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Video: Mstislav Rostropovich and Galina Vishnevskaya: love at first sight and for life
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
It is believed that love at first sight does not last long. It flared up, burned out and went out. But the love story of the prima donna Galina Vishnevskaya and the brilliant cellist Mstislav Rostropovich convinces that true love at first sight still exists and, consecrated by marriage, can last a lifetime.
Lilies of the valley, cucumbers and a light raincoat
Their first meeting took place at the Metropol restaurant. The rising star of the Bolshoi Theater Galina Vishnevskaya and the young cellist Mstislav Rostropovich were among the guests at the reception of the foreign delegation. “I raise my eyes, and a goddess descends to me from the stairs… I even lost my gift of speech. And at that very moment I decided that this woman would be mine,”Mstislav Leopoldovich recalled many years later.
At the end of the evening, Rostropovich very insistently offered to see the singer out. "By the way, I'm married!" - said Vishnevskaya. “By the way, we'll see about that!” Retorted Rostropovich. And then there was the “Prague Spring” festival. Rostropovich, having learned that Vishnevskaya would also be on the delegation, took all his ties and jackets with him, changed them in the evening and in the morning, hoping to impress the lady of the heart.
At dinner, Rostropovich noticed that Galina was not indifferent to pickles. The cellist made his way to her room with a huge bouquet of lilies of the valley and supplemented them with pickles. In a note left on the table, Rostropovich wrote: “I don’t know how you will react to such a bouquet, and therefore, in order to guarantee the success of the enterprise, I decided to add pickled cucumber to it, you love them so much.”
And finally, the musician managed to conquer Vishnevskaya, when he threw his light raincoat on the ground so that after the rain she would walk along the path in the Prague Garden. And she passed, and he conquered her.
Difficult decision
Their romance developed rapidly. After returning from Prague, 4 days later, Rostropovich posed the question to Galina bluntly: "Either you will come to live with me right now - or you do not love me, and everything is over between us." By that time, Vishnevskaya had 10 years of reliable marriage behind her, a caring and faithful husband - the director of the Leningrad Operetta Theater Mark Ilyich Rubin. He saved her from tuberculosis, he buried his little son. The situation was not easy. And Vishnevskaya, sending her husband to the store, threw slippers and a dressing gown into the suitcase and ran away.
When Galina came to her chosen one, it turned out that only her sister and mother were at home, he himself went to the store a couple of minutes ago, announcing that his wife was coming. Rostropovich's mother somehow awkwardly sat down on a chair, Vishnevskaya - on a suitcase, and they both burst into tears. And then Mstislav Leopoldovich came. In a string bag champagne, fish. Newly-born spouse: "Well, here we are!"
Life-long love
They lived together for 52 years, until Rostropovich's death. They raised two daughters, were friends with the disgraced Solzhenitsyn and Brodsky, were deprived of Soviet citizenship, experienced wanderings, tremendous success on the world music scene. During the August 1991 coup, Mstislav Leopoldovich was at the White House. They returned from exile to the new Russia.
In the mid-1990s, the maestro gave an interview to the Reader's Digest correspondent. He was asked, "Is it true that you married a woman four days after you met?" “True,” Rostropovich replied. “What do you think about this now?” The journalist did not calm down. “I think I lost four days!” Answered Mstislav Leopoldovich.
Another great love story is forbidden connection of admiral Kolchak, or love, which is stronger than death.
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