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"Which Russian heart does not flinch, does not startle, listening to Tchaikovsky's romance "Among the noisy ball"?
Vladimir Stasov.
In the midst of a noisy ball, by chance, In the anxiety of worldly fuss, I saw You, but Your secrets covered my features.
Many people remember these verses by Alexei Konstantinovich Tolstoy (1817-1875) and the melody of Tchaikovsky's romance merging with them. But not everyone knows that there are living events behind the poem: the beginning of an extraordinary romantic love.
They first met at a masquerade ball in the winter of 1850-51 at the St. Petersburg Bolshoi Theater. He accompanied the heir to the throne, the future Tsar Alexander II, there. From childhood, he was chosen as a playmate of the Tsarevich and, secretly burdened by this, regularly bore the burden of being chosen. She appeared at the masquerade because, after the break with her husband, the Horse Guardsman Miller, she was looking for an opportunity to forget herself and dissipate. In the secular crowd, for some reason, he immediately drew attention to her. The mask covered her face. But grey eyes stared intently and sadly. Fine ashy hair crowned the head. She was slim and graceful, with a very slim waist. Her voice was mesmerizing - a thick contralto.
They did not speak for long: the fuss of the colorful masquerade ball separated them. But she managed to impress him with the accuracy and wit of her fleeting judgments. She, of course, recognized him. In vain he asked her to open her face, to take off her mask... But he business card she took it, making a sly promise not to forget him. But what would have happened to him, and to both of them, if she had not come to that ball then? Perhaps it was on that January night of 1851, when he was returning home, that the first lines of this poem formed for him: In the midst of a noisy ball, by chance, In the anxiety of worldly bustle, I saw You, but Your mystery covered the features ...
This poem will become one of the best in Russian love lyrics. Nothing is invented in it, everything is as it was. It is full of real signs, documented, like a reportage. Only this is a “reportage” that poured out from the heart of the poet and therefore became a lyrical masterpiece. And he added another immortal portrait to the gallery of "muses of Russian romances." The future was hidden from him. He did not even know if he would see her again ... Soon after that meeting at the masquerade ball, he received an invitation from her. "This time you won't escape me!" - said Alexei Konstantinovich Tolstoy, entering the drawing room of Sofya Andreevna Miller.
Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, who combined kindness, tenderness, delicacy and vulnerability of the soul with truly masculine beauty, heroic growth and physique and great physical strength, was a pure, chaste, direct nature. He was like that in love too - monogamous, who did not bow before his mother's imperious unwillingness to recognize this love, who waited twelve years until Sofya Andreevna received a divorce in order to finally unite his life with her forever. In 1878, three years after the death of Alexei Tolstoy, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky wrote music for the poems "Among the Noisy Hall", music as pure, gentle and chaste as poetry.
G. Ots, M. Magomaev, Yu. Gulyaev sing Material from the page of the St. Petersburg singer Sergei Rusanov.
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The life of celebrities seems to us the ultimate dream, and their love stories are an incredibly beautiful fairy tale.
However, even for the beautiful and famous, not everything is so smooth and cloudless.
Sometimes even the most beautiful love stories, suddenly breaking off, find a tragic ending.
Here are 10 celebrity love stories with surprisingly sad endings:
The most tragic love stories
1. Simon Atli and Petra Nemkova
In a split second, a dream vacation turned into a nightmare for 25-year-old model Petra Nemkova and her 33-year-old boyfriend, photographer Simon Utley.
At the end of 2004, the lovers went to one of the popular resorts in Thailand. Vacation promised to be fabulous.
When a deadly tsunami hit the island, thousands of human destinies were broken in an instant.
Petra escaped certain death by clinging to the branches of a palm tree. For eight agonizing hours, the model stayed on the tree until rescuers finally rescued her.
The girl received a fracture of the pelvis and many other injuries, but she survived, and her lover died ...
Simon's body was found 6 months later near the place where the couple spent their holidays.
In memory of her dead fiancé, Petra founded a fund called The Happy Hearts Fund. This organization was engaged in helping the victims of the cataclysms in Haiti and the Philippines cope with the tragedies that fell upon them.
Michael Todd, perhaps, became famous for being the only husband of Elizabeth Taylor, whom she did not divorce. And it really was a feat.
After all, all 7 marriages famous actress ended in divorce. Marriage with Michael was the third for the Cleopatra star (she was married a total of eight times) and the third for Todd, a famous Hollywood producer.
