Why Mayakovsky and Bricks lived in threesome. Mayakovsky and Lily Bric

Osip Bric He was a screenwriter and criticism, wrote essays, processed novels for theaters. However, he owes not to his talent, but a name Vladimir Mayakovskyin which his wife was in love: Lily Bric.

The two capitals laugh at the "cuckold", but Osip did not hurry to part with his beloved, on the contrary, he was idle of Mayakovsky's poetic gift and even offered them to live three. For several years on the doors of the famous poet, the chamber "Bricks. Mayakovsky. "

Portrait Reproduction Lily Brick. Photo: RIA Novosti

Frivolous muse

About the crazy character Lily Brick, which was famous for the fact that he loved to turn their head to men, and today they are laying legends. And the beloved Bric and Mayakovsky denied the opinion of the opinion that Muse is "the creation of heavenly beauty." On the contrary, she was low growth, loud and sludge ... But, as all her rivals celebrated with annoyance, I knew exactly how to like men.

Lile was only 13 when the sixteen-year-old Osip Bric kept her home after the New Year holiday and asked: "And it doesn't seem to you, lily that there is something bigger between us than friendship?" "It didn't seem to me, I just didn't think about it, but I really liked the wording, and I replied from surprise:" Yes, it seems, "" said a young nymph.

After that, the recognition of young people began to meet, and when Lily felt that the master I like chatting about politics with her father Uriham KaganThan to admire her, then herself fell in love with the educated young man.

When Osip made a lee offer, her parents exhaled with relief. But Blagovospitanne Maxim Pavlovich and Polina Yuryevna BrikHeard about the immoral behavior of the daughter-in-law, her novels with teachers and even their own uncle, grabbed her head. Recharge in love with them, alas, failed. On requests, he answered: "Lily, my bride, young, beautiful, formed, out of a good family, a Jewish, I love me terribly, what else? Her past? But what was in her past? Children's hobbies, a diety temperament game. But what modern young lady did not have it? And I? Little I was fond of, however, I don't need to chase anyone about the past and future hobbies, since I love Lil. For it, it is even easier, as she always loved only me.<... > In conclusion, I want you to express my confidence that if even, as I suppose, you have any prejudice against Lily, it will immediately dispel, as soon as you learn it closer, you will see how she loves me, and most importantly, how I love her, and how we are both with her - happy. "

As you know, I was not going to correct your adventurous behavior of Lily, but it was easily able to place Svyokrov to himself, when I asked a bridal gift in the form of a diamond ring to replace on the piano of the world-famous firm "Steinway". "From this they brought the conclusion that I was disinterested and cultural," I didn't remember my tricks of Lily.

Osipa's father was a merchant of the first guild and continued in Moscow a family deal on trade in precious stones "Pavel Bric. Widow and Son. " The same occupation was waiting for a matured Osip, however, the young man with "progressive views" unexpectedly fond of the issues of the social and legal status of prostitutes, which were rapidly discussed in those years. For his candidate thesis at Moscow University of Osip, the materials collected for a long time, walking through Moscow boulevards and getting acquainted with girls of easy behavior. He disinterestedly helped the girls to resolve conflict questions with the police, for which he even received the nickname from them "**** dad". But, marrying on Lile, he forever left cases related to jurisprudence and prostitutes, took up a family business, faded with literature, painting, music, theater, ballet ...

Love on Troykh

A lot of married novels are known about the novels, but none of the men could take the place of his spouse in her heart. At least she claimed so: "I became clear even after the shortest meeting that I did not like anyone except the axis."

So it continued until a meeting with Mayakovsky, who overnight turned his life in the family of Briks.

In 1915, the younger sister Lily led to the house to the bricks (which in those years was the center of communication of writers and philologists - innovators) of his beloved: Mayakovsky. All evening, the young poet read poems, and at the same time in front of his own companion and master and built eyes of the hostess at home. In that evening, Mayakovsky dedicated his new poem "Cloud in the pants", but even this did not embarrass the generous cuckold, on the contrary, he was amazed by the talent of "Volodyniki" and his own money published his poem.

Every year, the friendship of men strengthened, and only in 1918, Lily decided to admit the spouse that he would change him with Mayakovsky. In his diaries, the rock beauty assured that she was ready to "immediately quit Volodya if the master would not like it." But, contrary to her concerns, BRIC was not angry, but only took the promise with his beloved wife, that they would never live separately.

After a few days, Mayakovsky wrote a note: "Chairman of the residential council of 13/15 according to Gendrikov Lane. Please register in my apartment TT. L. Yu. Brick and O. M. Bric V. Mayakovsky. "

"I loved making love with the axes. We then stored Volodya in the kitchen. He rushed, wanted to us, scratched at the door and cried ... "- wrote in his diaries of Lily. For Osip, such relationships were also painful, and although each of the men had novels on the side, none of them could break with the fatal lily.

"Musa of the Russian avant-garde" sought obedience from its "animals", but at the same time did not mind their mimolement hobbies. Only one girl - Evgenia Sokolova (wife filmmakers Vitaly Pearl) - forced it to truly jealous to the spouse. "I do not understand what he can talk about with her," Lily's annoyed Roman Brick with a young librarian commented on it. He also called his mistress "miracle" and in the poem to the twentieth anniversary of their acquaintance, he wrote that if he believed in God, then he would have fallen on his knees for the fact that they were crossed with his wife.

"Sophisticated cartel"

Accustomed to the wealth and luxury of Bricks every year they lived every other. In 1921, Osipa, for some time he served in the CC, fired "for the negligent work" and Mayakovsky almost completely began to provide a "marital cartel". Letters of the Briks to Mayakovsky of that time were made by endless requests for money. "Kisa asks for money," Vladimir Osipovas woven abroad. "I really want a car! Bring, please! " - I eaten Lily.

This continued until 1925, when the exhausted Osip still divorced from a frivolous lily. And, although he married his "miracle" wife, still continued to live near the first spouse ...

After 20 years, Brick died from a heart attack. And Lilya, until the end of the days, called an Osipa with the love of all his life: "When Brick died - I died." But this did not prevent the "Museum of the Russian avant-garde" for another twice to marry safely.

BRIC was not beautiful. Little growth, slender, sutula, with huge eyes, she seemed quite a teenager. However, there was something special in it, feminine that the men attracted so and forced those to admire this amazing woman. Lilya realized this perfectly and used her spell when meeting with each man liked her. "She knew how to be sad, capricious, feminine, proud, empty, non-permanent, smart and anything," he remembered one of her contemporaries. And another friend described this way as the master: "She has solemn eyes: there is a brazen and sweet in her face with painted lips and dark hair ... This most charming woman knows a lot about human love and loving sensual."

By the time of the meeting with Mayakovsky, she was already married. Lilya became the wife of Osip Bric in 1912, perhaps because he was the only one who had long seemed indifferent to her charm. She could not forgive such a man. Their married life at first seemed happy. Lily, skilled to decorate anyone, even more than a modest life, capable of rejoice in every pleasant little thing, was responsive and easy to communicate. In their field, artists, poets, politicians gathered in them. Sometimes there was nothing to treat, and in the house of the briks they fed them with bread with bread, however, it seemed to not notice - after all, the center was charming, amazing lily. The fact that the spouse flies with guests and sometimes behaves more than indiscriminately, the insightful Osip tried not to notice. He understood that neither jealousy, nor scandals nor reproach to keep his wife would not be possible.

So it lasted until 1915, while once sister Lily Elsa did not lead to the house of the briks of his close friend, the beginning of the poet Vladimir Mayakovsky, in which she was in love and with whom she wanted to associate his future life. However, this fact of Lily seemed to ignored and on that day there was a lot of sweet and friendly with the new guest. And the one admired by the hostess at home, read her best of her poems and kneeling the permission from the Lilechka to devote them to her. That celebrated victory, and Elsa, burning from jealousy, did not find places.

A few days later, Mayakovsky walked briquettes to accept him "Nasovy", explaining his desire to the fact that I fell in love with the Lilo in love. " She gave his consent, and Osip was forced to accept the whims of the windy spouse. However, the Mayakovsky was finally moved to the apartment to the Brick Brick only in 1918. So one of the most high-profile novels of the past century, the "marriage threesome", rumors about which were rapidly spread among acquaintances, friends and in literary circles. And although Lily explained to everyone that "she had an intimate relationship with the axes for a long time", a strange trinity still lived together in a tiny apartment under one roof.
And nobody even dreamed of judging the Divine Lil.

After many years, Lily will say: "I fell in love with Volodya, barely began to read the cloud in the pants. Loved him immediately and forever. " However, at first she kept him at a distance. "I was frightened by his assertiveness, height, an unwanky, unbridled passion," Lily admitted and added: "He fell on me as avalanche ... He just attacked me."

