Vladimir Mayakovsky. The love boat crashed … Part 4
Vladimir Vladimirovich was a large-scale man, as befits a urethral. The pressure with which he approached the women frightened them. Probably, having felt all the power of the poet's love madness, Maria Denisova did not dare to take the last step, preferring the modest engineer Vasily Stroyev.
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A poet, especially if he is a lyricist, is always looking for “his Laura”. A urethral man cannot exist without his muse. He devotes his achievements to her, puts his victories at her feet, for her sake he participates in tournaments, even literary ones. Lilya Brik understood this very accurately, keeping the poet's inspiration on a short leash. The rest of the women did not succeed in doing this, perhaps with the exception of his first - the one by which the aspiring poet was rejected.
Do you think it's raving about malaria? It was, it was in Odessa. “I'll be there at four,” said Maria. - Eight. Nine. Ten…
Mayakovsky's life is a worldwide fire. Vladimir Vladimirovich was generally a large-scale man, as befits a urethral. The pressure with which he approached the women frightened them. Probably, having felt all the power of the poet's love madness, Maria Denisova did not dare to take the last step, preferring the modest engineer Vasily Stroyev.
The girl, herselfted with talents by nature, most likely felt that, if she were next to Mayakovsky, her own creative realization would come to an end. She will have to dissolve in the poet, as it happened at the first stage of the relationship with Marina Vlady, who was married to the urethral-sound Vladimir Vysotsky. His frequent manic-depressive states forced Marina to interrupt filming and, violating the terms of contracts, which could not but affect the career of the world famous and very popular actress, fly from any corner of the planet on the first flight to Moscow to pull the poet out of another sound failure.
Maria Denisova, who inspired Mayakovsky to “Cloud in Pants”, leaving her husband-engineer, from prosperous Switzerland, where their family was at that time, returned to revolutionary Russia with her little daughter, and Vasily Stroyev went to England. Maria became a student of the famous sculptor S. Konenkov, and later herself a famous sculptor. During the civil war, she volunteered for the First Cavalry Army, where she headed the art and propaganda department. "I wrote propaganda posters, drew cartoons, played on stage." Maria Alexandrovna suffered typhus three times and was wounded three times. Her friendship with Mayakovsky lasted until his fatal shot.
In 1927, Maria Alexandrovna will sculpt the poet's head, as if doomly drowning in a piece of plaster. In 1928, she wrote to him: “My dear Vladimir Vladimirovich! Please, take care of your health - I was very sad to learn that you began to pass - of course, in terms of health - since it is clear that literally you are on the right path. I would like one or two more monumental work … Take care, my dear, yourself. How strange, you are provided, but you cannot surround yourself with the environment and way of life, which would keep you longer - to us”.
In December 1929, when the poet began to be hushed up, they stopped publishing, "LEF" (Left Front of the Arts) was closed. Because of his transfer to the RAPP (Russian Association of Proletarian Writers), all his friends turned their backs on him, considering his collaboration with the Rapp members a betrayal. Persecution began against his plays. Maria, one of the few, supports Mayakovsky: “… Thank you, dear, for protecting a woman from the domestic“moods”of party husbands. Both "Bath" and "Bedbug" help a lot. It comes. A good scourge is a word, sarcasm …"
The second husband of Maria Alexandrovna, Efim Afanasyevich Shchadenko, is a member of the Revolutionary Military Council of the First Cavalry Army, whom she met during the civilian years, after the war he was Deputy People's Commissar of Defense. The family settled in the famous House on the Embankment. It was here, in peacetime, that the dissimilarity of the characters and interests of the spouses was revealed.
Shchadenko forbade Denisova to engage in sculpture, and she even left him for a dormitory of the unemployed, as reported in letters to Mayakovsky. “She parted with her husband - she went to the hostel of the unemployed RABIS - and all because of the sculpture, because the household took the whole day … Temporarily begged me to come back - threatening to shoot herself. - And you need to leave - does not allow to work. Domostroy. Selfishness. Tyranny … We need marble, nature and a workshop, otherwise moral murder … "And also:" … you have to abandon the sculpture, but for me it is tantamount to death … "Vladimir Vladimirovich, knowing the difficult financial situation of Mary, helped her with money.
In 1944, Maria Denisova-Shchadenko, under mysterious circumstances, would commit suicide by throwing herself down from the tenth floor.
Maria! I am afraid to forget your name, as a poet is afraid to forget a word born in the throes of the nights, equal in greatness to God.
Mayakovsky's romance with Tatyana Yakovleva began in Paris. Vladimir Vladimirovich could not help but love the long-legged model. A provincial skin-visual girl came to France on a call from one of her relatives. She is “a beauty, set in furs and beads” - this is how Vladimir Vladimirovich saw her - she earned her living making ladies' hats and working as a fashion model. Of course, she was flattered by the courtship of the famous poet, whose poems she even read, she hardly understood their essence.
It was naive to believe that a young woman who had barely escaped from Russia and surrounded by admirers in France, among whom were French aristocrats, would leave clean, cozy Europe, beginning to recover after the First World War, and go to a strange, dilapidated and cold Sovdepia.
Mayakovsky, as always, fell in love strongly and recklessly. Considering it his duty to help the relatives of his future wife, he sends money to Yakovleva's mother and takes care of her sister, who lives in Moscow. For the poet, Tatyana becomes a muse, he not only devotes poems to her, but also dares to read them publicly without Lilya Brik's consent:
Do not think, squinting just from under the straightened arcs. Come here, go to the crossroads of my big and clumsy hands. Do not want? Stay and hibernate, and this is an insult to the general score. I’ll still take you someday, alone or together with Paris.
Tatiana marries a French nobleman, and Mayakovsky, not expecting such a betrayal on her part, upset and upset, seeks consolation in the arms of another woman who is unusually similar to Tatiana Yakovleva. Accordingly, another woman passed through the fate of Mayakovsky in the last year of his life. Evil tongues claimed to have introduced them to the Briks. She left no trace in the poet's work, she did not become a muse in the generally accepted sense of the word.
The wife of the Moscow Art Theater actor Mikhail Yanshin Veronica (Nora) Polonskaya favorably accepted the courtship of Vladimir Vladimirovich, not taking this connection too seriously. All of Moscow was gossiping about their close relationship. And only Mikhail Mikhailovich Yanshin did not notice this and called Mayakovsky the most gentlemanly.
Analo-visual men allied with skin-visual women are classics of the genre. Such a husband is always tactful and courteous. His love will be faithful and faithful, but insipid enough for a skin-visual woman. His wife is sacred and endowed with infinite trust.
Faina Ranevskaya, who knew all three well, confirms in her memoirs: “Misha, a pure person, had no idea about anything!.. You cannot understand a real artist. Yanshin was so absorbed in the theater, roles, Stanislavsky that everything else passed by. He did not delve into anything. And most importantly, Yanshin loved Nora and believed her very much."
That fateful morning, according to Ranevskaya's recollections, Nora spent at Mayakovsky's. She hurried to the rehearsal and “literally pushed him away, begging him on his knees to leave the theater and stay.
- If you leave, you won't see me again! - Shouted after her.
- Oh, leave, Volodya, these theatrical tricks, they do not suit you! she said at the door.
On the stairs, barely descending from three steps, I heard a shot …"
Read other parts:
Part 1. The star discovered by Lilya Brik
Part 2. “I was kicked out of the 5th grade. Let's go to throw them into Moscow prisons"
Part 3. The Queen of Spades of Soviet Literature and the Patroness of Talents
Part 5. American daughter of the poet