Taylor was two years old younger than son Todd from his first marriage. However, the 23-year age difference did not stop the lovers. The relationship between Elizabeth and Michael was in the spotlight all the time and was surrounded by a lot of gossip and gossip.
6 months after the wedding, a daughter, Liza, was born in the family.
Despite the negative tabloid attention, the couple seemed genuinely in love and sincere.
Many have said that Elizabeth has never been happier than being paired with Todd.
Their fairy tale ended when, less than a year after their marriage in 1958, Todd's private jet, Lucky Liz, crashed. The plane's engine failed and it exploded on impact with the ground.
At the end of her life, Elizabeth called Michael "the love of her life" along with her 5th (and 6th) husband, Richard Burton, and, of course, jewelry.
Celebrity tragedy
3. Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love
Yes, their relationship was tumultuous, yes, the couple were notorious for both using illegal drugs.
In April 1994, the whole world was shocked by the news of the death of Kurt Cobain. The famous musician was found dead in his home. He died from gunshot wound to the head. The police stated the fact of suicide.
Kurt and Courtney met at a nightclub in 1990. They secretly married on a beach in Honolulu, Hawaii, in 1992.
6 months after the wedding, daughter Francis Bian was born.
There are many versions regarding the death of Kurt. Some say it was murder. Others are convinced that Cobain committed suicide. But for what exact reason, no one knows.
At the time of his death, Kurt was only 27 years old. He was in the prime of his life and at the zenith of his glory...
4. Carole Lombard and Clark Gable
Hollywood Golden Girl Carole Lombard met her fate on the set of the 1932 film The Difficult Man. Her partner in the role was the famous Clark Gable.
But only in 1939, after seven years After they met, the couple got together. The life of Clark and Carol seemed like a fairy tale idyll.
They were madly in love, constantly surprising each other with unusual actions.
For example, after one of their quarrels, Lombard sent her husband a pair of doves as a sign of reconciliation.
Unfortunately, just two years after their wedding, Carol died in a plane crash. She flew to the shooting of an anti-fascist film. Her plane crashed, crashing into a mountain while climbing.
She was only 33 years old. Although Gable later married, those who knew him closely claimed that the actor never recovered from the death of his wife. Undoubtedly, Carol was the most big love in his life.
To forget himself, Clark Gable went to the front as a simple private, despite the fact that relatives and friends were against it.
At Clark's request, after his death, he was buried next to Lombard in 1961.
5. Sharon Tate and Roman Polanski
At first glance, it seems that Hollywood couldn't have written a better script: in 1964, a rising actress (Tate) meets a promising young director (Polanski).
And although these two did not immediately find mutual language, Polanski tries it out in his film ("The Fearless Vampire Killers").
They fell in love during their stay in Italy and on their return to London she moved into the director's house.
Four years later, Sharon and Roman got married and were expecting a child.
Their love story could be called a fairy tale with a happy ending... However, a fatal set of circumstances cut short this wonderful fairy tale.
Just two weeks before giving birth, Tate was brutally murdered by a criminal group known as the "Charles Manson Family". After being tied up at gunpoint, she was stabbed 16 times.
Sharon was only 26 years old...
6. Princess Diana and Dodi Al Fayed
Only one short month continued stormy romance Diana Spencer and her boyfriend, son Egyptian billionaire Dodi Fayed.
In August 1997, the world shuddered at the news that everyone's favorite princess and her new lover had died in a car accident while on holiday in Paris.
The lovers were in a terrible car accident. Dodi died instantly, while Diana was taken to the hospital with many injuries, where she died a few hours later.
Some sources report that the princess was pregnant at the time of her death, but this fact has not been officially confirmed.
Their fleeting romance remained a beautiful, but unfinished story of great love.
7. John and Jacqueline Kennedy
It was love at first sight. John F Kennedy and Jacqueline Bouvier met at a mutual friend's party.
A year later, in 1953, the couple married. And eight years later, Kennedy became President of the United States of America, and Jackie became the third young First Lady in history. She was only 31 years old.
The tragedy happened 2 years after Kennedy was elected head of state. During a trip to Texas, he was killed in an open convertible by multiple shots to the head and neck.
And although Jackie remarried a few years after the tragic death of her first husband, she could not forget him until her death.
Nobody could compare to him.