The love of the poet Lily Bric was not surprised. She was completely confident in her chars and always said: "It is necessary to inspire a man that he is ingenious ... and allow him what is not allowed at home. The rest will make good shoes and silk linen. "

In 1919, Brick and Mayakovsky moved to Moscow. On the doors of their apartment they hung the sign: "Bricks. Mayakovsky. " However, Lily did not think to keep loyally a young poet. She started more and more new novels, and her beloved became more and more often leaving abroad. He spent several months in London, Berlin and especially in Paris, that Lil was very satisfied. It was there that the favorite sister of Elsa lived, which was closely followed the Parisian life of the poet and reported Leela about his love intrigues. Talking the sister about the "Romanes", Elsa has always added: "Empty, Lürchka, you can not worry." And she calmed down for a short time and continued to read letters and telegrams of their fan with an exemption.

And Mayakovsky met with women, spent all the time with them and certainly walked with new girlfriends to the stores to buy something for Moscow beloved. "The first day on arrival devoted to your purchases," wrote a poet from Paris to Moscow, "the suitcase ordered you and bought hats. Molding the foregoing, I'll do with pajamas. "

Lily answered it: "Cute puppy, I did not forget you ... I love you terribly. Your rings do not remove ... "

Mayakovsky returned from abroad with gifts. From the station, he drove to the bricks, and a whole evening of Lilya tried out the dresses, blouses, stuffing, rushed from joy on the neck of the poet, and he was shoved from happiness. It seemed that his beloved belonged only to him. However, the next morning the poet again went crazy from jealousy, beat the dishes, broke the furniture, shouted and, finally, clapping the door, left the house to "wander" in his small office on Lubyanskaya Square. The wandering continued not long, and a few days later, Mayakovsky returned to Brick again. "Lilya - Element," Cold Oxip reassured Vladimir, "and with this should be considered." And the poet again calmed down, promising his beloved: "Do how you want. Nothing never will change my love to you ... "

When Mayakovsky's friends reproached him in an excessive submission of Lile Brick, he strongly stated: "Remember! Lily Yurevna - my wife! " And when they allowed themselves sometimes to make fun on him, he proudly answered: "There is no resentment!"

Mayakovsky tried to endure all the humiliation, just to be near the beloved muse. And that, confident in his own power over a loved fan, sometimes came too cruel. Many years later she confessed: "I loved making love with the axes. We locked Volodya in the kitchen. He rushed, wanted to us, scratched at the door and crying. "

It took place for several days, and the poet again could not stand it. In the summer of 1922, Brick and Mayakovsky rested at the cottage near Moscow. Next to them, the revolutionary Alexander Krasnashokov, with whom Lily had a stormy, although a short novel. In the fall of the same year, Mayakovsky began to demand a beloved to break all the relationships with a new lover. She insulted on it and stated that he would no longer want to hear precisely from him and drives him out of the house exactly for three months.

Mayakovsky planted himself "under house arrest" and, as the Lieley told, they did not see exactly three months. The new year poet met alone in his apartment, and on February 28, as was agreed, the lovers met at the station to go for several days to Petrograd.

That morning the poet rushed to Lile, knocking on the path of all passersby. Seeing her at the station, in a fluffy fur coat, beautiful and scented, he grabbed her and dragged into the train car. There, agitated and happy, Mayakovsky retracted his new poem "about it." He dedicated her, of course, Lile.

In 1926, returned from America, Vladimir Mayakovsky told Lile that there was a stormy romance with the Russian emigrant Ellie Jones, and she is now waiting for a child. Lily's face did not express the slightest grief. She did not give out his excitement, demonstrating the lover only indifference and composure. Mayakovsky could not expect such a reaction.

The poet went crazy, suffered from jealousy and tried to forget the pole, meeting with other women. One day, when he rested in Yalta with another girlfriend Natalia Brojanenko, Lily seriously frightened for "Volodya Love" to her. She sent a lover telegram, where she asked not to marry and return "to the family." A few days later, Mayakovsky arrived in Moscow.

In the autumn of 1928, he headed to France allegedly for treatment. However, faithful Lilina Friends told her that the Mayakovsky goes abroad to meet with Ellie Jones and his little daughter. Lile became alarming. However, she is always used to achieving their goals. Faithfully, decisive and inventive BRIC started a new adventure. Again, she asked her sister "Do not miss Volodya from sight", and Elsa, to somehow tear the Mayakovsky from the American, introduced him to the young model of Chanel's house, the Russian emigrant Tatiana Yakovleva. The sisters were not mistaken. Soon after the meeting with Tatyana Mayakovsky forgot about Ellie. However, he fell in love with a new acquaintance so that he decided to marry her and bring her to Russia.

Enthusiastic and loved, he devoted a yakovie poem. This meant for Lily Brick only one thing: for Mayakovsky, she is no longer a muse. "You have betrayed me for the first time," said Vladimir Lily with bitterness when he returned to Moscow. And he did not explain anything for the first time. This lily could not survive.

In October 1929, she invited her friends and arranged a magnificent party. In the middle of the evening, Lilya allegedly uneasped about his sister, from which the letter recently received. This letter is a tricky hostess decided to read out loud. At the end of the message, Elsa wrote that Tatyana Yakovlev marries a noble and very rich viscont. Vladimir Mayakovsky, having heard the news, turned pale, got up and left the apartment. He did not understand that Tatiana was not going to get married that the sisters had tested the next adventure so that Volodyak was left with a lily and could work further fruitfully.

After half a year, Brick went to Berlin. Mayakovsky accompanied them at the station, and a few days later the telegram from Russia waited at the Osipra and Lil's hotel: "This morning, Volodya committed suicide." This happened on April 14, 1930. He left a note in which among other phrases were the words: "Lily, love me."

In July of the same year, a government decree was published, in which Lile BRIC accrued a pension in the amount of 300 rubles and was half the copyright on the works of Vladimir Mayakovsky. Another half was divided between the relatives of the poet. Lily, although she worried about the death of a beloved friend, but explained her with enviable calm: "Volodya was neurasthenik," Brick said, "I barely learned him, he already thought about suicide."

In the year of the death of the poet she was thirty-nine years old. She still lived a long and interesting life. Immediately after the death of Mayakovsky, she divorced with Osipa Brik and married Vitaly Primakov.

When that was shot, Lily joined the third marriage - with Vasily Kathanyn, the literary critic, who studied the life and creativity of Vladimir Mayakovsky. BRIC led Katanyan from the family and lived with him about forty years.

Osip died in 1945. His death lily was experiencing specially. "I loved, love and I will love the axis more than a brother, more than a husband, more than a son. He is inseparable from me, "she admitted and added, which would refuse everything in life, if only Osip continued to live. When it was carefully asked, Lily Yurevna would refuse Mayakovsky, so as not to lose Osip, she approved his head affirmatively.

Lily Bric died in 1978. She left life, drinking a large dose of sleeping pill. The poet's muse and here it remained true: she herself determined the end of his own destiny.

Until recent days, she did not remove the rings donated by Vladimir Mayakovsky. On a small modest rod, three letters were engraved with the initials of Lily - emit. When she rolled him in her hands, remembering the poet, the letters merged into one word - "love". Lil Bric never left the memory of the unfortunate, in love with her poet.

Used site material www.stories-of-love.ru

"Do you know what the violin?
We are terribly similar:
i am too
yeah
and I do not know how to prove anything! "
Musicians laugh:
"Vlip like!
Came to a wooden bride!
Head!"
And I do not care!
I'm good.

V. Mayakovsky. "Violin and a little nervously", 1914

The love story of Vladimir Mayakovsky and Lily Bric is one of those stories that cause a mixture of curiosity and bewilderment. There are much more questions than answers. Which epithets were not glued to love that happened between Mayakovsky and Lily Bric. Crazy, abnormal, patient, manic, depraved and so on. But she was! And, maybe only thanks to her Mayakovsky wrote the best poems, because almost all of them in the first years after acquaintance with the lily were devoted to her. Their relationship was far from difficult. These "patients" relationships helped the poet, so sincerely write and live, that no longer the first generation of people read it with verses and is surprised where these truly fantastic words come from, forcing the hearts to dying from admiration. Lily Bric was a kind of psychostimulator for V. Mayakovsky.

I often thought about how another woman would be able to become an inspirational for Mayakovsky, not like Lily Bric. The downtry, compliant, home, so, next to which he would simply be fine and cozy, such that would not put on him, agreed with him in everything. Definitely no. Mayakovsky needed passion. He himself spoke about it. In his understanding, love is the flour of jealousy, distrust, constant experiences and pain. So I understood the poet love. Such a feeling could give him only Lily. Each event that occurs with us in life, one way or another affects what we become. Lily was the most important "event" in the life of Mayakovsky. Thanks to her he became a great poet.

