Bulat Shalvovich Okudzhava-Soviet and Russian poet, novelist, bard, composer and screenwriter. He is considered one of the brightest performers of the author's song in the period from the sixties to the eighties of the last century. He wrote more than 200 songs, many of which incorporated legends from the folk epic of the Caucasus. Admirers of the great artist's talent are especially interested to know the details of his personal life, including information about children.
Content of article
- First love
- Fantastic love
- First wife
- Second wife
- Last love
On creativity Bulat Okudzhava brought up several generations of our compatriots. This brilliant man was able to personify an entire era, accustoming his fans to a new perception. Of course, the bright professional activity of this extraordinary man could not affect his turbulent personal life, which was filled with many romantic relationships and two official marriages.
The popular bard was born on may 9, 1924 in Moscow, and died on June 12, 1997 in France. His parents are Shalva S. Okudzhava, Ashkhen Stepanivna Nalbandian. Children: Bulatovic Bulat Okudzhava and Igor Bulatovic Bulat Okudzhava.
First love
The debut arrhythmia of the heart, associated with the romantic infatuation of the younger Bulat, fell on the fourth grade of high school and belonged to a classmate Lele, who did not react at all to the clumsy courtship of a modest boy. For him it was a real shock to learn from parents about transferring to another school, because all thoughts were associated only with the "girl of his dreams".
After the old school was unrequited sent his own photo with the caption "Lele from Bulat", unrequited boy in love went on a date with a sweetheart. According to Olga Nikolaevna meleshchenko Recalling this scene in many years, she "nearly fainted" when during a lesson in history I saw in a window "a familiar face".
Their meeting after school took place 60 years later, when they visited the literary club "Candlelight" in Nizhny Tagil. It is interesting that then Okudzhava didn't recognize Olga Nikolaevna, and after her representation was very touched. In the three years before his death he wrote nine letters to his former lover, thus maintaining to the last the connection he had established with her since childhood.
First wife
After the capital's heart story, Bulat Okudzhava went to Tbilisi, where he received a pedagogical education at a local University and then began working as a teacher. Having met in his student years with Galina Smolyaninova, he did not think long about the need to create a family and went with the girl to the registry office. According to the bard, Galya was able to give him comfort and care, which is so lacking. After all, the young man who lost his parents early then very much needed warmth and a native hearth.
His wife insisted that the talented author put his poems to music. And she was a great singer. At this time, the happy newlyweds were preparing to become parents. However, the daughter who was born soon died, and the marriage from this tragic event was seriously damaged. Bulat and Galina could not even help and the birth of a son Igor.
Already a well-known poet, Okudzhava moved his family to Moscow, where he and his wife often attended various literary events. However, this artificial approach to the urgent problem could not save their marriage. And after the bard's meeting with Olga Artsimovich this marital Union, as they say, ordered to live long.
Second wife
Dedicated to science girl did not know about Okudzhava almost nothing. However, from the first meeting was struck by his genius. And next day there was a meeting in CDL where they, without ceasing, talked some hours, having felt in each other sincere proximity. Interestingly, the same evening Bulat Olga made an offer hands and hearts.
Soon he divorced Galina, and Olga left her husband. They decided to live in the city on the Neva. But a year later, the serene family happiness was disrupted by the sad news of the death of his ex-wife. Bulat failed to take his son Igor to her, because the guardianship entered the relatives of the deceased mother. In addition, the living conditions in a one-room apartment in no way contributed to this development of the situation. After all, Olga has already given birth to a son Anton.
And Igor, far from his eminent father, grew up a weak and weak man, who, having contacted a bad company, became a drug addict and died at the age of 43 from an overdose. The father outlived his son by only a few months.
The younger son of Bulat Okudzhava decided to follow in the footsteps of the eminent parent. Anton, having grown up, became a musical performer, author of lyrics and composer. And in General, according to eyewitnesses, this marriage was quite smooth and calm.
Last love
Meeting with Natalia Gorlenko occurred when Bulat Okudzhava was 46 years old, and his beloved – 26. They met at the Institute of Soviet legislation, where a young woman worked, and the bard performed a concert program. And their hidden from all romance began 5 months after the first meeting, when Natalia, experiencing unbearable pain from the loss of her child after childbirth, in confusion, dialed the phone number left earlier by the popular poet, and asked for a meeting.
This period life, associated with special secrecy relations, was characterized by permanent rendezvous and trips, during which Okudzhava was becoming the most open and natural. Then the lyrical work "all lovers are inclined to escape..." was written, which fully reflects the General state of the couple in love. Despite the poet's haunting sense of guilt before Olga and Natalia, he allowed the owner of a beautiful voice to accompany him to concerts.
It is interesting that" Ptichkin", as he affectionately called his love Okudzhava, often plucked from the halls more applause than the famous artist himself. This romantic story was accompanied by vivid events, including a seven-year separation, during which Natalia married another, gave birth to a child and even divorced.
However, whatever it was, and died Bulat Okudzhava in Paris at the hands of the official wife Olga Artsimovich.