Short answers, pulled from the story.
Sergei Prokofiev was born in Sontsovka, a village in the Bakhmut uezd of the Yekaterinoslav Governorate of the Russian Empire, in what is now the Pokrovsk Raion of the Donetsk Oblast of Ukraine. The exact date recorded in the source is given in the biographical text but listed as 1891 in the short description.
Prokofiev's most widely heard works include Peter and the Wolf, the ballet Romeo and Juliet (featuring "Dance of the Knights"), the suite Lieutenant Kije, and the March from The Love for Three Oranges. He also composed the War Sonatas (Piano Sonatas Nos. 6, 7, and 8), the Fifth Symphony, and the opera War and Peace.
Prokofiev believed Russia "had no use for music at the moment" and decided to seek opportunities abroad until the turmoil in his homeland had passed. He obtained official permission from People's Commissar for Education Anatoly Lunacharsky, who told him, "You are a revolutionary in music, we are revolutionaries in life," and allowed him to leave.
The decree of the 11th of February 1948 denounced Prokofiev alongside Shostakovich, Khachaturian, and three other composers for "formalism." Eight of his works were banned from performance, and by August 1948 his personal debt had reached 180,000 rubles.
Prokofiev died of a hypertensive crisis at age 61 on the 5th of March 1953, the same day as Joseph Stalin. His death is usually attributed to cerebral hemorrhage, and he had been chronically ill for eight years following a head injury from fainting in January 1945.
Prokofiev wrote his Ninth Piano Sonata specifically for Sviatoslav Richter and his Symphony-Concerto for cello and orchestra for Mstislav Rostropovich. Rostropovich also gave the first performance of Prokofiev's Cello Sonata in C major, Op. 119, in 1950, with Richter accompanying at the piano.