Iza Vysotskaya: quite frankly

BECAUSE OF IZA

Iza Vysotskaya, People's Artist of Russia, who is better known to the general public as the first wife of Vladimir Vysotsky, recently celebrated her 75th birthday. But she deserves a separate story - as an extraordinary person and as a wonderful person. And precisely because of Iza Konstantinovna, as a sign of respect for her, I decided to write this text

Gennady BRUK, Tel Aviv


"... she grabbed the receiver and heard:" Hello, it's me! "At first the conversations were short, three minutes. Then we noticed that the telephone operators did not interrupt us, and chatted and giggled for hours, and only when the conversation turned to some business, an outside female voice wedged in and demanded about love. "

If a respected reader thought that he was reading an excerpt from Marina Vlady's book "Vladimir or" Interrupted Flight ", then he is mistaken. The events described took place in the late 50s, when Vladimir Vysotsky was still a 3rd year student at the Moscow Art Theater School, and his wife, Iza Vysotskaya, played at the Kiev Lesya Ukrainka Theater, when the loving couple accidentally discovered an ingenious way of communicating at a distance: a long-distance telephone and the flow of love, which no telephone operator can interrupt, unless she has a heart of stone.

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Iza Meshkova was born in January 1937 in Gorky, a year and three days earlier than her future husband, Volodya Vysotsky.

In the military 41st, Iza was 4 years old, Volodya - 3, but childhood memories are tenacious and in 1971 they echoed in the verses of Vladimir Vysotsky:

It so happened - the men left,

We threw crops before the deadline.

Now they are no longer visible from the windows,

Dissolved in road dust ...

Like everyone from the generation of war, the family had enough hunger and anxiety without father's letters from the front, and, as far as not everyone, Iza had to be bombed: “They did not go to the bomb shelter - dad didn’t order.

We preferred instant death ... "

Neighbor was not afraid of the siren

And mother got used to her a little,

And I spat - a healthy three-year-old -

On this air alert!

"Ballad of Childhood", V. Vysotsky, 1975

Then the children all fantasized about "and here I am on an airplane ... ta-ta-ta, and a German plane falls ... at my feet, because I'm already on a tank, and bang-bang, and the German" Tiger "is burning , and I...".

We will meet you both on foot and on horseback,

Tired, not whole, - any.

If only not the emptiness of the funeral,

There is no news in them.

But the black news did not pass the family: the war took away two fathers from Iza: at the beginning of the war - a dear one, Konstantin Pavlovich Meshkov, and at the end - an adopted one, Nikolai Fedorovich Pavlov, a paratrooper battalion commander who disappeared in 1945.

Balloons no longer loom over the city,

Sirens fell silent, preparing to trumpet victory, -

And the company commanders still have time to go to battalion commanders,

Who can still easily be killed

"About the end of the war" V. Vysotsky, 1977.

But even a military childhood is also childhood. It was the first visit to the theater, which left a lasting impression. At school “I studied simply, easily and danced at all school evenings”. She entered the choreographic school at the Opera House. The first "simple steps are the beginning of the flight." She made progress, but ... she quickly grew out of children's parties, and did not manage to grow to a professional stage - the studio was closed. She moved to another school: "Into life without theater, without its music and rehearsals." It was boring, so "At night I thought of a fatal mad love for myself. The finale of these novels always turned out to be sad, but a child, a boy or a girl certainly appeared - all the same. And we lived on with him alone and loved each other loyally and tenderly."

It may seem like a fantasy completely unexpected for a girl of her age, if you do not understand that this is a war and the tragic post-war fatherlessness left an imprint on the soul.

There was a school graduation party, after which, walking with a friend around the city, they came across an ad: "Those who want to enter the acting department of the Nemirovich-Danchenko Studio School at the M.Gorky Moscow Art Theater of the USSR should come there and there to listening". And since, although this is not a ballet, but, as a friend said: "Some kind, but still a scene," Iza thought over "the appearance: a black pleated skirt, a white guipure blouse, in the absence of shoes - slippers, modestly and dignified ", went. And the only one of 120 seekers of happiness, after several rounds of auditions, was accepted by the visiting committee at the Moscow Art Theater School, without additional tours in Moscow!

In Moscow, she took root not immediately. Iza was uncomfortable in an inhospitable, as it seemed to her, city, and even depressing - after ballet training, to be on the dramatic stage, "where they just walk like in life, talk like in life, and they have no music, packs, pointe shoes, stage They always instruct something, pile up - it's boring. "

And suddenly everything changed: the first love happened, crazy, stormy and ridiculous.

And - betrayal ...

