"Love triangles" of Russian show business (photo). Love triangles of the Silver Age Famous love triangles
Zinaida Gippius, Dmitry Filosofov and Dmitry Merezhkovsky. St. Petersburg, 1900s Central Archive of Film, Photo and Sound Documents of St. Petersburg
Merezhkovsky - Gippius - Filosofov
The union of Dmitry Merezhkovsky and Zinaida Gippius, one of the first founders and theoreticians of Russian symbolism, was from the very beginning more than just a family. Having married back in 1889, the writers sought to expand the usual framework of interpersonal relationships.
According to Merezhkovsky, the society of the future should be based on a new form family relations, namely a certain version of the “threefold structure of the world” - the so-called Kingdom of the Third Testament, which should soon replace Christianity The new church, or the Church of the Holy Spirit, gave birth to a “new religious consciousness” that sought to embody the ideas of the Third Testament and the coming theanthropic theocracy (the combination of Christian and pagan holiness to achieve the last universal religion). Without denying existence Orthodox Church, the new church cared, according to Zinaida Gippius, about eliminating the conflict between the Russian intelligentsia and Russian Orthodoxy by “Christianizing the earthly flesh of the world,” that is, it had to eliminate the “abyss” between spirit and flesh, sanctify the flesh and thereby enlighten it, abolishing the Christian asceticism, forcing a person to live in the consciousness of his sinfulness, brings religion and art closer together.. At the everyday level, the couple hoped to create a kind of intellectual mini-commune, which would combine the intimate connection of its participants and the similarity of their worldviews.
This religious and philosophical view of the world order, painted in decadent tones, coupled with an outright challenge to society, was, however, the result not only of the philosophical practices of the spouses, but also of their individual preferences. Although Merezhkovsky seemed asexual to many, he was interested in women (and perhaps men), but his own wife was not physically attractive to him. From the first years of their marriage, Gippius had relationships with both men and (less often) women, but the main object of her passion turned out to be homosexual men - because they were unattainable. So meeting the critic, editor of the literary department of the World of Art magazine Dmitry Filosofov, who perceived his homosexuality as a great “tragedy of gender,” completely satisfied the Merezhkovskys’ tastes.
On Maundy Thursday, March 29, 1901, at night in the house of Muruzi, where the Merezhkovskys lived, (Liteiny Prospect, 24), Filosofov, Gippius and Merezhkovsky performed a kind of wedding ceremony: they read prayers in front of the images, drank wine from the same church cup , ate bread soaked in wine, like the blood of the Lord, exchanged crosses three times, kissed each other crosswise, and read the Gospel. And so three times. Almost every year (more than 16 years) this ritual was repeated by its participants.
In 1920, after leaving for emigration life paths Merezhkovskikh and Filosofova separated. In some way, his place was taken by Gippius’s secretary, Vladimir Zlobin.
Bely - Petrovskaya - Bryusov
The novel between the young symbolist poet Andrei Bely and the poetess Nina Petrovskaya, which began quite innocently in 1904, like the mutual attraction of two lovers to each other, quickly became integrated into the aesthetics of the Silver Age. Petrovskaya’s love turned into a frenzied mystical worship of Bely, which is why the young and not yet very experienced poet fled “so that her too earthly love would not stain his pure vestments.” The new object of his passion was Blok’s wife, Lyubov Dmitrievna Mendeleeva.
Nina Petrovskaya Russian State Library Wanting to regain her lover, Petrovskaya entered into the alliance proposed by Bryusov, which also grew into passionate love (he was married at the same time). Attracted to everything demonic (in contrast to Solovyov’s Bely), Bryusov carefully observed Petrovskaya’s love languor, maintaining her passion for Bely. Under the guidance of her new lover, who instilled confidence in Petrovskaya in her witchcraft abilities, the poetess became interested in occult practices, which were designed to return Bely’s favor to her.
The result of these experiments turned out to be disappointing, and, driven to extreme despair, Petrovskaya once attempted to kill Bely. The details of the assassination attempt, as well as all the circumstances of this story, were conveyed by Vladislav Khodasevich:
“In the spring of 1905, Bely gave a lecture in a small auditorium at the Polytechnic Museum. During the intermission, Nina Petrovskaya approached him and fired a Browning shot at point-blank range. The revolver misfired..."
The weapon was a gift from Bryusov; eight years later, his new lover, the young poetess Nadezhda Lvova, will shoot herself with this very revolver.
The focus on life creativity (creating one’s own life as a work of art is one of the foundations of the Silver Age culture) completely captured the participants in this triangle. Bryusov will describe the entire conflict in detail in the novel “Fire Angel” (1907-1908), where Andrei Bely will hide under the name of Count Heinrich, Nina Petrovskaya will hide under the name of Renata, and he himself will hide under the name of Ruprecht. Having completed his novel, Bryusov will also begin to move away from Nina, who has been driven to extreme exhaustion by attacks of hysterics, alcohol and morphine. In 1911, under the pretext of treatment, he expelled Petrovskaya from Russia. Abroad, the poetess will lead a miserable existence. However, back in Russia, Petrovskaya instilled in Bryusov the habit of morphine, which over the years turned into heroin addiction - it became one of the reasons for the poet’s death in October 1924. Nina outlived Bryusov by four years, Bely outlived her by six years.
