Women's stories 14.04.1998 (1998)

The program is dedicated to the poetess Bella Akhmadulina.

Her full name is Isabella, but she was never called that, Bella, squirrel, squirrel, Bella Akhmadulina was born on April 10, 1937 in Moscow and did not speak for a long time as if she did not want to talk to anyone, and then the tulips bloomed and she said the first minty phrase, "

I have never seen anything like this."

She grew up in the center of Moscow on Varvarka in a house where many Akhmadulinas were imprisoned, the Akhmadulinas were not touched, her mother Bella Akhatovna worked for a long time as a translator at the USSR Embassy in New York, her father, a former artilleryman, went through the entire war, and then was one of the heads of the customs service.

A diligent high school student of the fifties, Bella Akhmadulina attended a literary studio and a drama club at the House of Pioneers on Pokrovsky Boulevard.

Bella was raised mainly by her grandmother, she pitied everyone and adored animals, which she and her granddaughter always picked up, this love was passed on to her two daughters Anna and Eliza.

Bella began publishing in 1955, even before entering the Literary Institute.

She studied at the literary association, under the leadership of Yevgeny Vinokurov, at the Likhachev Automobile Plant.

In May 1955, a selection of poems by members of the Literary Association appeared in Komsomolskaya Pravda, which included Akhmadulina's poem "Motherland".

It is from this moment that the count of her poetic publications begins.

The first to note her poetic gift was the poet Pavel Antokolsky.

Then the poet E. Vinokurov, who headed the poetry department of the magazine "October" together with the writer Stepan Shchipachev, where he published young Bella Akhmadulina.

Video: Boris Messerer talks about Bella Akhmadulina, interiors of Boris Messerer's studio.

In 1955, Akhmadulina married the poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko.

They met at the institute, Yevtushenko recalled that as a spouse they often quarreled, but also quickly made up.

The couple was together for only three years.

After the breakup, Bella took in an orphanage girl, Anna, to whom, in the hope of getting her husband back, she gave the last name Nagibina and the patronymic Yuryevna.

This was followed by a short-lived civil marriage with Eldar Kuliev.

They had a daughter together, Elizaveta.

In 1957, Bella was criticized in Komsomolskaya Pravda.

In 1959, B. A. Akhmadulina wrote a letter to the Central Committee of the CPSU asking them to stop the persecution of Boris Pasternak, who had previously received the Nobel Prize in Literature for Doctor Zhivago.

Nikita Khrushchev rejected this request.

She was expelled from the institute, then reinstated.

She graduated from the Literary Institute in 1960. She married the writer Yuri Nagibin for the second time.

They lived together for eight years.

Together with other representatives of pop poetry, Akhmadulina performed in front of thousands of people at stadiums since 1961. In 1962, thanks to the efforts of the poet Pavel Antokolsky, Akhmadulina's first book, "Struna", was published, and two years later Vasily Shukshin became infatuated with Akhmadulina and cast her as a young journalist in the film "There Lives Such a Guy".

Based on Akhmadulina's scripts, the films "Chistye Prudy" and "Stewardess" were made in the 1960s.

In 1968, the émigré publishing house "Posev" published a volume of poems, "Oznob", in the FRG. It included the poem "Oh, My Shy Hero", dedicated to her ex-husband, Yevgeny Yevtushenko.

After breaking up with Nagibin, Bella took in an orphanage girl, Anna, to whom, in the hope of getting her husband back, she gave the surname Nagibina and the patronymic Yuryevna.

This was followed by a short civil marriage with Eldar Kuliev.

They had a daughter together, Elizaveta.

In the 1970s, Akhmadulina visited Georgia, since then this land has occupied a prominent place in her work, she translated N. Baratashvili, G. Tabidze, I. Abashidze and other Georgian authors.

In 1974, Bella married for the fourth and last time - to theater artist Boris Messerer, leaving the children with her mother and housekeeper.

In 1977, Akhmadulina was elected an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

In 1979, Akhmadulina participated in the creation of the uncensored literary almanac Metropol.

Akhmadulina repeatedly spoke out in support of Soviet dissidents - Sakharov Andrei, Kopelev Lev, Vladimov Georgy, Voynovich Vladimir.

Her statements in their defense were published in the New York Times, repeatedly broadcast on Radio Liberty and the Voice of America.

In 1989, she was awarded the USSR State Prize for her poetry collection Garden.

Video: Boris Messerer talks about Bella Akhmadulina.

Video: The host, Bella Akhmadulina and Boris Messerer chat on the street.

The program uses photographs from Bella Akhmadulina's archive, fragments of films, and speeches.