She admitted this in one of her interviews, being already an elderly woman. She called the years spent in the White House the best in her life.
Tragedies of famous people
8. Pierce Brosnan and Cassandra Harris
When James Bond falls in love with someone, he gets married and wants to live with that girl for the rest of his life.
In 1980, Pierce Brosnan met Cassandra Harris. They were born common child(Cassandra had two children from her first marriage).
After several years of cloudless happiness, a woman was diagnosed with oncology. Brosnan remained with his wife to the last, supporting her in everything.
He went through all the circles of hell with his beloved: several operations, an extensive course of chemotherapy. The treatment proved to be ineffective. The disease won, and in 1991, at the age of 43, Cassandra died.
Brosnan shared that he continued to talk with his beloved even after her death. But the tragedies associated with diseases did not end there.
A few years later, Cassandra's daughter from Charlotte's first marriage was diagnosed with an identical disease.
Pierce Brosnan was next to his stepdaughter to the last, holding her hand.
Nikolai Rubtsov (1936-1971) - an outstanding Russian lyric poet, during his short life he managed to publish only four collections of poems. He was born on January 3, 1936 in the Arkhangelsk region. When the war began, his family moved to Vologda, and his father was soon taken to the front. However, a few months later, the wife of Rubtsov Sr. died unexpectedly, and the children were left alone. So little Nicholas and his brother Boris were sent to Orphanage to the small northern town of Totma. When the war finally ended, the boys hoped that their father would come back and take them home. But he never arrived. He chose to marry, start a new family, and forget about children from his first wife forever. Vulnerable, touchy and too soft, Nikolai Rubtsov could not forgive such a betrayal of his father. He closed himself even more and began to write down his first poems in a small notebook. Since then, he did not stop composing, seriously carried away by poetry.
In the summer of 1950, when seven years of school had been completed, Nikolai entered the forest technical school, and two years later he went to Arkhangelsk, where he worked on a ship as an assistant fireman for more than a year. Then the future poet served in the army and moved to Leningrad. By 1962, he published his first collection of poems, he got married, entered the Moscow Literary Institute. It seemed that certainty appeared in life, a little daughter grew up in the family, as the poet Rubtsov became famous among Moscow writers and was considered a rather talented young man. However, due to his addiction to alcohol and drunken brawls, he was expelled from the institute and restored several times again. However, he did not stop drinking.
One of the richest people on earth, the Greek multimillionaire Aristotle Onassis was born on January 15, 1906. He grew up independent, self-confident and courageous, moreover, with early years Ari, as his relatives called him, developed a great interest in persons of the opposite sex. So, when he was barely thirteen years old, he first knew women's caresses. His teacher volunteered to teach the boy the wisdom of love, who became his first mistress and was remembered by Onassis for life. However, his most big love was still ahead.
In the meantime, Aristotle was obsessed with a single idea - to succeed in business and make a huge fortune. After coming of age, in search of a better life, he emigrated to Argentina and got a job as a telephone technician, but in free time was doing business. Thanks to numerous transactions, by the age of thirty-two, Onassis already had several hundred thousand dollars. He made a fortune trading in oil, but he did not want to stop there.
An outstanding poet, almost a laureate Nobel Prize, which was given to Boris Pasternak for the novel "Doctor Zhivago", was largely due to the woman who entered his life so quickly and suddenly in order to stay there until last days, and after the death of a loved one to experience excruciating difficulties and hardships.
Boris Leonidovich Pasternak was born in Moscow on January 29 (February 10), 1890 in the family of an artist and pianist. Famous people gathered in their house: artists, musicians, writers, and from childhood Boris was familiar with the most famous people art in Russia. He was good at music and drawing. At the age of eighteen, Pasternak entered the Faculty of Law of the Moscow Imperial University, and a year later he was transferred to the Faculty of History and Philology. The young man wished to become a philosopher. A few years later, with the money collected by a caring mother, the young man went to Germany to listen to lectures from the famous German philosopher. But there, finally disappointed in this science, he went to Italy with the remaining money, and the aspiring poet returned to Moscow with a persistent desire to devote himself to literature and poetry. His search for himself has since been over.
The famous Soviet poetess Veronika Mikhailovna Tushnova (1915–1965) was born in Kazan in the family of a professor of medicine, biologist Mikhail Tushnov. Her mother, Alexandra Tushnova, nee Postnikova, was much younger than her husband, which is why everything in the house was subject only to his desires. Coming home late, working hard, the strict Professor Tushnov rarely saw the children, which is why his daughter was afraid of him and tried to avoid him, hiding in the nursery.