Blok - Mendeleev - Bely
Lyubov Mendeleeva and Alexander Blok. Wedding photo. 1903 nasledie-rus.ru Another philosophical system, popular in the Silver Age, became the cause of probably the most famous love triangle of those years. Alexander Blok, who firmly believed in the ideas of Vladimir Solovyov about the World Soul and Eternal Femininity, perceived his marriage to the daughter of the famous chemist, Lyubov Mendeleeva, exclusively mystically. In his mind, on August 17, 1903, a sacred mystery took place, after which, according to the expectations of the Young Symbolists, a new theocratic period in world development was to begin. The bride's best man, poet Sergei Solovyov (nephew of Vladimir Solovyov and second cousin of Blok) and Andrei Bely, who knew Blok in absentia, also unanimously confirmed the fact of the sacred union.
Of course, such an alliance with the “Wife Clothed with the Sun” could only be platonic in nature. For carnal consolations, Blok went to places of entertainment in St. Petersburg, and dedicated poems full of admiration to Lyubov Dmitrievna: even during the period of their acquaintance, Blok’s first collection, “Poems about a Beautiful Lady,” was published. Although no world revolution followed the wedding, the ephemeral status of the spouses was preserved and led Lyubov Dmitrievna at first to indignation and then to despair (which she later described in detail in the book “Both true stories and fables about Blok and about herself”).
In 1905, Mendeleeva received a note with declarations of love from Andrei Bely, her husband’s closest poetic friend. Bely also recognized in Mendeleeva the mystical embodiment of Sophia, but, unlike Blok, he was imbued with a violent human passion for her. Lyubov Dmitrievna hesitated. Throughout 1906, the situation was tense to the limit: Mendeleeva periodically went to see Bely, Blok fell into severe depression (during which the drama “Balaganchik” was written). Relations between the poets went wrong (many contemporaries argued that there was even a danger of a duel); Bely, tormented by remorse and torn between brotherly and carnal love, threatened to commit suicide, sent “showers of letters” to Mendeleeva, Blok and Blok’s mother, starved himself and wandered around his apartment for weeks without taking off his black lady’s mask. He imagined that in this outfit and with a dagger in his hand he would appear before Lyubov Dmitrievna (echoes of these sentiments were reflected in his novel “Petersburg” in the scenes with the younger Ableukhov at the ball).
However, by the end of 1907 everything was over: Lyubov Dmitrievna returned to her husband, and the relationship between the poets was renewed. But peace in the Bloks couple will never be fully restored: soon the poet will begin a serious affair with actress Natalya Volokhova, and Mendeleeva will also find new lovers, from one of whom she will become pregnant. Nevertheless, this strange marriage turned out to be the only one in the life of the poet and his wife and lasted 18 years, until Blok’s death.
Vyach. Ivanov - Zinovieva-Annibal - Sabashnikova
Lydia Zinovieva-Annibal with her daughter Vera Shvarsalon and Vyacheslav Ivanov. Around 1905 v-ivanov.it One of the main masters of the minds of the Silver Age, Vyacheslav Ivanov, lived for almost 10 years in quite happy marriage with the writer and representative of an old noble family (going back through the female line to Pushkin’s ancestor - Hannibal) Lydia Zinovieva-Annibal. However, then another woman appeared on the “Tower” - a young artist and student of the occultist philosopher Rudolf Steiner, Margarita Sabashnikova. She was also married: her unsuspecting husband, the artist and poet Maximilian Voloshin, himself introduced her to the Ivanovs, and Sabashnikova was torn between the two men for a long time.
Zinovieva-Annibal, one of the progressive representatives of the 1900s, keeping in mind the ideas of the “new church” and the experience of the Merezhkovskys and Filosofov, apparently did not want to lose her husband, so she decided on a bold modification of the triple alliance. Annibal was the first to announce to Sabashnikova that she and Ivanov, being spouses, are, in fact, a single being and love her and need her equally. Sabashnikova was ready to leave her husband, but she let her family know about her intentions. Representatives of an old and respected family were indignant and forbade Margarita to maintain relations with the Ivanov couple.
Sabashnikova spent several months in isolation from the Ivanovs, and when she finally managed to come to them, she discovered that the place of her sacred beloved had already been taken by Zinovieva-Annibal’s daughter, Vera Shvarsalon. Sabashnikova left Voloshin, with whom she began to have spiritual differences, and went abroad to her mentor Steiner.
Zinovieva-Annibal died of scarlet fever soon after meeting Sabashnikova, and a few years later Vyacheslav Ivanov (after a scandal) officially consolidated his relationship with Shvarsalon. According to the poet, his late wife appeared to him in a dream and blessed this union. Thus, the aesthetics of the Silver Age crossed the boundaries of not only public morality, but even life and death.
