Ukrainian poetess and scientist Lina Kostenko Today, March 19, celebrates his birthday. She turned 94 years old.
Author: competitor Lyna Kostenko
Lina Kostenko is called a legend of Ukrainian poetry. Her poems on the theme of love are called classics of love lyrics.
Dmitry Pavlychko and Vasily Simonenko admired her. Various novels were attributed to her, but the woman met true love at the age of 33. It is noteworthy that Lina Kostenko never advertised her personal life. Gazeta.ua will tell you how the poetess’s personal life developed.
Men in the life of Lina Kostenko
Lina Kostenko was married twice. Lina Kostenko’s first husband is a Polish writer Jerzy-Jan Pachlewski.
Author: Photos from open sources Jerzy Jan Pachlewski
We studied on the same course at the Moscow Gorky Literary Institute. We got married in our last year, when Lina was 26 years old. But the marriage was short. Did not get along. And each actually had their own life: Jerzy in Poland, Lina in Ukraine. Naturally, this led to separation. Once the poetess wrote the following lines:
“I love, my love, Kyiv and Warsaw,
But everyone has only one Motherland.”
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At the age of 28, Lina Kostenko began dating a writer and translator and screenwriter of the Dovzhenko film studio Arkady Dobrovolskywhen he returned from Stalin’s camps.
Author: svitlanao Lina Kostenko and Arkady Dobrovolsky
He was 20 years older than her, was married and had a daughter. But fate turned out that they separated.
It was at the Dovzhenko film studio that she met her true love.
The second official husband of Lina Kostenko was the director of the Dovzhenko film studio. Vasily Tsvirkunov. He was an invalid without a leg, seriously wounded at the front. They met in 1963. She is 33, he is 46. She lived with him until his death.
Author: volyn Lina Kostenko and Vasily Tsvirkunov
Vasily Tsvirkunov was 13 years older than Lina. He was also married and raised children. Their acquaintance created not just a love triangle, but a pentagon, taking into account their wives – Dobrovolsky and Tsvirkunov. Gossip, condemnation, doubts, repentance, throwing – Lina Vasilievna’s state can be read from her lines of that time:
“My mind is overwrought twice
can look people in the eye.
I am a sinner. I fell in love with someone else.
Fate of my burning fire!
There will be a storm! Then there will be silence.
The woman is yours. But I’m yours.”
Other men in the life of Lina Kostenko
According to rumors, another fan of Lina Kostenko was a talented Ukrainian poet Vasyl Simonenko. It was rumored that they had an affair.
“Vasya Simonenko loved Lina very much. They had a secret love, although Lina was five years older than him. It was impossible to look at her without admiration: feminine, with a sly look in her eyes – a real beauty. He called her “Kostalina.” “She rewarded me with a look.” Kostalin,” recalled the poet Nikolai Som, who lived with Simonenko in the same room in the hostel.
The poetess herself never commented on a possible romance with Simonenko, so one can only guess regarding her true feelings for the famous poet.
Ukrainian poet Dmitry Pavlychkowho is now 90 years old, once admitted that he still keeps a box of matches that he bought for Lina Kostenko back in the 50s to light her cigarette.
“She smoked then. Once she came from Moscow to visit me in Lvov, so I bought her these matches. I didn’t really approve, but she was extravagant. I still keep them, although Lina Vasilyevna renounced many of her friends.” , – said the poet.
Children of Lina Kostenko
In Lina Kostenko’s first marriage, on September 18, 1956, her daughter was born Oksana Pakhlevskayaprofessor, writer, head of the department of Ukrainian studies at the Sapienza University of Rome.
Author: radiosvoboda Oksana Pakhlevskaya
In the second marriage of the poetess, a son was born on May 28, 1969 Vasily Sverchkov-Jr. He works as a programmer and lives with his family in the USA.
Author: Unian Lina Kostenko with her son Vasily (left) ×