Little Veronica was always thoughtful and serious, she loved to be alone and copy poems into notebooks, of which there were several dozen by the end of school.
Passionately in love with poetry, the girl was forced to submit to the will of her father and enter a medical institute in Leningrad, where the Tushnov family had moved shortly before. In 1935, Veronika graduated and went to work as a laboratory assistant at the Institute of Experimental Medicine in Moscow, and three years later she married Yuri Rozinsky, a psychiatrist. (The details of life with Rozinsky are unknown, since Tushnova's relatives prefer to remain silent about it, and family archive poetess still remains unpublished.)
Edith Giovanna Gassion was born right on the street. Her mother, an acrobat of a traveling circus, gave birth on the outskirts of Paris before she could reach the hospital. It happened on a cold December morning in 1915. Soon the girl's father, Louis Gassion, was taken to the front, and the windy mother, not wanting to take care of her daughter, gave her to the house of her alcoholic parents. They had their own ideas about raising a granddaughter: they kept the girl in the mud and accustomed to wine, they sincerely believed that in this way the child would gain strength and be accustomed to all the difficulties of a future wandering life.
When the father came to visit Edith for a few days, the dirty, skinny, ragged girl made such a terrifying impression on him that he immediately took the child and took him to his mother. She, the mistress of the brothel, washed the baby, fed and dressed her in a clean dress. Surrounded by prostitutes who very warmly and carefully received a four-year-old girl, Edith became happy. However, less than a month later, people around began to notice that the girl did not see. Time passed, she was seven years old, and she still could not distinguish even a bright light. The girls from the brothel, having decided that only divine forces could help "little Edith", went to prayer. With the help of God or not, a miracle happened: a week later, on August 25, 1921, the girl received her sight.
The beautiful, independent, always dignified actress Tatyana Okunevskaya (1914-2002) won the hearts of Soviet men - from ordinary workers to influential and famous officials. The audience remembered her as a carefree and cheerful actress. But who knew her heavy, almost tragic life, he understood how difficult it was for her cheerfulness and a charming smile that did not leave her face.
Tatyana Kirillovna Okunevskaya was born on March 3, 1914 in Moscow. In the third grade, the future actress was expelled from school because of her father, who supported the Whites during civil war. The girl was transferred to another school, where she managed to gain respect and remain a constant leader among her classmates for seven years. She defended justice so much that somehow, having quarreled with the boys, she was thrown out of the second floor of the school, but, fortunately, escaped with only minor bruises.
Valentina Serova is one of the most bright stars Soviet cinema, an open and sincere beauty, was the muse and the strongest and most reverent love of the no less famous Konstantin Simonov.
Prior to their meeting, Simonov was married twice: to Ada Tipot and Evgenia Laskina, who gave him a son. Serova, having lived only a year with her husband, was left a widow with a child not yet born. Her young husband, pilot Anatoly Serov, died while on duty shortly before Serova's meeting with Konstantin Simonov.
The actress could not forget her first husband. Having survived the war, an affair with Simonov, raising a daughter, she invariably every year, on the morning of May 11, came to Kremlin wall where the ashes of the Hero lie Soviet Union Anatoly Serov. And by the will of fate, that fateful day, many years later, will become the happiest day in her life: Serova gave birth to a daughter ...
The beloved woman of Albert Einstein, with whom few knew about the affair, was a Soviet citizen. Long time their relationship was hidden by both the American side and domestic competent authorities. And only at the end of the 20th century did the general public become aware of the love story of Margarita Konenkova and the great scientist, not only from some leaked information from former secret agents, but also from the personal archive of the Konenkovs, which was made public and put up for auction by Sotheby in the late 1980s years.
Materials about Konenkova's stay in America have not yet been declassified, and, perhaps, we will not know much. What she and her husband actually did in the United States remains unclear at this time. Did Margarita really go there to accompany her sculptor husband, or did she perform secret mission the Soviet side - was obliged to receive information on the development of the atomic bomb by the Americans.