Akhmatova - Glebova-Sudeikina - Lurie
Anna Akhmatova and Olga Glebova-Sudeikina. 1920s akhmatova.org In 1919, Anna Akhmatova, divorcing her second husband, orientalist Vladimir Shileiko, moved to Fon-tan-ku, 18, to the apartment of her closest friend, actress and active participant in the artistic bohemia of the Silver Age Olga Glebova-Sudeika -noy, who lived with the experimental composer Arthur Lurie. Love relationship between Akhmatova and Lurie began earlier, but subsided with the onset of the First World War. Akhmatova’s move allowed old feelings to flare up with renewed vigor, and the three of them began to live together with Sudeikina. Philologist Alexander Zholkovsky (who has a reputation as a subversive of Akhmatova) believes that the man was not the main one in this love trifecta.
Subsequently, Sudeikina will become the main character of “Poem without a Hero,” and references to Lurie in Akhmatova’s poems will often be adjacent to the image of King David, the king-musician. In 1922, Akhmatova begins to write one of her most striking poems, “Michal” (completed by 1961), which describes Michal’s meeting with David and the passion, jealousy, and indignation that she cannot cope with.
In 1922, Lurie went on a business trip to Berlin, from there he went to Paris and never returned to Soviet Union. According to Pavel Luknitsky, Akhmatova’s confidant, Lurie begged her to go after him (she had 17 letters with this request in her hands), he asked Sudeikina to come too. In 1924, Sudeikina nevertheless emigrated, but the previous relationship with Lurie could not be restored. Akhmatova remained in the Union, where she soon entered into a completely ordinary marriage (although not officially registered) with art critic Nikolai Punin.
Kuzmin - Knyazev - Glebova-Sudeikina
Olga Glebova-Sudeikina. 1910 Khlebnikov-velimir.rf Another love triangle, in which Glebova-Sudeikina played a fatal role, appeared almost ten years earlier, in 1913. Glebova-Sudeikin and the poet Mikhail Kuzmin have long been linked by a relationship of rivalry - for the actress’s husband, artist Sergei Sudeikin, who had equal feelings for both of them. In September 1912, Kuzmin spent several weeks in Riga with the young poet and cadet Vsevolod Knyazev. Soon, Glebova-Sudeikina intervened in this relationship (in fairness, it must be said that it was fading), seducing Knyazev, and then leaving the hopelessly in love. A series of love disasters turned out to be too disastrous for the impressionable 18-year-old boy, and in March 1913 he shot himself. The image of a “hussar boy with a bullet through his temple” will often appear in Kuzmin’s works, and Akhmatova will use this love drama as the basis for the plot of her “Poem without a Hero.”
Kuzmin - Yurkun - Arbenina-Hildebrandt
Yuri Yurkun and Mikhail Kuzmin mimi-gallery.com Also in 1913, Kuzmin met the young writer Joseph Yurkunas (the pseudonym Yuri Yurkun was invented by Kuzmin), who came from Vilna to St. Petersburg. His name begins to appear daily in the poet’s diaries, and soon Kuzmin and Yurkun form one of the longest love unions of the Silver Age: their relationship will last until Kuzmin’s death in 1936. In 1921, at the New Year's carnival, Yurkun beat off Nikolai Gumilyov's passion, the actress of the Alexandrinsky Theater Olga Hildebrandt-Arbenina. The events of this evening, as well as the subsequent history of the relationship between Kuzmin and Yurkun, became the basis for the lyrical plot of Kuzmin’s last book of poems, “Trout Breaks the Ice” (1925-1928). The three formed an unspoken alliance: Arbenina, greatly appreciating Kuzmin, became the closest member of his circle and Yurkun’s de facto wife (they were never officially married), Yurkun continued to live with both of them. After Kuzmin’s death, lawyer Oscar Gruzenberg won the case to recognize Yurkun as the illegitimate son of the poet and, accordingly, his heir.
In 1938, Yurkun was accused of participating in a right-wing Trotskyist terrorist organization (the beginning of the “Leningrad writer’s case”, for which Benedikt Livshits, Wilhelm Sorgenfrey, Valentin Stenich and others were also arrested and executed), and in the fall he was shot. One of the versions of the arrest is the presence of Yurkun’s name in Kuzmin’s diaries, which in the 1930s were in the possession of the NKVD (the contents of the diaries fell under the article on sodomy introduced by Stalin). Arbenina, left alone, lived the rest of her life in fear, in a fit of which she once cut up most of the photographs of Yurkun taken by Kuzmin: in order to mislead the Lubyanka employees, she cut off the head of her lover in the photographs, leaving the body for herself.
Zinaida Gippius, Dmitry Filosofov and Dmitry Merezhkovsky. St. Petersburg, 1900sCentral Archive of Film, Photo and Sound Documents of St. Petersburg
Merezhkovsky - Gippius - Filosofov
The union of Dmitry Merezhkovsky and Zinaida Gippius, one of the first founders and theoreticians of Russian symbolism, was from the very beginning more than just a family. Having married back in 1889, the writers sought to expand the usual framework of interpersonal relationships.
