The last two years of Mayakovsky's life, the world of his personal
experiences and feelings are associated with the name of Tatiana
Yakovleva.

A little over a year and a half before meeting Mayakovsky
T. Yakovleva came from Russia to Paris at the call of her uncle,
artist A.E. Yakovlev.

22 years old, beautiful, tall, leggy
("... we also need you in Moscow, there are not enough long-legged ones" -
we read in "Letter to Tatyana Yakovleva"), with
expressive eyes and bright sunny,
like glowing hair, a swimmer and
tennis player, she, fatally irresistible,
attracted the attention of many young and
middle-aged people of their circle.

The date of acquaintance is precisely known - October 25, 1928.
Remembers Elsa Triolet - famous French
writer, sister of Lily Brick: "I met
with Tatyana just before Mayakovsky's arrival in Paris and
told her: "Yes, you are under the height of Mayakovsky."

So, because of this "under growth", for a laugh, I introduced
Volodya and Tatiana, while Mayakovsky at first glance
I fell in love with her. "And in her memoirs, Elsa will write that
did this so that Mayakovsky did not get bored in Paris.

But there is an opinion that the meeting was organized with
other goals - to distract the poet from the American Ellie Jones,
who gave birth to his daughter and to detain the poet in the capital of France,
where Mayakovsky generously paid for Elsa's living and
Louis of Aragon.

21 days after Mayakovsky's departure, December 24
1928, Tatiana will send a letter to her mother in Russia:
"He is so colossal both physically and mentally that
after him - literally a desert. This is the first person
who managed to leave a trace in my soul ... "

Tatyana evaded Mayakovsky's persuasion to go to
as his wife to Moscow ...
And one more circumstance alarmed Mayakovsky: he
reads in the Russian society of Paris dedicated to his beloved
poems - she is unhappy, he wants to print them - she is not
in a hurry to bring complete clarity to the relationship with the poet, not
gives consent to this.
Her evasiveness and caution were perceived
Mayakovsky as a disguised refusal.
The poem says about this directly and sharply:
Do not want?
Stay and winter ...

Their first meeting lasted more than a month.
Before leaving, Mayakovsky made an order in a Parisian
greenhouse - send flowers to the address of your beloved woman.

And he left for Moscow alone.

From this instantly flared up and did not take place
love, we are left with a magic poem "Letter
Tatiana Yakovleva ".

He almost thought about moving to Paris himself.
As a result, he was denied travel abroad.
One of Mayakovsky's friends Natalya Bryukhanenko
recalled: “In January 1929, Mayakovsky said,
that he is in love and will shoot himself if he cannot soon
see this woman. "

He did not see this woman.

And in April 1930 he pulled the trigger.

Is there any connection between these events -
no one will say for sure. The denouement happened in the spring.

Back in October 1929, Lilya in the presence of
Mayakovsky read aloud in a letter from her sister Elsa
that Tatiana is going to marry the Viscount du
Plessy. Although, in fact, we will talk about the wedding
only a month later.

Yakovleva once admits with bitter irony that
even grateful to Leela for that. Otherwise she,
sincerely loving Mayakovsky, I would return to the USSR and
would have perished in a meat grinder in '37.

Tatiana with her sister Lyudmila and the governess.
Penza, 1908

Tatiana's uncle, Alexander Yakovlev, graduate
Imperial Academy of Arts, a year before
arrival of Tatiana was awarded the Order of the Honorary
legion.
The master helped him to issue a call for his niece
Citroen, the owner of the carmaker, with whom the artist
agreed to cooperate in exchange for a petition for
Tatiana.
The 19-year-old girl spent the first months in the south
France, where she was treated for tuberculosis received
in the hungry post-revolutionary years in Penza.
And then she returned to Paris and entered a fashion school.
Soon Tatiana tries her hand at modeling
hats and succeeds in this.

Uncle introduces her to the world of secular Paris.

Before her eyes, Coco Chanel's romance unfolds with
Grand Duke Dmitry Pavlovich,

she plays four hands on the piano with Sergei
Prokofiev, meets Jean Cocteau, who
in a few years he will save him from prison.

Cocteau, sharing a hotel room with
Jean Mare, will be arrested by the vice police. And Yakovleva
rush to the police station in Toulon and declare
that her lover Cocteau had been arrested by mistake.
The great playwright will be released immediately.

Talking to the most prominent representatives
Russian culture - Fedor Chaliapin takes care of her,
Mikhail Larionov and Natalia Goncharova donate their drawings,
- Tatyana perceives the meeting with Mayakovsky completely
calmly.

Only the poet's letters to her have survived to this day.
In October 1929, Elsa Triolet thoughtfully
told Tatyana that the poet was not given a visa.
Probably, she did not fail to tell about his new
passion for actress Veronica Polonskaya ...

Well, Tanya's life was just beginning ...

She accepted an offer from one of her fans.
- young French diplomat Bertrand du
Plessy, just appointed as a trading
attaché to Warsaw.
There, in the fourth month of pregnancy, she learned about
the suicide of an "absolute gentleman".

The marriage with Viscount Bertrand du Plessis became for
Yakovleva, in her words, "by flight from Volodya."
She understood that Mayakovsky would no longer be released
abroad, and wanted a normal family. And also
honestly admitted that she never loved
du Plessis.
In 1930 they will have a daughter, Francine.

Pretty, like a silent movie star
Rudolph Valentino, musician, pilot, connoisseur
antiques, du Plessis was a fine man,
who adored their wife.

Three years later, the family idyll gave a solid
crack: returning home at an inopportune hour, Tatiana
I found my husband in bed with a friend - Katya Krasina,
one of the three daughters of the former people's commissar
and diplomat Leonid Krasin.

The marriage did not break up, but family life with Bertrand
from now on it will be only nominal.

In addition, Yakovleva herself will soon
a new hobby will appear - Alexander Lieberman.
The meeting will take place in 1938, when Alex and
Lyuba Krasina, daughter of the Soviet ambassador to France, on
whom he intended to marry, will come to rest in the south.

Tatyana also recovered her strength there.
the year before, in a car accident. Her injuries were so
terrible that the body was sent to the morgue. There she came
into herself and, to the horror of the orderlies, began to moan. In the hospital
Yakovleva had to go through thirty plastic
operations.
And the trip to the sea was very, very useful.