Henri Matisse, the artist of “light and happiness”, who looked at the world through the prism of joy and beauty, once wrote: “I strive for art full of balance and purity ... I want a tired, torn, exhausted person to taste peace before my painting and rest." He admitted that he found joy in everything: in trees, in the sky, in flowers. This was the whole Matisse - a famous French artist who knew how to find the extraordinary in the ordinary, look for light in the darkness and notice love in an indifferent, callous world. “He has the sun in his blood,” Pablo Picasso once said about the artist.
Henri Matisse was born on December 31, 1869 into a poor family. His mother was a seamstress and worked at home, so multi-colored ribbons, scraps of fabric, bows and ladies' hats were scattered throughout the rooms. This colorful environment, filled with the most different colors, was largely reflected in his bright, joyful paintings many years later. Henri grew up as a serious and purposeful boy. However, at the age of twenty, while practicing law and dreaming of becoming a lawyer, he suddenly became interested in painting. After moving to Paris and enrolling in the School of Fine Arts, Matisse began his studies, devoting himself entirely to art.
Fred Astaire (1899-1987) (real name Frederick Austerlitz), one of the most famous dancers of the past century, was born in America, in Nebraska, on May 10, 1899. His father was a native of Austria, he respected the art of dance and sent his children to a dance school from an early age. As they grew up, Fred and his sister Adele decided to form a dance couple and have performed together ever since. They were immediately noticed and began to be invited not only to the famous dance floors of America, but also of Europe, and since 1915, brother and sister took part in musical comedies. In total, they participated in fifteen dance shows. In 1923, they were to perform on Broadway, where the audience greeted the Asters with enthusiasm. At the same time, more attention was paid to Fred than to the thin, graceful Adele. Temperamental, elegant, with a special sense of rhythm, the young man impressed with his talent.
The success of the Aster dance couple was huge. Ahead of them were tours around the world, participation in the most popular shows and colossal fees for those times. Unexpectedly, Adele got married and, having lost her head from love, left the stage. Fred was alone. After parting with his sister, he decided to go to a screen test, which brought him only disappointment. The verdict was horrifying: “He can’t play. Dancing a little." A thin, clumsy young man seemed ridiculous to the director of the film studio, and his hands with thin, too long fingers were completely unnatural. Fred Astaire walked out of the studio in confusion. Ten happy years that have flown by working with my beloved sister have passed unnoticed. Fred was thirty-three years old, and a suitable partner, whom the dancer had been looking for for several months, was still not found.
Ivan Alekseevich Bunin (1870–1953) was born at dawn on October 10 (22), 1870 in the small Russian town of Yelets. Under the morning crowing of roosters and in the rays of the dawn sun. It was unusual autumn morning, like an omen that opened the poet's door to a life full of glory, love, despair and loneliness. Life on the edge: happiness and bitterness, love and hate, loyalty and betrayal, recognition during life and humiliating poverty at the end of the road. His muses were women who gave him delight, troubles, disappointments, and boundless love. And it was from them that the creator left for the world, misunderstood by many, strange and lonely. Once Bunin remarked in his diary after reading Maupassant: "He is the only one who dared to endlessly say that human life is all under the power of a woman's thirst."
Four women were in the life of the great Russian writer, they left a huge mark on his soul, they tormented his heart, inspired, awakened talent and desire to create.
Chance meetings of future couples turned their lives upside down, some romantic relationships changed the fate of other people, influenced art and even the history of the 20th century.
Feelings sometimes required significant sacrifices from lovers, perhaps the largest of them shocked Great Britain in the 30s of the 20th century.
Kingdom in exchange for love
The acquaintance, which radically changed the lives of the Prince of Wales Edward and the American Wallis Simpson, occurred in 1931. They began to meet after 3 years, and the high-born family at first accepted the prince's new hobby condescendingly, hoping that he would soon grow cold towards a married woman.
At the end of January 1936, King George V, the father of the Prince of Wales, who became the new monarch Edward VIII, died, and the scandalous relationship became impossible to continue without a threat to reputation. He understood this, but the couple was not even allowed a morganatic marriage, so on December 10, 1936, the man abdicated. A modest wedding ceremony took place on June 3, 1937, and The Times magazine awarded Wallis the title of "Person of the Year", because her love turned out to be more important for Edward than power and changed the fate of the United Kingdom.
In the USSR, at about the same time, a beautiful love story took place, which became the standard of tender respectful feelings of two creative people.