Yura Zhukov, the brother of a school friend, who fell in love with Izu during his school years, saved from collapse. He flew to the rescue. Confession, a month of holidays, joint walks, and Meshkova became Zhukova, and her husband flew to Tallinn to complete his studies.

The marriage made it possible to heal the wounds. Iza entered the third year as a serious adult lady with smoothly combed hair, and "A nimble, like mercury, ubiquitous new course appeared in the studio. A ruddy boy in a jacket with pimples ran down the stairs, jumping slightly, toes apart, smiling happily. , Volodya, Vovchik and even Vasek. He was eighteen years old. He is all - a joyful willingness to help, help, help out, just say hello, and all the pimples on his multicolored jacket winked mischievously. This is how I saw you for the first time. "

In 1962, Vysotsky wrote: "That evening I did not drink, did not sing, / I looked at her with might and main, How children look, how children look, .." - these verses are not dedicated to Iza, but this is what she says: " We were celebrating the delivery of the Astoria. We were standing ... waiting for the last taxi. And here you are, Vovochka Vysotsky, invisible all evening, next to me, holding my finger tightly and looking with indestructible confidence to stand to death.

Everyone left without us. I rushed along the boulevards to Trifonovka, and a little behind the then unknown second-year student of the Moscow Art Theater School Vovochka Vysotsky walked relentlessly "- in my opinion, the situation is very similar to the lines quoted.

But then there were only the first steps into poetry, samples, and skits, where Volodya was distinguished by ingenuity, humor, ebullient energy, but nothing more. According to classmate Valentin Nikulin, later - People's Artist of Russia (and for 7 years - Israeli and actor "Habima"): "We did not know then that Vysotsky is VYSOTSKY, but he already knew!" Isa did not know either: "Not only did I not attach any importance to these songs, they were some kind of torment for me. Wherever we went, the songs began. And people heard them for the first time, and I heard them for the 101st time." - she was jealous of Volodya's guitar and "songs", they quarreled and made peace, and only then Isa realized that this was a short, but real happiness. Vladimir Vysotsky did not have nationwide fame, there was no blinding star halo around Iza, the senior student, unlike Vysotsky's marriage with Marina Vlady. There was only a touching, unselfish love of two students, carefree months in a communal apartment, in a walk-through room, where the doors of Volodya's mother's and neighbor's rooms, Gisi Moiseevna, the same one that Vysotsky mentioned in "The Ballad of Childhood", 1975:

"And the sun beat in three streams, sifted through the holes in the roofs

On Evdokim Kirillych and Gisya Moiseevna.

She told him: How are the sons? - Yes, missing!

Eh, Giska, we are one family, you are also victims ... "

An interesting detail: to my question if Isa had heard Jewish expressions in the Vysotsky family, Isa replied that they did not speak Yiddish, but some words broke through, like Gisi Moiseevna, so soon Isa could ask, for example, this: "And what kind of gevalt did you have yesterday, Gisya Moiseevna? "

"Words" were included in the song, which Iza Konstantinovna smartly quoted to me: "And the zukhter-makhter is their bin and the lucky yat ...".

After graduating from college, Iza left for Kiev, where, at the Lesia Ukrainka Theater, she began her professional career, and Volodya stayed in Moscow to finish her studies. Ardent love continued by post, telephone and field methods - Volodya came to dress rehearsals, premieres and vacations.

In Kiev, Iza met Volodya's grandmother, a famous cosmetic bag. Before the war, Deborah Vysotskaya married a second time, became Daria Semenenko, and during the SS "actions" neighbors at gunpoint confirmed that she was "not a Jew", which saved her from Babi Yar.

The family called her grandmother by the beautiful name Irina Alekseevna, she was an inveterate theater-goer and everywhere praised "this wonderful girl", backing up her words with laudatory reviews of Kiev newspapers. At the theater, Izu was appreciated, they gave leading roles, they promised an apartment, but she, having worked out the allotted time, threw everything and returned to Moscow.

Again life "with a darling in a hut" - a communal apartment, but for complete happiness there was not enough, above all - work. Volodya entered the theater. Pushkin, where he did not receive any worthy roles, and Iza, despite successful auditions, could not get a job in any Moscow theater. In addition, everyday troubles and unexpected tension in relations with Volodya's mother (Nina Maksimovna also had a family drama) did not allow the "young" to have a child and, exhausted, Iza flew to Rostov-on-Don, where there were roles and a room , and prospects.

It was expected that Volodya would also arrive, but for now the telephone-mail romance continued and suddenly, like a bolt from the blue, a letter from a friend: "Lyudmila Abramova is expecting a child from Vysotsky."

Everything went to hell. "If you knew, Volodya, how bad I felt!"

"I carried my Trouble

On the spring ice.

