Akhmadulina Bella Akhatovna (1937-2010) - Russian and Soviet writer and lyricist, a major personality in Russian poetry of the second half of the twentieth century. She was a member of the Russian Writers' Union and an Honorary Member of the American Academy of Letters and Arts. In 1989 she was awarded the State Prize of the USSR, in 2005 the State Prize of the Russian Federation.

Childhood

Her father, Akhat Valeevich Akhmadulin, was a Tatar by nationality, worked at customs as a major boss, and was actively involved in Komsomol and party activities. During the Great Patriotic War, he served with the rank of guard major and was assigned to the 31st separate anti-aircraft artillery division as deputy commander for political affairs. After the war, he returned to serve in the State Customs Committee of the USSR, where he held responsible positions (he was personnel manager, deputy chairman).

Mom, Nadezhda Makarovna Lazareva, had Russian-Italian roots, worked as a translator in the State Security Committee, and had the rank of KGB major.

Their maternal grandmother, Nadezhda Mitrofanovna, also lived with them. It was she who came up with the idea of ​​giving the baby girl the name Isabella. At that time, my mother was simply obsessed with Spain and asked my grandmother to find a name in the Spanish style for the newborn. But the poetess did not like her name and shortened it by removing the first three letters, it turned out to be simply Bella.

Her parents were constantly busy at work, so Bella was raised by her grandmother. She taught her granddaughter to read, instilled a love for classical Russian literature, taught the girl not only Pushkin’s fairy tales, but also his prose, and reread Gogol’s works to her. And my grandmother also adored animals, taught such love and care for our little brothers and Bella, together they picked up all the stray cats and dogs.

Throughout her life, animals will be next to the poetess; she will pass on such love and loyalty to them to her daughters. Bella Akhatovna repeated repeatedly: “I fully support Anastasia Tsvetaeva, who said: “I write the word DOG only in capital letters”.

The little girl was sent to a kindergarten in Kraskovo near Moscow. It was 24/7, Bella was sent there for the whole week, and was only taken home for the weekend. From this period, she remembered only one moment when the teacher tried to take her beloved bear away from her. Kindergarten workers often took away gifts from the pupils that their parents had given them for the week. The teachers also had their own children, probably because they wanted to please them. But nothing happened with the bear; Bella clung to her toy so much that the kindergarten workers even got scared.

The war found the girl in this kindergarten. Dad was almost immediately called to the front, mom was constantly busy at work. When the Germans almost came close to Moscow, Bella and her grandmother left for evacuation. It was very difficult for them to travel: from Moscow to Samara, from there to Ufa, and finally to Kazan, to their father’s homeland, where their second grandmother lived.

The relationship with the Tatar grandmother did not work out. Firstly, she did not really perceive her granddaughter, because at one time she was too dissatisfied with the departure of her son Akhat to Moscow. Secondly, she didn’t like that the girl didn’t speak her native Tatar language at all.

Bella remembers that they were given some small corner, and there was also terrible hunger. This knocked the girl down and she became very ill. But in time, my mother arrived from Moscow and took her daughter in 1944.

Studies

In 1944, Bella became a first-grade student at a Moscow school. The educational institution terrified her; during the years of evacuation, the girl got used to loneliness, so she most often skipped classes. She did not like any subjects except literature. Nevertheless, she read better than anyone in the class and wrote very competently, without any mistakes. This was thanks to my grandmother.

During her school years, Akhmadulina visited the House of Pioneers in the Krasnogvardeisky district, where she studied in a literary circle.

Parents wanted their daughter to enter Moscow State University to study journalism. But the girl failed the entrance exams, unable to talk about the newspaper Pravda, which she had never even held in her hands, much less read.

In 1956, she was enrolled to study at the Literary Institute.

In 1959, a scandal erupted in the Soviet Union after the Nobel Prize was awarded to writer Boris Pasternak. In literary circles they began to collect signatures for a petition, where the writer was accused of treason to the Motherland and called a traitor. The collection of signatures also took place at the Literary Institute, but Akhmadulina refused to sign, for which she was expelled from the educational institution. Official documents stated that the student was expelled for failing to pass an exam in Marxism-Leninism.

Bella later returned to the institute for her fourth year and in 1960 received a diploma of higher education with honors.

Creation

Akhmadulina began writing poetry during her school years. As literary scholars have noted, she discovered her unique poetic style around the age of fifteen. Her poetry was distinguished by unusual rhymes, touching chastity and a special writing style. The first poems of the young poetess were published in the magazine “October”.