Director and muse
In 1933, by order "from above" Grigory Alexandrov (pseudonym of Alexander Mormonenko) was to shoot the first Soviet musical comedy with Leonid Utyosov in the main male role, and he had to painfully look for a worthy partner. There are several versions of how the director met Lyubov Orlova, who later brilliantly played the housekeeper Anyuta: from the romantic version, according to which Alexandrov saw his future wife in the musical theater at the Moscow Art Theater, to a pragmatic meeting arranged by the actress's girlfriend. In January 1934, Alexandrov and Orlova signed, all 41 years of joint family life addressed each other as “you”, and after the death of his beloved, the man made a documentary film in memory of her.
Student novels pare caustically durable, especially if one of the partners becomes famous, but there are happy exceptions.
echo of love
In Moscow in the 50s, a meeting took place between Alla Kireeva, a student of the Literary Institute, and a talented young man Robert Rozhdestvensky, who transferred to the capital's university from the philological faculty of Karelian University. He devoted many poems to his beloved, who became the only wife and permanent muse, and, perhaps, he was able to express the whole depth of feelings with the words “we coincided with you.” Deafening popularity fell on the poet, who became one of the most beloved "sixties" among the people, but he did not pay attention to the huge number of fans, because his wife and 2 daughters were waiting for him at home.
Over the course of 41 years, allotted to them by fate, they went through the everyday disorder of the first years living together, the test of fame, serious illness Christmas, incredible harmonious relationship couples are immortalized in his poems.
In theatrical circles, beautiful romances are not uncommon, but not all couples can boast that they have managed to save their relationship.
creative union
The acquaintance of the then-famous actor Sergei Yursky and the student of the theater institute Natalia Tenyakova took place in 1965 at the television play "Big Cat's Tale", in which they played the detective Sidney Hall and his bride Alice, respectively. The novel did not happen - they were not free, but a few years later a new meeting on the BDT stage became the beginning of their happy love story. The modest wedding took place 5 years after they met, and the romantic and creative union of the actors turned out to be surprisingly strong - they live together, play on the same stage. Was a resounding success teamwork actors in the film "Love and Doves", where Yursky and Tenyakova portrayed an elderly couple (in fact, they were then 49 and 40 years old).
Narcotic Russian-French love
Vysotsky had a rare skill - he could conquer any woman. The key to this phenomenon lay in his unrestrained nature, he was like a splash of champagne, dousing his chosen one with a wave of charm and leading him away. Marina Vladi turned out to be a tough nut to crack and at first resisted, she was surprised at his self-confidence, with which he said that he would definitely achieve her hand.
Having seen a lot in her 30 years, the actress for the first time did not know what to do, how to relate to this strange person. She went back to Paris and felt a nagging feeling of longing. Where is it from? The answer came with a phone call from Russia. Hearing a familiar velvety voice, Marina realized that she was gone. She was in love.
When bright brutality meets expressive femininity, there can be only one result - love. Although their love was more like a battlefield. For Vlady and Vysotsky, every day lived together was a holiday, they saw each other so rarely. Endless visa requests, huge distances tormented both, but also saved their marriage. It would be difficult for two bright personalities to get along together.
And also Marina and Vladimir fought with ... Vysotsky himself, his addictions, that side of his personality that drew him to the edge of the abyss. They fought with higher authorities for the right to be able to see each other as often as possible. However, now that Vlady is left alone, she no longer remembers the difficulties, she only remembers love.
John Lennon and Yoko Ono
The love of the famous "Beatle" and the Japanese artist
The ill-wishers called her a demon in a female form, and him - an uncomplaining victim. Fans of the Beatles blamed her for the collapse of the famous Liverpool Four. The Beatles themselves disliked her. Except, of course, Lennon. Of meeting Yoko, he said, "It's like I won a big prize." And on the evening of their acquaintance, she wrote in her diary: “It seems that I have found someone I can love,” Yoko always knew exactly what she wanted.
And now Lennon began to receive postcards with the inscriptions "Breathe", "Dance", "Watch the fire before dawn." Yoko called him and talked to him for hours about art. Watched at the house. She wanted to win him over. And she succeeded. After some time, John discovered that he was not indifferent to her. After a while, John discovered that he did not want to live a single day without her. “The child of the ocean is calling me,” he sang in one of the songs. (Yoko means "child of the ocean" in Japanese).
