Video: A novel that ended with a shot in the heart: Why Alexander Green wanted to kill his beloved
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
August 23 marks 137 years since birth Alexandra Green, the author of the works "Scarlet Sails" and "Running on the Waves". In the life of the writer there were many sharp turns and plots no less exciting than in his works, which is why many legends were born around his name. According to one of them, he killed his first wife. However, in reality, everything was not quite so …
She did not become his wife, but she was the first love, which almost led to insanity. Her name was Ekaterina Bibergal, at the time of their acquaintance she was 24 years old, and Alexander Grinevsky (Green) was 23. Ekaterina was the daughter of a Narodnaya Volya who was sentenced to 15 years in hard labor. The daughter followed in her father's footsteps and was also actively involved in revolutionary activities. For participating in student demonstrations in St. Petersburg, she was sent under police supervision to Sevastopol, where they met Green in September 1903.
In those years, Alexander Grinevsky was also fascinated by the ideas of the revolution. He came to Sevastopol on behalf of the Socialist-Revolutionary Party to engage in agitation among soldiers and sailors. The first wife of the writer Vera Kalitskaya will later write about the relationship between Green and Bibergal in her memoirs: "".
"", - Vera Kalitskaya writes. If Katya Bibergal, nicknamed Kiska, completely devoted herself to the revolutionary struggle, then the writer was attracted by this activity only for its romance. After imprisonment and exile in Siberia, as Kalitskaya writes, "the romance of feat and risk for him faded."
They met again in 1905 in St. Petersburg, after Green was released from prison. At that time, he managed to become disillusioned with revolutionary activity, but she was still keen on. He offered her a hand and a heart, but she refused, explaining that he left her life from the moment he estranged himself from the Socialist-Revolutionary Party. In January 1906, they parted completely. During their last meeting, a tragedy broke out, about which legends will later circulate. Whether out of jealousy, or because he again received a rejection of his offer, Green flared up. According to contemporaries, he was impulsive and unrestrained and at such moments he lost control over himself. He had a ladies' revolver with him - there was no other. According to him, the girl behaved "courageously and defiantly." In a fit of rage, Green grabbed him and shot at his beloved. The bullet hit in the chest, but did not touch the heart.
The girl was immediately taken to the Obukhov hospital and operated on. Green Kiska did not betray, but she decided to end the relationship with him once and for all. They did not see each other again. In January 1906, Green was arrested - not for this fatal shot, but for campaigning. He went to prison, and from there he was exiled to Siberia. Kiska also ended up in hard labor after an unsuccessful attempt on the life of Grand Duke Vladimir, and after that she spent her whole life in camps and exile. Green subsequently was not interested in politics and devoted himself entirely to literary activity.
Later there were rumors that the writer had killed his first wife. Green's biographer A. Varlamov writes: "".
Katya Bibergal went down in history as a revolutionary and the first love of Alexander Green, and his last wife was Nina Mironova, whose fate after the death of her husband was dramatic: for which the widow of Alexander Green ended up in Stalin's camps.
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