In memory of a POET.. Bella Akhmadulina.
Along my street which year
footsteps sound - my friends are leaving.
My friends slow departure
that darkness outside the windows is pleasing ....
Her death is unbelievable. Never. There is something absurd in this that one does not want to put up with.
Bella (Isabella) Akhatovna Akhmadulina (April 10, 1937 (19370410), Moscow - November 29, 2010, Moscow) - Soviet and Russian poetess, writer, translator, one of the largest Russian lyric poets of the second half of the 20th century. Member of the Union of Russian Writers, Executive Committee of the Russian PEN Center, Society of Friends of the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts. Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Bella Akhmadulina was born on April 10, 1937 in Moscow. Her father is a Tatar by nationality, a deputy minister, and her mother is a Russian of Italian origin, who worked as a translator in the KGB. She started writing poetry in her school years.
When in 1955 the first poems by Akhmadulina appeared in the magazine "October", it immediately became clear that a real poet had come. Enrolling in the same year at the Literary Institute, she was the queen there, and all the young poets were in love with her, including the compiler of this anthology, who became her first husband. Poets of the older generation - Antokolsky, Svetlov, Lugovskoy - also admired her talent, but she only met Pasternak once on the path, but was too shy to introduce herself to him. Having mastered the assonance "Yevtushenkov's" rhyme, she abruptly turned in a completely different direction - into whispers, rustles, uncertainty, elusiveness.
In 1957, she was criticized in Komsomolskaya Pravda. Graduated from the Literary Institute in 1960.
In 1964, she starred as a journalist in the film There Lives Such a Guy.
The first collection of poems, "String", appeared in 1962. This was followed by the poetry collections "Chills" (1968), "Music Lessons" (1970), "Poems" (1975), "Snowstorm" (1977), "Candle" ( 1977), "Secret" (1983), "Garden" (USSR State Prize, 1989).
Akhmadulina's poetry is characterized by intense lyricism, sophistication of forms, an obvious echo with the poetic tradition of the past.
In the 1970s, the poetess visited Georgia, since then this land has taken a prominent place in her work. Akhmadulina translated N. Baratashvili, G. Tabidze, I. Abashidze and other Georgian authors.
In 1979, Akhmadulina participated in the creation of the literary almanac "Metropol".
In 1993, she signed the Letter of Forty-Two.
Peru Akhmadulina owns memories of contemporary poets, as well as an essay about A. S. Pushkin and M. Yu. Lermontov.
In 2006, Akhmadulina became the hero of the book "Autograph of the Century", in which one of the chapters is dedicated to her.
Akhmadulina was the first wife of Yevgeny Yevtushenko, later - the wife of Yuri Nagibin. From the son of the Balkar classic Kaysyn Kuliev - Eldar Kuliev in 1973, she gave birth to a daughter, Lisa. In 1974 she married theater designer Boris Messerer. Liza Kulieva followed in the footsteps of her mother - she graduated from the Literary Institute, lives in Peredelkino with her husband. The second daughter of the poetess - Anna graduated from the Polygraphic Institute, draws up books as an illustrator.
She died on the evening of November 29, 2010 in an ambulance. According to the husband of the poetess Boris Messerer, death was due to a cardiovascular crisis.
The President of the Russian Federation D. A. Medvedev expressed his official condolences to the relatives and friends of the poetess.
..." a very great Russian poet passed away. And, perhaps, the last major poet with a female name after Anna Akhmatova. Still, let's not forget that Bella Akhmadulina was the only poet in the USSR that Vladimir Nabokov became interested in. Nabokov, who he denied Pasternak and Tvardovsky. Nabokov, who denied everyone who was not of the same aesthetic composition with him. He could not resist the poems of Akhmadulina. And how can one resist them? Against their only sadness, their only pride and some elusive timidity?
“On my street for a year / steps sound - my friends are leaving. / My friends / slow departure / that darkness outside the windows is pleasing ... "
Here are her steps, too, resounded. Gone. To another country. Where someone still continues to type her new poems on a typewriter." - Pavel Basinsky.