Bella. Meeting after. Zavada MR, Kulikov Yu.P.

This book is about Bella Akhmadulina in life. There are no literary and philological surveys in it, although there are never printed poems, prose, letters. All this is organically woven into the fabric of conversations, in the genre of which the book is written. The conversations took place in Russia, France, Italy, Switzerland. The interlocutors of the authors were Vladimir Voinovich, Yuri Rost, Azari Plisetskiy, Marina Vladi, Mikhail Shemyakin, Laura Guerra, Zoya Boguslavskaya, Evgeny Yevtushenko, Zhanna Andreeva, Vsevolod and Felix Rossels, Maria Bankul, daughter of the poet - Elizaveta and Anna. The book, which begins with Bella Akhmadulina herself, without silence and embellishment shows the complex and tragic image of a brilliant person who is difficult to cope with a huge gift, it is difficult to live, with all the friendship, feeling his separateness and differentness. “Meetings following” are completed by the unpublished diaries of young Bella Akhmadulina, which she kept in 1961-1963, living in Red Pakhra, discovered by the authors.