Prokofiev wrote a new version where Peter captures a wolf.
(This was a common theme in propaganda aimed at children in the Soviet Union at the time.) However, Prokofiev was dissatisfied with the rhyming text produced by Nina Pavlovna Sakonskaya (real name Antonia Pavlovna Sokolovskaya, 1896–1951), a then-popular children's author. The first draft of the libretto was about a Young Pioneer (the Soviet version of a Boy Scout) called Peter who rights a wrong by challenging an adult. The intent was to introduce children to the individual instruments of the orchestra. Sats and Prokofiev had become acquainted after he visited her theatre with his sons several times. In 1936, Prokofiev was commissioned by Natalya Sats, the director of the Central Children's Theatre in Moscow, to write a musical symphony for children.
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