Son of Bella Akhmadulina. fireworks of love
On April 10, Bella Akhmadulina would have turned 75 years old. This is the first anniversary without her. She left in the fall of 2010. On the eve of the birthday of the poetess, our correspondent met with close people of Bella Akhatovna and found out many details of her biography, which until now only the closest knew about.
First of all, I decided to call the daughters of Bella Akhatovna - the eldest, 43-year-old Anna, and the youngest, 38-year-old Lisa. It seemed to me that it was they who could best tell what their wonderful mother was like.
- Call your mother's husband - Boris Asafovich Messerer. He is an excellent storyteller, - answered the eldest daughter of the poetess Anna and, referring to employment, said goodbye.
And here I am at Povarskaya, 20, in the very workshop where the love of the poetess and the artist was born. Around are antiques, gramophones, typewriters, cabinets, the skin of a polar bear, which has turned brown from time to time. There are books on the huge table, there are jars of tea, coffee, mugs, a bottle of cognac - a creative mess.
“Sit down, but nothing good will come of our conversation,” the owner warned. - Now people will come to me, and I will also have to devote time to them.
- Boris Asafovich, how do you live? I asked.
“Like a city madman,” the widower replied. “A year and a half without Bella, that’s what I live with,” he said in a whisper, picking up an unopened bottle of cognac.
The workshop quickly began to fill with people. While the owner was busy with other guests, I looked around. My eyes fell on the handwritten text. A yellowed leaf, covered with flies, is pinned to the ceiling with huge nails. These are the very verses that Akhmadulina, having been here for the first time, dedicated to this place and its owner.
Messerer's phone rang incessantly.
- Boris Asafovich, if Bella Akhatovna saw all this excitement before her birthday, how would she react?
“Bella would take this bottle of cognac, drink it faster than me, and run away from everyone,” Messerer said. She didn't like celebrating birthdays. I always ran for groceries myself, invited guests, set the table. Bella also treated gifts quite calmly. She had such an attitude not only to her holiday. She didn't like going to friends' birthday parties. The wife made gifts only to two or three loved ones, and even then not always.
- Did you spoil her?
- Deservedly pampered. I wanted Bella to be beautiful, I bought her very expensive things and jewelry.
Our dialogue with the owner was interrupted by another visitor. A man of oriental appearance appeared on the threshold. The stranger called himself Igor. Meanwhile, Boris Asafovich was distracted by a phone call.
An elderly lady, a literary critic, as Messerer introduced her, who was sitting next to me, immediately asked Igor a question that, frankly, stunned me:
- You, an assistant and friend of Boris Asafovich, are probably aware of when Bella took up her daughters?
“What does it matter now,” Igor replied in an unhappy tone. “Did you come here to find out about this?”
- Aren't Anya and Liza her own children? I asked.
“Well, dear, Bella never gave birth,” said the interlocutor, rounding her eyes. - She had an abortion from her first husband, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, and after that she could not get pregnant. She adopted her daughter Anya when she married Yuri Nagibin, and Lisa appeared five years later. The girls were brought up by the nanny Anna Vasilievna. Bella was not adapted to everyday life.
- But in the official biographies, - I tried to object, - it is said that from the son of the Balkar classic Kaisyn Kuliev - Eldar Kuliev - in 1973 she gave birth to a daughter, Elizabeth. The first daughter, Anna, was born in 1968, at the very time when Bella Akhatovna was married to the writer Yuri Nagibin.
“You never know what is written,” the interlocutor interrupted me, “there are Muscovites who have known Bella for a long time and are aware of her dramas that happened in her personal life. Have you ever asked yourself why Messerer hardly communicates with Bella's daughters? Yes, because these are not her girls. Conversely, he has a great relationship with his son Alexander from his first marriage.
Our entire conversation did not go unnoticed by Messerer, but he pretended not to hear anything.
“I know why he called us here,” my interlocutor expressed her opinion. Boris wants to show how busy he is. The life philosophies of Messerer and Akhmadulina were very different, - the lady said with a sigh. Bella had friction with colleagues. In that garbage heap, which is now called the cultural environment, it is impossible to do without conflicts. But Bella never allowed herself to offend a simple person, to show her advantage over others. Messerer, on the other hand, does not shun redneck behavior with people. He is spoiled by the powers that be. I heard that Yeltsin gave him a luxurious apartment. I was in this apartment on the eve of Bella's 70th birthday. Journalists received Messerer. The bedroom door was open. Akhmadulina was sleeping in her clothes, her arms dangling on both sides of the bed. I think she was drunk. She often drank. In 1974, the year she met Messerer, she lost Vasily Shukshin. I heard that she loved Vasily. Once I dared and asked if they were really lovers with Shukshin. Bella, after a pause, said that everything about her relationship with men is written in her poems.