When Bella did not enter Moscow State University after school, her mother advised her to go to work at the Metrostroyevets newspaper. Here she published not only her articles, but also poetry.
After expulsion from a higher educational institution, Bella received help from S. S. Smirnov, who at that time worked as editor-in-chief at Literaturnaya Gazeta.

The girl was sent to Irkutsk as a freelance journalist for the Literary Newspaper Siberia publishing house. Along with reporting for the newspaper, Akhmadulina wrote poems about the blast furnace and steelworkers. She saw them coming out exhausted after their shift. Then in Irkutsk Bella wrote a prose work “On Siberian Roads”, where she shared her impressions of this region. The story about amazing Siberia and the people living in it was published in Literaturnaya Gazeta along with Akhmadulina’s poems written during this trip.

Soon after receiving her diploma, Bella's first poetry collection, entitled “String,” was published. The poet and playwright Pavel Antokolsky was the first to appreciate her talent; he dedicated a poem to Akhmadulina, in which he said: “Hello, Miracle, named Bella!»

The poetess became famous. At the same time, she began to take part in poetry evenings, which were held in the assembly halls of Moscow University and the Polytechnic Museum in Luzhniki. Huge audiences of people gathered to listen to the poetry of Bella Akhmadulina, Robert Rozhdestvensky, Andrei Voznesensky, and Yevgeny Yevtushenko.

Akhmadulina had an artistic gift, and her intonation with her penetration and sincerity determined Bella’s unique performing style. Her poetry became easily recognizable.

Akhmadulina was only 22 years old when she wrote her most famous work, “Footsteps have been heard along my street for years - my friends are leaving.” 16 years later, composer Mikael Tariverdiev set these poems to music, and since then, every year on December 31st we hear this stunning romance in Eldar Ryazanov’s film “The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath!”

After the first collection, the success of the poetess was resounding; String was followed by new collections of poems:

• in 1968 “Chills”;
• in 1970 “Music Lessons”;
• in 1975 “Poems”;
• in 1977 “Blizzard” and “Candle”;
• in 1983 “The Secret”;
• in 1989 “Garden” (for this collection she received the USSR State Prize).

In the 70s, Akhmadulina often traveled to Georgia; since that time, this country has occupied a large place in the poetess’s work. Bella also translated poetry by Georgian authors: Abashidze I., Baratashvili N., Tabidze G.

In 1979, the poetess participated in the creation of the uncensored literary almanac Metropol.

Until her last days, Akhmadulina’s talent did not dry out; more and more new collections of poetry came out from her pen:

• "Coast" (1991);
• "The Casket and the Key" (1994);
• "Ridge of Stones" (1995);
• "Once Upon a Time in December" (1996);
• "A Moment of Being" (1997);
• “Near the Christmas tree” (1999);
• “My friends have beautiful features” (2000);
• “Chilled Hyacinth” (2008);
• “Not a word about love” (2010).

For her creative achievements, Bella Akhatovna has repeatedly become a laureate of many Russian and foreign awards, and has received awards: the Order of Friendship of Peoples and the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, II and III degrees.

In 2013, Russian President V.V. Putin spoke during the first Congress of Parents. He made a proposal: it is imperative to add Akhmadulina’s poetry to the school literature curriculum.

Movie

In addition to poetry, Bella’s creative talent has found its application in cinema.

In 1964, the film directed by Vasily Shukshin “There Lives Such a Guy” was released on the screens of the country. It is based on Shukshin’s stories about an ordinary boy - driver Pashka Kolokolnikov, who meets different people along the way of life. Bella Akhmadulina starred in the film as a Leningrad journalist. She, in fact, played herself during that period of her life when she worked as a correspondent for Literaturnaya Gazeta. The film received the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival.

Akhmadulina’s second husband is the famous writer Yuri Nagibin. They were married from 1959 to 1968, Bella being his fifth wife. After her divorce from Yuri, the poetess adopted a girl, Anya.

Akhmadulina’s third husband is Eldar Kuliev (son of the famous Balkar classic Kuliev Kaisyn). He was 14 years younger than Bella. In 1973, a girl, Lisa, was born into the marriage.

In 1974, while walking the dogs, Bella met theater artist and sculptor Boris Messerer. It was love at first sight and the happiest marriage in the poetess’s life.

