The third is not superfluous: love triangles of famous writers

2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55

Reading the works of certain writers, people, as a rule, admire their genius and talents, turning a blind eye to their shortcomings. But creative people often allowed themselves much more than everyone else. In the biographies of many writers there is a place for adultery or cohabitation. This review presents the most famous love triangles of Russian writers Of the Silver Age.

Ivan Bunin

Ivan Bunin and Vera Muromtseva lived happily married until the writer brought Galina Kuznetsova, who was 30 years younger than him, into the house. Bunin put his wife before the fact: Galina is his personal secretary, student, adopted daughter, and she will live with them. Vera Muromtseva had to come to terms with her mistress. The women tolerated each other for about 10 years, until the girl Marga appeared in the writer's house, to whom Galina left, plunging Bunin into a real shock.

Vladimir Mayakovsky

Acquaintance Vladimir Mayakovsky and Lily Brick took place in 1915. Lily's sister Elsa brought the poet to visit the Briks, where creative personalities loved to gather. Passionate Mayakovsky immediately fell in love with the hostess. He began to visit new acquaintances every day, devoted almost all of his poems to Leela. After a while, Mayakovsky asked to live with the Briks, explaining that he "fell in love irrevocably with Lilya Yurievna." Osip Brik was condescending to his wife's hobbies and did not resist.

In an intimate relationship, Lilya and Mayakovsky did not keep loyalty to each other. But when the poet's friends tried to reproach the poet in a strange connection with Brick, he shouted: “Remember! Lilya Yurievna is my wife! " or quietly mumbled: "There is no offense in love."

On April 14, 1930, Vladimir Mayakovsky committed suicide. In the suicide note, among other things, there were the words: "Lily, love me."

Alexander Blok

Marriage Alexander Blok with Lyubov Mendeleeva was only platonic. The poet at that time was reading the works of Vladimir Solovyov about the World Soul and Eternal Femininity, so he saw an ideal in his wife and only dedicated poetry to her. And for carnal pleasures, Blok went to brothels. This situation drove Lyubov Mendeleev to despair, therefore, after several declarations of love of the poet Andrei Bely, she accepted his courtship.

This relationship plunged everyone into depression for a whole year. For Alexander Blok, the image of an ideal wife was destroyed, Andrei Bely also threatened to commit suicide. In the end, Lyubov Mendeleeva returned to her husband, but they did not stop cheating on each other.

Zinaida Gippius

Dmitry Merezhkovsky and Zinaida Gippius lived together for 52 years. But in their understanding, like many other writers of the Silver Age, the concept of the institution of marriage was distorted. Spouses could sit for hours next to each other and talk about everything in the world, but they did not have intimacy. But Zinaida Gippius shocked the audience with her passion for both men and women. She was especially attracted to gay men. Gippius seemed to consider it her duty to "guide them on the right path."

Literary critic Dmitry Filosofov became precisely the subject of the writer's desire, which was not physically attainable. Filosofov himself said: "With a terrible striving towards you with all my spirit, with all my being, I developed some kind of hatred for your flesh, rooted in something purely physiological."

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