Our conversation with the lady was interrupted by Boris Asafovich. He announced that it was time for him to leave, and we also left the workshop.
I decided to ask Anna directly whether Bella Akhatovna really adopted her. Anya listened to me very calmly.
“Everyone is free to write whatever they want, I won’t comment on it,” Anna Yuryevna answered without a shadow of embarrassment. “Let this information remain on the conscience of those people who spread it,” she said slowly, as if weighing every word. And again she advised me to turn to Boris Asafovich: they say, he knows everything better than anyone. “But don’t flatter yourself about Boris Asafovich,” Anya said, changing her tone. He will certainly give you an interview. Communicate with him, please, if you are ready to become his biographer and writer of everyday life. But keep in mind, this is a person who does not know how to be friends and treat people well. He only makes friends with the people he needs. But I can’t say that at this moment he loves them very much. He does not have that instrument in his soul that people love. This is not given to man!
- Anna, they say that your mother and Boris Asafovich had a different philosophy of life - for example, in relation to people?
- It's true. But my mother had character. She did not tolerate betrayal. Mom was really kind, but not kind.
- Anya, why is Boris Asafovich against me talking to you? Are you on bad terms with him?
- That's not the point. God be his judge. He will tell better than us. But it will be difficult for you to communicate with him if you do not accept that your mother, apart from him, had nothing in her life. Everyone must accept that mom was happy only with him and became what she became only thanks to Messerer. And the fact that Akhmadulina wrote beautiful poems before him, it is better not to mention this in his presence. Tell me, did you ask Boris Asafovich questions about your mother's or his work?
- I asked if the work of Bella Akhmadulina influenced his creative destiny. "Began! These stamps again," Messerer shouted. He turned around and went to the toilet.
- Here you go! This is his typical behavior,” Anya said. And yet he's still smiling. Smiling for others is the main thing. Understand that if your questions deviate from the plot built by him, he is unlikely to be satisfied with this. He has his own version of their life, and everything that does not confirm it, he excludes. This is mythmaking. He drew his own model of his mother's fate in his head. And he continues to draw it to everyone else. It is clear that when my mother was alive, they interviewed her, and not him. Now she is gone. Messerer got access to the media, which is terribly happy. He will tell you about how badly he lives without his beloved, how he suffers, misses Bella. But this situation is very good for him!
- Anna, Boris Asafovich wrote the book "Bella's Flash" in memory of his muse Bella. How do you rate it?
He approached the writing of the book in a very pragmatic way. I was struck by how correctly he gave the title to his work. There is a phrase - "Freudian slips". The title of the book comes from a series of reservations. It was Bella's glimpse there ... In addition, he incorrectly indicated the name of his mother's grandmother. Her last name was Baramova. He wrote - Baranova. “It’s all nonsense that doesn’t matter,” he fumed when I asked him why he wrote that.
Mom has a poem "Coast". She dedicated it to Lev Kopelev. Boris Asafovich took it and changed it. He wrote that it was dedicated to Gumilyov. Mom never dedicated poems to Gumilyov, moreover, she did not treat him as reverently as, say, Akhmatova, Tsvetaeva, Blok, Mandelstam. Boris Asafovich published his book of illustrations about St. Petersburg a year ago, there was a dedication to poets, only there was no Gumilyov. Here he is from his mother's name and "dedicated". "How so?" I asked him. He began to scream. “Why all this pedantry of yours?” It is useless to prove something to him, but in legal language this is called falsification.
- People who knew a couple Messerer - Akhmadulin say that he treated her like a crystal vase?
- Yes! He really bought his mother expensive outfits. But only my mother was a living person, not a vase. It's good when a loving man makes an effort to make his beloved beautiful. But it's better when he makes sure that his woman is happy! For Messerer, the main thing is that everything looks beautiful on the outside.
