Bella Akhmadulina is a wonderful poet and writer. Her poetry reflects the secrets of nature, the usual experiences of everyday life. The poetic forms of the poetess are filled with vivid images, they are characterized by the use of archaisms that are skillfully intertwined with modern language, sophistication of forms and intense lyricism.
Biography
Izabella Akhatovna Akhmadulina was the only child in an international family. Her father was Tatar, and her mother had Italian roots. The future poetess was born in Moscow in 1937. Bella began writing poems during her school years. In 1954, she graduated from high school, in the same year she began working in the Soviet newspaper Metrostroyevts and married the poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko.
In 1955, Akhmadulina entered the Literary Institute. M. Gorky in Moscow and published her first poem. She graduated from the institute in 1960, but her studies were not cloudless. Bella was expelled from the university because of her indifference to politics, in particular for her refusal to support the persecution of the poet Boris Pasternak. The famous writer Pavel Antokolsky helped restore the young poetess at the institute, and she was able to get a diploma.
In 1962 she published her first collection of poems "The String", which was a great success. Then came the books:
- Chills (1968);
- Music Lessons (1970);
- Poems (1975);
- Snowstorm (1977);
- The Candle (1977);
- The Secret (1983);
- The Garden (1989).
In the 1960s and 1970s, she was allowed to travel to Europe and the United States, where in 1977 she became an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Nevertheless, in her own way, Bella Akhmadulina was as much a dissident as the more famous Soviet poets and writers.
Her work as a translator (she translated the works of poets from France, Italy, Chechnya, Poland, Yugoslavia, Hungary, Bulgaria, Georgia, Armenia and many other countries into Russian) led to her expulsion from the Union of Soviet Writers in the Brezhnev era; she openly supported such Soviet dissidents as Boris Pasternak, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Andrei Sakharov. Her statements were published in the New York Times and broadcast on Radio Liberty.
For her work Bella Akhmadulina was awarded the Order of Merit for the Fatherland II and III degrees, the Order of Friendship of Peoples. She is a laureate of several awards and an honorary member of the Russian Academy of Arts.
Personal life
Beautiful and charismatic, in 1954 she married the poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko, who fell in love with her "round, baby face" and red hair, braided in a braid. But a year later, this marriage broke up. After parting with Yevtushenko, she married the writer of short stories Yuri Nagibin, with whom they lived for 8 years. And then there was a marriage with the writer Gennady Mamlin. The last husband of the poetess was the artist and set designer Boris Messerer, with him Akhmadulina lived for more than 30 years. Bella Akhmadulina has two daughters: Elizabeth and Anna.