Krasina herself found Tatiana and introduced
with Alexander. How will you remember later
Lieberman, "there was an instant attraction between them."
And they never parted ...

Tatiana will officially become Lieberman's wife in 1941
year after the death of du Plessis - over the English Channel
the plane was shot down by fascist anti-aircraft gunners.
From the hands of General de Gaulle Yakovlev, like a hero's widow,
will receive the order. And together with Alex and daughter
Francine will move to the United States.

Tatiana with her daughter Francine in Connecticut

Fate has always been kind to her.
No wonder in the 1920s Tatyana wrote to her mother:
“It’s written in my family“ to come out of the water dry ”.
Even during the occupation, when Yakovleva organized
an orphanage for 123 street children, she will be able to get
help from the Germans themselves.
When the German commandant of the Tour learned that in front of him
Viscountess du Plessis, he asked Tatiana, not a descendant
whether she was Cardinal Richelieu, who bore the same ancestral
name.
Tatiana replied that she would rather be a descendant
Ladies with camellias.
The commandant appreciated the answer - he was a professor
French literature.
It was he who corrected her departure pass.

Tatyana's father, Alexey Evgenievich Yakovlev, disappeared with
the horizon of his former family even before the revolution.
It was known that he left for America, but where is he, that with
him - none of the relatives knew.
But grandmothers have the ability to find a needle in a haystack.
hay.
It turned out that Alexey Evgenievich, having turned into El
Jackson, endured many hardships overseas.

When Tatiana, Alex and Francine in January 1941 from
Lisbon on a Portuguese steamer sailed to
New York, at the pier they were met by two men, both
would have changed social status.

Former Soviet executive officer Semyon
Lieberman, Alexander's father, turned into
American entrepreneur and led a bourgeois
Lifestyle.
Alexey Yakovlev, nobleman, graduate
Petersburg cadet corps, architect,
motorist, aviator and bon vivant, became
a proletarian and lived in a workers' village.

In the first months of his stay in New York, a noble
the surname once again played into the hands of Tatiana. She did it
get a job as a designer of women's hats as "Countess du
Plessy ". Her hats were worn by Marlene Dietrich, Edith Piaf,
Esti Lauder and other wealthy women.

Her daughter Francine explains the secret of her success by “cultural
level and knowledge of the laws of society, which are much
surpassed her design talent. She was
a talented amateur psychiatrist and could
convince anyone that she is beautiful. "
Tatiana agreed with her daughter. "They are leaving me,
self-confident, like prize horses ", - said
she is about her clients.

Alex, who was in Paris first as an artist and then
editor-in-chief of the fashion magazine "Vu", received
proposal from the American magazine "Vogue".

The Lieberman family was quite wealthy.
In New York, they occupied a multi-storey building and
owned a luxurious estate in Connecticut, which
George Balanchine called the country Libermania.
Many famous
Russians who came to the States.

Tatiana recommended a new secretary to Dior.
It was a young Yves Saint Laurent (photo 1950)
Yakovleva gave the impression of a strict woman.
Straight, majestic. And it could be understood -
because her husband Alex had a very high position:
was one of the leaders of the Condenast publishing house and
sculptor.


Yakovleva with Valentina Sanina.

She was friends with the muses of other Russian poets.
Was the best friend of Valentina Nikolaevna Sanina,
the muse of Vertinsky.
Was close to Lady Abdi, née Iya Ge,
the niece of the artist Ge, the muse of Alexei Tolstoy,
who brought her out in the image of the heroine of the novel "Aelita".
In a word, she chose her friends to match.

The ascent belongs to the merits of Tatyana Yakovleva
Christian Dior and the appearance of Yves Saint Laurent.
They owe their talent, of course, not to her. But
the press started talking about these couturiers after
Yakovleva told her husband that they are geniuses.

She was friends with Joseph Brodsky, Alexander
Godunov, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Natalia
Makarova.


She willingly received fugitives from Soviet Russia.

The couple Tatiana and Alexander were one of the most
famous in New York. As guests on their chic
receptions became all the cream of the city. Wherein
the family life of Yakovleva and Lieberman also seemed
perfect.
Author of the book “Tatiana. Russian Muse of Paris "Yuri
Tyurin, the first to shed light on the fate of Tatiana
Yakovleva, describes her impressions of the spouses as follows:
“In everyday life, Alex was conservative: shirts
sewn only by a tailor in England, red wine
ordered in France, thirty years in the morning oatmeal
on the water, half a century one woman.
“During the past years, in total, we have not been
together for five days, - Alex admits. - But they were
the darkest days of my life. "

His eyes were always glowing with love. They even fought
surprisingly calm and respectful.
Alex is unhappy that Tatiana did not touch
breakfast.
He grumbles that she’s already lost three pounds in a week.
In response, a drawn-out pleading: "Alex, don't start." And that's all.
No emotional outbursts, offended eyes, puffed up
cheeks.
Even if one of them was fixated on something, the other
skillfully translated the situation into humor ...

It has not been erased from her memory short novel with Mayakovsky.
In the mid-70s, an acquaintance told her that he was going to
Moscow and see Lilya Brik there. Tatiana went out for a minute
into the bedroom and returned with a white lace handkerchief,
which she asked to give to Leela. "She will understand," said
Tatiana. "I understand," Lily nodded sadly, having received
unexpected gift.

It was a white flag, a sign of surrender.
In a suicide note, Mayakovsky appointed Lilya Yurievna
the manager of his papers and manuscripts. In your bath
Lilya's apartment burned every single letter from Tatyana.
She took a lethal dose of sleeping pills in 1978
breaking the neck of her thigh - she was 86 years old, at that age of the bone
do not grow together anymore.
She managed to stay, if not the only one, then the main one.
muse of Mayakovsky.
But she could not get to his letters to Tatyana. Tatiana
kept them in a sealed bag, did not publish them to anyone
did not show, but allowed her daughter to do it.


Daughter of Francine du Plessis.

On the eve of Tatiana's 85th birthday,
hemorrhage in the intestine. The operation was done
meaningless.
A few days later, Yakovleva was gone.
On his wife's tombstone, Alex Lieberman ordered
engrave: “Tatiana du Plessis-Lieberman,
nee Yakovleva, 1906-1991 ".
The husband wanted to be buried in the same grave
with Tatiana and even prepared an inscription for myself:
"Alexander Lieberman, 1912- ..."
But life decided differently.
After suffering a heart attack and clinical death
he married a Filipina Milinda, one of the nurses,
who have looked after Tatyana in recent years.
And he bequeathed to scatter his ashes over the Philippines.
In 1999, his will was fulfilled ...

