Marina Vladi and Vladimir Vysotsky

This love of trials had, perhaps, more than happy moments. But it was true love: sacrificial, sung in verse and songs, overcoming obstacles, until the last breath ...

Marina Vladi and Vladimir Vysotsky - love story

Marina Vladi and Vladimir Vysotsky knew each other before the first meeting. He first saw the 17-year-old beauty in the movie "Sorceress", and even then decided to win it, by all means. She first heard a lot about him, then admired his play from the auditorium of the Taganka Theater.

By the time of the meeting between Vladimir Vysotsky and Marina Vlady, everyone has not had two marriages and the children have grown up. They saw each other in the restaurant after the play "Pugachev". A couple of phrases, an exchange of long looks, and Vladimir suggests going to his friends to sing only for her. That same evening, he confessed to her in love. Even more, he discourages the beloved, when she reasonably notices that she will not stay long in Moscow, and in Paris (which, by the way, is very far away), she is waiting for her three sons and a job that requires maximum involvement. He replies: "So what? I have a family and children, work and glory, but all this will not prevent you from becoming my wife. " And the next day he had already persuaded the French actress to agree to the role of Chekhov's music, proposed to her, which presumed a year-long stay in Russia. He sincerely rejoiced at this opportunity and aloud built their joint plans. Marina's remark that she does not feel mutual feelings , did not embarrass Vysotsky in any way, he confidently stated that she could like it. That she is still in love, Vlady understood already in Paris - after she received a touching letter from Vladimir and heard his voice over the phone.

Love of Vysotsky and Marina Vlady - a moment of happiness

She felt the real muse of the poet when, on the uninhabited bank of the river, Vysotsky sang for the first time and only her most acute songs about repressions, the framework in which the power drives the creative intelligentsia, about the inflections of the Soviet regime.

Vysotsky's wife Marina Vladi became in 1970. They signed "quietly" and went on a wedding cruise to the south. As they later recalled, it was the happiest time in their life.

Great trials

Love of Vysotsky and Marina Vlady has undergone many trials. Fortunately, rare meetings hampered (she, an actress with a world-wide name, could not leave her career at all and move to Moscow, and he was not traveling in the country with the "iron curtain"). To her husband released on vacation from the country, she had to join the French Communist Party, whose secretary-general personally asked the Moscow leadership to issue Vysotsky's passport.

Marina repeatedly saved her husband, leading him in a semi-conscious state from an unfamiliar apartment, sometimes to get him out of the binge, she had to fly from Europe. She found, and sometimes forced doctors to treat him from alcoholism and the consequences of the disease. Then morphine was added to alcohol. It became increasingly difficult to fight, but she did not give up.

Contemporaries were amazed at her patience and determination in the desire to preserve this strange love across borders and different worldviews. Many still wonder how Marina Vlady is older than Vladimir Vysotsky, but the difference in age is confusion, they were peers, they were under 30 by the time of their first meeting.

For 12 years of their marriage Marina was the beloved, but not the only woman of Vladimir. When Marina was far away, Vysotsky sought the support of other Muses.