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Bella Akhmadulina
On April 10, 1937, the poetess Bella Akhmadulina was born. She was very talented, very beautiful and very unhappy.
For the last ten years of her life, the health of the poetess was undermined by bad habits – alcohol and smoking. She was also almost blind.
I lost my favorite pastime – reading. Because of poor eyesight, I can’t read books, and this makes my life unbearable, ”complained Bella Akhmadulina in an interview with Evening Moscow.
She lived in Tarusa with her third husband, artist Boris Messerer. The couple rented a professorial dacha on the banks of the Oka. I drank a lot. The locals, alas, do not treat Bella Akhmadulina with reverence because of her addiction to alcohol. Vitaliy B., a boat owner in Tarusa, told EG:
– Akhmadulina and Messerer walked along the embankment every day – both drunk. Were staggering. They drank wine straight from faceted glasses on the embankment. In the restaurant “Volna” they did not always pay. It happened that Messerer carried his drunk wife in his arms. An unhappy picture.
Immediately following the death of his wife in 2019, Boris Messerer brought a young woman into the house. Now she is his wife. At his anniversary events (he turned 90 this year), he was in the company of his young wife. A woman, as they say, in the prime of life and beauty. Good Russian beauty. Blood with milk.
Meanwhile, following the death of Bella Akhmadulina, Messerer publishes her letters to him. Love correspondence. True, according to a close friend of the poetess, director Roman Viktyuk (he once told regarding this in an interview with EG), “Bella wrote letters not to Messerer, but to a young lover.”
They say that Bella Akhmadulina was an amorous woman. The first time she married the famous poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko. They loved each other to the point of madness, quarreled, reconciled, dedicated poems to each other. They broke up because of the offense that Yevtushenko inflicted. Evgeny Alexandrovich regretted until the end of his life that he forced his wife to commit murder.
“My biggest, unforgivable sin is that I convinced Bella to have an abortion. She did not want. But I almost forced. We were young, carefree. Until the end I will blame myself for killing our unborn child, – shortly before his death at the film festival in Vyborg “Window to Europe” Evgeny Yevtushenko told “EG”.
Bella Akhmadulina nevertheless became a mother. She was a good mother. But motherhood did not make her happy.
Boris Messerer took care of his wife, loved, but at the same time did not answer her letters and was often away.
“There was no time to write at all. He worked a lot, – admitted Boris Messerer at the presentation of the book “Bella’s Flash”.
Photo source: Global Look Press/Alexander Keltik, Sergey Kiselev/Moskva Agency, Global Look Press/Ekaterina Tsvetkova, Global Look Press/Genrietta Peryan