Contrary to the will of the deceased, the father stubbornly did not give
Francine Mayakovsky's letters - claimed that he did not remember,
where the package lies.
He didn't even say it on his deathbed, and Francine
understood: Alex's jealousy was akin to Lily's jealousy, he
wanted to be the only one in Tatiana's life.
Francine found the papers herself: 27 pages of letters, 24
telegrams and autographs of some poems ...
Archive of the Parisian novel.

Epilogue.
In the diary entries of M.Ya. Prezent, found in the archives
The Kremlin literary critic Valentin Skoryatin, there is
the mention that the poet was early in the morning of April 14, 1930,
three hours before the shot, went to the telegraph office and gave it to Paris
telegram addressed to Tatyana Yakovleva: "Mayakovsky
shot himself. "
Gossip? Legend? Fact? Hard to say...

Used in illustration
materials from the archives of the State Museum
V.V. Mayakovsky and the book by Yuri Tyurin "Tatiana".
Vladimir ABARINOV
Especially for "Top Secret"

The last two years of Mayakovsky's life, the world of his personal
experiences and feelings are associated with the name of Tatiana
Yakovleva.

A little over a year and a half before meeting Mayakovsky
T. Yakovleva came from Russia to Paris at the call of her uncle,
artist A.E. Yakovleva.

22 years old, beautiful, tall, leggy
("... we also need you in Moscow, there are not enough long-legged ones" -
we read in "Letter to Tatyana Yakovleva"), with
expressive eyes and bright sunny,
like glowing hair, a swimmer and
tennis player, she, fatally irresistible,
attracted the attention of many young and
middle-aged people of their circle.

The date of acquaintance is precisely known - October 25, 1928.
Remembers Elsa Triolet - famous French
writer, sister of Lily Brick: "I met
with Tatyana just before Mayakovsky's arrival in Paris and
told her: "Yes, you are under the height of Mayakovsky."

So, because of this "under growth", for a laugh, I introduced
Volodya with Tatiana. Mayakovsky, at first glance,
I fell in love with her. "And in her memoirs, Elsa will write that
did this so that Mayakovsky did not get bored in Paris.

But there is an opinion that the meeting was organized with
other goals - to distract the poet from the American Ellie Jones,
who gave birth to his daughter and to detain the poet in the capital of France,
where Mayakovsky generously paid for Elsa's life and
Louis of Aragon.

21 days after Mayakovsky's departure, December 24
1928, Tatiana will send a letter to her mother in Russia:
"He is so colossal both physically and mentally that
after him - literally a desert. This is the first person
who managed to leave a trace in my soul ... "

Tatyana evaded Mayakovsky's persuasion to go to
as his wife to Moscow ...
And one more circumstance alarmed Mayakovsky: he
reads in the Russian society of Paris dedicated to his beloved
poems - she is unhappy, he wants to print them - she is not
in a hurry to bring complete clarity to the relationship with the poet, not
gives consent to this.
Her evasiveness and caution were perceived
Mayakovsky as a disguised refusal.
The poem says about this directly and sharply:
Do not want?
Stay and winter ...

Their first meeting lasted more than a month.
Before leaving, Mayakovsky made an order in a Parisian
greenhouse - send flowers to the address of your beloved woman.

And he left for Moscow alone.

From this instantly flared up and did not take place
love, we are left with a magic poem "Letter
Tatiana Yakovleva ".

He almost thought about moving to Paris himself.
As a result, he was denied travel abroad.
One of Mayakovsky's friends Natalya Bryukhanenko
recalled: “In January 1929, Mayakovsky said,
that he is in love and will shoot himself if he cannot soon
see this woman. "

He did not see this woman.

And in April 1930 he pulled the trigger.

Is there any connection between these events -
no one will say for sure. The denouement happened in the spring.

Back in October 1929, Lilya in the presence of
Mayakovsky read aloud in a letter from her sister Elsa
that Tatiana is going to marry the Viscount du
Plessy. Although, in fact, we will talk about the wedding
only a month later.

Yakovleva once admits with bitter irony that
even grateful to Leela for that. Otherwise she,
sincerely loving Mayakovsky, I would return to the USSR and
would have perished in a meat grinder in '37.

Tatiana with her sister Lyudmila and the governess.
Penza, 1908

Tatiana's uncle, Alexander Yakovlev, graduate
Imperial Academy of Arts, a year before
arrival of Tatiana was awarded the Order of the Honorary
legion.
The master helped him to issue a call for his niece
Citroen, the owner of the carmaker, with whom the artist
agreed to cooperate in exchange for a petition for
Tatiana.
The 19-year-old girl spent her first months in the south
France, where she was treated for tuberculosis received
in the hungry post-revolutionary years in Penza.
And then she returned to Paris and entered a fashion school.
Soon Tatiana tries her hand at modeling
hats and succeeds in this.

Uncle introduces her to the world of secular Paris.

Before her eyes, Coco Chanel's romance unfolds with
Grand Duke Dmitry Pavlovich,

she plays four hands on the piano with Sergei
Prokofiev, meets Jean Cocteau, who
in a few years he will save him from prison.


Cocteau, sharing a hotel room with
Jean Mare, will be arrested by the vice police. And Yakovleva
rush to the police station in Toulon and declare
that her lover Cocteau was arrested by mistake.
The great playwright will be released immediately.

Talking to the most prominent representatives
Russian culture - Fedor Chaliapin takes care of her,
Mikhail Larionov and Natalia Goncharova donate their drawings,
- Tatyana perceives the meeting with Mayakovsky completely
calmly.

Only the poet's letters to her have survived to this day.
In October 1929, Elsa Triolet thoughtfully
told Tatyana that the poet was not given a visa.
Probably, she did not fail to tell about his new
passion for actress Veronica Polonskaya ...

Well, Tanya's life was just beginning ...

She accepted an offer from one of her fans.
- young French diplomat Bertrand du
Plessy, just appointed as a trading
attaché to Warsaw.
There, in the fourth month of pregnancy, she learned about
the suicide of an "absolute gentleman".

The marriage with Viscount Bertrand du Plessis became for
Yakovleva, in her words, "by flight from Volodya."
She understood that Mayakovsky would no longer be released
abroad, and wanted a normal family. And also
honestly admitted that she had never loved
du Plessis.
In 1930 they will have a daughter, Francine.