When I read the correspondence between Vladimir Mayakovsky and Lily Bric, I often caught myself thinking that I was resenting the behavior of this woman. How could she contact Mayakovsky himself? She practically kept him on a short leash. Many Researchers of Mayakovsky's creativity write that Lily, forever tied him to himself and basking in the rays of his fame, practically made a contribution to their immortality. Who would remember her if she were not Mayakovsky Museum? She herself did nothing that could perpetuate her in memory of people. But they write about her and they say almost more than about Mayakovsky itself. Could she assume this when was with him in a relationship? Of course, could However, about the true motives of Lily, we can only guess. About such things a person will not write in any of his diary. Lilya lived to 74 years old, managed to write a few books, leave behind numerous interviews, diaries and memoirs, but the most intimate, I'm sure this woman took with me.

Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky.

1912

The relations of "Lilya - Osip - Vladimir" even for the nice love experiments of the beginning of the twentieth century seemed unhealthy. Mother Lily, accustomed to the daughter's rebellion, did not recognize this union yet.

Lily and Vladimir Mayakovsky got acquainted when Lily was already married. It did not prevent them from tie a novel, and even live three in the same apartment.

The fact that Lily Brick and Vladimir Mayakovsky were extraordinary personalities, it does not cause any doubts. Both caused genuine interest among the opposite sex, had loose views on love questions. The behavior of Mayakovsky was a rapid, causing, sauna. Perhaps this was what was his win-win chief in a relationship with women. Lily was quite liberated in sexy. But for that time it was normal, because just then a sexual revolution happened. Attitude towards sex at the beginning of the twentieth century was so free so that, according to one writer, educated women could remember the love adventure as dismissively as "about a random acquaintance" or about the menu in the restaurant where they had dinner. "

One day, when Lily with Osip was in Turkmenistan, they went to Samarkand Boutinal. This is what Lily wrote about his impressions after this visit:

"This street is covered with multi-colored lanterns, women are sitting on the terraces, mostly Tatar, they play on tools like mandolin and guitars. Quiet, and no drunk. We went to the most famous and rich. She lives with an old mother. Rope stretched in the bedroom under the low ceiling, and all her silk dresses hang on the ropes. All the eastern, only in the middle of the room double nickel-plated bed.

She took us in Sarti. The low table is all stitched with fruit and a variety of sweets on countless plates, tea is green. Musicians came, squatted and played, and our mistress began to dance. She's gray dress up to pee, the sleeves are so long, which is not even visible to the hands, and the closed gate, but when she began to move, it turned out that one collar was fastened, the dress was cut almost to the knees, but no fastener. Under the dress nothing worn, and with the slightest movement flashes a naked body. "

While Osip served in the car company, Lily missed. She walked around the city all day.

"Once, during a walk, she ran into two young people from Moscow Beaujda and went with them to operetta. Then they continued in the evening at the restaurant, where he drank a lot of wine, Lily had oxane and told them about their sexy adventures in the Paris Brothel. The satellites were offered to show her a similar institution in Petrograd, and the next morning she woke up in a room with a huge bed, a mirror on the ceiling, carpets and dot curtains - she spent the night in the famous dating house in the pharmaceutical alley. Hastily returned home, she told about all the mask who calmly said that she needs to take a bath and forget about everything " 1
B. Yangfeldt "I am not enough for me", 2012

If Osip, due to its nature, was completely calmly relate to the past of his wife Lily, to all its random relations and novels, everything was not so simple with Mayakovsky. He was terribly jealous. All his verses of 1915-1916 are literally pushed by a painful feeling of jealousy.

V. V. Katanyan in his book about Lile Brick writes:

"Once he asked to tell him about her wedding night. She refused long, but he insisted so furiously that she surrendered. She understood that he should not tell him about it, but she did not have the strength to fight his perseverance. She did not imagine that he could be jealous to what happened in the past, before their meeting. But he rushed out of the room and ran out on the street, sobbing. And, as always, what shocked him, was reflected in verses ":

Not.
It is not true.
Not!
and you?
Favorite
for what,
why?!
Okay -
i went,
i gave flowers,
i did not cut silver spoons from the box!
White,
uSA from the fifth floor.
Wind cheeks burrow.
Street Cruised, imaging and rza.
Lustfully won the horn on the horn.
Ascended over the fuss in the capital's odors
strict
ancient icons -
man.
On your body - as on mortal odds -
a heart
days
cumshot.
In the coarse murder, you did not pack hands.
You
dropped only:
"In a soft bed
is he,
fruits,
wine on the palm of the night table. "
Love!
Only in mine
inflamed
the brain was you!
Stupid comedy stop the move!
See -
tearing toys lats
i,
the greatest Don Quixote!

And Vladimir Mayakovsky, and Lily Brick were very spectacular. They liked people, literally attracted them to their charm.

I have a single gray hair in my heart, and there is no old tenderness in it! The world is in the power of the voice, I go - a beautiful, twenty-one-year-old.

"A cloud in pants"

This is how Sonya Shamadina Mayakovsky describes, with whom he met in 1913, when Vladimir was 20 years old:

"High, strong, confident, beautiful. Another youth of a little angular shoulders, and in the shoulders slanting soap. The characteristic movement of the shoulders with distortion - one shoulder suddenly rises above and then the truth is oblique sage.

Big, courageous mouth with almost constant cigarette moving, then, then in another corner of the mouth. Rarely - short laughing it.

I did not interfere with his appearance his rotten teeth. On the contrary, it seemed that this particularly emphasizes his inner image, his "his beauty".

Especially when he is brazully, with a calm contempt for waiting scandals of the street bourgeois audience - read his poems: "But after all," "And you could?", Beautiful was. Sometimes asked: "Handsome I, really?"

Its yellow, such a warm coat. And the other is black and yellow stripes. Brilliant peppers with fringe. Hands in pockets ...

He loved his voice, and often, when he read for himself, it was felt that he was listening to himself and was pleased: "True, a good voice? .. I am a black pants from the velvet's votes" ... the deep, expressive, his special, Mayakovsky tone pours vote".

This is what Maria Nikiforovna Burluk wrote 2
Maria Nikiforovna Burluk - (1894-1967) Pianist, publisher and collector. Wife D. Burluka

On Mayakovsky, with whom she had a chance to talk in September 1911:

"Mayakovsky those already distant years have been very picturesque. He was dressed in a velvet black jacket with a discovering collar. The neck was tied up with a black fulyar tutor; Trapped a rumored bow; Volodya Mayakovsky's pockets were always hanging out of the boxes with cigarettes and matches.

Mayakovsky was high growth, with a slightly needed chest, with long hands, finishing large brushes, red from the cold; The head of the young man was crowned with dense black hair, which he began a lot later; With yellow cheeks, his face is aggravated by a large, greedy to kisses, jam and tobacco mouth covered with big lips; The lower during the conversation was curved on the left side. It gave him speech, outwardly, the character of the mion and arrogance. In the mouth of the young man, then there was no "beauty of youth", white teeth, and when conversation and smile, there were only brown-made remnants of curve nail roots. Lips V. Mayakovsky have always been tightly compressed.

Determination, perseverance, unwillingness of a compromise, concomitance. Often white bubbles of saliva swell in the corners of the mouth. In those years of extreme poverty of the poet - in the corners of the mouth were made by a snack.

It was the young man of eighteen years old, with the line of his forehead stubborn, walking the skills of centuries. The extraordinary in it is hit immediately; Unusual cheerfulness and together, nearby - in Mayakovsky there was a great contempt for the meshchery; scorching wit; Being with him - it seemed that I stepped on the deck of the ship and sail to the shores of the unknown.

Because of the hatded to the most demonic eyebrows, his eyes were inquisitively stuck in the counter, and their discontent was interested in a young man. - What looks arrogant, the boulevard-night eyes of the young apache! .. And Mayakovsky looked around for the figures missing on the night.

It is difficult to say whether people loved (people never) Vladimir Mayakovsky ... altogether loved him only those who knew, understood, broke out, covered him a hurriculous, who drank a person from the banks. And very few people were capable of this: Mayakovsky "easily" was not given.

Mayakovsky-Youth loved people more than they are. "

But as describes Lily her sister Elsa 3
Elsa Tyole - (1896-1967) Junior sister L. Brick, French writer, translator. Laureate of the Honorovskaya Prize, wife L. Aragon.