Both daughters followed in the footsteps of Bella Akhatovna. The eldest Anya graduated from the Printing Institute and designs books as an illustrator. Lisa, like her mother, studied at the Literary Institute.

In recent years, Bella Akhatovna lived with her husband in Peredelkino, was seriously ill, her vision almost completely failed, and the poetess moved by touch. On November 29, 2010, a cardiovascular crisis caused the death of Akhmadulina; she was buried at the Novodevichy cemetery in Moscow.

According to her friends: “Bella Akhmadulina has not done a single false act in her life”.

Today we will meet one of the most famous Soviet poetess, translator, screenwriter and simply beautiful woman Bella Akhmadulina. The poems are famous not only among the older generation, but also among teenagers, as they are studied in the school curriculum. Her biography, personal life, children, creative success are of interest to many fans.

In this article you will find detailed answers to all your questions about the greatest lyric poetess of the second half of the twentieth century. She was one of the brightest poets of the 60s. After reading her poems, you will understand that they completely lack social themes.

Height, weight, age. Years of life of Bella Akhmadulina

The Russian poetess and translator is famous; her poems are popular to this day. Fans of the poetess are interested in the question of what her height, weight, and age were. Years of life of Bella Akhmadulina, when she died. Bella passed away at the age of 73.

She was a tall, stately lady. Her height was 170 centimeters and her weight was 46 kilograms. Bella Akhmadulina was born under the zodiac sign Aries, and according to the eastern calendar she is a Bull. Her character in all respects corresponds to the characteristics of this zodiac sign.

Biography of Bella Akhmadulina

Bella's full name is Isabella Akhmadulina. Her grandmother gave her the name because Spanish names were popular in the USSR in those years. Isabella was born back in 1937 on April 10 in Moscow.

Her family was quite wealthy, since her father held a high position, and her mother was a translator and served in the KGB. Bella is of mixed blood, as her ancestors are of Russian, Tatar and Spanish origin.

During hostilities, Bella was taken to Kazan, where her second grandmother lived. In 1945, the girl and her mother returned to Moscow, where she resumed school. The future writer loved to spend time reading, but she was bored at school and Bella was reluctant to study because of this.

She began writing her first poems when she was in school, and at the age of eighteen she made her debut in the Ogonyok magazine. Critics immediately criticized her poems, expressing opinions that they were old-fashioned and irrelevant for the Soviet era.

After publishing her first poems, Isabella decided on a profession; she wanted to become a poet. But her family didn’t like these plans, and Bella promised that she would go to Moscow State University. But to great success, the girl fails her exams.

After failing the entrance exams, Bella gets a job at the Metrostroevets publication. She began publishing her poems in this newspaper.

A year later, Akhmadulina decided to enter the A.M. Gorky Literary Institute. Her studies at this institute were short-lived; she was expelled from the institute because she refused to sign a sheet condemning B. Posternak’s traitors to the Fatherland.

After expulsion, Isabella gets a job at the Literaturnaya Gazeta publishing house. The editor-in-chief was shocked by her unique abilities and helps to resume her studies at the educational institution. In 1960, Bella graduated from the institute with honors.

The creative biography of Bella Akhmadulina is moving forward with fleeting steps. In 1962, she published a collection of poems entitled “String”. The collection contained her best poems. The public instantly fell in love with the talent of the famous writer.

The next collection was published in 1968 under the title “Chills,” and in 1969, a collection of poetry “Music Lessons.” Bella created a lot, her collections were published in an incredibly short time, but the poems were so light and airy that they were read in one breath.

Isabella Akhmadulina not only wrote poems, but was also a translator. She translated poems by Nikolai Baratashvili, Simon Chikovani and other Georgian authors into Russian. She also translated poems from Armenian, Abkhaz, Kabardino-Balkarian, English, Italian, Polish, Czech and other languages.

Throughout her life she played two roles in films. If you can see her as an artist in only two films, then her poems can be heard in many films.

Akhmadulina was born a century after the death of Pushkin, and passed away a century after the death of Tolstoy.

The famous writer loved animals very much. My grandmother instilled a love for dogs and cats from childhood.

Bella was the winner of the USSR State Prize.

The last years of her life were difficult for the poetess. She was very ill, went blind and could not write anything. Bella Akhmadulina died on November 29, 2010 in Moscow. She was buried at the Novodevichy cemetery. In 2014, a monument made by her husband was erected at Bella’s grave. You can see a photo of Bella Akhmadulina’s grave. The monument resembles Bella in life: a slender, chiseled figure with a book in her hands.

