Vladimir Vysotsky and Marina Vladi
Vladimir Vysotsky dedicated more than one poem to Marina Vladi. Their relationship was filled with passion, inspiration and crazy adoration. How did this love story begin?
In 1959, the film “The Witch” was released, in which Marina Vladi played the main role. The movie was a resounding success. Later, Vysotsky will say that when he saw Vladi on the screen, he was immediately captivated by her beauty and charm.
Marina first saw Vysotsky at a rehearsal of the play “Pugachev”. Vladi visited Moscow to participate in a film festival and her friend invited the actress to the Taganka Theater. Marina was amazed by Vysotsky's performance and after the rehearsal accepted the invitation to dinner. But, nevertheless, the spark of mutual attraction did not force Vladi to stay in Russia; she returned to Paris, to her mother and children.
After a while, Marina Vladi agrees to take part in Sergei Yutkevich’s film “The Plot for a Short Story” and temporarily moves to Russia with her family. For Vysotsky and Vladi, this period was full of creativity. Vladimir's popularity continues to grow steadily, and Marina is considered a sought-after actress. They spend a lot of time together, the poet reads poetry to his muse, and she becomes his first listener and critic.
By the time Vysotsky and Vladi went to the registry office, they were both 30. Each had two marriages and children behind them. Immediately after registration, the couple went on a honeymoon to Odessa. Vladimir gave Marina a gift - a cruise on the Georgian ship on the Black Sea. They later recalled that this trip became one of the most exciting events in their lives.
Vysotsky really wanted to travel with Marina, to see the world in all its diversity, but six years after the wedding he could not get permission to leave the country. Vladimir was forced to stay in Moscow, while Vladi was in France. Vysotsky had a hard time separating from his wife and suppressed his despair with alcohol and drugs. Later, the poet was nevertheless given a visa, and together with Marina they visited both Europe and America. However, the effect of Vladimir’s addictions became more and more apparent. Vladi tried to somehow influence the situation, but, as she would later tell, she didn’t know at the time that it was the morphine.
On July 11, 1980, the couple separated again: Vysotsky flew to Moscow, and Vladi was forced to stay in Paris. Their last telephone conversation took place on July 23, 1980. Vysotsky swore that he had given up all bad habits and asked his wife to accept him again. And on July 25, Marina learned that Vladimir was no longer there.
On May 10, the legendary French and Russian actress Marina Vladi turned 80
The future actress was born and raised in France. Her real name is Ekaterina Marina Vladimirovna Polyakova-Baidarova.
Marina Vladi. 1973
Naturally, when she started acting in films, the actress took a short and sonorous pseudonym. Vladi's father was from Moscow. He emigrated with his family during the First World War. The family was creative. My father sang in the opera, my mother studied ballet. At first, Marina decided to follow in her mother’s footsteps and began studying ballet in the studio at the Grand Opera in Paris. At some point, Vladi realized that she would never become a great ballerina, but the skills she acquired in choreography lessons helped her a lot in the future, when she already became an actress. In the theater, by the way, they organized a real “family contract” - in the play based on Chekhov’s play “Three Sisters,” the main roles went to three sisters: Marina, Tatyana and Militsa.
Vladi started acting in films very early. She was only 11 years old when she made her debut in the film “Summer Storm”. The role was small, but Marina was noticed and began to be regularly invited to other films.
For the first time they started talking about Marina Vladi as a serious actress when she was 15 years old. She played two big, serious roles at once in the films “First-Class Girl” and “First Love”. Critics unanimously called her the new face of French cinema.
Well, Marina Vladi performed her fateful role at the age of 17. It was the film “The Witch”, based on Kuprin’s story “Olesya”. The film was shown in the Soviet Union. It was then that Vladimir Vysotsky first saw the young actress. I saw it and fell in love. They say that Vladimir Semenovich said then: “I don’t know how and when, but this girl will definitely be my wife.” Painful happiness Marina Vladi, of course, had not even heard of any Vysotsky then. She lived a vibrant creative life, surrounded by the most famous fans. Marcello Mastroianni courted her. The legendary Jean-Luc Godard proposed marriage to her. But in matters of love, the actress always listened only to her heart. Her first husband was an unknown aspiring actor and director (also of Russian origin) Robert Hossein. The couple had two sons, but the marriage soon broke up. The relationship with her second husband, a former pilot, also ended quickly. Vladi was not particularly worried about these partings. She firmly believed that she would definitely meet the love of her life. And this happened in Moscow in 1967.
