Aksenova wife biography

Moscow beauty: Maya Carmen 20 min. Probably because the blonde from the film “Only Girls” was considered a standard of beauty in the Soviet Union in those years. But, in a modern opinion, Maya Carmen both externally and in nature is more like Fei Danai or Jane Birkin, bright, indomitable, uncompromising heroines of the rebellious x. She was born on June 5, her father Afanasy Andreevich Zmeul from the Ukrainian Yekaterinoslav the current Dnieper early orphan, lost his brother and sister, was an ideological communist.

In his life he was lucky, he survived both in the civil and World War II, did not fall under the repression of the 10ths, held the posts of the chairman of the All -Union Association "International Book" and the director of the foreign trade Academy. In the history of Russian literature, Comrade Zmeul entered his name, including due to the fact that it was he who was instructed to disrupt the publication abroad Boris Pasternak “Dr.

Zhivago”. His daughter Maya graduated from the Academy of Foreign Trade, the prestigious institution intended for such as her boys and girls from good families. In m, she finds a suitable pair for herself, her husband becomes an employee of Vneshotorg Moris Ovchinnikov. Young people belonged not just to the Soviet elite, but to those few lucky ones who, along the duty of the service, could penetrate the limits of the iron curtain.

This meant access to overseas things that were unprecedented in the Soviet Union, the opportunity to decorate the heavy -scale oak sideboard in the style of the Stalinsky Empire with a bottle of whiskey Johnnie Walker, keep Chanel and Guerlain on the toilet table, rather than a cardboard box with Mascara "Leningradskaya" made from soot and soap. In the future, one could expect work at the embassy or trade representative of the USSR abroad - first in Bulgaria or the GDR, and then, if the Ovchinnikov spouses will behave correctly and not defeat the appearance of the Soviet man, in the enemy capitalist country.

But everything went not according to plan. In the year, Ovchinnikovs had a daughter Alena, and soon after that Maya divorced. The man who took her away from Ovchinnikov was 24 years older. Among his friends were Hemingway and Picasso. His name was Roman Carmen. This person has been considered the chief documentary of the Soviet Union for many years. He was born in the year in Odessa.

During the Civil War, he sold newspapers on the streets. Then he entered the school of working youth, was carried away by photography. Mikhail Koltsov, editor -in -chief of the Ogonek magazine, suggested that a capable young man become a permanent correspondent. Ten years later, at the same time, he set off as a journalist in the Spanish Civil War covered in the same Koltsov.

Carmen was endowed not only with talent, but also by common sense for his era. That is why, having returned to the USSR and soberly understanding what was happening around, he organized a long business trip to the land of Franz Joseph, to the northern point of Eurasia, and sat there among the men and icebergs on the very days when his mentor Koltsov, and other friends in Spain were declared “enemies of the people” and put to the wall.

When the war began, he removed the Germans retreat near Moscow, the surrender of Field Marshal Paulus, the signing of the act of unconditional surrender of Germany, the Nuremberg process. In his work, he was an absolute perfectionist and at the Nuremberg process for hours he watched Goering, waiting for the moment when he touches his neck in order to accompany this frame with a pre -written replica “Do you feel a loop on the neck, German Goering?

After the war, the Motherland sent him to the jungle of the fighting Vietnam, to China of the Epoch of the Cultural Revolution, to India, Vietnam, Albania, Burma and Indonesia. With this mode of work, his personal life was predictably restless and unhappy. The second, the famous Moscow beauty Nina Orlova, studied at school with Vasily Stalin, who was in love with her.

During the war, already being the wife of Carmen, the mother of his child, she again met with her classmate, after which she just stayed with him and seemed to everyone like Nina Stalin.

Upon learning of this, the father of her lover ordered: "Return this fool Carmen, and Stalin Colonel Stalin on the guardhouse for 15 days." Nina was returned, her marriage with Carmen somehow lasted another 12 years, after which Roman Lazarevich met Maya, and she became his third wife. Italy, Maya was unusually good. Bella Akhmadulina, who was friends with her, said: "She had amazing white hair, wonderful eyes blue, slender, just beauty." Together with her husband, they were a very attractive couple, despite the age difference.

Roman Lazarevich looked more like a American senator than a Soviet journalist. One of his students, the film documentary Valery Khomenko, recalled: “Carmen, of course, knew how to make himself, his fate and glory, and this harmonized with his male beauty. Yes, he was beautiful - without a hint of sweetness in appearance and in the absence of the right features in the face.I understand that I was lost in an enthusiastic way, but it really was in it as if from the inside the highlighted beauty of a man - and courage as the main component of it ...

and the completely dazzling art is beautifully dressed! Carmen built a cottage for his family in the famous writer's village of Krasnaya Pakhra forty kilometers from Moscow, where his neighbors in different years were Konstantin Simonov, Mikhail Romm, Yuri Nagibin, Vladimir Vysotsky and Bella Akhmadulina. The writer Viktor Dragunsky lived there, his son Denis Dragunskaya later recalled: “It was a beautiful dacha by Roman Lazarevich, although it has nowhere easier - there is nowhere easier: a three -room panel house, the so -called Finnish, plank walls, a wooden table, but what photos on the walls!

Hemingway, Picasso, Corrida, shootout, damn what. ” The toreador’s raincoat, as well as a sign with the name of Unter-Der-Linden Street, and with traces of bullets and shells as a memory of those days when Roman Carmen, along with the Red Army entered Berlin, hung on the walls. Maya was a wonderful mistress, she loved to cook, especially her difficult holiday dishes were successful.

