Bella Akhmadulina: Candle in the wind
Anatoly Korolyov, a writer, a member of the Russian PEN Club for RIA Novosti.
The death of the poet is always a sudden, especially since the death of his favorite poet, the more women, especially Bella Ahmadullina ...
In recent years it has become blind, and we, her friends and fans were anxiously asking each other: as Bella? And heard the answer: it distinguishes only the light from a window or candle flame, but it keeps a proud tenderness voice: I'm tired of looking, and all I remember and loved it.
Black round hat in the front row at the funeral Aksenova.
Black bird shadow on his head.
Black border of mourning veil stamped blackened silver upturned forehead. She has always lived with the person who turned over their heads, into the distance, and always descended from his detachment to us. Divide the meal, pet puppy. It seems she had a large forehead pei Guidon, what it is now without his black swan princess? What will all of us without its moral endowments to life? She was able to face the truth and only she could tell, once said: "I used to be ... but we must learn to wean ourselves, and it is very sad."
We will miss her as missing, when the Bell - yesterday! - Was still alive. A rare gift to keep a sense of thirst in the memory of all who knew her closely and those who saw it only from afar.
"It's me - at two o'clock in the afternoon, midwife extracted trophy on me, play the lute, I am tickled by the fairies sticks ..."
Meanwhile, the gift capriciously fell red-cheeked girl, bbw, one of those that do not write poetry - saw herself as a poet. And she began, very loudly, on-Komsomolsk, surrounded by friends-Tribune. Zhenya Yevtushenko, Andrei Voznesensky, Bulat ... round-faced and completely unlike the captive bird, gradually became thinner and higher, more rigorous and hotter. As a princess from a fairy tale, that lived in frog skin, and come to light only at night, and then - again - skin burned in the fire.
This firing was Her.
Like a rose forged from bronze, she lived among us, unique, matchless, incomparable to anyone, and yet nearly exhausted his own glory. Sincerely embarrassed by fame, she inspired readers:
«is the man that I am Nevelichka,
everyone who is, I come twin,
sleep, while attending train,
fallen to the bag unprepossessing face.
I have not dropped an extra good luck,
thank God, not fallen to me,
be honored or richer
all my neighbors on the ground.
The flesh of fellow weary,
well, that in their long build
in shops, cinema, railway stations
I recently stood in cash -
behind fellow Daring
and women in fluffy shawl
mingling with them, as the word and the word
on my and language ».
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Bella Akhmadulina - the clearest lyrical poet of the twentieth century Russian and European poetry. In its sublime, passionate and even earnest work in verse on the verge of confession, she continued the line of classical verse, the one that came from the Pushkin (purity forms), and was continued in the poetry of two great admirers of Pushkin - Marina Tsvetaeva and Anna Akhmatova. Tsvetaeva Ahmadullina learned from the attack of Russian speech, one that from the pressure becomes tongue-tied. By Akhmatova, it acquired a tendency to the creation of the court by the mouth of poems, was strict and partial to themselves and others, are engaged in conscientiousness. Hence its participation in the uncensored almanac Metropol, the letter in defense of Sakharov and Solzhenitsyn, some single citizenship, rather melancholy than defiant. On the leisured question - can admire a politician? she answered the question: ask the animal if he could admire a hunter?
Itself forged culture Akhmadulina appreciate the culture as a kind of trapping network, which binds to human evil and leads to shame, which she considered the cornerstone of civilization.
The very sensitive to the talent of another, and responsive to help, felt the joy of genius colleagues sign of genuine talent. And always remember Pushkin, who fanned the ember compliment any gift in another person, and considered it a rule to the covenant of Pushkin himself, and desirable rule for others.
Seemed delicate and fragile, she showed an enviable performance. Number of written Akhmadulina surprise: hundreds of poems, many poems, dozens of books, which she lost count. And an enviable number of awards, prizes, titles and other triumphs. Rare event for our country - Akhmadulina when life was recognized as a classic.
Her first book appeared in 1962. She called the book "strings" in this brief eloquence was declared life - the fate of a stretched string. More recent books - "Fever", "Snowstorm," "Candle," "Mystery," "Garden" - add up to a whole poem, where the snow blizzard, Listopad downpour opposes only one candle, which should carry the bare hand over the water even when life with his head went under water ...
Goodbye, black diamond Russian poetry ...
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