After Billa's death, the world still remembers her and her famous poems. In honor of the memory of the great writer, monuments were erected in the cities of Tarusa and Moscow.

Personal life of Bella Akhmadulina

The personal life of Bella Akhmadulina is no secret to anyone. She was married three times. She first married at the age of eighteen to the poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko. After 3 years the union broke up. The second husband was Yuri Nagibin. After 9 years of marriage, the couple separated due to Bella's infidelity. Married to Yuri, Bella adopts Anechka. The third common-law spouse is Eldar Kuliev. Akhmadulina gives birth to Eldar's daughter Lisa. The fourth husband was Boris Messerer. The married couple lived together for more than thirty years until Bella's death.

Bella Akhmadulina's family

Every woman dreams of family happiness, that there would be harmony at home, the laughter of children, but family for Bella has never been in the foreground. Her creativity brought her happiness. She has three marriages behind her, but she has not found a real man, support in the family.

But fate smiled at her and in 1974 the writer met the sculptor Boris. With him, the poetess felt loving, feminine, and needed. When Bella married the sculptor, she moved to live with him, leaving Anya and Lisa to be raised by her mother and nanny. Bella Akhmadulina's family in the last period of her life consisted of a loving husband and two daughters.

Children of Bella Akhmadulina

Bella Akhmadulina's children grew up with their grandmother. Anna was born in 1968, she was the adopted daughter in the family of the poetess and Yuri Nagibin. In 1973, Elizaveta was born from Eldar Kuliev. After the mother fell madly in love with Boris Messerer, she forgets about her daughters and goes to live with her lover.

But the writer quickly feels the emptiness in her mother’s heart and resumes communication with the children, but does not take them to live with her. Bella began to pay attention to raising and teaching children. Boris Messerer also quickly found a common language with the girls. Isabella never hindered the development of her daughters' talents and did not infringe on their choices.

Bella Akhmadulina's daughter - Anna Nagibina

Bella Akhmadulina’s daughter, Anna Nagibina, was born in 1968. Anna was an adopted child in the family of Nagibin and Akhmadulina. Bella was adopted by a girl in order to save her marriage with Yuri. Subsequently, after a break in the relationship, the poetess gives Anna to be raised by her mother and Anna.

Anna and her nanny lived in an apartment that Nagibin bought for his daughter. From childhood, Anya recalls that her mother paid attention to her upbringing, but very rarely. As a teenager, Anya learns that she is an adopted child in their family. This upsets her, she leaves home and stops communicating with her mother.

Daughter of Bella Akhmadulina - Elizaveta Kulieva

The daughter of Bella Akhmadulina, Elizaveta Kulieva, was born in a marriage with Eldar Kuliev. Lisa is now 44 years old. The girl was very lazy since childhood, was reluctant to study at school, and her older sister Anna was always given as an example. Lisa attended art school.

From childhood, Lisa recalls that her mother even signed her diary a couple of times, but this was rare. Lisa was raised by a nanny. After graduating from school, Elizaveta entered the A.M. Gorky Literary Institute.

Bella Akhmadulina's ex-husband - Yuri Nagibin

Bella Akhmadulina's ex-husband, Yuri Nagibin, was a famous prose writer. I met Bella in 1959. The prose writer was called “the playboy of that time.”

Nagibin tied the knot six times throughout his life. The writer did not have children in any of the marriages. Bella was his fifth wife. After living with him for nine years, they separated. Bella loved Yuri, and in order to save the marriage she even decided to adopt him. Yuri Nagibin died in 1994.

Bella Akhmadulina's ex-husband - Eldar Kuliev

Bella Akhmadulina's former common-law husband, Eldar Kuliev, was a film director and screenwriter. Eldar was born into a famous family in 1951. The romance between Kuliev and Akhmadulina was stormy, but not long-lasting. They loved spending time together and led a rather wild life. In this marriage, a daughter, Elizabeth, is born. After the divorce, Bella takes Lisa and places her in the care of a nanny. Eldar did not communicate with his daughter. The famous screenwriter died in 2017.

Bella Akhmadulina's husband is Boris Messerer

Bella Akhmadulina's husband, Boris Messerer, is a famous sculptor and artist. The acquaintance of Boris and Bella was accidental. They met while walking their dogs, after which they began communicating, and subsequently the couple decided to legitimize their relationship.

