Poetess Bella Akhmadulina had many admirers. There were also those who were critical of her original work. However, there are very few of those who, after reading her poems, remained indifferent to them. The poetess's style was formed in the mid-60s and became an unusual phenomenon for that time.
From the biography of Bella Akhatovna Akhmadulina
The future poet was born on April 10, 1937 in the capital of the USSR. Bella's father was a customs official. Mom was a translator, served in the state security agencies. Parents were almost always busy, so the girl was mainly raised by her grandmother. She instilled in Bella a love for animals, which she carried throughout her life.
After the outbreak of war, Bella's father was drafted into the army. Bella and her grandmother went to the evacuation. They first arrived in Samara, then moved to Ufa and further to Kazan: there lived a grandmother on the father's side.
In Kazan, Bella became seriously ill, but after the arrival of her mother in 1944 she coped with the disease. After the evacuation, Bella returned to Moscow. Here she went to school. The girl early became addicted to reading, she voraciously read Gogol and Pushkin. Bella was reluctant to go to school, but she wrote at an early age without any mistakes. During the war years, the girl got used to being alone, so the noisy school seemed to her a very strange and uncomfortable place.
During her school years, Akhmadulina attended a literary circle in the House of Pioneers. In 1955, her poems were first published in the magazine "October". Evgeny Evtushenko immediately drew attention to unusual rhymes and a peculiar style of poetry.
Bella's parents believed that their daughter should enter the journalism department of Moscow State University. She herself dreamed of becoming a student at the Literary Institute. However, the first attempt to enter there was unsuccessful: Bella failed the entrance exams. She spent the next year working for the Metrostroevets newspaper. Akhmadulina continued to write poetry. A year later, she still entered the institute.
When a company unfolded at the university against Pasternak, who was declared a traitor, Akhmadulina refused to sign a letter against the poet. This was the main reason why in 1959 the girl was expelled from the institute.
Bella Akhmadulina's literary career
Bella managed to get a job as a freelance correspondent for the Literaturnaya Gazeta newspaper. I had to work in Irkutsk. In Siberia, Akhmadulina wrote the story "On Siberian Roads" and a number of poems. Her works told about the amazing land and the people who inhabit it. The girl's story was published in Literaturnaya Gazeta. As a result, the talented girl was restored to the institute, which was largely facilitated by the editor-in-chief of the newspaper. In 1960, Akhmadulina graduated from the institute with honors.
Real success came to Bella after performing at the Polytechnic Museum in Moscow, where Yevtushenko and Voznesensky shared their work with the audience with her. Fans of her work have always admired the poetess's heartfelt intonations and her artistry.
For the poetry of that time, the high poetic style of Akhmadulina was unusual. Her poems were antique stylized, metaphorical and sophisticated. However, there were also critics of her work, who reproached Bella for excessive mannerism and intimacy.
Bella Akhatovna starred in two films. In the film "Such a guy lives", where Leonid Kuravlev played, the poetess played a journalist. The second film with Akhmadulina's participation was the film "Sport, Sport, Sport".
Bella Akhatovna's first husband was the poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko, whom she met at the institute. This union lasted only three years. Bella lived with her second husband, writer Yuri Nagibin, for eight years. Then there was a short civil marriage union with Eldar Kuliev, with whom Bella has a common daughter, Lizaveta.
A few months after the birth of her daughter, Bella Akhatovna got married again. Boris Messerer became her husband. They lived together for more than three decades.
In the last years of her life, Akhmadulina was sick a lot and almost did not engage in creativity. In 2010, the poetess underwent surgery. The medical intervention itself went well. However, a few days after discharge, Bella Akhatovna died. The date of her death is November 29, 2010.