"She had a big mouth with perfect teeth and brilliant leather, as if glowing from the inside. She had elegant breasts, rounded hips, long legs and very small brushes and feet. She had nothing to hide, she could walk bare, each piece of her body was worthy of admiration. However, she loved to walk completely naked, she was devoid of constraint. Later, when she was going to the ball, my mother and I loved to look like she dressed, puts on underwear, fastens silk stockings, shoes silver shoes and goes into a purple dress with a quadrangular neckline. I have no one with delight, looking at her. "

And such a lily saw Alexander Dorinskaya ballerina in 1914:

"Average height, thin, fragile, she was an personification of femininity. The combined smooth, on a straight sample, with a braid, twisted low on the back of the head, shining the natural gold of its sodes ... "Red hair". Her eyes ... were karium and kind; Pretty big mouth, beautifully outlined and brightly embellished, opened with smooth pleasant teeth with smile. Pale, narrow, typically female hands, with a wedding ring on the finger, and small elegant legs, dressed with a subtle taste, as, however, and the whole, in a skillful combination of fashion requirements with the individual approach to it. The defect of the appearance of Lily Yuryevna could consider a somewhat large head and a heavy lower part of the face, but maybe it had its special charm in her appearance, very far from classical beauty. "

On an incredible charm, Lily BRIC testifies to one interesting fact. In 1924, Mayakovsky had a novel with Natalia Ryabova in Kiev. It is quite natural that the girl experienced absentee dislike to Lile Brick. After the death of Mayakovsky, Natalia Ryabova did not want to communicate with the lily, considering her guilty of the poet tragedy. Working on the preparation of the collection of the writings of Mayakovsky, she put the condition - no communication with the lily. However, the meeting still occurred, and Natalia Fedorovna had hit the charm of the former rival after the first conversation. By the end of the life, they remained girlfriends. His memories of Mayakovsky N. Ryabov devoted to Lile.

Lilya Yuryevna BRIC. 1914

But what told about Lile Bric Galina Katanyan, a woman who in 1938 the husband threw out due to Lily:

"I was twenty-three years old when I saw her for the first time. She is thirty-nine.

On this day she had such a tick that she kept the bone spoon in his mouth, so as not to knock her teeth. The first impression is very eccentric and at the same time very "lady", a sleek, exquisite and - my God! - Yes, she is ugly! Too big head, sutween back and this terrible tick ...

But after a second I did not remember this. She smiled at me, and the whole face flashed with this smile, lit from the inside. I saw an adorable mouth with large almond teeth, shining, warm, nut eyes. Elegant hand shape, small legs. All some kind of golden and white pink.

It was "the charm that brings the first time", as Lion was written by Tolstoy about someone in one of his letters.

If she wanted to capture someone, she reached it very easily. But she wanted to like everyone - young, old, women, children ... It was in her blood.

And liked<…>

Once I loved her very much.

Then he hated as soon as a woman could hate a woman. "

In order to better understand the magical effect of Lily on men, I will give the statements about her contemporaries - men.

"She knew how to be sad, capricious, feminine, proud, empty, non-permanent, smart and anything," he remembered one of her contemporaries.

But notes from the diary of N. N. Pumin:

Pupils go to the eyelashes and darken from excitement; She has solemn eyes; There is a brazen and sweet in her face with ancillary lips and dark eyelids, she is silent and never cums ... Husband left dry self-confidence on it, and Mayakovsky is a burden ...

... if you lose such a beautiful woman, with such dark and big eyes, with such a beautiful trembling mouth, with such a light step, such a sweet and tomging, such an unacceptable, such unacceptable, as unacceptable conditions of the world, - will easily be able to pay all things and everyone People who are no longer valuable. "

The acquaintance of Mayakovsky and Lili BRIC began due to the fact that Mayakovsky cared for some time after her sister Elza. He was in her house, he was familiar with his parents and brought them into horror with his futuristic outcomes. Lile was then 13 years.

This is what Lilya Brick itself writes about his first acquaintance with Vladimir Mayakovsky in his memories:

"With Mayakovsky introduced me to my sister Elsa in 1915, in the summer in Malakhovka. We sat with her and with the left gruric evening on a bench near the cottage.

Lightweight cigarette. Negric tender bass:

- Elix! I'm yours. Let's go for a walk?

We stayed on a bench.

The company of dachnikov passed by. Rain began. Country rain, quiet, rustling. What does not go?! Father is deadly sick. Without it, it is impossible to go home. Where, yes with whom, yes again with this futurist, but it will end badly ...

Sit as damned, covered with a coat. Half an hour, an hour ... It's good that the rain is not strong, and it is bad that you can not notice in the woods, under the trees. You can not notice and rain and time.

Wild rain! No lume! Sorry, dark, did not see Mayakovsky. Huge, it seems. And the voice is beautiful. "

The next meeting, with which the history of Lyubovsky's love began and Lily BRIC began, occurred in July 1915 at the Brik's apartment in Petrograd. Lilya was already married. At that time, Lily (in fact, the beloved of Mayakovsky was called that - Lily, Lily began to call her the poet himself) was 24 years old.

Mayakovsky himself wrote so much about the day of dating from Lily in his autobiography: "The joyful date. July 915th year. Meet L. Yu. And O. M. Brick.

Lily died father. She came from Moscow to Peter with a funeral, and Vladimir Mayakovsky just returned from Finland. When he came to the brick home, he was not at all how he remembered his lily from his first meeting. It has no discouragement. It was a completely different person. And this evening he read the cloud in his pants. He read him so that everyone listened to, holding his breath. And he "complained, indignantly, mocked, demanded, fell into hysterics, made pauses between parts." Lily writes in his memoirs: "We were staggered. It was that we waited so long ago. Recently, nothing could read. All poetry seemed to be worthless - it was not written and not about that, and here suddenly, and so, and about that ...

O. M. asked where the poem would be printed, and stormingly indignant when he learned that no one wants to print her. And how much does it cost to print yourself? Mayakovsky ran to the nearest printing house and found out that a thousand copies will cost (as far as I remember) at 150 rubles, and the money is not immediately, it is possible in installments. Osip Maksimovich presented Mayakov's first contribution and said that the rest would give. Mayakovsky took the manuscript to the printing house ...

From this day, the axis fell in love with Volodya, began to go to the commissal, spoke to the bass and wrote poems that ended up:

I myself will die when I want to
And in the list of voluntary victims
I will do the name, first name, patronymic
And the day in which I will be dead.
I will make debts to all stores,
Buy the last almanac
And I will wait for my coffin ordered,
Reading the "cloud in the pants".

Being quite a secured business person, Osip Maksimovich Brik saw a poetic talent in a young man and became interested in him. The poem "Cloud in the pants" was published for money axis. Dedication to the poem Short: "You, Lily." Since then, Mayakovsky has devoted all his works by Lile BRIC; Later, in 1928, with the publication of the first collected Works, V. Mayakovsky dedicate her all the works until 1915 - the years of their dating. Initiation at the Essay Meeting will be even more concise and very "Mayakovsky": "L.Yu.B.".

An acquaintance held in July 1915, he turned into friendship, and soon Vladimir Mayakovsky became a permanent guest in the Birkov House. They were fascinated by his work, and he finally and irrevocably loved Lil.

From left to right: younger sister Lily Elsa, Osip Bric, Lily Bric

The history of Mayakovsky and Lily is the story of love on three. I note that in the preface to the second edition of my memoirs, Lilya BRIC wrote: "To avoid misunderstandings, I will say that I was not my wife for more than a year, when I tied my life with Mayakovsky. Neither "Menage A Trois" could not be speech. When I told Brik about the fact that Vladimir Vladimirovich and I loved each other, he replied: I understand you, just let's never part with you. This I am writing to be understandable to all the subsequent. "

In history there are many examples of the three-minded love alliances, but this one is perhaps the most ambiguous. How could two men get along with each other peacefully, two rivals, the subject of the adoration of which was the same woman? And they didn't just endure each other - they were associated with a much warmer relationship than even simple friendship. In letters, Mayakovsky and Osip BRIC call each other affectionate words, endlessly embrace each other and kiss. What is the secret here? It seems to me that the answer lies here in these line-recognition Lily Brick: "I love him<Осю> C childhood. He is inseparable from me.<…> This love did not interfere with my love for Volodya. On the contrary, if not the axis, I would love Volodya not so much. I could not not love Volodya if the axis loved him so much. He said that Volodya is not a person for him, but an event. Volodya largely rebuilt asian thinking, took it with him in his life path, and I do not know more faithful to each other, more loving friends and comrades "(L. Bric." Prissual stories "). V. V. Katanyan wrote about this: "This recognition of Liu always caused shock from others, but it was not embarrassed by her. There was a feeling that she even bragled with this absolutely sincere and unshakable recognition. "