The marriage with Bella was the second and last. The couple lived together for more than thirty years. Messerer was Bella's protector; he took upon himself the solution to all problems. Boris published a book after the death of his wife called “Bella’s Flash”

Bella Akhmadulina's best love poems (read online)

Bella Akhmadulina's best love poems, read online - this is the most common phrase on the Internet. Akhmadulina’s romantic lyrics are full of grace and specific “grandstanding”. The poetess could speak about emotions that stirred the heart and about the ordinary joys of love.

For Bella Akhmadulina, falling in love is an emotion of empathy, to feel tender, fragile, vulnerable, behind the shoulder of a strong man. Love in the poetess's poems is intertwined with friendship. Because a couple in love should also be friends with each other. Having read her poems, you think that the poetess suffered from being pummeled by men. Bella Akhmadulina's poems have been translated into many languages ​​of the world.

Instagram and Wikipedia Bella Akhmadulina

Many admirers of her poems are interested in the question of whether Bella Akhmadulina has Instagram and Wikipedia. Bella is not registered on any social network, and details of her life can be read on the pages of Wikipedia.

The poetess did not recognize social networks, since she was always in favor of live communication, where you feel the emotions, tone and speech of your interlocutor. Her husband and daughters are also not registered on Instagram, and you can learn about the last years of the poetess’s life only from interviews.

Bella Akhmadulina is one of the most outstanding Soviet poets, winner of the USSR State Prize. Unlike other literary figures of this era, she did not touch upon social problems in her work, and wrote her poems in a high, refined style. Bella Akhmadulina's life was bright, eventful and full of interesting events.

Childhood

On April 10, 1937, Isabella Akhatovna Akhmadulina was born in Moscow into the family of the Deputy Minister of the Customs Committee of the USSR and a translator from the KGB.

The girl was raised by her grandmother. It was she who instilled in the future poetess a love of literature, reading to her the works of Russian classics. The beginning of the Great Patriotic War turned the life of the Akhmadulins upside down. The father of the family went to the front. The girl and her grandmother were evacuated to Kazan. During the evacuation, Bella suffered a serious illness, from which she barely recovered.

When the victorious salvoes died down, the girl returned to Moscow and went to school. She did not feel very comfortable at school, since she was accustomed to loneliness during the evacuation. Therefore, the girl often skipped school.

The beginning of a creative journey

Akhmadulina wrote her first poems at the age of 15. As a schoolgirl, she attended the literary club of the Palace of Pioneers. When the time came to decide on a profession, at the insistence of her parents, the future poetess decided to enroll in the Faculty of Journalism at Moscow State University. But the girl failed the entrance exams. Then her parents advised her to get a job at the Metrostroevets publication.

Akhmadulina’s poems were first published by the magazine “October” in 1955. But in “Komsomolskaya Pravda” the poems of the aspiring poetess were criticized, calling them old-fashioned.

Literary Institute

A year later, Akhmadulina became one of the students. But she couldn’t graduate because of... Boris Pasternak. In 1958 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for his novel Doctor Zhivago. At home, Pasternak began to be brutally persecuted. He was called a traitor. Akhmadulina refused to sign the letter denigrating the writer. This was not in vain - the girl was expelled from the institute.

Akhmadulina got a job as a freelance correspondent for Literaturnaya Gazeta in the city of Irkutsk. The editor-in-chief appreciated Bella's literary talent and helped her return to college. In 1960 she graduated with honors.

The first poetry collection of the poetess Akhmadulina

In 1962, Bella Akhmadulina’s collection of poems “String” was published for the first time. Success came to the poetess after performing on the stage of the Polytechnic Museum in Moscow. At this literary evening, in addition to Akhmadulina, such famous poets as Yevtushenko, Rozhdestvensky and Voznesensky performed. After this, Bella became a frequent guest at such creative events. And although her poems were condemned for mannerism and old-fashionedness, it was impossible not to be captivated by their grace and lightness. The original manner of recitation, special sophistication and charm, intelligent speech, and aristocratic image distinguished Akhmadulina from other poets.

Period 1960-1970

In 1968, in Frankfurt, Bella Akhmadulina released her second poetry collection, “Chills,” and in 1969, her third collection, “Music Lessons.” Akhmadulina works fruitfully. In a fairly short period of time, she releases the following collections: “Poems”, “Candle” and “Blizzard”.

