Biography of Vertinskys wife

Moscow beauty: Lydia Vertinskaya 21 min. A stately, slightly flashed elderly gentleman and a thin girl with some strange, mysterious face, huge green eyes and eyebrows. In m, when Alexander Vertinsky and his young wife only appeared in Moscow, there were rumors that he brought from Shanghai Persian, almost the Shamakhan queen. Moreover, at her husband’s concerts, she appeared in a turban decorated with an intricate brooch.

The exotic beauty Lydia Vertinskaya remained in the cinema. The roles were overlapping, but the directors simply could not pass by such an exotic face and saw her, as a rule, a fabulous heroine. It is no coincidence that the author of the recent series “Vertinsky” Avdotya Smirnova emphasized that she did not even try to find the actress similar to her, it was impossible for Lydia Vladimirovna.

They said that Vertinskaya was similar to the Vrubel "Demon". But much more often they found a resemblance to the bird. Alexander Nikolaevich himself wrote in the dedication to his wife: I understood. For all the torments, for what he was looking for and waited, - as a white bird of salvation, the Lord sent it to me ... Lidia Vladimirovna was 34 years younger than her husband, she was widowed in her 34 and more than half a century, she kept Vertinsky loyalty.

He pulled out and raised it like Pygmalion Galateus. ” In M, Lidia Vladimirovna published a book of memoirs and letters of Alexander Nikolaevich “The Blue Bird of Love”. When there was no name yet, Rustam Hamdamov offered a much more successful one - “Foenix Bird Tales”. In the first role, which Vertinskaya played in the fairy tale of Alexander Ptushko "Sadko". The director thought to take off the frontal: the actress will fall face down on the board, raise her head, her bird’s body will be attached from below, and her hands are pushed into the wings.

Vertinskaya was frightened of this prospect and proposed its option. She was folded in half, her knees were pulled to her chest, tightened with a corset along with the platform. The knees became a bird's chest, legs - paws. The plumage was put on top of the turquoise peacock. Once after a few duplicate a break was announced, the group reached for the smoking room. And Lidia Vladimirovna ...

forgot, and she remained to sit on her branch completely helpless. In M, Ptushko received for the "Sadko" of the "Silver Leo" of the Venetian festival. The Italian newspapers wrote about the bird of the Phoenix: "The outlandish creature captivates, causes a superstitious horror, it looks as natural, as if it really exists." He belonged to the old Megrel surname, which was related to the sovereign princes of Dadiani.

And in his daughter a breed was guessed: in posture, gestures, in how she held her head and talked a little through her lip. Vladimir Konstantinovich was a Russian subject, and when it was time to determine, he took Soviet citizenship. Many years later, a student of the Surikov Institute of Vertinskaya was banned as a “return” to go to practice in border cities. At the beginning of Garbin, the Japanese attacked Manchuria occupied.

In the same year, Vladimir Konstantinovich died suddenly. Lida studied in a closed boarding house at the Catholic Monastery, then in a private English school. And until the end of her life, Christie read her beloved Agatha only in the original. At the age of 17, having graduated from stenographs, the girl went to work at the Moller's English ship office. Vertinsky knew only by records.

So far, at one of the fore -passing evenings, GO was not in the company of friends in the Kabar Renaissance, where he performed. But not like us! Not to us, tramps and artists! But at that moment I did not feel anything to him but ... pity.

I was young, inexperienced, did not know life at all, but I wanted to protect him. ” At the table, at which the youth was sitting, were familiar to Vertinsky, and he joined the company. As he later said, "sat down - and forever." In the family, Lidia was called Lily. But Alexander Nikolaevich began to call her in the Georgian manner of Lila, and himself - a Caucasian captive.

On weekdays, the girl was busy in the office, he missed and wrote to her letters that Sandro signed: “You are my love. You are an angel. You are a bride! All that you said is the law. All that you do is holy. There is no criticism for you! You are illegal and over it. There is nothing above you! So I accept you. You are not even a woman. Because I somehow never thought about it.

You are the most beautiful in the world. The most tender, the most pure ... ”Of course, Lily bribed Vertinsky with her youth, naivety, reckless love. Moreover, he was going through the best of times. Alexander Nikolaevich arrived at the Yellow Babylon back in M, hoped to stay from six months, but after the outbreak of World War I could no longer return to Europe.

If the first concerts took place at the Angels, then for months later the artist was forced to perform in the taverns of not a better crash, in line with gypsies. The future seemed more than foggy, fatigue and irritation were accumulated. And then a meeting with a young beauty, direct and funny. In addition, a wild dreamer, who does not see tragedy in anything.

That is, by the way, Lily “flew” from the monastery school.The pupils told the legend that one torn thorny spike faces Christ's flour, and she believed in it so that she cut off all the spikes from the crown in the crucifix. He and Vertinsky had just begun to meet when he fell into the fierce storm on the way in Tsindao. He painted in a letter how he was on a hair from death and only then realized that his life was worth nothing without Lila.

And she replied: “True? I love typhoons! And desperately fought for the right to marry him with her mother Lydia Pavlovna, who did not share the enthusiasm of her daughter at all. The woman was harsh, from the Transbaikal Old Believers. She was afraid of the reputation of the loving Vertinsky, bohemian lifestyle, he was not at home - today, tomorrow there - not a stable earnings.

And yet, on April 26, Vertinsky and Lidia Vladimirovna were married in the Cathedral of Shanghai on a narrow street of Paul Henri. There was a white dress with a veil wax branch of Flerdorezhe Lidia Vladimirovna all her life, and numerous guests from the breed of “vagabonds and artists”, and subsequent residential areas in the Kabar “Shakherezada”. Vertinsky loved to repeat the saying of Fedor Chaliapin "only birds sing" for free, "but in recent years, emigration has been extremely impractical.

The startup, which became the Kabaret Garden, where he was something like a artistic director, burned out so brightly that Alexander Nikolayevich even fell under trial. And although it was justified, the story came out unpleasant. Vertinsky increasingly publicly says that the only way for Russian emigration is repentance and return to his homeland. Alexander Nikolaevich has already filed a petition for Soviet citizenship several times.

I am an artist. I am 50 years old. I still possess all my data, and my work can still give a lot ... Let me return home. But the return was postponed: Lidia Vladimirovna was pregnant. In July, the daughter of Marianne was born - Lily named her in honor of her beloved heroine from Robin Hood - and already in November, Vertinsky, together with Lidia Pavlovna, finally sailed from Shanghai.

They took only wear things with them. But when they reported this at the first Soviet station, the employee whistled: “Well, how many costumes you have! After he was a rumor that the artist brought with him a whole car of medicines for the army purchased at his own expense. However, during the training camp on the road, I even had to sell silver table. Marianne’s stroller was used, American milk milk was bought by friends for the girl.

They issued coupons for power in the dining room and for receipt of products. Here they will live for three years, the number remained behind the family even when she moved to the summer cottage for the summer. And the youngest daughter Nastya, born at the end of the th, baptized right at the Metropol. The three -month -old baby screamed, without ceasing, a whole crowd of curious guests and service staff gathered under the door of the room.

Public christening - how is it possible in the Soviet country? Vertinsky never occurred to the fact that there was something reprehensible in this. However, there was nothing for them for this. At some point, the family allocated a three-wing one on Khoroshevskoye Shosse. But she was on the ground floor of a two -story house, with a brick stove that had to be drowned, the windows overlooked the Vagankovskoye cemetery.

Fortunately, it was possible to change with the heirs of the Soviet official Alexei Svidersky. Vertinsky also moved to a three -room apartment on Tverskaya, 12, to a house neighboring with Eliseevsky store.