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Video: "Love the Other, No - Others, No - All ": Sofia Parnok - the fatal passion of Marina Tsvetaeva
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Each creative person has his own muse, a stimulus in the flesh, which kindles a storm in the heart of the poet, helping to give birth to artistic and poetic masterpieces. Such was Sofia Parnok for Marina Tsvetaeva - love and a catastrophe of her whole life. She dedicated many poems to Parnok that everyone knows and quotes, sometimes without even knowing who they were addressed to.
Girl with a Beethoven profile
Sonechka was born into an intelligent Jewish family in 1885 in Taganrog. The father was the owner of a network of pharmacies and an honorary citizen of the city, and the girl's mother was a very respected doctor. Sonya's mother died in a second birth, giving birth to twins. The head of the family soon married a governess, with whom Sofia did not have a relationship.
The girl grew up wayward and withdrawn, she poured out all her pain in poetry, which she began to write at an early age. Sonya created her own world, into which outsiders, even her father, who had previously been idolized, had no access. Probably, since then, a tragic hopelessness appeared in her eyes, which remained forever.
Life in her home became unbearable, and the gold medalist of the Mariinsky gymnasium went to study in the capital of Switzerland, where she showed amazing musical abilities, having received her education at the conservatory.
Upon returning to her homeland, she began to attend the highest Bestuzhev courses. At this time, Sofia broke out a short romance with Nadezhda Polyakova. But the poetess quickly cooled down to her beloved. And this closeness almost ended tragically for the latter.
Soon Parnok married the famous writer Vladimir Volkstein. The marriage was concluded according to all Jewish canons, but did not stand even a short test of time. It was then that Sofia realized that men did not interest her. And she again began to find solace from her friends.
Sappho's Arrowhead
Before the war, the salon of the literary critic Adelaide Gertsyk was a haven for talented Moscow poetesses. It was there that Tsvetaeva and Parnok met. Then Marina turned twenty-three, and her two-year-old daughter Ariadne and her loving husband Sergei Efron were waiting for her at home.
A woman entered the living room in a cloud of exquisite perfume and expensive cigarettes. Her contrasting clothes, white and black, seemed to emphasize the inconsistency of nature: a sharply defined chin, imperious lips and graceful movements. She exuded a seductive aura of sin, gently manipulating her husky voice. Everything in her cried out for love - the quivering movement of graceful fingers pulling a handkerchief out of a suede bag, a seductive gaze of inviting eyes. Tsvetaeva, reclining in an armchair, succumbed to this pernicious charm. She got up, silently brought the lighted match to the stranger, giving her a light. Eye to eye - and the heart raced.
Marina was introduced as the named daughter of Adelaide. And then there was a clink of glasses, a short conversation and several years of overwhelming happiness. Marina's feelings for Sofia were strengthened when she saw Parnok riding a cab with a young pretty girl. Then Tsvetaeva was engulfed in a fire of indignation, and she wrote the first poem dedicated to her new girlfriend. Now Marina knew for sure that she did not want to share Sonya's heart with anyone.
In the winter of 1915, disregarding public opinion, the women went to rest together, first in Rostov, then in Koktebel, and later in Svyatogorye. When Tsvetaeva was told that no one does this, she replied: "I am not everything."
Efron patiently waited for this pernicious passion to burn out, but soon went to the front. During this period Tsvetaeva created a cycle of poems "To a Friend", frankly confessing Parnok's love. But, oddly enough, and love for her husband did not leave her.
Rivalry
By the time she met Sofia Tsvetaeva, although she was already a mother, she felt like a child who lacked tenderness. She lived in her poetic cocoon, an illusory world that she herself created. Probably, then she had not yet felt passion in an intimate relationship with her husband, which is why she so easily got into the network of an experienced and erotic Parnok. A woman with lesbian inclinations became everything to her: both an affectionate mother and an exciting lover.
But both women were already recognized poetesses, they published a lot, and little by little literary rivalry began to arise between them.
At first, Sofia Parnok restrained this feeling in herself, because in the first place for her was the satisfaction of carnal desires. But soon Tsvetaeva's ambivalent attitude towards her friend began to prevail. In her work of this period, gloomy notes can already be traced in relation to her beloved Sonya. Then Marina still believed that loving men is boring. She continued to indulge in bliss in an apartment on the Arbat, which was specially rented by her muse for meetings.
A sinful relationship is always doomed. This happened with two talented poetesses. In the winter of 1916, Osip Mandelstam stayed with Tsvetaeva for several days. Friends wandered around the city, read each other their new poems, discussed the work of brothers in the pen. And when Marina came to Sonya, “under the caress of a plush blanket,” she found another woman, as she would later write, black and fat. An unbearable pain gnawed at my heart, but the proud Tsvetaeva left in silence.
Since then, Marina has tried to forget all the events associated with Sofia. She even accepted the news of her death with indifference. But it was only a mask - it is impossible to escape from memory.
As for Sofia Parnok, after parting with Tsvetaeva, she still had several novels with the ladies. Her last passion was Nina Vedeneeva, to whom the poetess dedicated a wonderful cycle of poems. In the arms of her last muse, Sophia, the Russian Sappho, died of a ruptured heart. But until the last day on her bedside table there was a photograph of Marina Tsvetaeva …
One of the most famous poems by Marina Tsvetaeva is Marina Tsvetaeva's lyrical dedication to her forbidden love “I want to look at the mirror, where is the dregs…”.
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