In the 70s, Bella visited Georgia. The unique culture and magnificent nature of the country delighted the poetess so much that she wrote a considerable number of poems about it, collected in the collection “Dreams about Georgia.” Akhmadulina also translated poems by such wonderful Georgian poets: Galaktion Tabidze, Nikolai Baratshvili and Simon Chikovani. Even when there were ideological bans on Akhmadulina’s work in the USSR, the magazine “Literary Georgia” invariably published the poetess’s poems.

In addition to poetry, Bella Akhmadulina wrote essays about outstanding personalities. Such as Anna Akhmatova, Marina Tsvetaeva, Vladimir Vysotsky, Vladimir Nabokov and some other famous people.

Love in the works of the poetess

Bella Akhmadulina wrote a considerable number of poems about love. A romantic worldview and a rich personal life contributed a lot to this. Thanks to the film “Cruel Romance,” her poem “And finally, I will say...” became popularly known. Perhaps this poem is one of the most famous poems about love by Bella Akhmadulina.

Social activity

More than once Bella spoke out in defense of dissidents L. Kopelov, A. Sakharov and V. Voinovich. The New York Times published their letters defending Akhmadulina. These letters were read out on radio stations Radio Liberty and Voice of America.

Bella Akhmadulina took part in some international festivals, in particular in the 1988 International Poetry Festival in Kuala Lumpur.

Akhmadulina was among those who signed the famous “Letter of Forty-Two,” addressed to Russian President Boris Yeltsin in 1993, directed against the propaganda of violence, Nazism and chauvinism and containing a call for a ban on communist and Nazi parties. In 2001, Akhmadulina also signed a letter in defense of the disgraced NTV channel.

Poetess and cinema

The biography of Bella Akhmadulina says that she starred in only two films.

In Vasily Shukshin’s film “There Lives Such a Guy” (1959), twenty-two-year-old Bella played the role of a Leningrad journalist. The Venice Film Festival awarded the film the Golden Lion.

In the film “Sport, Sports, Sports” Akhmadulina played Elema Klimova.

The poetess is a screenwriter for such films as “The Flight Attendant” and “Chistye Prudy”.

Bella Akhmadulina's poems were often heard in domestic films. Her poem was first performed in “Ilyich’s Outpost” (1964). In 1973, a film almanac entitled “My Friends” was released, in which Akhmadulina’s poems were repeatedly used.

In the popularly beloved “Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath!” Eldara Ryazanova, the main character Nadya, in the voice of Alla Pugacheva, sang the heartfelt song “It’s been a year on my street...” based on Akhmadulina’s poem of the same name.

In 1976, the poetess read her poem in the film “The Non-Transferable Key.” Two years later, Svetlana Nemolyaeva’s heroine in Eldar Ryazanov’s cult film “Office Romance” read Akhmadulina’s poem “Oh, my shy hero” from the collection “Chills”.

In 1984, in the film “I Came and Say,” the famous singer Alla Pugacheva performed “Ascend to the Stage,” a song based on poetry by Bella Akhmadulina. In the same year, the film “Cruel Romance” by Eldar Ryazanov was released, in which three wonderful poems by the poetess were used.

Akhmadulina’s original declamatory intonations were used by Iya Savina, who voiced the pig Piglet in the cartoon about Winnie the Pooh.

Personal life of Bella Akhmadulina

Being an eighteen-year-old girl, the poetess married the famous poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko. But the marriage was short-lived. After three years of married life, the couple separated.

A year passed after separating from her husband, and Akhmadulina again decided to get married. Her next husband was the writer Yuri Nagibin. And this marriage turned out to be short-lived. The poetess lived with Nagibin for nine years. Vasily Aksenov, in his biographical novel “Mysterious Passion,” wrote that the reason for the couple’s divorce was Akhmadulina’s betrayal.

In 1968, Akhmadulina decided to adopt the orphan Anya. Yuri Nagibin gave the girl her middle name.

The third husband of the poetess was Eldar Kuliev. The couple had a daughter, Lisa. Alas, this marriage also turned out to be short-lived.

In 1974, Bella became the wife of Boris Messerer, a talented theater artist. Their acquaintance was accidental - they met while walking their dogs. This time Akhmadulina was lucky. The poetess lived with her fourth husband until her death. Having entered into another marriage, Akhmadulina gave her daughters to her mother and housekeeper to raise. After some time, the poetess resumed her relationship with her daughters, but did not take an active part in their lives.