It seems to me, to understand the relationship between Lily Bric and Vladimir Mayakovsky, you need to know the history of relations Lily and Osip. Lily began to meet with Osip, when she was thirteen, and he was sixteen years old. Osip studied in the 3rd Moscow gymnasium and was the dream of all the gymnasics, his name was cut on school desks. Young Lily Kagan produced a deep impression on the Osip. "The axis began to call me on the phone," said Lily. - I was on the Christmas tree. The axis took me home and on the road, on the cab, suddenly asked: not it seems to you, lily, what is something bigger between us than friendship? It seemed to me, I just didn't think about it, but I really liked the wording, and I replied from the surprise: "Yes, it seems." Communicating for a while, Osip realized that he was mistaken in the power of his feelings, and they broke up. Then the relationship resumed. "I wanted to be every minute with him," wrote Lily and did "everything that the 17-year-old boy should seem to be vulgar and sentimental: when the axis sat down on the window, I immediately found himself in a chair at his feet, I sat down on the couch. And he took his hand. He threw up, walked around the room and only once for all time, for? The year must have kissed me somehow ridiculous, in the neck, a shivo-across. "

Good to be a muse! Especially a wealthy person: he enhances, and you inspire him, you decorate his home by your portraits, you make the view that you can also get to the cinema, then you will sit next to the cinema or sculpt it from clay. You can jump, portraying the ballerina. That's just the poems to write so difficult and not everyone is given! But there is a prose! You can give a script and even try to remove the "film" with you in the lead role. Did not work out? So I am an incomprehensible genius! The main thing is to be able to keep these men in the hands!

Approximately for the 15 years were the relationship between Lily Bric and Gorlana, Ringer, Vladimir Mayakovsky.
Mayakovsky and his muse Lily Bric ... their life seems to have long been studied in minutes. Especially the story of their love relationships. It is necessary - to live immediately with two husbands at the same time! She, that, Muslim, who is supposed to have a harem?! However, if you consider all my husbands Lily Bric, then fucking fucking embarrassed from the poverty of his sex life. More televilms were shot about her than Mayakovsky itself: "Veniamin Luchi about Lile Brick" (1995); "More than love: Vladimir Mayakovsky and Lily Brick" (2003); "About this, about the poet and about Lil Bric" (2006), "Civil Widow of Mayakovsky Lily Bric" (2009); "Women in Russian history. Lily Brick "(2011). In addition, episodes are preserved from silent films, where once, during the lifetime of the poet, Lily Bric was removed with him. And how many articles and books are written! Of these, this image is evaporated.
With a pink youth, her gymnasium Lily Kagan, the daughter of wealthy parents - a lawyer and pianists, took bright love novels. When the next story of Young Lily with her music teacher ended with pregnancy, she was sent to the wilderness - away from Shame. There, she expected her abortion, whether artificial childbirth, after which Lilya was forever lost the opportunity to have children and began to live exclusively for themselves! With Osip, she met even thirteen years. But only after all her adventures, young people decided to get married.

The parents of the groom, wealthy merchants were against such an alliance - very loud glory was in the bride! However, the groom was obsessed, and this marriage in a rather strange form was preserved until his death in 1945. She became Lily Yuryevna (Uriyevna) BRIC - until the end of life. After graduating from the Law Faculty of Moscow University, Osip did not work in the specialty, but served in the jewelry company Father. It seems to be a class enemy, and after the revolution became the legal adviser. Strange some kind of career! Lily since 1912 lived on the means of her husband and was looking for himself for a long time: he learned a little on the mathematical faculty of the highest female courses, then as much - in the Moscow architectural institute, for some time in Munich was engaged in sculpture, and then he was fascinated by ballet, but also did not become a ballerina .

She found herself in the role of the mistress of the secular salon, the muses of several poets and the secular lioness who managed to be even the most difficult for the country of times - during the revolutions and all wars of the twentieth century.
Mayakovsky got acquainted with this woman in July 1915 in St. Petersburg. Bricks heard about him before, and now showed sympathetic attention to the 22-year-old Futurist in a yellow joke, guessing a large poetic talent in it.

I introduced their younger sister Lily Yurievna - Elsa. For her, even before dating bricks, Mayakovsky was cared, there was a house with her, frightening the respective parents of Elza with his futuristic outcomes. After the death of the Father - in July 1915 - Elsa came to Petrograd to the sister and, at his misfortune, invited Mayakovsky to her. He came, read the cloud in his pants ... Remember:
"Want to -
I will be mad from meat
- And, like the sky, changing tones -
want to -
I will be impecorated gentle,
Not a man, but a cloud in the pants! "
It all started with such passions, and it ended. ... But then, as Elsa writes, "Bricks reacted enthusiastically, fell irretrievably loved them. And Mayakovsky irrevocably loved Lil ... "The poet removed accommodation near Birkov and spent all his free time. Osip even printed at his own expense his poem, previously rejected by publishers. A dedication "to you, Lilya" appeared on the book - first, but not the last. Then O. BRIC publishes the Poem Mayakovsky "Flute-Spine", in which, as in many subsequent verses, the poet comes his frantic feeling to Lile (so he began to call her). Then follows the poem "Lelichka!". By the heat of passion - this is one of the best lyrical poems in the work of the poet, and in Soviet poetry too. Since 1915, this Trinity almost does not part.
Since then, Mayakovsky has all its works, even written before dating brings, dedicates Lile.

They will become more concise and very "Mayakovskiy." L.Yu.B. These of her initials will decorate the donated ring - in a circle they will be read "love". L.Yu.B. fascinated many men. Than? There was something in this "dazzling in the queen of Zion Jews," wrote about her one of her fans - Victor Shklovsky. "She knew how to be sad, feminine, capricious, proud, empty, non-permanent, in love, smart and anywhere."

And one of the husbands of Anna Ahmatova art historian N. Punin recorded in the diary: "... she has solemn eyes; There is something brazen and sweet in her face with made of lips and dark eyelids ... "Women saw her other: yes, thin, slim, fragile, but" The defect of the appearance of Lily Yuryevna could consider a somewhat large head and a heavy lower part of the face, but, Maybe it had its special charm in her appearance, very far from classical beauty. " And one of the memoirs exclaimed: "My God! Why she is ugly. Too big for a small head of the head, a sloppy back and this terrible tick. " There were still freckles, red hair and ... cryvized thin legs. That we and women to see only the shortcomings in themselves like. This men can be attracted by something "brazen and sweet", "dark eyelids and painted lips." We will not deceive us! In addition, apparently, it is necessary to be a really big poet to turn such an image into an object of worship. And Vladim, Vladimich, so obtassed the pole, which attracted even more fans of the "arrogant and sweet."
Lily had their approach to men who acted, in her opinion, trouble-free:

"It is necessary to inspire a man that he is wonderful or even ingenious, but that others do not understand this. And allow him what is not allowed to him at home. For example, smoking or ride where it swings. The rest will make good shoes and silk linen. "

King (and Queen too) makes a retinue. And Lilya creates it thanks to Mayakovsky, turning their shared apartment (they contain the parents of Osip) to the secular salon (and this during the World War II!). It is regularly visited by well-known writers - Friends of Mayakovsky: Leshem Khlebnikov, David Burluk, Vasily Kamensky, Nikolai Aseev, later - Sergey Yesenin, Vsevolod Meyerhold, Maxim Gorky, Boris Pasternak, and also such a completely literary figure as the deputy chairman Ya.S. Agranov. Persistent rumors were walking that the soul and the owner of the "salon" Lily Bric and her axis were not happy with him, and in the 20-30 Gg .. they also had the most direct relation to this "firm". Someone allegedly still saw the certificate of employees of the OGPU, and now they were found in the archives of the KGB and published.
How was Mayakovsky in such a company? According to the biographers of the poet, not so he was "Gorlan and the leader" of the revolution. On the contrary, an extremely impressionable, quick-time, who was constantly subjected to presses, he was previously only at the mother and sisters found shelter and affection. Friends - Literators - they are always rivals. Mayakovsky with a swollen soul responded to sympathy and attention shown to him by bricks. In the knightly noble, he until the end of the life kept warm feelings to those who once helped him, and never wrote a word about briquettes, even if they did not always appeal with him.
L. Bric wrote that her relationship with her husband in 1915 switched to purely friendly: "And this love could not overshadow my friendship with him, nor the friendship of Mayakovsky and Bric. We all decided never to part and lived in love with close friends. " It is said about later life: "We have never been close to the axes more physically, so all gossip about the" triangle "," threesome love ", etc. - A completely similar to what was. I loved, love and I will love the axis more than your brother, more than a husband, more than a son. I did not read about such love in any verses, in no literature. What about Volodya? And so: "I could not not love Volodya if the axis loved him." All this really was nothing like. In addition, the sublime love for retrancable husband did not interfere with Lile always use him in the farm - get products in difficult times, ride with him to relax in Germany and attend her mother in London. Until 1934, they, according to Lily, went abroad, more often than in transcendelino, easily receiving visas. That lily with the axes, then lily with Volodya. Very rare threesome. And when a friend appeared at Osipa, and then the wife of Eugene, she was never taken abroad. She traveled with her husband only on business trips through their native country.