The ice broke - the soul broke,

I went under the water like a stone

And the trouble, though hard, -

And lingered behind the sharp edges "

("Trouble", 1972)

We know this song performed by Marina Vladi, to whom Vysotsky dedicated it. But I always have the feeling that Vladi is not the prototype of the heroine. At the beginning of the 70s, there was nothing in the relatively prosperous life of "The Witch" that looked like the tragic plot of "Trouble", and I personally associate the song with the drama of Iza.

Everything was settled very slowly. When they had already parted, Volodya, not yet officially divorced from Iza, lived with Lyudmila Abramova, who bore him two sons. The divorce dragged on, Vysotsky lost the documents sent by Iza - as Freud argued: if the matter does not go, then the person does not want it. Driving along Leningradsky Prospekt, Vladimir accidentally saw Izu from the trolleybus window - she came to Moscow and walked along the street. Taking (for courage?) A mutual friend, he went to the meeting.

Literally on the go, he composed poems: "What can I say about our meeting! - / I was waiting for her, as they expect natural disasters ...". I dedicated them to Iza, but in the dedication, except for the first two lines, one should not look for correspondences between the content of the song and real life, because the song is not a rhymed biography.

For those who are unfamiliar with the full text of the poems, let me remind you at least two stanzas:

And if you waited for me that year

When I was sent "to the dacha" -

I'd steal the whole sky for you

And two Kremlin stars to boot.

And I swear - the last one will be a bastard! -

Don't lie, don't drink - and I will forgive treason, -

And I will give you the Bolshoi Theater

And the Small Sports Arena.

Royal gifts, of course (or thieves'?), But still, who did not wait for whom, who cheated on whom, and to whom should the line "do not lie, do not drink" be attributed? Not to Iza.

"The next day, we went hand in hand to apply for divorce. We kept silent, huddled, and entered the official institution. We agreed that I would keep my last name."

It seemed that it had burned out, life, though "difficult and awkward," continued. And, finally, as she dreamed since childhood: "great happiness is my son. Gleb was born on May 1, 1965 ... he is only mine and bears my last name - Vysotsky" - Iza Konstantinovna wrote in her memoirs.

She played in theaters in Perm, Vladimir, Liepaja, in the Theater of the Baltic Fleet, and since 1970 has served in the Nizhne-Tagil Theater named after I. Mamina-Sibiryak.

Among the partners of Iza Konstatinvna, I will name at least MF Romanov and P.B. Luspekaev, the actress remembers everyone, but it is impossible to list them in the framework of a newspaper article.

Iza hid her love at the very bottom of her soul, brushed aside the songs sounding from all sides, but one day “Choosy horses fell upon me.” Struck, I froze in the sun-hot square, belatedly realizing the tragic depth of a light, funny boy, ”recalls Iza ...

Sometimes they met by chance, almost on the run, but each time there was a feeling of "magical, crazy weightlessness." Strange as it may seem, Iza became a close person for Vladimir's parents: the mother of Nina Maksimovna, the "second mother" of Volodya - Evgenia Stepanovna and Semyon Vladimirovich. She is the only of the poet's wives, about whom his father always spoke with tenderness.

In 1976 - a meeting between Iza and Vladimir, extremely exciting and surprisingly joyful ... and, as it turned out, the last.

Volodya brought her to "Hamlet" (and earlier Iza considered him an actor of an exceptionally characteristic genre):

"There is one, completely alone Volodya against the wall ... A strange emptiness of the crowded hall.

There is no scene. There is tragic loneliness. Lust for life and challenge to fate. Passionate, inquisitive, throbbing thought.

And death that is not the end.

I did not know such a Hamlet. I didn't know this Volodya.

“I love you,” I said. “I always remember you,” said Volodya.

It seems that every other day I watched "The Cherry Orchard".

Lopakhin is not Hamlet at all, but Lopakhin-Volodya is also frighteningly alone, not understood, not loved. And how hard he is in the final - frost on the skin.

After the performance, Volodya takes me to Zhukovka. We hover in speed, like in an airplane, only other people's cars rush back. "Stop, moment!" - we were kissing. Then we ate for some reason from the same plate and laughed softly. And then you went to the play. I went to Belgorod on tour. "

This is how the final lines from "Trouble" suggest:

"He overtook me, overtook me,

I hugged it, raised it in my arms,

In the saddle beside him, Bede was grinning ...

But he could not stay -

It was only one day ... "

Let's not remember the last line of the song yet.

"Volodya had many plans. My soul was calm. I was dancing again, and the world was young and beautiful."

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Iza Konstatinovna is a great woman!