At the end of life

The last period of the poetess’s life was overshadowed by a serious illness. Bella Akhmadulina stopped being creative and almost never left her home in Peredelkino.

In 2010, the seventy-three-year-old poetess was hospitalized. She had surgery. Unfortunately, this did not save Akhmadulina. Four days later she was discharged home. On November 29, Bella Akhmadulina left our world.

They said goodbye to their beloved poetess in the Moscow House of Writers a few days later. On December 3, Bella Akhmadulina was buried at the Novodevichy cemetery.

Bella (Isabella) Akhatovna Akhmadulina (Tat. Bella Әхәт kyzy Әхмәdullina, Bella Əxət qızı Əxmədullina). Born on April 10, 1937 in Moscow - died on November 29, 2010 in Peredelkino. Soviet and Russian poetess, writer, translator.

Bella Akhmadulina is one of the largest Russian lyric poets of the second half of the 20th century. Member of the Union of Russian Writers, the executive committee of the Russian PEN Center, the Society of Friends of the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts.

Honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Laureate of the State Prize of the Russian Federation and the State Prize of the USSR.

Winner of the Znamya Foundation (1993), Nosside (Italy, 1994), Triumph (1994), Pushkin Prize of the A. Tepfer Foundation (1994), Friendship of Peoples magazine (2000).

Honorary member of the Russian Academy of Arts.

In her work, Akhmadulina created her own poetic style, an original artistic world, which is interesting and attractive with its unique individual emotional coloring, naturalness and organicity of poetic speech, sophistication and musicality. The poetess described the world around her and everyday life, bringing into them her emotions and experiences, her thoughts and observations, and reminiscences from the classics.

Bella Akhmadulina - in memory of the dead poets

Her father is Tatar Akhat Valeevich, deputy minister, and her mother is of Russian-Italian origin, a translator.

Bella began writing poetry during her school years; according to literary critic D. Bykov, she “found her style at the age of fifteen.” P. Antokolsky was the first to note her poetic gift.

In 1957 she was criticized in Komsomolskaya Pravda. She graduated from the Literary Institute in 1960. She was expelled from the institute for refusing to support the persecution of Boris Pasternak (officially for failing an exam in Marxism-Leninism), then she was reinstated.

In 1959, at the age of 22, Akhmadulina wrote her most famous poem “It’s been a year on my street...”.

In 1975, composer Mikael Tariverdiev set these poems to music, and the romance was performed in the film “The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath!”

In 1964, she starred as a journalist in the film “There lives such a guy”. The film received the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival.

In 1970, Akhmadulina appeared on the screens in the film "Sport, sport, sport".

The first collection of poems, “String,” appeared in 1962. This was followed by the poetry collections “Chills” (1968), “Music Lessons” (1970), “Poems” (1975), “Blizzard” (1977), “Candle” (1977), “Mystery” (1983), “Garden” (USSR State Prize, 1989).

Akhmadulina’s poetry is characterized by intense lyricism, sophistication of forms, and obvious echoes of the poetic tradition of the past.

In the 1970s, the poetess visited Georgia, since then this land has occupied a prominent place in her work. Akhmadulina translated N. Baratashvili, G. Tabidze, I. Abashidze and other Georgian authors.

In 1979, Akhmadulina participated in the creation of the uncensored literary almanac Metropol.

Akhmadulina has repeatedly spoken out in support of Soviet dissidents - Andrei Sakharov, Lev Kopelev, Georgy Vladimov, Vladimir Voinovich. Her statements in their defense were published in the New York Times and repeatedly broadcast on Radio Liberty and Voice of America.

In recent years, Bella Akhmadulina was seriously ill, she could see practically nothing and moved by touch.

She died on the evening of November 29, 2010 in an ambulance. According to the poetess's husband Boris Messerer, death was due to a cardiovascular crisis. The then President of the Russian Federation expressed official condolences to the family and friends of the poetess.

Farewell to Bella Akhmadulina took place on December 3, 2010 at the Central House of Writers in Moscow. On the same day she was buried at the Novodevichy cemetery.

On February 9, 2013, speaking at the first Congress of Parents, the President of the Russian Federation called for the inclusion of Akhmadulina’s poems in the compulsory school literature curriculum.

Personal life of Bella Akhmadulina:

From 1955 to 1958 she was the first wife.