P.S. The story I heard in the workshop about Akhmadulina's adopted children haunted me. And so I found the literary magazine "Time and Us" No. 140 for 1998. And in it I read an interesting article under the heading “How insignificantly the era ends ...” It contains the diaries of Pavel Antokolsky, a famous Soviet poet and translator who was friends with Bella Akhmadulina. They have such an entry dated April 14, 1968. Bella really took the baby and has already settled in her new apartment on Aeroportovskaya. Added in the comments to this article: "B. Akhmadulina adopted a girl, Anya.
This was the period of her life together with the writer Yuri Nagibin. That is why Anna wears the patronymic "Yurievna". It turns out that in August she took Anya, and in November she divorced Nagibin.
And one more piece of evidence from that time. This is a response to one of the Internet forums dedicated to family issues. Now she is writing an adult woman who, as a child, lived in a dacha in Peredelkino next door to Akhmadulina. As a girl, she was visiting the poetess - at the birthday party of her daughter Liza, she came with a gift. Lisa was upset because of the gift, she did not like it. “But Bella's eldest daughter, Anya, was very happy with us. And Bella was happy with us. She was very kind to us. She played, entertained the kids, arranged quizzes, gave prizes and sweets. Then I learned from a conversation between adults that Anya was adopted, Bella took her from an orphanage, at that time it was a rarity, ”she writes on the forum.
Therefore, in a narrow circle of writers that Akhmadulina raised an adopted girl, they knew for a long time. It's just that this information has not yet gone beyond it. But as for Liza, is she her own daughter or also adopted, as the lady assures me that she met me in Messerer's workshop, this remains a family secret for now.
Marina Frolova
Bella Akhmadulina is a Russian poetess, writer and translator, one of the greatest lyric poets of the 20th century. Her poems have become a kind of anthem of the Soviet era, the difficult life in this period, and some kind of soul-crushing loneliness.
Akhmadullina's rhymes were heard even by those who never picked up collections of her poems, because the best Soviet films are saturated with them. For example, the poem “On my street that year ..” became a romance performed by Alla Pugacheva in everything known, and one of the most beloved films of the Soviet era, “Irony of Fate or Enjoy Your Bath!”.
Height, weight, age. How old is Bella Akhmadulina
She began writing her first poems back in 1955, but even then her naive and touching lines attracted the attention of the public and other, more eminent authors. At that time, nothing was known about the young poetess, but today she is famous in all countries of the former USSR, so you can find out everything about the writer, even such trifles as height, weight, age. How old Bella Akhmadulina was at the time of her death is also not a universal secret.
The poetess died in 2010, at the age of 73, leaving behind an invaluable contribution to an entire era.
Biography of Bella Akhmadulina
The biography of Bella Akhmadulina originates in 1937 in Moscow. The girl began to write her first timid poems, filled with youthful experiences, quite early, and already at the age of 15, as literary experts say today, she found her own style. Bella was a member of the Literary Association and after school she really wanted to enter the faculty of the Literary Institute. The girl's parents dreamed that she would enter the faculty of journalism, but Akhmadullina failed her exams, after which she went to work for the Metrostroyevets newspaper, entering the institute only the following year. That time knows many tragedies, Bella saw them too. As a university student, she refused to sign Boris Pasternak's letter of accusation, after which she was expelled. Of course, the official reason is that she did not pass the exam. But Akhmadullina still graduated from the institute, later she was restored.
In 1962, she released her first collection, and then another, and another. In total, the poetess published 8 collections of poems in Soviet times, and Akhmadullina herself spoke out more than once in support of writers who were unreasonably accused of anti-Sovietism. In 1993, she signed the Letter of Forty-Two.
On November 29, 2010, Bella Akhmadulina died. The grave, the photo of which is on the poet's Wikipedia page, is located at the Novodevichy cemetery.
Bella Akhmadulina's personal life
The personal life of Bella Akhmadulina, like her poems and rhymes, is full of tragedies.
The poetess was officially married four times, and between these cliches in her life there were other men. She was loved, admired, she was literally carried in her arms, but as in the lives of other great and famous women, Bella always faced the fact that each of her husbands lived with a poetess, and not with a woman. It just so happened that every love of Akhmadullina broke her heart, and being the wife of public people and writers, who, it would seem, should understand the essence of her life and existence like no one else, were not ready for the fact that Bella had her own opinion and vision. Everyone tried to remake her, but you just had to love.