Pretty, like a silent movie star
Rudolph Valentino, musician, pilot, connoisseur
antiques, du Plessis was a fine man,
who adored their wife.

Three years later, the family idyll gave a solid
crack: returning home at an inopportune hour, Tatiana
I found my husband in bed with a friend - Katya Krasina,
one of the three daughters of the former people's commissar
and diplomat Leonid Krasin.

The marriage did not break up, but family life with Bertrand
from now on it will be only nominal.

In addition, Yakovleva herself will soon
a new hobby will appear - Alexander Lieberman.
The meeting will take place in 1938, when Alex and
Lyuba Krasina, daughter of the Soviet ambassador to France, on
whom he intended to marry, will come to rest in the south.

Tatyana also recovered her strength there.
the year before, in a car accident. Her injuries were so
terrible that the body was sent to the morgue. There she came
into herself and, to the horror of the orderlies, began to moan. In the hospital
Yakovleva had to go through thirty plastic
operations.
And the trip to the sea was very, very useful.

Krasina herself found Tatiana and introduced
with Alexander. How will you remember later
Lieberman, "there was an instant attraction between them."
And they never parted ...


Tatiana will officially become Lieberman's wife in 1941
year after the death of du Plessis - over the English Channel
the plane was shot down by fascist anti-aircraft gunners.
From the hands of General de Gaulle Yakovlev, like a hero's widow,
will receive the order. And together with Alex and daughter
Francine will move to the United States.

Tatiana with her daughter Francine in Connecticut

Fate has always been kind to her.
No wonder in the 1920s Tatyana wrote to her mother:
“It’s written in my family“ to come out dry ”.
Even during the occupation, when Yakovleva organized
an orphanage for 123 street children, she will be able to get
help from the Germans themselves.
When the German commandant of the Tour learned that in front of him
Viscountess du Plessis, he asked Tatiana, not a descendant
whether she was Cardinal Richelieu, who bore the same ancestral
name.
Tatiana replied that she would rather be a descendant
Ladies with camellias.
The commandant appreciated the answer - he was a professor
French literature.
It was he who corrected her departure pass.

Tatyana's father, Alexey Evgenievich Yakovlev, disappeared with
the horizon of his former family even before the revolution.
It was known that he left for America, but where is he, that with
him - none of the relatives knew.
But grandmothers have the ability to find a needle in a haystack.
hay.
It turned out that Alexey Evgenievich, having turned into El
Jackson, endured many hardships overseas.

When Tatiana, Alex and Francine in January 1941 from
Lisbon on a Portuguese steamer sailed to
New York, at the pier they were met by two men, both
would have changed social status.

Former Soviet executive officer Semyon
Lieberman, Alexander's father, turned into
American entrepreneur and led a bourgeois
Lifestyle.
Alexey Yakovlev, nobleman, graduate
Petersburg cadet corps, architect,
motorist, aviator and bon vivant, became
a proletarian and lived in a workers' village.

In the first months of his stay in New York, a noble
the surname once again played into the hands of Tatiana. She did it
get a job as a designer of women's hats as "Countess du
Plessy ". Her hats were worn by Marlene Dietrich, Edith Piaf,
Esti Lauder and other wealthy women.


Her daughter Francine explains the secret of her success by “cultural
level and knowledge of the laws of society, which are much
surpassed her design talent. She was
a talented amateur psychiatrist and could
convince anyone that she is beautiful. "
Tatiana agreed with her daughter. "They are leaving me,
self-confident, like prize horses ", - said
she is about her clients.

Alex, who was in Paris first as an artist and then
editor-in-chief of the fashion magazine "Vu", received
proposal from the American magazine "Vogue".


The Lieberman family was quite wealthy.
In New York, they occupied a multi-storey building and
owned a luxurious estate in Connecticut, which
George Balanchine called the country Libermania.
Many famous
Russians who came to the States.

Tatiana recommended a new secretary to Dior.
It was a young Yves Saint Laurent (photo 1950)
Yakovleva gave the impression of a strict woman.
Straight, majestic. And it could be understood -
because her husband Alex had a very high position:
was one of the leaders of the Condenast publishing house and
sculptor.



Yakovleva with Valentina Sanina.

She was friends with the muses of other Russian poets.
Was the best friend of Valentina Nikolaevna Sanina,
the muse of Vertinsky.
Was close to Lady Abdi, née Iya Ge,
the niece of the artist Ge, the muse of Alexei Tolstoy,
who brought her out in the image of the heroine of the novel "Aelita".
In a word, she chose her friends to match.

The ascent belongs to the merits of Tatyana Yakovleva
Christian Dior and the appearance of Yves Saint Laurent.
They owe their talent, of course, not to her. But
the press started talking about these couturiers after
Yakovleva told her husband that they are geniuses.

She was friends with Joseph Brodsky, Alexander
Godunov, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Natalia
Makarova.


She willingly received fugitives from Soviet Russia.

The couple Tatiana and Alexander were one of the most
famous in New York. As guests on their chic
receptions became all the cream of the city. Wherein
the family life of Yakovleva and Lieberman also seemed
perfect.
Author of the book “Tatiana. Russian Muse of Paris "Yuri
Tyurin, the first to shed light on the fate of Tatiana
Yakovleva, describes her impressions of the spouses as follows:
“In everyday life, Alex was conservative: shirts
sewn only by a tailor in England, red wine
ordered in France, thirty years in the morning oatmeal
on the water, half a century one woman.
“During the past years, in total, we have not been
together for five days, - Alex admits. - But they were
the darkest days of my life. "

His eyes were always glowing with love. They even fought
surprisingly calm and respectful.
Alex is unhappy that Tatiana did not touch
breakfast.
He grumbles that she’s already lost three pounds in a week.
In response, a drawn-out pleading: "Alex, don't start." And that's all.
No emotional outbursts, offended eyes, puffed up
cheeks.
Even if one of them was fixated on something, the other
skillfully translated the situation into humor ...

A short romance with Mayakovsky has not been erased from her memory.
In the mid-70s, an acquaintance told her that he was going to
Moscow and see Lilya Brik there. Tatiana went out for a minute
into the bedroom and returned with a white lace handkerchief,
which she asked to give to Leela. "She will understand," said
Tatiana. "I understand," Lily nodded sadly, having received
unexpected gift.