By the age of 27, John Lennon had crazy popularity, a millionth fortune, a house with 100 bedrooms, luxury cars, a wife and a son. He had everything and he was bored. Yoko also missed her and was looking for something new. They immediately divorced their previous spouses and got married. Them Honeymoon took place in Amsterdam, causing a stir with their "bed interviews". The reporters gathered at the door of their Hilton suite expected that the controversial couple would like to give interviews while having sex, but Yoko and John in white pajamas sat on the bed in the flower-decorated room and talked about peace - it was their protest against the Vietnam War.
The album "Two Virgins" also came out shocking. On the cover, Yoko and John were photographed naked, and there was no music at all in the album - only groans, squeaks and other sounds. They participated in demonstrations, made films, John recorded songs. However, critics wrote: "The songs have become weaker." Former fans said: "Yoko John is not good." John developed depression again. Youko suggested that they separate for a while. She knew John needed time. He must decide for himself who he is and where he is.
Again parties, new friends and girlfriends. And new songs. Lennon's compositions were again at the top of the charts. However, was he happy? John is mad with longing for Yoko. He was catastrophically, painfully missing her. They met a year and a half later. And they didn't part again.
October 8, 1975, on the day of John's 35th birthday, Yoko gave birth to his son. Lennon found peace: "I am free as never before and ready for new creativity." They lived in unison - until that fatal shot of a crazy fan in December 1980. “Why doesn’t anyone believe that we just love each other?” Lennon laughed. “We just loved each other,” Yoko says the same thing now in rare interviews. Everything else is pop history.
Henry Ford and Clara Jane Bryant
The story of the great inventor and his great wife
In the late 1990s, a young mechanic worked for an electric company in Detroit for $11 a week. He worked 10 hours a day, and when he came home, he often worked half the night in his barn, trying to invent new type engine. His father believed that the guy was wasting time, the neighbors called him crazy, no one believed that anything good would come of these activities. Nobody but his wife. She helped him work at night, holding a kerosene lamp over his head for several hours. Her hands turned blue, her teeth chattered from the cold, she caught a cold every now and then, but ... She believed in her husband so much!
Years later, a noise came from the barn. Neighbors saw how a madman and his wife rode along the road without a horse, in the same cart. The eccentric's name was Henry Ford. By the age of fifty, Ford had become a multimillionaire, and his car was one of national symbols America. When, while recording an interview with Henry Ford, a journalist asked who Ford would like to be in another life, the genius replied simply: “Anyone. If only my wife was next to me.
Alexander Pushkin and Natalia Goncharova
Deadly love of a poet
One of the first beauties of Moscow met Alexander Pushkin at the ball. The poet was so struck by the beauty and spirituality of a sixteen-year-old girl that he literally “fell ill with love” and soon asked for her hand. He was refused, because Pushkin was twice as old as Natalya - he was 30. He tried his luck a year later and this time he received consent.
For the six years that the couple lived together, Natalya Nikolaevna gave birth to her husband four children. But the young woman missed social entertainment and the success she enjoyed as a young and free girl. It is said that at every opportunity she flirted with men, considering this an entirely innocent occupation. Pushkin received a remark about the behavior of his wife even from Emperor Nikolai Pavlovich.
The French officer Dantes courted Natalya deliberately in public, so that everyone (and especially Pushkin) could see his undisguised passion and lust. There was nothing vicious between them, and it seemed to her that everything that was happening was completely innocent. The last straw was the libel, in which the jealous husband was awarded a "cuckold diploma". Natalya was indeed naive, believing that the hot descendant of an Ethiopian could survive such humiliation.
Pushkin challenged Dantes to a duel, where he was mortally wounded. And yet he did not blame his wife and before his death he told her: “You are not to blame for anything!”. And Natalya Goncharova did everything as the dying Pushkin told her: he asked her to leave the city, wear mourning for two years, and after ... after marry a decent person. The poet loved his wife so much that even being on his deathbed, he could not help thinking about her happiness.
Cleopatra and Caesar
The bloody love of the pharaoh and the emperor
Men went crazy over her, for the night spent in her arms, they were ready to give their lives and went for it voluntarily. The great Roman commanders also paid with their lives: Caesar and Mark Antony. Cleopatra was not a beauty, but she had incredible charm and charisma, she was seductive, insidious and very smart. This first female politician in history received an excellent education, studied mathematics, philosophy, literature, skillfully played the musical instruments and knew 8 languages.