Bella Akhmadulina's family
The writer was born in a difficult time, all her childhood is closely connected with the war. Her father, Akhat Valeevich, was a party and Komsomol worker, and when the girl was only two years old, he was called to the war, where he served as a major of the guard.
The mother of the poetess, Nadezhda Makarovna, was a translator in the state security agencies, as well as the niece of the revolutionary Alexander Stopani. During the war, Bella, along with her maternal grandmother, was evacuated to Kazan, and returned home only after the end of the war. The family of Bella Akhmadulina saw that the girl was going through the consequences and sorrows of the war, she was more comfortable alone, and she devoted all her free time to writing poetry, but at that time they could not even suspect that soon everyone, young and old, would recognize her name .
Children of Bella Akhmadulina
They say that creative people are completely unsuited to everyday life, and even more so to raising children. This has already been said more than once by those who themselves are a creative person, and by those who were brought up in a family of people of art.
The poetess has one daughter, Elizabeth, who was born in the third marriage of the writer. But before that, Akhmadullina took up a girl from an orphanage, Anna, who, in other respects, did not become native to the poetess. The children of Bella Akhmadulina, after she married for the fourth time, stayed with the mother and father of the poetess, and were brought up by them to the end.
Bella Akhmadulina's daughter - Elizaveta Kulieva
The daughter of Bella Akhmadulina, Elizaveta Kulieva, is the only daughter of the great poetess, she was born in 1973. The girl lived with her mother for some time, and then was raised by her grandmother. Despite the fact that the daughter of the poetess was left to herself for most of her childhood, the woman has no offense at her mother, she always understood her subtle mental organization and once said that her mother "was an elf."
Last year, the daughter of the famous writer presented a book about her mother, Bella. Meetings after” in the presidential center of Boris Yeltsin. The woman told the main milestones in the life of Akhmadulina.
Former Husband of Bella Akhmadulina - Evgeny Yevtushenko
Bella Akhmadulina's ex-husband, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, became her first love. She was 25 years old, and the two poets were attracted to each other, as if different poles of magnets. Yevtushenko was the first to appreciate her poetry ten years ago, and their romance began much later. They met at the institute and then their relationship was only friendly, until Eugene timidly confessed his love to the girl.
They lived in perfect harmony, the husband literally looked into his wife's mouth, writing down his words of love in poetry. Soon Bella became pregnant, but despite the love, Yevtushenko was not ready for this. He forced his wife to have an abortion, this was the beginning of the end of their marriage.
Former Husband of Bella Akhmadulina - Yuri Nagibin
The ex-husband of Bella Akhmadulina - Yuri Nagibin is a Russian journalist, writer, screenwriter. Immediately after the divorce, the poetess met her second husband, with whom she went down the aisle in 1959. He was a famous womanizer, and women fell right at his feet. Bella became the fifth wife of the prose writer, but not the last.
They lived in marriage for 9 years, and then, as Nagibin's next wife later said, Yuri found his wife in bed with a woman. Whether the sexual experiments of the poetess were true or a blatant lie of the new wife of a genius, no one will know, only the fact remains: Akhmadulina did not want to leave her husband, it was he who filed for divorce after 9 years of marriage. After that, Bella adopted a girl, Anna, from an orphanage, who later lived with her mother.
Former Husband of Bella Akhmadulina - Eldar Kuliev
The ex-husband of Bella Akhmadulina, Eldar Kuliev, became her salvation after the second divorce. At that time, Bella was very disappointed in the institution of marriage, regretted that she had an abortion from Yevtushenko and was in the wildest depression. Where did this young man come from, 17 years younger than the poetess, none of Akhmadulina's entourage knew, but they became friends and for some time simply maintained friendly relations, and soon Bella became pregnant, so their romance was revealed.
Evil tongues say that Bella and Eldar often got drunk, and even the birth of their daughter did not affect their lifestyle, which is why the girl was sent to her grandmother. The relationship of this couple ended immediately after the birth of their daughter, and a year later Bella was married for the fourth time.
Bella Akhmadulina's husband - Boris Messerer
Bella Akhmadulina's husband, Boris Messerer, became her last man, with whom the poetess lived until her death. She probably really loved him, since she had been married for so many years, although witnesses of their lives say that Boris was always a more loving and caring husband than Akhmadulin's wife. But next to him she was a hospitable hostess, although a housekeeper had already appeared in the house at that time, so her husband protected the poetess from her unnecessary life.