She overcame the mental pain, coped with the trouble, despite the last line of the song: "And the trouble was delayed forever." She passed through life not as "Vysotsky's ex-wife", although she left his last name after the divorce, but as a great dramatic actress. She gave birth to herself and raised a wonderful son. When her Gleb served on a submarine, the song "Save our souls" squeezed a mother's heart.

Iza Konstantinovna was awarded the highest degree of artistic skill and recognition: she received the title of "People's Artist of Russia"! She is the only "folk" one in peripheral theaters.

And yet, Iza Konstantinovna teaches stage speech at the acting department of the College of Arts.

In 2005, her book "A Short Happiness for Life" was published - "... My classmates said ... you have to do this, because you ... I know, in general, the origins. I know the boy still, ruddy .. .with a blush on his cheeks. Well, Volodya was 19 years old, I was 20 when we became husband and wife. I know how to proceed. The last time we saw each other was in the 76th year, that is, for 20 years, we were, well, how to say, we parted, did not disperse, we were close people, we never parted forever as humans. And then I was very close to his family, and with his father, and with his second mother, Evgenia Stepanovna, and with Nina Maksimovna ".

From the preface of her book: "At first I was persuaded, then I myself wanted to entrust my paper, and therefore your past. I love you."

I affirm as a reader: the book is wonderful, sincere, and, unlike others, devoid of "artistic" inventions, narcissism and imagination.

In January of this year, at the Nizhne-Tagil Theater, where, I recall, Iza Konstantinovna has been serving since 1970, at the end of the play "Dear Pamela", the anniversary of the People's Artist was solemnly celebrated. Flowers, speeches, interviews!

And the question of the interviewer, without whom it was impossible to do: “Your opinion about the film“ Thank you for being alive. ”An honest logical answer:“ I have not watched it and am not going to watch it. Well, imagine, in your life was, and since he was, then he is ... Volodya is not, but in me he remained, he does not go anywhere, dear loved one. They show me or are going to show me something made according to a script worked out by someone. Someone invented something, poured something ... But even if not for this, if I knew that he was some kind of genius actor, he would never be Vysotsky for me, he would make me reject, because I have a different Vysotsky, I can't be replaced, I won't go. "

We wish a wonderful person, Izya Konstantinovna, health, new successes and roles on the stage. Long years of happy life: "up to 120 as at 20", in the circle of family and friends, and with enthusiastic fans in the audience!

Used photographs and quotes from the book "A Short Happiness for Life" and poems by V. Vysotsky.

While studying at the choreographic school at the Opera House

Iza was uncomfortable in an inhospitable, as it seemed to her, city, and even depressing - after ballet training to be on the dramatic stage, "where they just walk like in life, talk like in life, and they have no music, packs, pointe shoes, stage They will always instruct something, pile up - it's boring "(Vladimir Vysotsky was very fond of this photo)



At the Nizhne-Tagil Theater, where Iza Konstantinovna has served since 1970, at the end of the play "Dear Pamela", the anniversary of the People's Artist was solemnly celebrated. Flowers, speeches, interviews!


Iza Konstantinovna during one of the TV interviews

A huge loss for the theater ... People's Artist of Russia Iza Vysotskaya passed away. For almost 43 years, the muse and first wife of the poet Vladimir Vysotsky lived in Nizhny Tagil. She worked at the local Drama Theater. She played the main roles in the performances "Trees die while standing", "Dear Pamela". In the morning and in the evening, Iza Konstantinovna went to rehearsals, and also managed to teach acting skills to students. Many believed that the first wife had become a recluse, they say she does not give interviews, does not talk with journalists at all. But that was not the case.

According to colleagues, Iza Vysotskaya has never been lonely.

Although her son Gleb moved to Yekaterinburg, he was always in touch with her, ”says Nelly Salovskaya, a close friend of Iza Konstantinovna. - I called almost every day. Moreover, they had such a connection with their mother, whom one can only envy. Isa said: "Now Glebushka will ring and at the same second the bell rang. She has her nephew Gleb living in Nizhny Tagil - Iza raised him like her own son. She has many friends here. She was known from Moscow to the outskirts. Even now, in her there is a parcel post from Israel the other day classmates called from Australia Soviet actress Margarita Volodina sent her a handkerchief from Paris ... Isa was never a recluse! Partly she loved being alone, but she was never alone!

For the last year, Izu Konstantinovna's health began to fail. And today at 5:30 the first wife of Vladimir Vysotsky died. She passed away surrounded by family and close friends.

For the last 10 days, we have all been on duty at her bedside: she felt very bad. The son of Gleb came from Yekaterinburg. There was a nephew, Cyril, friends came, - continues the actress Nelly Salovskaya. - Only in August, she underwent three operations in a row: a hernia was removed. Her legs were sore. She even now has a sick leave. Imagine, she was sick, but she worked so hard. She was a real fighter ... That night all her relatives were with her. Son Gleb, his wife Olga, Kirill. I left at 11:00 pm, wanted them to be with my family. And at 5:30 Gleb called and said: "Mom is no more." She died in his arms.

