Bruni, Lev Alexandrovich

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Lev Alexandrovich was a terrific wife, Nina K. Balmont, daughter of the poet Konstantin Balmont. She survived her husband for 41 years. My mother was friends with her in the early 60's. In early childhood, I was in their apartment somewhere near Dobrininskaya am, although I can be wrong. It was a fantastic friendly, cheerful and very hospitable home. Nina K. was the head of this house for many decades, and has done a lot to preserve the memory of her husband and father.

«This is Nina K. - nee Balmont. They married when she was still quite young, just over eighteen. Her mother - a decent, respectable Catherine Andreyevna - feared that the daughter of the JNA, and his father, Konstantin Balmont, said: "Well, if you love, then, of course", - says art Valentina Bialik (Tretyakov Gallery).

«And soon with all the growing insistence sounded" music revolution ". She succumbed to the hypnotic rhythm of many, but not Lev Bruni. For it is far more important was another sound - let no one else heard, but for him a distinct melody of its own destiny. In the summer of 1917 he traveled to the Urals, in Miass. Lives there with his family Konstantin Balmont and goes to school the poet's daughter - Nina. The wedding of Nina Balmont and Lev Bruni held in the same Miasse spring of 1919.
Around the world will crumble in the chaos of civil war. They go to the east - in Omsk, then Novo-Nikolaevsk ... "Tanya YUDKEVICH

Nina K. Balmont Bruno

Conducts conversation VD Duvakin

      D. Nina Konstantinova, we started to talk more about other <...> I would like you to, firstly, tell your conversations with Pasternak.
     B. There must be very precise, to repeat what he said.
     D. Or, if you want to think about it specifically, it may be - this is you, in my opinion, easier and more pleasant - just tell us about his father. This is mine the only record of Balmont.
      B. This is also a need to prepare all over again, that such a huge, vast ...
     D. And you did not prepare?
     B. Where there is! "Before eh, my dear, it was a soft glaze with us ..." 1.
     D. you today, though, is not in form, very tired.

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B. I'm a lousy feeling. Well, you know - Pasternak ... I went to him, I have been with him topics to talk ... And then ... He thought I was among his friends. He and I have also lived and breathed beside me. I absolutely it ... And talk something was not ... Simply allow to be present in their lives.
     D. So you watched closely this life?
     B. Yes. I am very friendly with his wife, but most of all after his death, of course, with Zinaida Nikolaevna, with his malchikami2. Well, Zhenya something I knew long ago ... I remember a Stasik's birthday, 30 years old he was, Stanislaw, ... and ... Ivanov3, which is terribly drunk on his birthday, was to expose BL, that he himself is terrible that all his friends have to fill their cars with gasoline and flee to the ends of the earth, that he puts them in a position where they must either flee or reject it: "You would at least have pity on us, are not you ashamed" ... Here's how it is so. And Boris Leonidovich began answering him ... I can not restore what he said ...
     D. is very important.
     B. I can not restore it in memory. He said something: "Well, you know how it is: fried potatoes, and now oil is over, begins to stick ... Oil - a literature ..." Here are some things. Once I was admiring them, and I missed the main so ... True, it was there and drank a lot, and people of the mass was and all that. I inquired, as he gave the manuscript ...
     D. "Zhivago".
     B. Yes. I remember how he came to Akhmatova, she had translated "Chinese wall" 4 and invited him to listen. He sat and listened, then quickly began to gather and said: "I must go, I need to work." She said: "What do you write a novel?" He said: "Yes." So Akhmatova broke out: "Why do you need?" 5
     D. against the novel?
      B."... such beautiful poems he wrote ... "
     D. Oh, when he left, she broke?
     B. No, then, that evening.
     D. When there or ...?
     B. No, he was gone, of course.


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Notes

Nina K. Balmont Bruno (1900-1989), wife of the artist LA Bruni.
About NK Balmont Bruni-see, in particular, in the memoirs of M. Ardov: <...> man was goodwill, an unusually sociable and completely overlooking the lifestyle <...> When Akhmatova died, Nina K. came to Leningrad to the funeral.
<...> To "a civil funeral, she did not go, and we all waited a long time to Komarovskoe cemetery until brought the coffin ...
It was very cold. At some point, Nina K. called me aside. It opened its roomy handbag, took out flyazhechku with cognac and a glass, we had to drink, to warm up a bit ... After the funeral we went <...> in the booth. There was a requiem. <...> Nina K. benefited from the same church his bag slender candle and lit it.
Then I realized that she - the great man "(M. Ardov, B. Ardov, A. Batalov. Legendary Ordynka. Pp 198-200).

     1. "Before eh, my dear, it was a soft glaze with us." - Quoted strings fables of IA Krylov "Dragonfly and the Ant." up
     2. ... with Zinaida, with ... boys ... - I mean Zinaida Pasternak (nee Eremeev, first marriage Neuhaus, 1897-1966), second wife of Boris Pasternak, Yevgeny B. Pasternak (b. 1923), son of Boris Pasternak and his first wife, Ye . Pasternak, and Stanislav Genrikhovich Neuhaus (1927-1980), pianist, son of 3. H. Pasternak and H. Neuhaus. up
     3. ... Ivan ... - Probably refers to the writer Vsevolod Ivanov (1895-1963). up
     4. ... then she translated "Chinese wall" ... - Refers to the Akhmatova translations of Chinese poets included in the anthology of Chinese poetry (Moscow, 1957). up
     5. So Akhmatova broke out: "Why do you need?" - Describes Balmont Bruno met Pasternak and Akhmatova dated November-December 1957 By this time, Akhmatova had time to read the handwritten lists of pacing in the novel, Pasternak's "Doctor Zhivago" and give him the following assessment: "There are pages completely unprofessional. I think they wrote Olga ( Ivinskaya. - OF). Do not laugh. I'm serious. I've never been <...> editorial proclivities, but then I would grab a pencil and cross out page after page crosswise. And in this novel is landscapes ... I frankly say, equal to the Russian literature there. None of Turgenev or Tolstoy, none. They are brilliant, like "grow hazel" (L. Chukovskaya. Notes on Anna Akhmatova. Vol 2. C . 271). Continues bitterly scold novel BL.
     - People are dead, invented. One of nature alive. Doctor Zhivago is wrongly that name. He, too lifeless. And - you noticed? - He was no doctor. Most Holy Russian doctors have always been treated, all, and that no one ever ... And somehow he has children everywhere "(ibid.. S. 273)