It was a white flag, a sign of surrender.
In a suicide note, Mayakovsky appointed Lilya Yurievna
the manager of his papers and manuscripts. In your bath
Lilya's apartment burned every single letter from Tatyana.
She took a lethal dose of sleeping pills in 1978
breaking the neck of her thigh - she was 86 years old, at that age of the bone
do not grow together anymore.
She managed to stay, if not the only one, then the main one.
muse of Mayakovsky.
But she could not get to his letters to Tatyana. Tatiana
kept them in a sealed bag, did not publish them to anyone
did not show, but allowed her daughter to do it.


Daughter of Francine du Plessis.

On the eve of Tatiana's 85th birthday,
hemorrhage in the intestine. The operation was done
meaningless.
A few days later, Yakovleva was gone.
On his wife's tombstone, Alex Lieberman ordered
engrave: “Tatiana du Plessis-Lieberman,
nee Yakovleva, 1906-1991 ".
The husband wanted to be buried in the same grave
with Tatiana and even prepared an inscription for myself:
"Alexander Lieberman, 1912- ..."
But life decided differently.
After suffering a heart attack and clinical death
he married a Filipina Milinda, one of the nurses,
who have looked after Tatyana in recent years.
And he bequeathed to scatter his ashes over the Philippines.
In 1999, his will was fulfilled ...

Contrary to the will of the deceased, the father stubbornly did not give
Francine Mayakovsky's letters - claimed that he did not remember,
where the package lies.
He didn't even say it on his deathbed, and Francine
understood: Alex's jealousy was akin to Lily's jealousy, he
wanted to be the only one in Tatiana's life.
Francine found the papers herself: 27 pages of letters, 24
telegrams and autographs of some poems ...
Archive of the Parisian novel.

Epilogue.
In the diary entries of M. Ya. Present found in the archives
The Kremlin literary critic Valentin Skoryatin, there is
the mention that the poet was early in the morning of April 14, 1930,
three hours before the shot, went to the telegraph office and gave it to Paris
telegram addressed to Tatyana Yakovleva: "Mayakovsky
shot himself. "
Gossip? Legend? Fact? Hard to say...

Used in illustration
materials from the archives of the State Museum
V.V. Mayakovsky and the book by Yuri Tyurin "Tatiana".
Vladimir ABARINOV
Especially for "Top Secret"
http://www.sovsekretno.ru/magazines/article/1433
Igor IZGARSHEV
from the blog of Lydia Ludyanskaya http://blogs.mail.ru/mail/lidlud/470D791022803291.html


"I will still take you someday - alone or together with Paris" - these famous lines Vladimir Mayakovsky were addressed to Tatiana Yakovleva, a Russian emigrant who went abroad in the 1920s. In Paris, they had an affair, which then continued in letters. Mayakovsky tried to persuade Yakovlev to return to the USSR, but she remained in Paris, where she became one of the most prominent and prominent figures in the Russian emigration.



Tatyana Alekseevna Yakovleva was born in 1906 in St. Petersburg, and spent her childhood in Penza. From there she emigrated abroad when she was 19 years old. She managed to leave thanks to her uncle, the artist Alexander Yakovlev, popular in France. He knew the owner of the auto concern Citroen and asked him to procure a visa and passport for Tatyana.



Like most Russian émigré beauties, Tatyana Yakovleva got a job as a fashion model. Soon, all of Paris was covered with advertising posters of a stocking depicting Tatiana against the backdrop of Cite landscapes. Already in adulthood, she admitted: “ My legs were amazing, all men fell in love". In the very first years of her Parisian life, she had many admirers, among whom were even Fyodor Chaliapin and Sergei Prokofiev.



Mayakovsky met with Tatyana Yakovleva in 1928 at the house of Lily Brik's sister Elsa Triolet. The poet fell in love at first sight. He spent a little more than a month in Paris, devoting all his free time to long walks around the city together with Tatiana. Tall and handsome, they were a handsome couple. " You alone are my height", - he wrote in a poem addressed to her. But Mayakovsky had to return to the USSR, he long persuaded her to go with him, but she refused.



Before leaving, Mayakovsky left a large sum in one of the Parisian greenhouses with a request to send bouquets every Sunday to Yakovleva's address with his business card. The firm was respectable and carried out an assignment on a weekly basis: even after the death of the poet, Tatyana continued to receive flowers from him.



Although Yakovleva refused to leave after Mayakovsky, she claimed that she was in love with him. In a letter to her mother, she confessed: “He is so colossal both physically and mentally that after him there is literally a desert. This is the first person who managed to leave a mark on my soul.". The lovers wrote letters to each other, in which they did not tire of confessing their love to each other. The poet wrote: “ You can't retell and rewrite all the sadness that makes me more silent". Unfortunately, Tatyana Yakovleva's letters have not survived - Lilya Brik, who gained access to the poet's archive after his death, obviously destroyed all evidence of his love for another woman - she herself should have remained the only muse. Shortly before her death, Tatyana Yakovleva said: “ I am grateful to her for that. Otherwise, I would have returned to the USSR for Mayakovsky, I loved him so much. And would inevitably perish in the meat grinder of 1937».



In October 1929, Lilya Brik, not without gloating, told the poet the news that his new muse was about to marry Viscount Bertrand du Plessis, although there was no talk of a wedding at that time. Later, Tatyana nevertheless became his wife, and this marriage became, in her words, "an escape from Volodya." She understood that she would no longer see him - Mayakovsky was no longer allowed to go abroad (according to rumors, Lilya Brik took care of this). The poet's friend Natalya Bryukhanenko recalled: “ In January 1929, Mayakovsky said that he was in love and would shoot himself if he could not see this woman soon.". And in April 1930 he pulled the trigger. What circumstances prompted him to take this step, and whether it was suicide - biographers argue to this day.



Yakovleva's marriage with the Viscount du Plessis soon fell apart - Tatiana learned of his infidelity. And soon she had a new hobby - the artist and sculptor Alexander Lieberman. They met in the south of France, where Tatiana was recovering after a terrible car accident, as a result of which she had to endure several plastic surgeries. They got married in 1941, after the death of Viscount du Plessis - his plane was shot down by fascist anti-aircraft gunners. And soon the family moved to the United States.