Izu Konstantinovna was to be buried on the Walk of Fame at the Rogozhinsky cemetery in Nizhny Tagil. The most famous people of the city are buried there. But it turned out that Iza Konstantinovna was against this. She didn't even want any farewell ceremonies in her native theater.

We often talked with her. How to make it so that you die in a dream and that there is no pain ... Probably, older people often have such conversations, - says Nelly Ivanovna. “And she said to me:“ I don't want any speeches. I want everything to be more modest. It is important for me to be remembered alive, on stage ”. I think it does her honor as a person. When we told her son Gleb that Iza Konstantinovna could be buried on the Walk of Fame. He categorically said: "No, my mother did not want that." She bequeathed to cremate herself. And Gleb will take the urn with her ashes to Yekaterinburg.

As such, there will be no farewell ceremony for the actress. But the audience will still be able to say goodbye to Iza Konstantinovna - in the drama theater July 22 at 13:30 at the address in Nizhny Tagil at st. Chelyuskintsev, 47.

Vladimir Vysotsky would have turned 75 this year. The artist's wives, whom they talk about, are Lyudmila Abramova, who gave birth to two sons, Marina Vlady, with whom he lived for ten years ... But little is known about the very first, student marriage with actress Iza Vysotskaya. Meanwhile, it was true love, which three times could end with the happy birth of a baby.

Iza Vysotskaya - the most "invisible" wife of the great artist, with whom he lived for a very short time. But on the other hand, due to youth, these were the most real, sincere feelings! And it was Isa who knew Vysotsky the way he is not shown in films now. Instead of drinking, drugs, scandals - touching courtship, declarations of love, happy holidays. We phoned Iza Nikolaevna in Nizhny Tagil, where she now lives, to find out how she remembers Volodya.

- I have no complaints against him, and I have no grudges! In general, our connection with Volodya was not interrupted until his death, - the actress told us. - And with his father, I have always maintained a relationship. I try not to pay attention to rumors and I am very glad that I live so far from Moscow, I do not participate in parties, TV shows, I do not give interviews. Believe me, I am very happy that such a person was in my life! And I am happy with how my destiny has developed.

There were rumors that Vysotsky's first wife lived almost in a monastery, did not communicate with anyone, left the world ... In fact, Vysotskaya is an actress of the local drama theater, she has an adult son and grandchildren. And she deliberately went to work in the provinces when she was still married to Vladimir Vysotsky.

- We broke up not because I left Moscow! - says the actress. - The reason was different ... All I could say on this topic is written in my book "A Short Happiness for Life".

After reading the memoirs of Iza Konstantinovna, we were surprised with what kindness she talks about her famous wife, who, in fact, brought her a lot of grief. After all, so many times the actress could give birth to his child! And it seemed that everything would be exactly like this ...

Iza and Vladimir met at the Moscow Art Theater School, she was in her fourth year, he was in his second. At first, she accepted the courtship of this "boy" with indulgence, as something frivolous, and then, as she herself admits, this "boy became necessary."

“Stupid, funny, funny. He did not pay any attention to my adulthood and married status, - writes Iza Konstantinovna. - Appeared unexpectedly, held out a candy, an apple, looked tenderly at close range.

For his beloved, Volodya did unthinkable things. He could buy a goldfish from an aquarium in a restaurant, waiting for frying, get a ticket to the cinema, posing as the son of the minister of culture, grab a plate of pancakes at home and rush to her in the hospital ... And if there was nothing to pay off the taxi driver, he could take off his sweater and give it back! In the end, Vladimir brought Izu to his mother's house, where she was well received. The young lived in cramped quarters, they did not even have a separate room. But they were happy, and their relationship was not vulgarized by their everyday life. Volodya ate everything that was given, Iza graduated from the theater and all the time disappeared at rehearsals. Then Vysotskaya went to work at the Kiev theater and unexpectedly became pregnant.

- It did not bring joy! She recalls. - I just arrived, I live in the theater, I am officially married to one, but I love another and expect a child from him! Everything was shameful, terrible, insoluble. She rushed to Moscow. Instead of one pain, there were two. We looked at each other, shocked ... That morning only happy pregnant women walked towards me, and I almost ran. Ten days later I left the hospital, received ten letters and two telegrams from Volodya, and began to live again.

