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Bella Akhmadulina was born on April 10, 1937 in Moscow. She is a daughter of Akhat and Nadezhda (Lazareva) Akhmadulina.
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Akhmadulina, Bella Akhatovna. Uroki muzyki Music Lessons. (Russian Edition) Moscow, Sovetskii Pisatel', 1969. 12°. 158 pages. Original printed wrappers. Very good+ condition. Cornwell 85
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Akhmadulina, Bella (Izabella Akhatovna Bella Akhmadulina). Oznob (Fever). Izbrannyie Proizvedeniya. Frankfurt, Posev, 1968. 8°. 271 pp. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket. Excellent condition with only minor tear to rear endpaper. Ledkovsky/Rosenthal/Zirin - 4-8 Bella (Izabella) Akhatovna Akhmadulina (born 10 April 1937 in Moscow, USSR) is a Russian poet who has been cited by Joseph Brodsky as the best living poet in the Russian language. Akhmadulina was the only child of a Tatar father and a Russian-Italian mother. Her literary career began when she was a school-girl working as a journalist at the Moscow newspaper Metrostroevets and improving her poetic skills at a circle organized by the poet Yevgeny Vinokurov. Her first poems were published in 1955 in the magazine October and approved by orthodox Soviet poets. After finishing school, she entered the Maxim Gorky Literature Institute from which she graduated in 1960. While studying at the institute, she published her poems and articles in different newspapers, both official and handwritten. In 1962 the first collection of her poems, titled The String, was a resounding success. In spite of being expunged, many of her collections of verses were published later: Music lessons (1969), Poems (1975), Candle (1977), Dreams of Georgia (1977), Coastline (1991), and others. Some of her poems have been made into popular songs. Bella's first marriage was to Yevgeny Yevtushenko (1954); her second husband was Yuri Nagibin (1960); in 1974, she married her current husband, the famous Russian artist Boris Messerer. They have a house in Peredelkino and a studio apartment in Moscow. The main themes of Akhmadulina's works are friendship, love, and relations between people. She is the author of numerous essays about Russian poets and translations. Some of them were devoted to her close friend, Bulat Okudzhava. Akhmadulina avoids writing political poems, but she t..
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Bella Akhmadulina was born on April 10, 1937 in Moscow. She is a daughter of Akhat and Nadezhda (Lazareva) Akhmadulina.
Bella Akhmadulina graduated from the Moscow Gorkii Literary Institute.
The String 1962, The Rain 1963, My Ancestry 1964, Summer Leaves 1968, The Lessons of Music 1969, Fever and Other New Poems (translated into English) 1970, Tenerezza 1971, The Rain 1974, Poems 1975, The Dreams about Georgia 1977, The Candle 1978, The Snowstorm 1978, Dreams of Georgia 1979 and translations from Georgian.In the early 1960s considered one of the best young modern poetesses in the Soviet Union. Became known as a member of the group which consisted of Evtushenko, Voznessenskii and others (oboima). Married Evtushenko. Later divorced and remarried to the well-known Soviet writer, Iu.
Nagibin. Remained a distinctive neoclassical voice in modern Russian poetry, though her early promise faded somewhat over the years.
(Collection of poems and prose by the outstanding Russian ...)
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Member All-Russian Congress of Writers (delegate 1965), Union of Soviet Writers (secretary since 1986), American Academy Arts and Letters (honorary).
Married Evgenii Evtushenko, 1954 (divorced 1960). Married Yuriy Nagibin, 1960 (divorced 1968). Married Boris Messerer, 1974.
Two children.