Tatiana du Plessis-Lieberman survived Mayakovsky by 60 years. Although there were many twists and turns in her life, she lived a long and happy life. Yakovleva herself said: “ It's written to me to come out of the water dry". In New York, she managed to get a job as a designer of women's hats as "Countess du Plessis". Her daughter explained her mother's success “ cultural level and knowledge of the laws of society, which far exceeded her design talent. She was a talented amateur psychiatrist and could convince anyone that she was beautiful.". Her husband became the art director of Vogue magazine, and the family lived in abundance. Together they lived to a ripe old age, until Tatiana du Plessis-Lieberman died on the eve of her 85th birthday in 1991.



Valentina Sanina was a close friend of Tatyana.

The scandalous "herald of the revolution" Vladimir Mayakovsky had many heartfelt hobbies. But only two women - Lilya Brik and Tatyana Yakovleva - he also dedicated his best poems. If more than enough is known about the first, then the history of the tragic relationship with the second is still full of secrets ...

Text: Natalia Turovskaya

In one of the unremarkable in October 1929, in a small apartment in Poluektoviy Lane, which the Brikov couple shared with Vladimir Mayakovsky, to the delight of the gossipers who spread rumors about the "life of three", an incident occurred that marked the beginning of a chain of fatal events. Lilya Brik received another letter from Paris from her sister Elsa Triolet.

No, just listen to what Ellochka writes! - She suddenly perked up and began to read aloud aloud: "There is no doubt that one of these days Tatyana Yakovleva will marry the Viscount du Plessis." What is it ?!
“Well, that’s a great game for her,” said Osip Brik from behind his desk.

And only Mayakovsky did not utter a word. He darkened and ran out to smoke into the corridor, bumping into furniture on the way, like a blind man ...

In fact, Lilya Brik then exaggerated everything: the wedding was supposed to take place only in a month. But being offended by Mayakovsky (of course, he dared not just fall in love, but also devote poetry to the lady of his heart, although he had previously done it only for her), she could not deny herself the pleasure of sprinkling salt on the wound of the rejected poet. Later, having learned about this, Tatyana Yakovleva will never forgive Brik of deceit. And only shortly before her death, she unexpectedly confesses: “I am grateful to her for that. Otherwise, I would have returned to the USSR for Mayakovsky, I loved him so much. And inevitably she would have perished in the meat grinder of 1937 ”.

Rendezvous in Paris

Ironically, Vladimir Mayakovsky was introduced to Tatyana Yakovleva by the same Elsa Triolet. In her memoirs, she will explain this simply: so that he does not get bored away from his homeland. Perhaps in this way she wanted to save the poet from the painful attachment to her sister? One way or another, but it is known for certain that on October 25, 1928, at a noisy party at Elsa Triolet and her husband Louis Aragon, they met for the first time. Late at night, the poet volunteered to accompany Tatyana home and literally five minutes later ... he collapsed on his knees in front of her on the cobbled Parisian pavement and began to stormily confess his love. Moreover, he insisted that she become his wife and return with him to Russia. However, such a rapid development of events, if somewhat embarrassed the girl, was not a big surprise for her.

They were a wonderful couple. Mayakovsky is very beautiful, big. Tanya is also a beauty - tall, slender, to match him

From the memoirs of the artist V.I.Shukhaev, a contemporary of V. Mayakovsky

By the age of 22, Tatyana already knew that she acts on men like a drug. Tall, long-legged, natural blonde with expressive eyes, she caught the eye wherever she appeared. Yakovleva was born into a noble family, received an excellent education, miraculously survived the 1917 revolution and in 1926 left for France at the call of her uncle, a famous artist who lived in Paris. In France, having recovered from consumption, Tatiana began working as a fashion model at the Christian Dior Fashion House, and soon her “mysterious face of the Russian Sphinx” was already looking at the Parisians from all the advertising posters. Thanks to her uncle's connections, she quickly entered the high society. Among her admirers were Vertinsky, Prokofiev, Chaliapin ... The playwright Jean Cocteau owed Yakovleva ... his release from prison. He was detained by the vice police after he shared a hotel room with Jean Marais. Upon learning that Cocteau was in jail, an admirer of his talent, Tatyana Yakovleva, immediately rushed to the police station in Toulon and demanded "to immediately release her lover Cocteau, who was arrested due to a stupid misunderstanding" ... The great proletarian poet Mayakovsky could not resist her spell. The very next day after meeting at lunch at the Petite Chaumiere restaurant, he excitedly read poems dedicated to her:

Don't you think
squinting just
from under the straightened arcs.
Go here,
go to the crossroads of my big and clumsy hands.
Do not want? Stay and winter
and this is an insult
to the total account, we will string it down.
I don't care you
someday I will take -
alone or together with Paris.

But Tatyana Yakovleva was in no hurry to answer the frantic Mayakovsky "yes". They had a great time together. But one thing is a whirlwind romance with a temperamental poet, and another is to become the wife of a citizen of Soviet Russia with all the ensuing consequences. Give up furs and jewelry? Return to hungry Moscow and enter the service somewhere? No, Yakovleva could not decide on this. And besides, Mayakovsky, during endless walks, no, no, and yes, he took her to the shops of lingerie or perfumery in order to "choose a gift for Lily." And Tatyana understood: there, in Moscow, she could lose Mayakovsky, unable to withstand the rivalry with Brick.

Mayakovsky left alone and with a broken heart. On December 24, 1928, Yakovleva will write to her mother: “He is so colossal, both physically and morally, that after him there is literally a desert. This is the first person who managed to leave a trace in my soul ... "

Novel in letters

Shortly before leaving Paris, Mayakovsky will leave all the money to one of the Parisian greenhouses, asking the owner to send flowers weekly to Tatyana Yakovleva's address. She will invariably receive beautiful bouquets of roses and orchids for two whole years.

And now -
or the first snow,
or rain on the glass
stripes -
a man knocks at her door,
he is with flowers
from Mayakovsky.

At first, they actively corresponded. In one of his letters, Mayakovsky frankly admitted: "You cannot retell and rewrite all the sadness that makes me more silent." Alas, letters from Tatyana Yakovleva to Mayakovsky did not reach us - Lilya Brik took care of this, after the poet's death, she was in charge of his archive.