According to Merezhkovsky, the basis of the society of the future should be a new form of family relations, namely some version of the “triple structure of the world” - the so-called Kingdom of the Third Testament, which should soon replace Christianity . At the everyday level, the couple hoped to create a kind of intellectual mini-commune, which would combine the intimate connection of its participants and the similarity of their worldviews.
This religious and philosophical view of the world order, painted in decadent tones, coupled with an outright challenge to society, was, however, the result not only of the philosophical practices of the spouses, but also of their individual preferences. Although Merezhkovsky seemed asexual to many, he was interested in women (and perhaps men), but his own wife was not physically attractive to him. From the first years of their marriage, Gippius had relationships with both men and (less often) women, but the main object of her passion turned out to be homosexual men - because they were unattainable. So meeting the critic, editor of the literary department of the World of Art magazine Dmitry Filosofov, who perceived his homosexuality as a great “tragedy of gender,” completely satisfied the Merezhkovskys’ tastes.
On Maundy Thursday, March 29, 1901, at night in the house of Muruzi, where the Merezhkovskys lived, (Liteiny Prospect, 24), Filosofov, Gippius and Merezhkovsky performed a kind of wedding ceremony: they read prayers in front of the images, drank wine from the same church cup , ate bread soaked in wine, like the blood of the Lord, exchanged crosses three times, kissed each other crosswise, and read the Gospel. And so three times. Almost every year (more than 16 years) this ritual was repeated by its participants.
In 1920, after leaving to emigrate, the life paths of the Merezhkovskys and Filosofov diverged. In some way, his place was taken by Gippius’s secretary, Vladimir Zlobin.
Bely - Petrovskaya - Bryusov
The novel between the young symbolist poet Andrei Bely and the poetess Nina Petrovskaya, which began quite innocently in 1904, like the mutual attraction of two lovers to each other, quickly became integrated into the aesthetics of the Silver Age. Petrovskaya’s love turned into a frenzied mystical worship of Bely, which is why the young and not yet very experienced poet fled “so that her too earthly love would not stain his pure vestments.” The new object of his passion was Blok’s wife, Lyubov Dmitrievna Mendeleeva.
Nina Petrovskaya
Russian State Library
Wanting to regain her lover, Petrovskaya entered into the alliance proposed by Bryusov, which also grew into passionate love (he was married at the same time). Attracted to everything demonic (in contrast to Solovyov’s Bely), Bryusov carefully observed Petrovskaya’s love languor, maintaining her passion for Bely. Under the guidance of her new lover, who instilled confidence in Petrovskaya in her witchcraft abilities, the poetess became interested in occult practices, which were designed to return Bely’s favor to her.
The result of these experiments turned out to be disappointing, and, driven to extreme despair, Petrovskaya once attempted to kill Bely. The details of the assassination attempt, as well as all the circumstances of this story, were conveyed by Vladislav Khodasevich:
“In the spring of 1905, Bely gave a lecture in a small auditorium at the Polytechnic Museum. During the intermission, Nina Petrovskaya approached him and fired a Browning shot at point-blank range. The revolver misfired..."
The weapon was a gift from Bryusov; eight years later, his new lover, the young poetess Nadezhda Lvova, will shoot herself with this very revolver.
The focus on life creativity (creating one’s own life as a work of art is one of the foundations of the Silver Age culture) completely captured the participants in this triangle. Bryusov will describe the entire conflict in detail in the novel “Fire Angel” (1907-1908), where Andrei Bely will hide under the name of Count Heinrich, Nina Petrovskaya will hide under the name of Renata, and he himself will hide under the name of Ruprecht. Having completed his novel, Bryusov will also begin to move away from Nina, who has been driven to extreme exhaustion by attacks of hysterics, alcohol and morphine. In 1911, under the pretext of treatment, he expelled Petrovskaya from Russia. Abroad, the poetess will lead a miserable existence. However, back in Russia, Petrovskaya instilled in Bryusov the habit of morphine, which over the years turned into heroin addiction - it became one of the reasons for the poet’s death in October 1924. Nina outlived Bryusov by four years, Bely outlived her by six years.
Blok - Mendeleev - Bely
Lyubov Mendeleeva and Alexander Blok. Wedding photo. 1903
Nasledie-rus.ru
Another philosophical system, popular in the Silver Age, became the cause of probably the most famous love triangle of those years. Alexander Blok, who firmly believed in the ideas of Vladimir Solovyov about the World Soul and Eternal Femininity, perceived his marriage to the daughter of the famous chemist, Lyubov Mendeleeva, exclusively mystically. In his mind, on August 17, 1903, a sacred mystery took place, after which, according to the expectations of the Young Symbolists, a new theocratic period in world development was to begin. The bride's best man, poet Sergei Solovyov (nephew of Vladimir Solovyov and second cousin of Blok) and Andrei Bely, who knew Blok in absentia, also unanimously confirmed the fact of the sacred union.
Of course, such an alliance with the “Wife Clothed with the Sun” could only be platonic in nature. For carnal consolations, Blok went to places of entertainment in St. Petersburg, and dedicated poems full of admiration to Lyubov Dmitrievna: even during the period of their acquaintance, Blok’s first collection, “Poems about a Beautiful Lady,” was published. Although no world revolution followed the wedding, the ephemeral status of the spouses was preserved and led Lyubov Dmitrievna at first to indignation and then to despair (which she later described in detail in the book “Both true stories and fables about Blok and about herself”).