She knew how to receive guests, among whom there were often foreigners who came to the USSR: writers, artists and various world fighters. It was strongly recommended that guests from the West call for guests from the West, but Carmen forgave such things. His wife dressed as not only Soviet, but most of the Western women could not afford. Evgeny Popov recalled how she demonstrated donated by someone, almost Bert Lancaster, a denim costume at a price of a thousand dollars, at the prices of that time.

Zoya Boguslavskaya, the wife of Andrei Voznesensky, said: "The golden -haired Maya was admired by the secular society with youth, temperament, an amazingly insightful mind." Roman and Maya Carmen, once on the Red Arrow train, who went to Leningrad, a neighbor on the compartment was a young, but already very popular writer Vasily Aksyonov. He could not stand Soviet propaganda workers to whom Carmen, of course, belonged to in his eyes.

In addition, Aksenov, according to his own later recognition, was very drunk. He cheerfully asked: “Is it true, Roman Lazarevich, that you are a very beautiful wife? Carmen was a workaholic, he worked too much, drank too much coffee, smoked too much. In the year, this led to a severe heart attack. All winter, Maya looked after him, and when it became clear that the danger had passed, she left to rest in Yalta, in the house of writers' work.

The Maya liked the outbreak, he was very happy to learn that she had arrived, and hoped for a lot. At dinner, Bella decided to introduce Maya and Vasily and invited both of them at her table. From this moment their novel began. They could not part, they were together, wandered around Yalta, climbed into the mountains, drank homemade wine, traveled on the ship, Georgia, which crucified along the Black Sea coast between Batumi and Odessa, his captain Anatoly Garagulya was friends with many writers and artists.

The description of these trips can be found in Aksenov’s later novel “The mysterious passion”, where he portrayed himself under the name of Vaxon, and called Maya Ralissa. She danced there in thick Mordovian socks, so amusing and beloved that he also dancing around her in Patsani, despite his status of a literary rebel. ” The sadly was watched behind them. Now he could only follow his own recommendations.

He understood everything and left. At the time of Maya, it was 40, Aksenov was 38 years old. An instantly flashed feeling once and for all changed the lives of both of them. I remember Maya had to return the first to Moscow. Here they are standing, and it is difficult to say goodbye, Maya restrains from the last forces so as not to burst into tears, and the gossips are gloatingly watching.

I even remember how she was dressed: in a green leather jacket, in trousers - on the road has already gathered, with a small road bag. And when she flew away, Vasya began to be mad: he actually drank, but then he began to really drink. I console him, and he says: - What to do? I call, and my husband comes all the time. I just sighed: - Well, how to help you, Vasya?

Still, husband! I say: - Vasya, even if I call, it will still be clear who is behind this call. And before that he suffered that he felt bad, he had to call an ambulance. The doctors arrived, pricked something, left; Again he was bad, they called a second time. I then asked: - Vasya, no more, pull yourself together. And he only repeats: - I’m scared, scary, scary ...

”But Akhmadulin also remained a kind acquaintance of Karmen's novel, they often met families. She was forced to console Aksenov all the time, and Carmen to lie. To lie that Maya spends time with her, that the green machine they arrived on is the Aksenovskaya Volga, which is not known to the whole of Moscow, is not known to the entire emerald color, but just some kind of accidental.

Aksenov had a family, his wife Kira Mendelev, the daughter of a Hungarian communist, was distinguished by an unconditional devotion to her husband.This was recognized by all their acquaintances, however, they laconically mentioned her serious character and that the life of the spouses by that time was unbearable. As for Maya, she could not and did not want to leave Roman Carmen.

For many years she was his wife, he loved her, he was seriously ill. Roman Lazarevich suspected a lot. I had to, and now I have to read from different experts on someone else's personal life that Maya did not leave Carmen, as she hoped to receive a huge inheritance by Soviet standards, including a cottage and an apartment in a house on Kotelnichesky. It is safe to say: if she divorced, the same people would reproach her for running to her lover, throwing a seriously ill husband.

Julian Semenov almost beat me once. Carmen, aged, unhappy, asked for nothing. The lovers were not afraid of anything and did not listen to anyone. The musical critic, historian Jazz Vladimir Moshchenko later said: “We had to see how the Vasyat was with May, sitting on their cars, looked at each other - he and she still - but for a short while - Maya Carmen! How they were incorrigibly young, how they were irresistible, how hopelessly they are in love with each other and how they simply could not do without each other - he, a typical hero of the magnificent Western, and she - as if the creation of a brush at the same time Botticelli and Kustodiev.

” With Aksenov, she openly appears on theatrical and film awards, in the CDL restaurant. Alexander Kabakov once met them on the streets of Old Tallinn and then recalled: “Maya was completely charming, you can compare it with the Barbie doll, which was not yet, but the comparison would come out a little so offensive ... We wandered around the Tallinn paving stones, she wiped her legs and, not embarrassed at all, took off her barefoot and walked barefoot, taking her sandals.

It should be noted that her legs and sandals were beautiful, and she was a dress in beautiful ... ”They went to the Baltic states, to Leningrad, ski skiing in the Elbrus. Once in Cheget, the cable booth broke, and they hung over the abyss for several hours, trying to warm each other and already saying goodbye to life. In hotels, they could not settle together: in the country they monitored the morality of Soviet citizens and vigilantly checked the stamps in passports.