From 1959 to November 1, 1968 - the fifth wife of Yuri Nagibin. This marriage collapsed, according to Nagibin himself in his published “Diary” and Vasily Aksenov’s fictionalized memoirs “Mysterious Passion,” due to the poetess’s bold sexual experiments.

In 1968, divorcing Nagibin, Akhmadulina took in her adopted daughter Anna.

From the son of the Balkar classic Kaisyn Kuliev, Eldar Kuliev (b. 1951), Akhmadulina gave birth to a daughter, Elizaveta, in 1973.

In 1974, she married for the fourth and last time - to theater artist Boris Messerer, leaving the children with her mother and housekeeper.

The first daughter, Anna, graduated from the Printing Institute and designs books as an illustrator. Daughter Elizaveta Kulieva, like her mother, graduated from the Literary Institute.

In recent years, Bella Akhmadulina lived in Peredelkino with her husband.

Collections of poems by Bella Akhmadulina:

“String” (M., Soviet writer, 1962)
"Chills" (Frankfurt, 1968)
"Music Lessons" (1969)
"Poems" (1975)
"Candle" (1977)
“Dreams about Georgia” (1977, 1979)
"Blizzard" (1977)
almanac "Metropol" ("Many dogs and a dog", 1980)
"Mystery" (1983)
"The Garden" (1987)
"Poems" (1988)
"Selected" (1988)
"Poems" (1988)
"Coast" (1991)
"Casket and Key" (1994)
"The Sound of Silence" (Jerusalem, 1995)
"Ridge of Stones" (1995)
“My Very Poems” (1995)
"Sound Indicating" (1995)
"Once Upon a Time in December" (1996)
"Contemplation of a Glass Ball" (1997)
“Collected works in three volumes” (1997)
"A Moment of Being" (1997)
“Despair” (poems-diary, 1996-1999)
“Near the Christmas tree” (1999)
“My friends have beautiful features” (2000)
“Poems. Essay" (2000)
"Mirror. XX century" (verses, poems, translations, stories, essays, speeches, 2000)
"Button in a Chinese Cup" (2009)
"Failure" (2010)

Filmography of Bella Akhmadulina:

Acting works:

1964 - There lives such a guy
1970 - Sports, sports, sports

Screenwriter:

1965 - Chistye Prudy
1968 - Stewardess

Poems by Bella Akhmadulina in cinema:

1964 - Zastava Ilyich
1973 - My friends... (film almanac)
1975 - The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath! - “On my street”, performed by Nadya (Alla Pugacheva)
1976 - Non-transferable key - the author herself reads poetry
1978 - Office novel - “Chills” (“Oh, my shy hero”), read by Svetlana Nemolyaeva
1978 - Old-fashioned comedy
1984 - I came and I say - “Come on stage” (“I came and I say”), performed by Alla Pugacheva
1984 - Cruel Romance - “And in the end I will say”, performed by Valentina Ponomareva

The great Russian poetess and translator Bella Akhatovna Akhmadulina was born in Moscow on April 10, 1937. While still a schoolgirl, she began writing poetry and worked as a freelance correspondent for the Metrostroyevets newspaper.

In 1955, her poems were first published in the magazine “October” and in the newspaper “Komsomolskaya Pravda”.

After graduating from school, Bella enters the Literary Institute. During her studies she was published in literary publications. In 1959, she was expelled from the institute for failing an exam (unofficially, for refusing to participate in the persecution of B. Pasternak), but was soon reinstated. Two years after graduating from the institute, her first collection “String” (1962) was published, which brought her fame in poetic circles.

The next publication was the collection “Chills” (1968). The poetess's poems are published in the USSR, however, each book was subject to strict censorship. In 1977, Akhmadulina was elected an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In the 80s, the poetess published a number of poetry collections and in the 90s more than a dozen of her books were published. Akhmadulina’s personal life was less successful than her literary activity.

From 1955 to 1958 Akhmadulina was the wife of Yevgeny Yevtushenko. In 1959 she married Yuri Nagibin, but after 9 years the marriage collapsed. Divorcing, Akhmadulina takes in her adopted daughter Anna. In her third marriage with Eldar Kuliev, the writer gave birth to a daughter, Elizaveta (b. 1973), and already in 1974 she married again for the last time - to Boris Messerer and left the children in the care of her mother.

Bella Akhatovna had serious health problems in her life. The poetess died on November 29, 2010 in an ambulance after a heart attack.