She made Caesar fall in love with herself by cunning: dressed in the most beautiful outfits, she ordered the servants to wrap her in a carpet and bring her as a gift to Caesar. Knowing the intricacies of all the love pleasures that existed at that time ancient world, Cleopatra, struck the spoiled emperor with ingenuity and a subtle sense of humor. Her movements and voice literally bewitched Caesar. Julius, that very night he became her lover. Thus, Cleopatra paid a huge national debt, received the Egyptian throne and the love of the great commander. But the Romans could not forgive him love relationship with an Egyptian, and as a result of an insidious conspiracy, Caesar was killed.
Cleopatra was able to fall in love with herself and another commander who fought for the "Roman throne" - Mark Antony. It was a crazy passion, sweeping away everything in its path, but even here the lovers were in for a failure. Rome went to war with Alexandria, Antony and Cleopatra lost. The Roman commander thought that his beloved had died, and, unable to bear it, threw himself on the sword. And Cleopatra, in order to avoid captivity and shame, ordered a poisonous snake to be brought to her.
Napoleon Bonaparte and Josephine
The love story of the great commander and the beautiful Creole
They met when Napoleon was still poor, plain and unknown to anyone, and Josephine already had the status of a widow, often changed lovers, and besides, she was 6 years older than her future husband. But as if an unknown force attracted them to each other. After spending an evening with a beautiful Creole, Bonaparte was fascinated by her for the rest of his life. They became lovers, and then spouses, changing their age on paper.
On their wedding day in March 1796, Bonaparte presented his beloved with a sapphire ring. Inside the ring was an engraving: "This is fate." And soon fate made Josephine the empress, and Bonaparte the emperor. The great commander, confidently captured the whole world, winning one victory after another, and from each campaign he sent tender and passionate letters to his beloved wife, full of revelations and confessions.
But time passed, Napoleon dreamed of heirs, and Josephine could not get pregnant. In addition, rumors about the betrayals of the temperamental Creole, who remained alone for a long time, were confirmed. And then Bonaparte decides to enter into a new marriage with Princess Marie-Louise of Austria in order to preserve the dynasty and prolong her family. Josephine and Napoleon divorced in 1809. Josephine retains the title of empress at the urging of Bonaparte. And also receives champs elysees, Navarre Castle, Malmaison, three million a year, coats of arms, escorts, guards and all the attributes of a reigning person.
But even after the divorce, the emperor continues to write affectionate letters to Josephine, full of love and warmth. New marriage, appearance long-awaited son do not bring happiness to Bonaparte. After the defeat at Waterloo, the emperor goes into exile on the island of St. Helena. Josephine is denied his escort, and a couple of months after Napoleon's abdication of power, she dies. And in 1821 he dies and great commander of all times and peoples Napoleon Bonaparte with the name of his beloved Josephine on his lips.
Edith Piaf and Marcel Cerdan
Paris sparrow and Moroccan scorer
This love story started in Paris. Edith Piaf was introduced to the "Moroccan scorer", and Marcel Cerdan - " great Edith Piaf. A few days later, Marcel called the singer and asked for a meeting. The next morning they realized that they were in love. Next to the tall and muscular athlete "Paris Sparrow" Edith Piaf (piaf - sparrow from French), only 147 cm tall, looked like a little girl. At night, they often went for a walk around New York. Both loved to ride roller coasters. This extraordinary couple was recognized on the streets, with amazement watching them eat ice cream and squeal on the rides like mere mortals.
The love affair of the French singer and French boxing champion did not go unnoticed. The journalists wanted to stir up a huge scandal, but the boxer was the first to hold a press conference: “Do you want to know if I love Piaf? Yes I love! Yes, she is my mistress, only because I am married. And I can’t get a divorce!” he blurted out. In the morning, not a single newspaper wrote a single line about Edith and Marseille, and by lunchtime Edith Piaf brought a huge basket of flowers from journalists. A card was enclosed in the flowers: "From the gentlemen to the woman who is loved more than anything in the world."
On October 28, 1949, Serdan dropped everything and flew to New York, having received a telegram from his beloved: "I miss you." His plane crashed near the Azores. In the morning, Edith was awakened not by the long-awaited kiss of Marcel, but by terrible news. That evening, Edith Piaf was carried to the stage of the Versailles hall in her arms - she could not walk. Stopping the applause from the audience, she said softly, “You don't have to clap for me today. Today I sing for Marcel Cerdan. For him alone."
Editor's note: All stories are partly based on legend and do not claim to be historically accurate.