. pp. 328. ISBN 978-0804705851.
- ↑ Morrison, Simon Alexander (2009). The People's Artist: Prokofiev's Soviet Years. Oxford University Press, USA. p. 440. ISBN 978-0-19-518167-8.