After the abortion, Iza divorced her husband and was able to marry Vysotsky. The young were given as many as 3 thousand rubles. How to spend this wealth? Vysotsky took his beloved to GUM, where they lowered everything - on perfumes, dresses, shoes ... They did not want to celebrate magnificently (“We are already husband and wife!”), But Volodya's father insisted, wanted everything to be “like people "And prepared a" feast for the whole world. " The wedding took place in April 1960.

Then both began a difficult period in their work. Vladimir played in the theatrical crowd and was just beginning to compose songs, which, by the way, his wife did not understand. Iza was out of work. And finally got pregnant again.

“Volodya was sober and vowed that“ this will not happen again, ”the actress writes about his“ exits ”. - And it never happened again. There was absolute sobriety. We were expecting a baby! We decided so. We wanted it so. And it seemed that nothing could destroy our joy. But our relatives reacted with restraint to our message about the child. I don’t remember what Nina Maksimovna (Vysotsky’s mother. - Author) shouted to us that morning, terrible and cruel, who did not want to become a grandmother. We sat in bed, stunned, not daring to get up, get dressed, defend ourselves. Some kind of black hole - and again the hospital. I am disgusting to myself, Volodya drinks. Many years later I will be told that he was crying at the hospital. "

It is possible that it was this difficult situation that pushed Izu to a second desperate step. When she received a call from Rostov-on-Don and was invited to work at a local theater, she agreed, despite the fact that her husband begged her to stay.

"If you leave, I will be lost without you!" He said confidently. But Isa was too offended: “If I ever regret leaving, it will be enough for me to remember your mother,” she said. They still loved each other and eventually made up.

Of course, Iza could not leave Volodya for good, she loved him. And very soon she came on vacation to Moscow, scaring her spouse with her new bright red hair color. It was a kind of protest. (“I wanted to be a bitch.”) But when she saw him meeting him on the platform, she forgot about everything and embraced her husband. He is not yet a celebrity, he is just starting to act in films, and in the theater he is still unclaimed. His songs are understood, listened to in kitchens, but Vysotsky has not yet thundered all over the country. And that's why you can still see him so, real, unprotected, sincere ...

After some time, a friend rang in the house of Iza: “Abramova is expecting a child from Vysotsky! You should know!" She directly asked Volodya if what she was told was true. And she realized that he was trying to get out, deceive her, and then put an end to not letting him come. Their next telephone conversations were already purely businesslike. Volodya was preparing for a new marriage - he discharged Izu from the apartment and filed documents for divorce.

“If you knew, Volodya, how bad I felt! - the actress recalls in her memoirs. - On August 4, 1963, I gave birth to a girl. She lived for three days and three nights. There was no need to live ... Then I had another life, difficult, awkward. And there was great happiness - on May 1, 1965, my son Gleb was born, he was only mine and bears my last name - Vysotsky. "

It was this boy who was credited with the paternity of Vysotsky, because Iza Konstantinovna gave her son the name of her ex-husband.

- But this is absolutely not so! She says. - The father of my son is not him; by that time we had already parted with Vladimir.

Meanwhile, the connection between Iza and Vladimir and the memories of young happiness tied them with a strong thread for many years. Iza came to the house of Father Vladimir, who loved her very much and welcomed the fact that they continue to communicate. “I love you,” she said to her ex-husband. “I always remember you,” Volodya answered.

“I didn't have time to say anything else - we kissed,” the actress writes. - Then they ate from one plate and laughed quietly ... Then you went to the performance, I went on tour. My soul was calm. I danced again and the world was young and beautiful. "

But Iza and Vladimir Semenovich were not destined to see each other again. In July 1980, he died, and at that time there was a completely different woman nearby - his new hobby, student Oksana Afanasyeva. They say that when they were compiling the official biography of Vysotsky, they asked his father to "reduce the number of wives" to at least two, otherwise it was somehow indecent for a Soviet artist. Semyon Vladimirovich did not dare to delete Marina Vladi, he regretted Abramova as a mother of her son's children, asked Isa's permission: "Can I cross you out?" She said: “Yes,” realizing that you can cross out the lines, but life events and memories - never.

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Vladimir Vysotsky was born on January 25, 1938 in Moscow. Vysotsky's parents divorced in 1947, Vladimir moved to live with his father and his second wife, Evgenia Stepanovna, whom he loved and called "mother Zhenya." In 1955, Vysotsky graduated from school and, at the insistence of his relatives, entered the mechanical faculty of the Moscow Civil Engineering Institute, which he immediately dropped out. From 1956 to 1960, Vysotsky was a student at the Moscow Art Theater School, after which he worked at the Pushkin Theater. Vysotsky began acting in films in 1959. We noticed him after the release of the film "Dima Gorin's Career" in 1962. Vysotsky also starred in the films "Vertical", "Cook", "The Tale of How Tsar Peter Got Married", "A Bad Good Man", "The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed." After the release of the film "Vertical" in 1966, Vysotsky's songs also gained more and more popularity; interest in them flourished in the 70s and 80s.