In 1905, Mendeleeva received a note with declarations of love from Andrei Bely, her husband’s closest poetic friend. Bely also recognized in Mendeleeva the mystical embodiment of Sophia, but, unlike Blok, he was imbued with a violent human passion for her. Lyubov Dmitrievna hesitated. Throughout 1906, the situation was tense to the limit: Mendeleeva periodically went to see Bely, Blok fell into severe depression (during which the drama “Balaganchik” was written). Relations between the poets went wrong (many contemporaries argued that there was even a danger of a duel); Bely, tormented by remorse and torn between brotherly and carnal love, threatened to commit suicide, sent “showers of letters” to Mendeleeva, Blok and Blok’s mother, starved himself and wandered around his apartment for weeks without taking off his black lady’s mask. He imagined that in this outfit and with a dagger in his hand he would appear before Lyubov Dmitrievna (echoes of these sentiments were reflected in his novel “Petersburg” in the scenes with the younger Ableukhov at the ball).
However, by the end of 1907 everything was over: Lyubov Dmitrievna returned to her husband, and the relationship between the poets was renewed. But peace in the Bloks couple will never be fully restored: soon the poet will begin a serious affair with actress Natalya Volokhova, and Mendeleeva will also find new lovers, from one of whom she will become pregnant. Nevertheless, this strange marriage turned out to be the only one in the life of the poet and his wife and lasted 18 years, until Blok’s death.
Vyach. Ivanov - Zinovieva-Annibal - Sabashnikova
Lydia Zinovieva-Annibal with her daughter Vera Shvarsalon and Vyacheslav Ivanov. Around 1905
V-ivanov.it
One of the main masterminds of the Silver Age, Vyacheslav Ivanov, lived for almost 10 years in a fairly happy marriage with the writer and representative of an old noble family (going back through the female line to Pushkin’s ancestor - Hannibal) Lydia Zinovieva-Annibal. However, then another woman appeared on the “Tower” - a young artist and student of the occultist philosopher Rudolf Steiner, Margarita Sabashnikova. She was also married: her unsuspecting husband, the artist and poet Maximilian Voloshin, himself introduced her to the Ivanovs, and Sabashnikova was torn between the two men for a long time.
Zinovieva-Annibal, one of the progressive representatives of the 1900s, keeping in mind the ideas of the “new church” and the experience of the Merezhkovskys and Filosofov, apparently did not want to lose her husband, so she decided on a bold modification of the triple alliance. Annibal was the first to announce to Sabashnikova that she and Ivanov, being spouses, are, in fact, a single being and love her and need her equally. Sabashnikova was ready to leave her husband, but she let her family know about her intentions. Representatives of an old and respected family were indignant and forbade Margarita to maintain relations with the Ivanov couple.
Sabashnikova spent several months in isolation from the Ivanovs, and when she finally managed to come to them, she discovered that the place of her sacred beloved had already been taken by Zinovieva-Annibal’s daughter, Vera Shvarsalon. Sabashnikova left Voloshin, with whom she began to have spiritual differences, and went abroad to her mentor Steiner.
Zinovieva-Annibal died of scarlet fever soon after meeting Sabashnikova, and a few years later Vyacheslav Ivanov (after a scandal) officially consolidated his relationship with Shvarsalon. According to the poet, his late wife appeared to him in a dream and blessed this union. Thus, the aesthetics of the Silver Age crossed the boundaries of not only public morality, but even life and death.
Akhmatova - Glebova-Sudeikina - Lurie
Anna Akhmatova and Olga Glebova-Sudeikina. 1920s
Akhmatova.org
In 1919, Anna Akhmatova, divorcing her second husband, orientalist Vladimir Shileiko, moved to Fon-tan-ku, 18, to the apartment of her closest friend, actress and active participant in the artistic bohemia of the Silver Age Olga Glebova-Sudeika -noy, who lived with the experimental composer Arthur Lurie. The love relationship between Akhmatova and Lurie began earlier, but subsided with the onset of the First World War. Akhmatova’s move allowed old feelings to flare up with renewed vigor, and the three of them began to live together with Sudeikina. Philologist Alexander Zholkovsky (who has a reputation as a subversive of Akhmatova) believes that the man was not the main one in this love trifecta.
Subsequently, Sudeikina will become the main character of “Poem without a Hero,” and references to Lurie in Akhmatova’s poems will often be adjacent to the image of King David, the king-musician. In 1922, Akhmatova begins to write one of her most striking poems, “Michal” (completed by 1961), which describes Michal’s meeting with David and the passion, jealousy, and indignation that she cannot cope with.
In 1922, Lurie went on a business trip to Berlin, from there he went to Paris and never returned to the Soviet Union. According to Pavel Luknitsky, Akhmatova’s confidant, Lurie begged her to go after him (she had 17 letters with this request in her hands), he asked Sudeikina to come too. In 1924, Sudeikina nevertheless emigrated, but the previous relationship with Lurie could not be restored. Akhmatova remained in the Union, where she soon entered into a completely ordinary marriage (although not officially registered) with art critic Nikolai Punin.