The last letter sent by Mayakovsky to Tatyana was dated October 5, 1929. After which he fell into a severe depression. A close friend of Mayakovsky, Vasily Kamensky, in a letter to Yakovleva's mother, stated: “One thing is clear - Tanya was one of the components of the total sum of the imminent tragedy. I know this from Volodya: for a long time he did not want to believe in her marriage. Polonskaya did not play a special role. " Perhaps Kamensky was closer to the truth than all the poet's biographers.

"With you we are in the calculation ..."

From the diary of a close friend of Mayakovsky's Natalia Bryukhanenko: "In January 1929, Mayakovsky said that he was in love and would shoot himself if he could not soon see this woman." In April 1930, Vladimir Mayakovsky committed suicide. Who was this mysterious woman whom the poet so wanted to see? And Lilya Brik, and his last muse - the actress Veronica Polonskaya - he could see when he wanted. But he was no longer allowed to go abroad as unreliable.

As they say,
"The incident is screwed up"
Love boat
crashed into everyday life.
With you we are in the calculation
and there is no need for a list
Mutual pains, troubles and grievances.

The news of the death of Vladimir Mayakovsky caught Tatiana when she was already married to Viscount Bertrand du Plessis. Later she said that it was just "an escape from Volodya." In 1930, her daughter Francine was born. And a year later, Yakovleva will find her husband in bed with another. If before that she simply did not love him, now she has ceased to respect him. And each of the spouses began to live their own lives, not daring to divorce just for the sake of their daughter. After 7 years, Yakovleva will have a car accident. Doctors will literally assemble her body piece by piece after 30 plastic surgeries. In 1938 she will leave the hospital to go to rest by the sea. There Tatyana will meet the young artist Alexander Lieberman, at that time the groom of the daughter of the Soviet ambassador to France Luba Krasina. Despite the fact that Yakovleva was much older, the spark that flared up between them at the first meeting lit a fire of love, which warmed both of them for the rest of their lives.

She used her violent energy to create herself, and in this “self-conception” she became one of the most striking examples of that time. We - those who loved her so much - will be fascinated by Tatiana until the end of days

From the memoirs of Francine du Plessis, daughter of Tatyana Yakovleva from her first marriage.

Life after the shot

Further destiny Tatyana Yakovleva has developed surprisingly happily. In 1941, after the death of Bertrand du Plessis (Nazi anti-aircraft gunners shot down his plane over the English Channel), she married Lieberman and moved to the United States. In New York, the high-profile title of first husband helped her achieve success in a new field. Unexpectedly for everyone, Yakovleva became a designer of women's hats and was very successful in this. Marlene Dietrich, Edith Piaf, Este Lauder and other secular lionesses wore flirty headdresses "from the Countess du Plessis". The secret of her success was not so much in the hatter's talent as in intuition and persuasion. Yakovleva could convince any aging rich woman that a new hat would make her irresistible. “They leave me, confident, like prize horses,” she boasted to her daughter. Spouses Lieberman - Du Plessis were one of the wealthy families in New York. They owned a luxurious villa in Connecticut, in which they gladly received Russian émigré dissidents: writers, poets, musicians, artists.

During the past years, we have not been together for five days in total. But those were the darkest days of my life

From the memoirs of Alexander Lieberman, the second husband of Tatyana Yakovleva

Tatyana Yakovleva did not live several days before her 85th birthday. And all this time she anxiously kept Mayakovsky's letters, which had turned yellow from time. I often reread them and cried furtively, looking into blue sky Connecticut. What was she thinking at these moments? Who knows...

A flair for talent

All her life, Tatyana Yakovleva had an amazing flair for talent. It was she who at one time introduced Christian Dior to the novice Yves Saint Laurent, to whom he later bequeathed his empire. In 1974, Joseph Brodsky met the Lieberman-Du Plessis couple in New York. Alex Lieberman was the first to publish Brodsky on English language... Tatyana Yakovleva, hearing his poems for the first time, dropped the prophetic phrase: "Mark my word, this boy will receive the Nobel Prize!" What happened to Joseph Brodsky in 1987.

Mysterious telegram

There is a diary entry of M. Ya. Present, which tells that Vladimir Mayakovsky in the early morning of April 14, 1930, three hours before the fatal shot, went to the telegraph office and sent a telegram to Paris addressed to Tatyana Yakovleva: "Mayakovsky shot himself." But there is no other documentary evidence of this legend ...

The scandalous "herald of the revolution" Vladimir Mayakovsky had many heartfelt hobbies. But only two women - Lilya Brik and Tatyana Yakovleva - he also dedicated his best poems. If more than enough is known about the first, then the history of the tragic relationship with the second is still full of secrets ...



In one of the unremarkable in October 1929, in a small apartment in Poluektoviy Lane, which the Brikov couple shared with Vladimir Mayakovsky, to the delight of gossipers who spread rumors about the "life of three", an incident occurred that marked the beginning of a chain of fatal events. Lilya Brik received another letter from Paris from her sister Elsa Triolet.

- No, just listen to what Ellochka writes! - She suddenly perked up and began to read aloud aloud: "There is no doubt that one of these days Tatyana Yakovleva will marry the Viscount du Plessis." What is it ?!

- Well, a great game for her, - Osip Brik responded from behind the desk.

And only Mayakovsky did not utter a word. He darkened and ran out to smoke into the corridor, bumping into furniture on the way, like a blind man ...

In fact, Lilya Brik then exaggerated everything: the wedding was supposed to take place only in a month. But being offended by Mayakovsky (of course, he dared not just fall in love, but also devote poetry to the lady of his heart, although he had previously done it only for her), she could not deny herself the pleasure of sprinkling salt on the wound of the rejected poet. Later, having learned about this, Tatyana Yakovleva will never forgive Brik of deceit. And only shortly before her death, she unexpectedly confesses: “I am grateful to her for that. Otherwise, I would have returned to the USSR for Mayakovsky, I loved him so much. And would inevitably perish in the meat grinder of 1937 ”.

Rendezvous in Paris

Ironically, Vladimir Mayakovsky was introduced to Tatyana Yakovleva by the same Elsa Triolet. In her memoirs, she will explain this simply: so that he does not get bored away from his homeland. Perhaps in this way she wanted to save the poet from the painful attachment to her sister? One way or another, it is known for certain that on October 25, 1928, at a noisy party at Elsa Triolet and her husband Louis Aragon, they met for the first time. Late at night, the poet volunteered to accompany Tatyana home and literally five minutes later ... he collapsed on his knees in front of her on the cobbled Parisian pavement and began to stormily confess his love. Moreover, he insisted that she become his wife and return with him to Russia. However, such a rapid development of events, if a little embarrassed the girl, was not a big surprise for her.