From 1960 to 1965, Vysotsky was married to Iza Zhukova, who took his last name. From 1965 to 1970 - on Lyudmila Abramova, in a marriage with whom sons Arkady and Nikita were born. Then the artist was married to the French actress Marina Vlady.

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Iza Konstantinovna assures that her acquaintance with Volodya VYSOTSKY, which happened at the Moscow Art Theater School, did not make any impression on her.

Nimble, hooligan, a little freckled, in love, as it seemed to me, in all the girls at once, - the actress recalls. - After the graduation performance of our course, when we had a banquet, this boy dragged me out for a walk.

Indignation, sincere protest and the main trump card: "I, by the way, am married!" - didn't help.

Natalia KUZMINA,

photo from Isolde Vysotskaya's archive

The romance was swift. Very quickly Vladimir and Iza became inseparable. He called her Izulya, she called him - Little Wolf. Volodya dedicated poetry to his beloved, threw flowers, made cute, sometimes ridiculous gifts.

I remember he brought me a ripe tangerine and shoes, from which he tore off his heels. Volodya did this so that on walks we were of the same height, and I could be held by the neck - it was fashionable then, - Iza Konstantinovna smiles. - The pins created unnecessary problems, and Volodya got rid of them without regret.

Vysotsky at that time was 19 years old, Isolde - 20, feelings were youthful hot, and one fine day Vladimir brought his beloved home, to a communal apartment on Pervaya Meshchanskaya.

Everything turned out somehow very natural and simple, - recalls Iza Konstantinovna. - Without these questions: why, but isn't it early, and why is it necessary ...

Long distance love

The room where the lovers settled was a walk-through, they had to build a family "nest" behind a screen, but they lived merrily - youth does not want to be sad. And then the time of separation came - after graduating from the Moscow Art Theater, Iza left to work at the Kiev Drama Theater. Volodya stayed in Moscow, he had another course ahead of him.

At the same time, we talked quite often - it didn't take long to fly from Moscow to Kiev, there was also a telephone and mail. And in the summer of 1958, Volodya and I went to Gorky to meet my relatives. I gave a telegram: "I am going home with my new husband ..." - Iza Konstantinovna recalls. - Nobody met us at the station, Volodya rushed to look for a taxi, and at that time mom appeared from somewhere. I remember her joking question: "Is this clown your husband?" Volodya was in his booklist jacket, and such people had never been seen in Gorky: it was something for the provinces.

Vysotsky caringly and touchingly treated the relatives of his beloved, who, according to Isa Konstantinovna, responded in kind.

Volodya captivated grandmother by the fact that when he came to visit us, he ate a whole half-liter jar of strawberry jam, - the actress laughs. - He lived on that arrival on the landing stage and rented a cabin there. We had nowhere to put a folding bed in our house - and the folding bed itself was not there.

Wedding with snowdrops

After Iza returned to Moscow, it was decided to play a wedding. Only one thing hindered - the bride was still not divorced from her former husband. The problem was solved with the help of an influential relative of Volodya, and in April 1960, Iza Meshkova-Zhukova became Vysotskaya.

Our wedding with Wolf is a separate story. We had no rings or a veil, in my hands I was holding an armful of snowdrops, and my shoes were again without heels - Volodya wanted so, - the heroine continues the story. - In the Riga registry office, where we were painted, instead of Mendelssohn's march, music from the film "Tiger Tamer" sounded. Everyone laughed. Laughing, I dropped flowers twice.

At first, life seemed, though not always fun, but a fairy tale. The only thing that annoyed the young wife was Volodin's guitar.

He did not part with her for a minute and tormented me with his strumming. I did not attach any importance to the songs that he composed then, and from time to time I was angry that the guitar gets more attention than me, '' says Vysotskaya. - We swore merrily. It is so delightful to utter a bunch of words, run out of the house, take a taxi: "Straight, please!" - and at the same time know that Volodya is already driving in a taxi. And making up at home was so great too!

Then problems began - both of them did not go well with their work, money was sorely lacking, and Vladimir began to drink. The family could have been saved by a child, Isolde became pregnant, but then her mother-in-law Nina Maksimovna, who categorically did not want to be a grandmother, intervened. There was a terrible scandal, after which Isa had a miscarriage. The ex-mother-in-law will apologize many years later, when Iza will also be called “ex”.

Another woman

Soon the spouses had to part again - Iza accepted the offer of the Rostov theater and, full of creative hopes, left the capital.

