easy to be the muse of a great man?Probably not, though, because it will have a lifetime (and after death, too) to stay in his shadow.And even their own merits and advantages will be powerless before the name of genius.This inheritance won and heroine of this article - Lilya Brik.Her biography as an independent person familiar with interesting and not all.But everyone knows that this woman was the love and muse of Vladimir Mayakovsky.And even her own path in life biographers considered exclusively in weaving the life and work of the poet. Lilya Brik.Life before Mayakovsky
Lily Urievna (Gurievna, Y.) Kagan was born in Moscow on November 11, 1891 in an intellectual Jewish family father - lawyer, mother - a musician.Lovers in the German romantic poetry wife named their daughters respectively Lily - in honor of the woman he loved Goethe, Elsa - after the heroine of Goethe.
girls from an early age learn music, foreign languages.Minded parents to let their daughters be autonomous, although later his father and mother had no time to regret his leniency.Lily teenager has learned to conquer the hearts of men, and its network, according to the memoirs of contemporaries, came across very mature and famous men, among whom was even Feodor Chaliapin.
After graduating from high school she studied at the math courses, then at the architectural.Later he trained in Munich on modeling skills.In 1911, Lisle returned to the capital, where she met her future husband - Osip Brik, which, however, was familiar with before.I must say that Osip parents were categorically against this romance and marriage - they do not suit the bride's moral character.However, the son went against their will, and in 1912 married Lily and Osip.Two years later, the couple moved to St. Petersburg, and their home will soon become a favorite meeting place for creative people: poets, musicians and artists.It was rumored that zahazhivali to them and more serious people: lawyers, politicians and even the KGB.
acquaintance with Mayakovsky
first became acquainted with the poet's younger sister Lily - Elsa, they even had an affair.But one day Elsa made a fatal mistake, having decided to introduce his friend with his sister.She came with him to the salon, where reigned Lilya Brik.Biography all the participants of action from that moment took a sharp turn.Vladimir Mayakovsky read his new poem "A Cloud in Trousers" and immediately dedicated it to Lily.She could not help but be influenced by this huge passionate nature.In his memoirs, Lily wrote that his love literally "attacked her."So resist there was no way.Osip Brik, a humble lawyer, fell in love with the poet's verses, and since then did his best to publish and publicize it.And Elsa had forgotten.However, she quickly found solace: she married a French military Tirol, and then for the famous writer Louis Aragon.And there she became a writer.For Vladimir Mayakovsky became fateful day - all the meaning of his life was now Lilya Brik.Biography later became common not only for the two of them, but for Osip Brik.
strange family
It was really unusual.Lily's husband did not spare the time and money to publish a poem by Vladimir that before not to print any one publishing house.Love of Lily seethed in Mayakovsky, finding a way out of all the new works: "The Backbone Flute", "To all," Lilichka "," Man ".And every line he wrote was devoted to her.What is surprising, Osip it does not bother.Soon Mayakovsky moved to live with him.In Moscow we walked humiliating rumors about the "depraved little family."Biography Lili Brik, written by herself, contains explicit statement that the affair with Mayakovsky began when Osip they no longer had an intimate relationship.In other sources have opposite statements that they are sometimes involved with Osip love, locked in the kitchen, and Volodya scratching at the door and cried.The truth about one thing: it was a very painful relationship may cost the life of the poet.
Lilya Brik: a biography in the works
Now about the tragedy of being in the shadow of a genius.During their relationship, as stated above, much is overlooked, including the creative biography of the heroine.But she was one of the most outstanding and the most beautiful women of the twentieth century.The writer, a translator, a sculptor, an actress, a journalist - she had a lot of talent.Mayakovsky, they worked a lot and fruitfully in the "Windows of growth", worked on a film scenario Vladimir played together a lot.Plagued by ill relations with the beloved poet tying short-term affairs with other women, but again returned to his L.YU.B.
In the first years of Soviet power, all three began to sympathize with the Bolsheviks, Osip even joined the CPSU (b), worked for some time in the KGB.Not without the help of couple Brik, Mayakovsky began to publish in national newspapers.In 1922, Lily suffered another torrid romance with the Soviet banker Krasnoshchokov and jealousy killed the poet.Then again all fell into place, and the strange trio reunited again: lived together, traveled together across the country and abroad.It is surprising that in the difficult time they had no problems with traveling abroad.It suggests that this privilege was given to them for their cooperation with well-known lily authorities.This also explains the fact that her husband (there were four of Lily) could be arrested and even shot, but it never touched.These rumors are not to comment it, however, and does not refute.
In 1926 the poet was given a new apartment, and he moved there, of course, a couple, Brick.These were years of very fruitful for Lily creatively.It helps publish the journal of the creative association "LEF", involved in the filming of "The Jew and the earth," writes scripts for other films, he takes the theoretical works of German literature, is engaged in sculptural works and, of course, questions of publishing Mayakovsky.In 1930 the couple traveled to Europe where they were overtaken by the news of the death of the poet.In the suicide note Mayakovsky called Lily sole heir of his works, thus declaring it his unofficial widow and assigning responsibility for the future of the creative heritage.Lily Y. And almost all his life devoted to this main goal.
last years
Biography Lili Brik was filled with meetings with amazing people and new developments from the first to the last days.She managed to publish in his lifetime his books, the most famous of which - an autobiographical collection of memories "Partisan tales" and personal correspondence with Vladimir Mayakovsky.Was she a fatalist?Unlikely.But one day, she told relatives that had a dream in which Volodya scolded for suicide.And he put it into the hand of a gun and said, "Anyway, you do the same thing."
with the last husband - Vasily Katanyanom - she lived at his dacha in Peredelkino.The elderly writer fell and broke her hip - tricky for elderly trauma is not treated.And in one night, 86-year-old Lily Y. took an overdose of sleeping pills ...
She bequeathed not to bury her but to cremate and scatter the ashes over the field.She will fulfilled, and in her memory a monument - a large round boulder engraved with the initials - "L.YU.B.."How to ring given Mayakovsky.