Kuzmin - Knyazev - Glebova-Sudeikina
Olga Glebova-Sudeikina. 1910
Khlebnikov-velimir.rf
Another love triangle, in which Glebova-Sudeikina played a fatal role, appeared almost ten years earlier, in 1913. Glebova-Sudeikin and the poet Mikhail Kuzmin have long been linked by a relationship of rivalry - for the actress’s husband, artist Sergei Sudeikin, who had equal feelings for both of them. In September 1912, Kuzmin spent several weeks in Riga with the young poet and cadet Vsevolod Knyazev. Soon, Glebova-Sudeikina intervened in this relationship (in fairness, it must be said that it was fading), seducing Knyazev, and then leaving the hopelessly in love. A series of love disasters turned out to be too disastrous for the impressionable 18-year-old boy, and in March 1913 he shot himself. The image of a “hussar boy with a bullet through his temple” will often appear in Kuzmin’s works, and Akhmatova will use this love drama as the basis for the plot of her “Poem without a Hero.”
Kuzmin - Yurkun - Arbenina-Hildebrandt
Yuri Yurkun and Mikhail Kuzmin
Mimi-gallery.com
Also in 1913, Kuzmin met the young writer Joseph Yurkunas (the pseudonym Yuri Yurkun was invented by Kuzmin), who came from Vilna to St. Petersburg. His name begins to appear daily in the poet’s diaries, and soon Kuzmin and Yurkun form one of the longest love unions of the Silver Age: their relationship will last until Kuzmin’s death in 1936. In 1921, at the New Year's carnival, Yurkun beat off Nikolai Gumilyov's passion, the actress of the Alexandrinsky Theater Olga Hildebrandt-Arbenina. The events of this evening, as well as the subsequent history of the relationship between Kuzmin and Yurkun, became the basis for the lyrical plot of Kuzmin’s last book of poems, “Trout Breaks the Ice” (1925-1928). The three formed an unspoken alliance: Arbenina, greatly appreciating Kuzmin, became the closest member of his circle and Yurkun’s de facto wife (they were never officially married), Yurkun continued to live with both of them. After Kuzmin’s death, lawyer Oscar Gruzenberg won the case to recognize Yurkun as the illegitimate son of the poet and, accordingly, his heir.
In 1938, Yurkun was accused of participating in a right-wing Trotskyist terrorist organization (the beginning of the “Leningrad writer’s case”, for which Benedikt Livshits, Wilhelm Sorgenfrey, Valentin Stenich and others were also arrested and executed), and in the fall he was shot. One of the versions of the arrest is the presence of Yurkun’s name in Kuzmin’s diaries, which in the 1930s were in the possession of the NKVD (the contents of the diaries fell under the article on sodomy introduced by Stalin). Arbenina, left alone, lived the rest of her life in fear, in a fit of which she once cut up most of the photographs of Yurkun taken by Kuzmin: in order to mislead the Lubyanka employees, she cut off the head of her lover in the photographs, leaving the body for herself.
There has never been a shortage of celebrity drama in the world. Whether celebrities are hitting the red carpet or editing their vacation photos, the world always has an opinion on the matter. And each person, naturally, had their own opinion regarding these dramatic love triangles. From secret affairs to cheating scandals, here are 14 of the most notorious love triangles in Hollywood history.
Kate Hudson, Alex Rodriguez and Cameron Diaz
Alex Rodriguez is no stranger to dating famous women. He dated Madonna and is now linked to Jennifer Lopez. In 2008, he dated actress Kate Hudson, but their relationship did not last too long. However, a couple of weeks after the breakup, Rodriguez was already in the company of Cameron Diaz. They say Diaz dated Rodriguez in retaliation for Hudson's earlier relationship with Timberlake right after Justin broke up with Cameron.
Jude Law, Sienna Miller and Daniel Craig
News about Lowe's affair with his children's nanny became one of the most discussed scandals of the early 2000s. This even led to the fact that he and Sienna Miller had to cancel their wedding. Then they tried to restore the relationship, but broke up quite quickly. And only in 2014, confirmation of long-standing rumors surfaced that in 2005 Sienna Miller cheated on Jude Law with Daniel Craig.
Demi Moore, Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis
Although Mila Kunis was not the woman who broke up the union of Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher, for several years all three participants began and ended relationships without a break. Kunis admitted that she had been in love with Kutcher for a long time, but when Ashton broke up with Moore, she took advantage of the situation. At first they were just friends, but then the relationship took it to a new level, and as a result they got married.
Mia Farrow, Woody Allen and Soon-Yi Previn
Woody Allen and Mia Farrow never married and dated on and off for 12 years until Mia found Woody's nude photos of her adopted daughter. Allen eventually married Previn, despite criticism about the age difference.