The love of Akhmadulina's wife manifested itself even after her death. The man created a monument to his wife and the great poetess, which was installed in Tarusa in 2013.
Bella Akhmadulina love poems best read online
During her life, the poetess wrote many touching poems, which can still be heard today in various Soviet films. "Office Romance", "Irony of Fate", "Cruel Romance" ... this is not a complete list of everyone's favorite films in which lines from Akhmadulina's poems are set to music.
Repeatedly the poetess wrote poetry to her beloved, for example, Yevtushenko. And although in the collections of poems of the poetess there are completely different topics, from loneliness to the country, many believe that the best of the works written by Bella Akhmadulina are poems about love. You can read the best online directly on the Internet, where today you can find many works of the deceased poetess.
Instagram and Wikipedia Bella Akhmadulina
The poetess was repeatedly criticized by the Soviet government for her bold poems and rhymes, but the poetess did not stop writing.
The writer was a man of the old school, and even though she loved to communicate with readers at one time, even in the 2000s, when many online resources had already appeared, she did not use the Internet, so her pages are neither on social networks nor on Instagram. Both Bella Akhmadulina's Wikipedia and the site about the life of the famous poetess www.abella.in/ will tell a lot of interesting things to admirers of her talent and lines.
She was 18 years old, and he was 23. They met in 1954 in a Moscow apartment, where young writers gathered for a bottle of cider and marrow caviar. They read poetry and argued. And suddenly one of the students, in the voice of a sixty-year-old ventriloquist, said: "The revolution is dead, and its corpse stinks," Yevtushenko recalled. At these words, another girl suddenly responded warmly. And with her reaction she delighted the young poet.
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Aren `t you ashamed! The revolution is not dead. The revolution is sick. The revolution needs help.
This girl's name was Bella Akhmadulina. She soon became my wife
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Yevgeny Yevtushenko, memoirs "Wolf Passport"
Akhmadulina and Yevtushenko got married in 1955. At first they were happy - the couple walked through the Moscow streets all night long, holding hands. Yevtushenko on the go wrote down his poetic dedications to his beloved and hung them on trees. He took her to Abkhazia, where Bella saw the sea for the first time. Many years later, he recalled this trip as one of the most exciting romantic moments of his life.
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We passed wine to each other with our lips. God, how we loved!
Freedom instead of love
Soon Bella became pregnant. But Yevtushenko was not at all happy about this: he was frightened. The young poet was afraid that the squeaking baby would take away from him the freedom that creative people cherish so much. He forced his wife to have an abortion, and this act was the beginning of the end for the young couple. Bella could not forgive Eugene for not accepting their child, and soon her love began to fade inexorably. He realized this much later.
I did not understand then that if a man forces the woman he loves to kill their common child in her womb, then he kills her love for himself
Evgeny Yevtushenko
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At first, Akhmadulina became colder towards Yevtushenko, she stopped meeting him in the evenings, as before, at the laid table.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko. "Deep Snow", 1956
Once, as Yevtushenko recalled, he was returning home very late, and, noticing Bella in a nearby taxi that drove up to the house, he sensed something was wrong. In the end, returning once in the middle of the night, he did not find his wife at all. She appeared only in the morning and in a state of intoxication.
A completely different woman
Bella made her last attempt to save love in 1957. When Yevtushenko was going on a trip to Siberia, she asked to go with him. But he refused her, considering that it would be too burdensome for him. Returning a few months later, in his apartment in Moscow, he saw a completely different woman. Instead of a "crown-braid", she had a short hairstyle of copper-colored hair on her head. She began to consistently drink heavily and smoke a lot. During this period, she wrote a requiem poem for their marriage.
Bella Akhmadulina, 1957
There were no loud quarrels and breaking dishes. They just stopped accepting each other. Yevtushenko moved to a room on Tverskaya, and after some time he also made a kind of attempt to save the marriage - he came to her at night without warning. But Bella did not open the door.
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We didn't quarrel. Our love has not died - it has ceased to be, - Yevtushenko recalled.
Yevtushenko later said that he blamed himself for a long time for forcing Akhmadulina to have an abortion.
I suffered for a long time, thinking that because of my stupid youthful cruelty, she had lost the opportunity to have children - so the doctors told us. But a few years later, when I found out that she still gave birth to a daughter, I thanked God ... But still, when I see her or just hear her voice, I want to cry