Two Lily and Mayakovsky, she assures, never lived. In Moscow, it was first two rooms in a communal service, then a tiny apartment ... of the four rooms. In one Mayakovsky, to the other - the very salon, in the other two - lily with the axes. What was there really? Nobody held a candle.
But in the old age Lily Bric shocked Andrei Voznesensky with such recognition: "I loved making love with the axes. We then stored Volodya in the kitchen. He rushed, wanted to us, scratched at the door and cried ... "" She seemed to me a monster, - recognized as Voznesensky. - But Mayakovsky loved such. With whip ... "

And the love flew to heaven, it collapsed from them to sinful land. In 1922, Mayakovsky, again, with the help of Brikov, publishes the poem "I love" - \u200b\u200bhis lightest work about love for L. Bric. He illustrated a photographer artist, friend Mayakovsky - Rodchenko. It was a collage of Lily's photos. So everything, already not very secret, has become apparent for everyone. And immediately comes the first crisis in the relations of L. Bric and V. Mayakovsky. Arranged by the uncertainty of his status - He's husband or who? - Mayakovsky moves from the shared apartment in the Grozdikovsky Lane to his room - the office in the communal service on Lubyanka (now there is his museum). There, Volodya, on the instructions of Lily, should "be corrected", do not jealous, do not quarrel with her, and write the number of good poems given by it. His feelings of Lily Yuryevna did not take into account. In his circle, she allowed himself to speak about Mayakovsky ironically: "You imagine, Volodya is so boring, he even suits the scenes of jealousy"; "What is the difference between the Volodya and the excrement? One drives a horse, another - rhyme. " In the meantime, she lives with the axes and turns the novels with other fans, and Mayakovsky, pathologically jealous, hiding, walking her clock in the parade, passes the letters and notes through the housekeeper, sends flowers, books and birds in a cage. In response, only brief notes receive that she also misses.
In his experiences, Lily Yuryevna saw "favor": "It is useful to suffer from Volodya, it is pearing and writing good poems." So came out. February 28, 1923, for the first time after separation, they are found at the station to go along for several days to Petrograd. In the car Mayakovsky with the go, he reads the lila's fresh poem "about it" and sobs her hands.
Lyubov Relations L. Bric and V.Mimakovsky lasts for some time, but in 1924 there is a last disorder. Lily writes a note to the poet, which says that she does not feel for her former feelings, and at the end adds: "It seems to me that you love me much less and you won't suffer." Mayakovsky suffers, but tries not to show this, stating in verses: "I am now free from love and from posters." What happened? It turns out that the new passion for Lily Yuryevna, this time, by the village of Dacha, A. M. Krasnoshekov. He is not just a neighbor, but the chairman of Probankka and the deputy drug addict. The face is more important than the "simple proletarian" poet. When subsequently, Krasnchekova, who looked good hands on state money (not with the help of Lily?), They were put in prison, her, "official" mistress, not touched. Although they could ... "What to do? She complained Mayakovsky when he was in Paris in 1924. - I can not throw A. M., while he is in prison. Shame! So ashamed, more than ever in life ... die - easier ... "
Lily quickly comforted. All new and new hobbies followed the Krasnoshek: Asaf Messer, Fernand Leo, Yuri Tyanyanov, Leo Kuleshov. For Lily, turn novels with close friends was as natural as to breathe.

Such tests several times brought the poet to desire to end. Lilya put himself in merit that he was releasing him twice. He called - she resorted and took a gun.
In the 20s and up to the mid-30th intelligentsia, it was also allowed to be abroad, but not as often as Brick and Mayakovsky. And he, "striving to dispel," regularly visited in France, from there went to Mexico and the United States. Everywhere he had concerts, meetings with readers and ... novels. In the USA in 1926, he even born the daughter of Ellie-delena-Patricia, which was carefully hidden from the briks.

Vladimir saw the daughter only once - in the fall of 1928, when they met with Elizabeth in Nice, soon there was no poet. About the daughter of the poet our newspapers will write only in the 90s. Recently, they also reported her death.

There was no children from Ellie, at the sisters of Mayakovsky too - the genus was interrupted.
On the "ordinary novels" of Mayakovsky Lily watched calmly, but it was worth it to know that the "swallowing, her cute whistle" is scheduled for something serious and he is close to marrying, as, for example, with a Russian emigrant Tatyana Yakovleva, she immediately took steps, To return your loved ones.

In Paris, Lily had his own reliable agent - Sister Elsz Tyole, who became the wife of the French writer-Communist Louis Aragon (as it turned out later, a homosexual who left her to a man), provided and sister the opportunity from time to time to be a Parisian. Elsa regularly reports Lile, which allows itself Mayakovsky away from her, and sisters together fly their networks. This was born to the light of Elza with a message that Tatyana Yakovlev, who waits for Mayakovsky in Paris, allegedly married a rich aristocrat. Lily "Necriminally" read it out loud in the cabin, in the presence of several poets, expressing the sympathy of the Waterway, who almost went crazy from this news. The poet's bride really became the wife of the aristocrat, but somewhat later.
The poet continued to rushing between the list and his new girlfriends, kaleidoscope flashed in his life.

Lily also does not refuse him. And the axis also lives with a constant girlfriend, with which Lily is friendly. And they all exist on the earnings of Mayakovsky. It is easy to guess that the marriage of Mayakovsky "seriously" would mean certain financial inconveniences for BRICS - after all, the poet carried considerable expenses to ensure their lives. Letters Lily Yuryevna Ponatrusted endless requests for money. Included in this and Osip BRIC. "Kisa asks for money," he telegraphed into Samara Mayakovsky. "Everything is safe. Waiting for money "- the usual version of the telegraph elements of Lily. Vladimir Vladimirovich paid her passage trips, carried out endless orders - from the ladies toilets to - "I really want a car! Bring, please! " Yes, "certainly Ford, the last release ...".

As a man of a broad soul, the poet even in cramped circumstances did not disregard any request of the briks. "Favorite Watercraft" remained for Lily the main supplier of French cosmetics, dresses, stockings and even "little Renoshka" - almost the first private car in Moscow. Now in France, the correspondence of the sisters has been published (it has been published only selectively and usually edited by briks). Letters are full of such orders and descriptions of the novels of the sisters and poet.
The last meeting of Lily with Mayakovsky takes place on February 18, 1930, a day when Bricks leave Berlin and London, as it is in official documents, "inspect cultural values." Mayakovsky, who for a long time unsuccessfully tried to ensure that he was released in Paris to T. Yakovleva, in the last days of life will ride abroad to L. Bric. But it is no longer allowed to leave him.
The last postcard from Lily Mayakovsky was sent on April 14, 1930 - on the Poet Suicide Day. Later, Lily will write: "If I would be at home at that time, maybe this time would have moved away for some time."
The witness of the death of the poet is the very different woman - actress Mkhat Veronika Polonskaya, the wife of Artist Mikhail Yanshina, which Mayakovsky persuaded his wife in minutes to death.

I did not persuade - and he fired in his heart, barely stepped behind the threshold of his tiny cabinet. The two-meter Mayakovsky fell so that it was impossible to immediately enter the room. When friends, Lily and Axis - Gabeshniki were raised - and entered, still smelled powder, but nothing could be done. Late…
The investigation into the death of the poet for № 24541 was entrusted, of course, to a friend of the Agranov family. On the situation of this person in the GPU, it can be judged by the fact that in Leningrad after the murder of Kirov, Stalin was accompanied by Yakov Agranov. In 35, he received an apartment in the Kremlin in the Duchidze's dungeons. As it turned out later, the poet Nikolai Gumilev and the scientist Alexander Chayanov became victims of Agrianov. True, and he himself also slapped when he became not needed.
Then there was no doubt about the suicide of the poet. After all, he left a testament note, written two days before death - April 12, 1930. Here she is.
"In the fact that I'm dying, do not blame anyone and, please do not gossip. The dead man did not like this terribly.
Mom, sisters and comrades, sorry - this is not a way (I do not advise others), but I have no way out.
Lilya - love me.
Comrade Government, my family is Lily Brick, Mom, Sisters and Veronika Witoldovna Polonskaya.
If you arrange a bias life - thanks.
Give them to bricks started, they will figure it out.
As they say -
"Incident is fixed",
Love boat
crashed about life.
I am with life in the calculation
and nothing to do
mutual pains
trouble and offense.
Happily stay.
Vladimir Mayakovsky.
12. 04. 30 g. "
There is still a quantity of money.
Three days later, the funeral from abroad returned, caused by the telegram Agroman, Brick. Faithfully, Lily called Polonskaya and asked her not to come to the funeral, so that "not to poison his presence of the last minutes of farewell to his own native." The actress did not come - at this time it was just called to the investigator ...