John Mayer, Taylor Swift and Katy Perry
Taylor Swift dedicated more than one of her songs to her real problems in her personal life. And John Mayer also gets a mention for breaking her heart when she was only 19 years old. Katy Perry started dating John the same year Swift's album came out, and the rest is history.
Dennis Quaid, Meg Ryan and Russell Crowe
Meg Ryan and Dennis Quaid were a celebrity couple in the nineties. In 1991, they got married, had a child and lived happily for ten years, after which everything collapsed. And the reason was Russell Crowe, with whom Ryan had an affair. As soon as Quaid found out about this, he immediately filed for divorce, although Ryan later said that Dennis himself was not the most faithful husband.
Angelina Jolie, Billy Bob Thornton and Laura Dern
Everyone knows about the love triangle between Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston, but even before that, Jolie became part of another love scandal. In 1999, Billy Bob Thornton and Laura Dern got engaged after three years of marriage. Everything was fine until Dern went to film the film. She went to work on a film, and while she was away, her boyfriend got married and never contacted her again.
Ryan Phillippe, Reese Witherspoon and Abbie Cornish
Ryan Phillippe and Reese Witherspoon were the cutest couple in Hollywood, and they got married in 1999. They lived together for eight years, they had two children, but then rumors began that Phillippe was cheating on his wife with Abbie Cornish.
Hilary Duff, Aaron Carter and Lindsay Lohan
The early 2000s were the stellar years of both Lindsay Lohan and Hilary Duff. However, teenage fame was not the only thing they had in common. They both dated Aaron Carter. He started dating Duff when he was 13, they stayed together for a little over a year, after which he got bored and started dating Lindsay. However, he quickly realized that he and Lindsay were not a couple, so he returned to Hilary. This relationship sparked a teen war between Duff and Lohan.
Joe Jonas, Taylor Swift and Camilla Belle
It turns out that Taylor Swift has become part of more than one love triangle. She also found herself in the middle of Joe Jonas and Camilla Belle's relationship. Swift and Jonas were initially dating, but then Joe abruptly ended the relationship, apparently because he fell in love with Belle. Naturally, this became an excuse to write another song about her broken heart, in which Swift openly criticizes Belle.
Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart and Rupert Sanders
Twilight fans could only dream of the actors playing Bella and Edward dating in real life. However, this is exactly what happened, and for some time the couple’s relationship was going just fine. But in 2013 they separated, and the reason for this was that Kristen Stewart cheated on Pattinson with married Rupert Sanders.
Marilyn Manson, Dita Von Teese and Evan Rachel Wood
When actress Evan Rachel Wood was only 18 years old, she began dating one of the most remarkable personalities of her time - Marilyn Manson. However, Manson had just ended a year-long marriage and six-year relationship with Dita Von Teese, so newspapers and magazines quickly attributed Wood to the role of a family destroyer. Tiz said that Manson cheated on her with another woman, but she did not specify whether that woman was Wood.
Sandra Bullock, Jesse James and Michelle McGee
A month after Bullock won her Oscar in 2010, scandal rocked her marriage. Michelle McGee, a tattoo model and stripper, sold the story of her affair with Bullock's husband Jesse James for thirty thousand dollars. McGee said James told her that he and Sandra had broken up, so she agreed to enter into an 11-month relationship with him. After five years of marriage, Sandra took her newly adopted child and left James. Despite the fact that James found his new love within a year, he spoke in detail in his autobiography about his infidelity, as well as the moment when he told Bullock about it. “Feelings of shame and sadness filled me when Sandra started crying. I didn't touch her. I sat frozen in my chair and watched as Sandra’s little body shook with crying,” he wrote in the book. Bullock survived the crash and is now dating Brian Randall.
Blac Chyna, Tyga, Kylie Jenner and Rob Kardashian
Yes, it's more of a square than a triangle. In 2016, Jimmy Kimmel asked Rob Kardashian's sister and Kylie Jenner's half-sister Khloe, "Blac Chyn has a baby with Tyga and he's dating your sister Kylie and she's now pregnant with your brother Rob's baby?" To this Khloe replied: “Chyna, not Kylie. I needed to clarify who exactly this “she” is.”
Love stories from the personal lives of stars have always attracted everyone's attention. And especially if more than 2 people take part in it. After all, even the rich and famous are not immune from betrayal and betrayal.
The life of public people is full of stress and emotional tension. With so many temptations at every turn, it is difficult to maintain fidelity and marriage. Some people experience creative crises, career ups and downs. All this leaves an imprint on your personal life. They easily start new romances, but it is difficult for them to part with their previous partner.
Here are the most sensational love dramas of the stars:
Some stories last for years and even decades. Some of them are so incredible that they look more like a movie script.
1. Jamie Foxx, Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes
livestory.com.uaKatie Holmes turned out to be unbearable for Tom Cruise, and therefore their relationship lasted only 6 years. Immediately after the divorce, Katie began dating Jamie Foxx, and there are rumors that Django was the reason for the divorce.
Their relationship continues to this day, Holmes returned to the Catholic faith. Information about the secret wedding of lovers was even leaked to the media.