We corresponded with Volodya, called each other. I was waiting for him - the Rostov theater offered him a job, and suddenly my Moscow friend told me that a certain Lyusya Abramova was pregnant with Vysotsky, - recalls Iza Konstantinovna. - I immediately called him, and he lied to me. He said that he was faithful.

Nevertheless, the message brought by the sympathetic friend turned out to be the pure truth. Soon rumors spread throughout Moscow that Vysotsky's wife did not want a divorce, was hiding and allegedly had already been put on the all-Union wanted list. Upon learning of this, Iza Konstantinovna immediately sent the documents necessary for divorce to the capital, and from that moment on her paths with Vysotsky parted. Vladimir stayed in Moscow, Isolde toured various theaters in the country. She worked in Perm, Vladimir, Liepaja and Nizhny Tagil, where she settled forever and got married. The news of Vysotsky's death took her by surprise, she could not come to the funeral, she escaped only to the “forties”.

P.S.In recent years, Iza Vysotskaya has been living alone, her son Gleb works as a chief engineer in one of the private firms in Yekaterinburg. The actress is still playing in the theater, some time ago she was awarded the title of People's Artist of Russia. Last year, Vysotskaya published a book of memoirs about Vladimir Semenovich "Short happiness for a lifetime."

In all sorts of memories of Vysotsky, I read about him and about myself such that the hair on my head stood on end, there are too many lies, - says Iza Konstantinovna. - I hope in my book I was able to show young Volodya as he was in reality.

MEMORIES

... Early morning in the early spring of 1957. Moskvina street. We are waiting for a taxi with a classmate. And here you are, Vovochka Vysotsky, imperceptible, quiet ... And a miracle happened. The boy with a hasty, slightly trembling gait, impudent and gentle, funny and caring, became dear and beloved.

On a warm, sunny April on the 25th of 1960 in the Riga registry office ... I can hardly hold an armful of snowdrops, a funny guy comes up and cheekily says: "Bride, share the flowers with our daughter-in-law!" I share, I do not mind, we find it funny. Our witnesses are Volodin's classmates - Marina Dobrovolskaya and Gena Yalovich. They are also in love and funny. We are being called. A march from "Tiger Tamer" burst out, and we, choking on laughter, entered the solemn room, and the solemn woman broadcasts to us: "Dear comrades, strengthen the Soviet cell!" We are getting quite funny. We are quickly invited to sign and declared husband and wife. From now on I am Vysotskaya.

(From Isolde Vysotskaya's book "Short Happiness for Life")

Autumn of the sixtieth - continuous grief. We tried to play something with Volodya, but we didn’t succeed, just as we couldn’t dance or be in front of people ... My unemployed torment began. Volodya toiled. He received the promised central role in Pig Tails, believed that he would play, fantasized, but he was not even given rehearsals. In the end, Volodya went from backstage to backstage with a drum in the crowd. Later he played Leshy in The Scarlet Flower. That's probably all. It was bitter. We so naively believed in holy art.

(From Isolde Vysotskaya's book "Short Happiness for Life")

Posters "V. Vysotsky, I. Bortnik" are in the city. We make our way through the crowd to the dressing room, where sandwiches, tea, coffee, and cakes are carefully prepared.

They rush to start. "What, Vladimir Semenovich, requests?" "Only one. Make Izu more comfortable." They look at me suspiciously and anxiously and take me into a crowded hall. With a sin in half, they are seated in the center of an additional row right in front of the stage. Volodya comes out, I find myself at his feet, throw my head back to see him, and dissolve in a general outburst of love. Break between concerts for about ten minutes, no more. We're alone again. At Volodya's request, no one is allowed to visit us. Volodya feeds me, eats several slices of sausage himself, sips his coffee and sings to me alone what he cannot sing from the stage. I listen to the second and third concerts behind the scenes, where they put a chair for me. Volodya sings other songs, almost without repeating himself, and puts the microphones so that I can see better. - "Are you comfortable?" I cry without hiding my tears.

(From Isolde Vysotskaya's book "Short Happiness for Life")

On Friday, July 20, at the age of 81, the actress, People's Artist of Russia, died Isolde Vysotskaya... The message about her death appeared in the public of the Nizhny Tagil Drama Theater, where the actress served. “There are no words to describe our grief. People's Artist of Russia Iza Vysotskaya passed away this morning. Goodbye, amazing, brilliant Iza Konstantinovna! ”, The message says.

Farewell to the artist will be held on Sunday, July 22, at the ritual complex in Nizhny Tagil. Earlier, the Yekaterinburg online newspaper Znak.com wrote that it is not known whether the memorial service will be public, since there is information that Vysotskaya herself did not want this.