The life of Veronica Polonsky immediately changed sharply. "He shot himself under the hole," Lilya brick sister wrote to Paris, "but it can be blamed as an orange crust, which he slipped, fell and crashed to death." The poor woman was so frightened by the death of the poet, interrogations in the competent authorities, which refused everything and all his life hid his involvement in the poet and his tragedy. A suicide note published "True", and M.Yanshin, her husband, no matter how he loved his young Nora (she was 21 years old), because of the publicity immediately left her. Veronica Polonskaya died in 1991 in the nursing home of actors. Only then became a well-known role in the life and death of the poet.
The small property of Mayakovsky was divided equally between his mother and lily. In addition, she was given two thousand rubles, mentioned by Mayakovsky in the note and two gold rings, perhaps them for themselves and Veronica Polonskaya.
The entire archive of Mayakovsky was transferred to the bricks (there is a believable version of the posthumous recording of the notes by bricks). They began to be diligently engaged in the preparation of the collections of the Works of Mayakovsky, despite the protests of the mother and sisters of the poet, who received the right only to part of the fee from publications. Multi-year litigation begins for the rights to manuscripts. It happened to ships, but Bricks did not release the works of the poet from their hands. When in 1935 there were difficulties with the publication of the full collection of works, Lily Yurevna wrote a letter I. Stalin, in which he requested help. It was on her letter to the leader wrote the famous and repeatedly quoted: "Tov. Heds! I really ask you to pay attention to the letter BRIC. Mayakovsky was and remains the best, the talented poet of our Soviet era. Indifference to his memory and his works - a crime. Complaints Brick, in my opinion, are correct. Hey! Stalin. From that moment on, Mayakovsky becomes the main poet of the Soviet Union, and Britis - the main heirs and to the most Khrushchev times they live at the expense of fees for publications, separating the crumbs of the poet's native poet. Once, in response to another complaint by the one by the time the sister of Mayakovsky Lyudmila, Nikita Khrushchev ordered to stop paying the fees lile and her husbands. "Enough! Used! " Spouses had to live on ordinary pensions. However, they did not bother.

After the death of Mayakovsky Lily, it was pretty soon married to the commander of the "Corval Cossacks" of Komkore Vitaly Primakov. But here she almost got into history - her new husband was repressed in 1937, (A.M. Krasnoshekova, whose financial fraud was exposed by no one as V.V. Kuibyshev, and Lile was ashamed to leave until he was in prison, too). Then Lilya waited for arrest every day and hoping to drown out horror reached for a bottle. But the matter did not come to the swallow, and she did not become an alcoholic. Lilya did not hit, like other wives of large military, nor under the execution, nor in the steppes of Kazakhstan. According to legend, Stalin said: "We will not touch Mayakovsky's wife" - and crossed out it from the list of doomed to arrest writers. Perhaps Tyrant did not want to discredit the name of the poet, quite recently raised by the pedestal.
The next time (officially - on the third) L.brick married Vasily Kathanyan's literary Russian literary review ... Friend's friend of Brick Osip. Lily led the writer from his family and wondered why his abandoned wife was offended, and not friends with her).
Very convenient - at home your literary critic and editor of the works of Mayakovsky. V. Katanyan wrote several studies of creativity "the best and talented poet." Later, when the spouses raised, the son of Katanyan began for the manuscript, too, Vasily. We are still students of the Pedium Institute on the task of teachers, we were abstract by the works of Katanyanov, in which the "best and talented poet of our era was praised, but nothing was said about the role of briks in his life.
Until his death, Lily led the familiar lifestyle for her. I went to France to the sister and shopping, met there with celebrities as the wife of Mayakovsky and sister famous in France's writer Elz Tole. There, 80 years old, once even happened to an affair with a young Frenchman.

She was still slightly engaged in art, a little translated, china and trays were collecting, and after death continued to finance her whim. It still existed her home salon in the apartment at the prestigious Kutuzovsky Prospect even in the 1960s .. But the last salons were dispersed even at the beginning of the 30s. She has been visiting celebrities from France. Here the acquaintances were tied, someone's fates were arranged. For example, the poet Andrei Voznesensky received a ticket to life thanks to Lile Brick. She got acquainted and often Maya Plisetskaya, Rodion Shchedrin and other cultural and art figures. Lily Yurieval was to admire. And everyone admired. One day they even detained the beginning of the play in the Bolshoi Theater, until a small-born old woman came under his hands with a redhead oblique, in some balachons, hung with decorations. "She is! She is!" - the audience whispered.

So who was she? Muse? Wife? Mistress? Widow of the poet? His brutal landfit? These questions were not found. As no one will never know what was the fateful motive of the last act of the poet. Personal problems? Critical campaign against Mayakovsky? Falling "Baths" in the theater? Unsuccessful affair with Veronica Polonskaya, with whom he introduced the same bricks? Until now, in numerous editions, researchers each in their understanding are trying to solve these issues.

Until the last days of life, Lily Brick wore a ring with the engraving of her initials - L.Yu.B., who became infinite "love" on the chain. Inside the rings it was written: "Volodya".

In his diary in the 70s, she wrote:
"Sleepy dreamed - I am angry at Volodya for the fact that he shot himself, and he is so affectionately puts a tiny gun in his hand and says:" Anyway, you do the same. "
The dream was proper. In 86 years, the early May morning she fell in her room, broke the neck of the thigh, was doomed to immobility. A few days before death, she dreamed of the poems of Mayakovsky. She was sad, sad and silent. And on August 4, 1978, Lily Yuryevna committed suicide at the cottage in Peredelkin. Having taken a deadly dose of sleeping pills, she began to write a suicide note that did not have time to finish: "In my death, I ask no one to blame. Vasik, I am idle you. Forgive me! And friends forgive ... "

Many before Lily ordered not to arrange the grave, but dispel her dust: "There will always be ready to abruptly!" In the field near Moscow and this sad rite was performed. The characteristic Russian landscape - the field, the emitting of the river, the forest ... on the edge set as if the point of her life is a huge boulder, which brought her fans there. Three letters are knocked out on it - L. Yu. B.

In Soviet times, nothing was written about and did not tell. Moreover, this strange triangle prevented the literary critic to create the image of the perfect proletarian poet. When, in one of the volumes of the "literary inheritance", part of the correspondence of L.brick and V. Markovsky was published, the book was immediately banned, and the second volume did not publish at all.

As always, it happens, the prohibitions cause special curiosity and flight of the fantasy "researchers." What is not written about these people! In addition to one: they were not the only one in the anxious country. After all, soon after the famous decrees "On the World" and "On Earth", decree (December 19, 1917) "On the abolition of marriage" and "On the abolition of punishment for homosexuality" are published. According to these decrees, the Sexual Union (the second name is "Marriage Union") it was possible to make a marriage, so easily terminate. It was enough to mark in the village council or in the house management. And it was possible to live just like that without celebrating.

Along with revolutionary dates, the anniversary of the decree "On the cancellation" of the marriage of the lesbian was celebrated in the USSR. Trotsky in his memoirs argues that Lenin's news happily responded to this: "Keep it, comrades!". On the same procession carried the posters "Down Shame!". This appeal finally entered a wide source in June 1918, when several hundred representatives of both sexes walked in the center of Petrograd completely naked. In the country, it was triumphantly marked not only the cultural revolution, and also sexual, although the province reacted sluggish to it. Many things then revealed! For example, sexuals were introduced in schools for children of 12-13 years old, in order to avoid early pregnancy. The usual phenomenon of that time was the Komsomol communes, where there were 10-12 persons in both sexes on a voluntary basis in the "family".

The ideologist of the Decree "On Defo Marriage" was the notorious Alexander Kollondtai, the author of the theory of love, as a glass of water, whose personal life was no less saturated than Lily Brick. And even the famous girlfriend Lenin Insessa Armand left its four children for the sake of love for her husband's brother. That she had with the leader, still guess their supper historians. This period of unrestrained "revolutionary debauchery" lasted for a long time. With the arrival of Stalin's power at the end of the 20s, the sexual revolution went to no. And with the adoption of the Stalin Constitution, he lost strength and decree "On the cancellation of marriage".