2. President Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton and Monica Lewinsky
thepoliticalinsider.com This is one of the most sensational love stories, which is remembered to this day. Despite the fact that Hilary leads the Democratic Party and almost became the President of the United States, no one can forget her husband's passion for Monica Lewinsky. There was plenty of irrefutable evidence of his betrayal. Clinton was wise to take a stand in defense of her husband. Who at that time was the President himself. Perhaps only Hilary Clinton did not break up this marriage, and the couple live happily today.
For Monica, the scandal was nothing less than a launching pad for her future career as a fashion designer, activist and television presenter. This love triangle turned out to be successful for everyone.
3. Jennifer Aniston, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie
Some celebrities have a very hard time with breakups. This happened to Jennifer Aniston too. She was married to Brad Pitt for 5 years. It took poor Jen 10 years to get over the breakup and say yes to new feelings. Justin Theroux became her salvation. Before him, Aniston dated several men who were much younger than her. Probably trying to forget.
As for Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, the couple's relationship was immediately made public as soon as filming ended. In their story, the set gave birth to a long and strong union. Which lasted a long time, but seems to have also broken up. Or maybe this isn't the end of the story.
One thing is certain, the love triangle is a thing of the past.
4. John Terry, Wayne Bridge and Vanessa Perroncel
Love stories sell much better when they involve world sports stars. Wayne Bridge was in a relationship with French model Vanessa Perroncel from 2005 to 2009. The couple had a son in 2006.
There were rumors that Vanessa cheated on her husband with Chelsea captain John Terry. And she even had an abortion when she found out that she was pregnant with his child. Due to this scandal, Wayne left the club in the 2008-2009 season. This incident also affected Terry, who was temporarily stripped of his captain's armband. But no one knows whether this is really so. This story has no evidence.
5. Princess Diana, Prince Charles and Camilla Parker
storage.radiosarajevo.ba Fortunately for the British monarchy, the days when this story was all over the world's tabloids are over.
This relationship was not a coincidence; Prince Charles faced some criticism after his love life interfered with his duties as a prince. It has been proven that Prince Charles cheated on Princess Diana with Camilla Parker, but this fact should be viewed from a more conservative point of view.
The story of Camilla and Charles began long before Diana appeared on the scene. Rumor has it that the prince agreed to marry Diana partly because his feelings for Camilla had subsided. We all know how it ended. Charles and Camilla have been married since 2005. 10 years were enough for the dust to settle on this love triangle.
From television screens, stars look at us with carefree smiles, because there they are only actors. Is everything going smoothly in their family life? After all, when acting as lovers, it is sometimes so difficult to resist and not truly fall in love. Such intrigues often destroy happy families, and only a few manage to maintain marriage ties. Star love triangles: the most famous and confusing stories - read our article.
Triangle "Jennifer Aniston - Brad Pitt - Angelina Jolie"
The breakup of Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt is still discussed in the world media. And it’s all the fault of the extravagant Hollywood beauty Angelina Jolie. The love scenes in the film “Mr. and Mrs. Smith,” where Brad and Jolie starred, grew into a real and stormy romance. This news came as a blow to poor Jennifer, who spent so much effort on the right to be the wife of the blond star.
Aniston’s favorite acting craft, which she plunged headlong into after Pitt left, helped her not succumb to depression. Here is how the film actress herself comments on the family drama:
“After my parents’ divorce, it was very difficult for me, I cried, I wanted to hide somewhere and not see anyone. But, playing any role, I forgot about the pain, because I was absorbed by other emotions. The new pain forced me to be much more sensitive not only in my work, but also in my relationships with people. Time passed and I learned to live with her.”
To the delight of Jennifer's fans, a couple of years later she met a new love - Justin Theroux - with whom she recently went down the aisle. As for the family of Brad and Angelina, they continue to live in perfect harmony and raise their children. But their happiness is far from cloudless: everyone knows that Jolie had to undergo several difficult operations, and Pitt recently admitted that he suffers from a brain disease. Perhaps, in this way, nature decided to punish lovers for treason?
Vanessa Paradis - Johnny Depp - Amber Heard: love affair
The long-term marriage of Johnny Depp and Vanessa Paradis did not last forever. Johnny’s colleague in the film “The Rum Diary,” the young actress Amber Hurts, won the heart of an exemplary family man and took him away from his wife and children. Thus a new Hollywood love triangle was formed.
Vanessa steadfastly withstood her husband’s betrayal and assured reporters that their relationship was fine. But no matter how the couple tried to hide the discord in the family, the secret was revealed.
Johnny himself admitted that he was not going to break off relations with his former family:
“I care about Vanessa and never will. She is the mother of my children. I will always keep an eye on what is happening in her life. We have children, which means we will always raise them together.”
After his divorce from Paradis, Depp appears in public with Hurts, who is old enough to be his daughter (the famous actor is 23 years older than his new passion). To confirm his love, Johnny called Amber down the aisle, despite the fact that he and Vanessa were not married and both stated that the stamp in the passport was useless.
While the newlyweds are celebrating a joyful event in the Bahamas, Johnny Depp's ex-wife is consoled by the hope that Amber Hurts' feelings are frivolous and will fade away soon after the wedding.
