Biography of Bella Akhmadulina
Celebrity biography - Bella Akhmadulina
Isabella Akhmadulina is a famous lyric poetess and a talented writer. She is a member of the Union of Russian Writers and the Academy of Literature in America. Her work has a special style, characterized by sophistication, naturalness and emotionality.
Childhood
Isabella Akhmadulina was born in Moscow on April 10, 1937. The girl's father was a Tatar, worked as a customs chief, and her mother, who had Russian-Italian roots, was a translator in the State Security Committee. Due to the constant employment at work, the parents did not have time to raise their daughter, so little Isabella was in the care of her grandmother. From childhood, she taught the future poetess to love literature, reading to her the works of great Russian writers.
During the war, my father was called to the front. Bella was evacuated to Kazan, where her paternal grandmother lived. In Kazan, the girl became very ill. Only thanks to the arrival of her mother, she was able to survive. When the evacuation ended, Akhmadulina went to school. It was difficult for her to adapt, she often skipped classes and did not want to study. I loved only the literature class. It took Bella three years to get used to schooling.
The beginning of the creative path
As a schoolgirl, the poetess attended a literary circle in the House of Pioneers. At the age of fifteen, she already had a special, unique style. In 1955, the first poems of young Bella were published. They were touching, had an unusual rhyme. The poetess also attended classes at the Literary Association. During this period, Akhmadulina firmly decides to connect her life with literary art. She enters the Institute of Literature. In 1959, she was expelled from the university because she refused to support the accusations against Pasternak. The poetess went to work as a correspondent for one of the Irkutsk newspapers, in which her story "On Siberian Roads" was later published. The editor-in-chief of this magazine contributed to Bella being returned to the institute. She graduated in 1960. Also, the poetess published poems and articles in the magazine "Metrostroivets".
In 1955 in magazine "October" published the first poems of the 18-year-old poetess
Career
At the age of twenty-two, Akhmadulina composes a poem "On my street that year ...", which later becomes very popular. In 1975, music was written to this verse and the finished romance sounded in the famous film “The Irony of Fate or Enjoy Your Bath!”. The author of the poem "Oh, my shy hero", which was read by the heroine of the film "Office Romance" was also Akhmadulina. The first collection of poems by the poetess appeared in 1962. It was called "String".
Real popularity came to Akhmadulina after her performance in Moscow at the Polytechnic Museum. According to the poetess, public speaking was difficult for her, but she skillfully coped with excitement. Her compositions at creative evenings were a great success. Bella's talent was highly appreciated by Rozhdestvensky, Yevtushenko and other masters. Her works fascinated with special sophistication and lyricism. They intertwined the traditions of poetry of the past.
The second collection of the poetess, Music Lessons, was published in 1969. It was followed by others who later became popular ("Snowstorm", "Candle" and others). Bella wrote her compositions with anguish and in large numbers. The attitude of critics to the work of Akhmadulina was different. Some reproached her for mannerisms, while others were benevolent. She took part in the filming of two films: “Such a guy lives”, where she played a journalist, as well as “Sport, sports, sports”.
Bella Akhmadulina in cinema - director Vasily Shukshin "F" ivet is such a guy"
Having visited Georgia (1970), Akhmadulina was delighted with this country. The result of this was the collection Dreams of Georgia. She also translated poems by Chikovani, Baratashvili and others. The essays of the poetess about creative people also became popular. She wrote about such talented individuals as Anna Akhmatova, Vladimir Vysotsky, Marina Tsvetaeva and many others.
Akhmadulina was a participant in various poetry festivals.
Bella Akhatovna belongs to the so-called "Sixties" poets
Akhmadulina with Bulat Okudzhava and Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Personal life
The poetess married at the age of eighteen for Yevgeny Yevtushenko, director and poet. They divorced three years later. Her next chosen one was Yuri Nagibin, a writer. This marriage also did not last long (nine years). In 1968, the poetess adopted a girl from an orphanage, Anya, and gave her the name of her ex-husband, Nagibina. In a civil union with Eldar Kuliev, which also turned out to be short-lived, the couple had a daughter, Elizabeth. Soon Bella remarries. She lived with her husband Boris Messerer for almost thirty years.
The writer spent her last years in Peredelkino. She was constantly sick, could not see well, so she stopped writing. At the age of seventy-four (November 29, 2010), the poetess died of a cardiovascular crisis. In the House of Writers in the capital, they said goodbye to the legendary Bella Akhmadulina.
In memory of the legendary poetess, monuments were opened in Moscow and Tarusa. And also in 2012, the Bella Prize was established, it is awarded to young poets aged 18 to 35 years. The institution was initiated by her husband Boris Messerer. The award ceremony is held twice a year in Moscow and Italy, given that Bella had Italian roots. The prize fund is 3,000 euros, and talented poets can get it even for one poem.