We remembered those events that went into history only because some of our countrymen are missing about them and move between freedom in marriage and desire to legalize the harem. Some fathers willingly send daughters to other edges and threaten to break their arms-legs if they choose a foreigner into her husband.

Somehow Vladimir Mayakovsky and Lily Brik were visited in the trendy petrograd cafe "Total Comedians". Having spent some time there, the couple came out of the establishment, and the woman discovered that he had forgotten her handbag. The poet instantly returned for her. At the next table, a famous journalist Larisa Reisner was sitting, who noticed with sadness: "Vladimir, you will now carry this handbag all my life!" What Mayakovsky, not confused, on the contrary, with pride answered: "I, Larisa, I can wear this handbag in my teeth! There is no resentment in love! " This impressive case fully shows how lily he seized the heart of the poet. We will talk about life and fate of such a shock and bright woman today and talk.

The biography of the music of the Russian avant-garde is closely intertwined with the lives of many well-known and prominent artists and literature. In 1891, in the family of the Moscow lawyer, Uria Alexandrovich and Elena Yulievna Berman was born a girl - Lily Urievna Kagan. The family was with sufficient, so education did not regret money. As a child, the governess-French-franger, which occupied her upbringing. Then Lily was very successfully trained in a private gymnasium, and in 1909 she entered the Mathematical Faculty of Higher Female Courses. The exact sciences were clearly not for our heroine: Quickly throwing sines and the proven, Lily entered the architectural institute, to the separation of painting and modeling. The passion for elegant arts turned out to be quite serious and left with the heroine until the end of her days. But on this, her searches did not stop himself. She was also fascinated by the ballet and even asked for parents to set home a professional machine. The girl began to attend the lessons of the famous ballerina Alexandra Dorinskaya. Which responded to Lile, as a very diligent student.

However, the girl had hobbies who delivered trouble with their parents, from Early Youth Lily was distinguished by pleasure, her novels followed one after another. Although it was not considered the fatal beauty, but she owned the incredible art to fascinate and attribute representatives of the opposite sex. It is rumored that Fyodor Shalyapin was not stated before the spells of the girl. Once, driving in his carriage, he was amazed at the first sight of Lily, who committed a promenade in the Moscow streets. The man stopped the cab driver and invited the girl to his concert. Of course, no liberty followed by this, but, dare to assume that the torture friends-peers were not so tactful and delicate in the manifestation of nascent feelings.

Mom did not know with me for a minute of rest and did not keep his eyes off me.

At the same time, the parents had every reason to be proud of their daughter: Lily was and a capable, gifted girl. In addition, she possessed incredible little on talented people and did not hesitate to resort to their help. Often at the musical evenings of Mother Lily, the literary ops of the girl were read. They caused a deep interest and approval of guests-listeners. But one beautiful day it turned out that the real writer is not a gymnasium, but her teacher of literature, selflessly worked instead of his young passion.

After this incident, the young sweatshop is sent to the grandmother to Poland. But the planners plan to restore the morality of the daughter suffered fiasco. The girl fell in love with his native uncle and began to achieve an agreement with the Father on an official marriage. Lily immediately returned to Moscow, frankly, not long. After another fleeting passion, the girl had to go to the province to make an abortion. The result of this medical intervention was the fact that Lily was forever lost opportunities to have children. Since she no longer threatened with an unscheduled pregnancy, the girl became only greasy in an intimate plan.

Another passion of Lily was photo shoots. Intimate character. The girl did not hesitate to nominate her charms in front of the camera lens.

Best to meet in bed!

Her fleeting acquaintances and maiden adventures were accompanied by love for Osipa Brick. They met when the girl was 13 years old, her chosen 17. Osip was led by a mug to study the Polyteconomy Azov, who attended Lily. 7 years of meetings, parting, dates, explanations. At first, the young man did not particularly show feelings, although the young charming adorable was not much shy of confessions and quickly reported his love. Lily's encouraging answer did not receive, but the girl was distinguished by incredible quality: she did not recognize that a man could remain indifferent to her charm. Lily did not believe it herself and did not give such an opportunity to others. We will not evaluate the weakening of the fact that Osip Bric lost his head from a suddenly broken feeling, but the fact remains a fact, in 1912 they played a wedding.

35 years after the celebration there was a meeting of Berkov and Mayakovsky: his junior sister Lily, Elsa, led him to the house of his spouses. She was extremely proud of her fan and was fond of them. Imagine the surprise of the unfortunate sister, when Vladimir, having finished reading his work, went to the older sister and asked permission to devote to the poem. So Lily acquired a new fan, lacked him with his own sister.

For the poet, this evening was fatal. He, fully covered by a flaming feeling, literally prohibited everywhere about his muse. Mayakovsky in the literal sense struck her love for her. Although he had long sought reciprocity, he ultimately managed to achieve his goal. Somewhat.

In those days, the literary environment was far from the Puritania, but what happened, plunged into the shock of all.

Elzochka, do not make such terrible eyes. I just told the axes that my feeling to Volody was checked, firmly and that I was now my wife. And the axis agrees.

The younger sister before leaving the abroad decided to look at the guests to the bricks and discovered there a sterling, happy Mayakovsky, muring at the feet of foam. As for the legitimate husband, he was extremely calm and only stated: "Yes, we now decided to settle threesome!" There were no jokes in this, the participants of the dubious adventures were really the joint living. And on the doors of the communal rooms, where they lived, hung plate: "Bricks. Mayakovsky. "

Lily Rules Ball, she was unquestioned dictated the laws of accommodation for all three. For example, in the evenings, they had to spend together, and the daytime was not subject to any control, that is, everyone was granted himself. Affective thing, the buoy temperament of Vladimir could not meet such a regulation. He satisfied the scene of jealousy, crossed the furniture. Osip, who knew the spouse much longer, tried to enjoy the cohabitant, they say: "Lilya is the element! It is impossible to stop the rain or snowfall at will. " The culprit of the same rapid events did not even think about sacrifice with their adventures and hobbies.

Although it should be noted that with a clearly agreed freedom of each of the participants in the trio, it always watched not only for random intrigues, but also for the work of the poet, assuring that it is useful to suffer from time to time. For example, once it arranged a real test for Mayakovsky, forboving it for several months. The genius suffered and thought the days before the meeting. After such "therapy" there were always awesome poems. It was not the only way to "upbringing" his fan. As Lily, herself admitted, she really liked making love with his legitimate spouse, while the unfortunate poet was locked in the kitchen. Lily about his romance responded like this:

Volodya should marry my housekeeper by Annushka, just as all Russia wanted Pushkin to marry Arine Rodionov.

The relationship between Mayakovsky and Mrs. Brick from year to year became only more difficult and confusing. He tried to tie his fate with other women, but again and returned to her, to his only and unique. Shot in the chest completed all the throwing of the poet.

The end of Mayakovsky did not become a big tragedy for Lily. She married Vitaly Primakov, one of the leaders of the NKVD. They moved together to Arbat. By the way, Osip Bric also continued to live with them. The circle of communication was replenished: now Friends of Primakov were added to guests from the world of art.

Idylli ended in that Vitaly and his friends, the parish in their house, were shot by order of Stalin. Lily also got into the list of sentences, but her name of the leader struck personally, saying that it was impossible to touch Mayakovsky's wife.

In 1945, Osip BRIC died of a heartbroken. His death became for Lily a real tragedy. According to her, "when there was no axis, it did not become her." In the nature of the woman there were cardinal changes. Third husband, Vasily Katanyan, Lilya no longer pushed out of jealousy: she became a loyal wife. Until the end of his days, a woman sought to surround himself and her husband on a permanent holiday. Interesting people, techniques, literary and musical evenings did not let the pair bother.

At the age of 86, Lily was inappropriately stupid near the bed and broke the neck of the thigh. At this age, such fractures are no longer heal. The least wanted to turn from the muses to the burden. Therefore, on August 4, 1978, at the cottage in Peredelkino, she took a deadly dose of sleeping pills. In a suicide note, Lily explained to her husband in adoration, asked for forgiveness from his friends.

At the request of the deceased, she did not bury it, but they were krassed and dispelled the dust in the wind. On one of the fields under Zvenigorod, there is a monument-boulder with letters - any (Lilya Yurevna BRIC).

The woman whose "eyes lit the Purpur of the Russian avant-garde," caused love and love, and hate, and envy. However, she did not live in vain, becoming an inspiration source for many ingenious people.