How did Sergey Prokofiev win the Anton Rubinstein Prize?

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Sergey Prokofiev won the Anton Rubinstein Prize in piano upon his graduation from the St. Petersburg Conservatory in 1914. He was awarded the prize for his brilliant performance of his own first large-scale work, the Piano Concerto No. 1 in D-flat Major.1