The great proletarian poet Mayakovsky could not resist her charm either. The very next day after meeting at lunch at the Petite Chaumiere restaurant, he excitedly read poems dedicated to her:

Don't think squinting just from under the straightened arcs.

Go here, go to the crossroads of my big and clumsy hands.

Do not want? Stay and winterand this is an insultto the total account, we will string it down.

I don't care you someday I will take -alone or together with Paris.

But Tatyana Yakovleva was in no hurry to answer the frantic Mayakovsky "yes". They had a great time together. But one thing is a whirlwind romance with a temperamental poet, and another is to become the wife of a citizen of Soviet Russia with all the ensuing consequences. Give up furs and jewelry? Return to hungry Moscow and enter the service somewhere? No, Yakovleva could not decide on this. And besides, Mayakovsky, during endless walks, no, no, and yes, he took her to the shops of lingerie or perfumery in order to "choose a gift for Lily." And Tatyana understood: there, in Moscow, she could lose Mayakovsky, unable to withstand the rivalry with Brick.

Mayakovsky left alone and with a broken heart. On December 24, 1928, Yakovleva will write to her mother: “He is so colossal, both physically and morally, that after him there is literally a desert. This is the first person who managed to leave a trace in my soul ... "

NOVEL IN LETTERS

Shortly before leaving Paris, Mayakovsky will leave all the money to one of the Parisian greenhouses, asking the owner to send flowers weekly to Tatyana Yakovleva's address. She will invariably receive beautiful bouquets of roses and orchids for two whole years.

And now - or the first snow,or rain on the glass stripes -

a man knocks at her door, he with flowers from Mayakovsky.

At first, they actively corresponded. In one of his letters, Mayakovsky frankly admitted: "You cannot retell and rewrite all the sadness that makes me more silent." Alas, letters from Tatyana Yakovleva to Mayakovsky did not reach us - Lilya Brik took care of this, after the poet's death, she was in charge of his archive.

The last letter sent by Mayakovsky to Tatyana was dated October 5, 1929. After which he fell into the most severe depression. A close friend of Mayakovsky, Vasily Kamensky, in a letter to Yakovleva's mother, stated: “One thing is clear - Tanya was one of the components of the total sum of the imminent tragedy. I know this from Volodya: for a long time he did not want to believe in her marriage. Polonskaya did not play a special role. " Perhaps Kamensky was closer to the truth than all the poet's biographers.

"WE ARE IN CALCULATION WITH YOU ..."

From the diary of a close friend of Mayakovsky's Natalia Bryukhanenko: "In January 1929, Mayakovsky said that he was in love and would shoot himself if he could not soon see this woman." In April 1930, Vladimir Mayakovsky committed suicide. Who was this mysterious woman whom the poet so wanted to see? And Lilya Brik, and his last muse - the actress Veronica Polonskaya - he could see when he wanted. But he was no longer allowed to go abroad as unreliable.

The news of the death of Vladimir Mayakovsky caught Tatiana when she was already married to Viscount Bertrand du Plessis. Later she said that it was just "an escape from Volodya." In 1930, her daughter Francine was born. And a year later, Yakovleva will find her husband in bed with another. If before that she simply did not love him, now she has ceased to respect him. And each of the spouses began to live their own lives, not daring to divorce just for the sake of their daughter. After 7 years, Yakovleva will have a car accident. Doctors will literally assemble her body piece by piece after 30 plastic surgeries. In 1938 she will leave the hospital to go to rest by the sea. There Tatyana will meet the young artist Alexander Lieberman, at that time the groom of the daughter of the Soviet ambassador to France Luba Krasina. Despite the fact that Yakovleva was much older, the spark that flared up between them at the first meeting lit a fire of love, which warmed both of them for the rest of their lives.

She used her violent energy to create herself, and in this “self-conception” she became one of the most striking examples of that time. We - those who loved her so much - will be fascinated by Tatiana until the end of days

From the memoirs of Francine du Plessis, daughter of Tatyana Yakovleva from her first marriage.

LIFE AFTER THE SHOT

The further fate of Tatyana Yakovleva was surprisingly happy. In 1941, after the death of Bertrand du Plessis (Nazi anti-aircraft gunners shot down his plane over the English Channel), she married Lieberman and moved to the United States. In New York, the high-profile title of first husband helped her achieve success in a new field. Unexpectedly for everyone, Yakovleva became a designer of women's hats and was very successful in this. Marlene Dietrich, Edith Piaf, Este Lauder and other secular lionesses wore flirty headdresses "from the Countess du Plessis". The secret of her success was not so much in the hatter's talent as in intuition and persuasion. Yakovleva could convince any aging rich woman that a new hat would make her irresistible. “They leave me, confident, like prize horses,” she boasted to her daughter. Spouses Lieberman - Du Plessis were one of the wealthy families in New York. They owned a luxurious villa in Connecticut, in which they gladly received Russian émigré dissidents: writers, poets, musicians, artists. Vduring the past years we have not been together for five days in total. But those were the darkest days of my life

From the memoirs of Alexander Lieberman, the second husband of Tatyana Yakovleva

Tatyana Yakovleva did not live several days before her 85th birthday. And all this time she anxiously kept Mayakovsky's letters, which had turned yellow from time. I often reread them and cried furtively as I stared up at the blue Connecticut sky. What was she thinking at these moments? Who knows...

A FEAR FOR TALENT

All her life, Tatyana Yakovleva had an amazing flair for talent. It was she who at one time introduced Christian Dior to the novice Yves Saint Laurent, to whom he later bequeathed his empire. In 1974, Joseph Brodsky met the Lieberman-Du Plessis couple in New York. Alex Lieberman was the first to publish Brodsky in English. Tatyana Yakovleva, hearing his poems for the first time, dropped the prophetic phrase: "Mark my word, this boy will receive the Nobel Prize!" What happened to Joseph Brodsky in 1987.


Mysterious Telegram

There is a diary entry of M. Ya. Present, which tells that Vladimir Mayakovsky in the early morning of April 14, 1930, three hours before the fatal shot, went to the telegraph office and sent a telegram to Paris addressed to Tatyana Yakovleva: "Mayakovsky shot himself." But there is no other documentary evidence of this legend ...

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