Short answers, pulled from the story.
Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev was born on the 23rd of April 1891 at a rural estate in Sontsovka, a village in the Bakhmut uezd of the Yekaterinoslav Governorate. His mother Maria spent two months each year in Moscow or St Petersburg taking piano lessons while her son watched from the Ukrainian steppes.
Prokofiev enrolled at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory in 1904 after Alexander Glazunov urged his mother to apply for admission. He studied under Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov for orchestration though he regretted never having the opportunity to study with him directly since Rimsky died in 1908.
Sergei Prokofiev left Russia in May 1918 after obtaining official permission from Anatoly Lunacharsky who told him You are a revolutionary in music we are revolutionaries in life. He arrived in San Francisco on the 11th of August 1918 following questioning by immigration officials at Angel Island.
Sergei Diaghilev commissioned Prokofiev's first ballet Ala and Lolli but rejected it in Italy during 1915 as non-Russian. Diaghilev then commissioned the ballet Chout or The Buffoon based on folk tales collected by ethnographer Alexander Afanasyev which premiered in Paris on the 17th of May 1921.
On the 11th of February 1948 a decree denounced six artists including Prokofiev for the crime of formalism described as muddled nerve-racking sounds turning music into cacophony. Eight of Prokofiev's works were banned from performance including The Year 1941 Ode to the End of the War Festive Poem and Cantata for the Thirtieth Anniversary of October.
Prokofiev died of hypertensive crisis at age 61 on the 5th of March 1953 the same day as Joseph Stalin. He is buried in Moscow's Novodevichy Cemetery alongside his wife Mira Mendelson whose remains are interred there after her death in 1968.