The actress, along with other French actors, was invited to the Taganka Theater. After the rehearsal of the play “Pugachev”, the guests were shown around the theater and introduced to Soviet actors. Vysotsky found himself shoulder to shoulder with Marina, and they both felt a spark run between them. That same evening, Vladimir Semenovich invited Marina to visit his friends. All evening he sang only for her. It became obvious to everyone that a great, bright feeling was emerging. Vladi later admitted in an interview with AiF that she liked Vysotsky first of all as an actor and as a bard. And she is just like a woman to him. “I felt it,” she said. “Although we got along with each other for a long time.” We remained only friends for almost a year.”
The romance between Vladi and Vysotsky was difficult. She is in France, he is in the Union. She felt out of place in the USSR, he felt alien and unnecessary in France. A separate problem in the relationship between Marina and Vladimir Semenovich was his alcohol and drug addiction. Vladi tried in every possible way to get him out of this hole. Sometimes she succeeded, but it all ended in new breakdowns. However, on December 1, 1971, the couple got married. Nine years of marriage were not easy. Stormy quarrels, tears, curses - there was everything. But, despite everything, the love between them was as strong as at the beginning of the relationship. Later, Vladi recalled her marriage to Vysotsky as the most difficult period in her life and at the same time the happiest. Once he gave her a truly royal gift. Vladi entered the apartment and was stunned: the whole room was covered with sables. It turned out that Vysotsky was able to buy sable skins during his next tour so that Marina could sew a fur coat from them. The surprise was a success. But the fur coat is not. The skins turned out to be poorly processed and became stiff. I had to part with the sables.
Marina Vladi in the 1980s in Moscow.
Surviving Vysotsky’s death turned out to be very difficult for Vladi. She became depressed and withdrawn. Marina simply could not believe that her Volodya was no more. But years passed and the pain subsided. Andrei Tarkovsky, while undergoing treatment in France, introduced Marina to the oncologist with whom he was being treated. His name was Leon Schwarzenberg. He helped Vladi get out of depression. Their friendship gradually grew into a relationship, and then into a legal marriage. But in 2003, Leon also passed away.
And then Vladi began to rapidly become an alcoholic. Trying to escape reality, she was in an alcoholic delirium for two years. Literature helped the actress overcome this addiction. She began to write a lot - more and more about Vysotsky. This is how her book “24 frames per second” appeared. She continues to write today, meets with fans and occasionally goes on stage, which, like the camera, has always loved her and never betrayed her
.Marina Vladi. 2020 Photo: RIA Novosti/Ekaterina Chesnokova
Author: Sergey Yuryev -aif.ru
Marina Vladi, Ekaterinburg, 2020
“I’m glad that Vysotsky’s things were bought by a Russian.” The actress is categorically against new films about herself and Vladimir Semenovich. The widow of the poet Marina Vladi gave her last interview in Yekaterinburg in 2020, when she visited the Vladimir Vysotsky Museum, where his things are collected. Most of the rarities that once belonged to Vladi were bought by a Russian collector. In 2020, Marina Vladi sold Vysotsky’s belongings at a Paris auction. A death mask, a family icon, and manuscripts went under the hammer. Russian businessman Andrei Gavrilovsky bought 37 lots. In Yekaterinburg, he built a skyscraper, which he called “Vysotsky”, and created a museum there. The most valuable exhibit is Vysotsky’s last poem. This was also the most expensive lot; it cost the collector 200 thousand euros.
Andrey Gavrilovsky, collector
After Marina Vladi learned that many things dear to her heart would remain in Russia and be kept in the museum, she gave Gavrilovsky several more items, for example, Vysotsky’s watch, which she wore for a long time after the poet’s death. Vladi visited the museum in Yekaterinburg only in 2020 and gave a short interview there, part of which was included in the documentary film “Vladimir Vysotsky. And, smiling, they broke my wings.” “I’m glad that it remained on Russian soil, and not somewhere in France or America,” said the actress.
Marina Vladi and Vladimir Vysotsky
Many fans of Vysotsky took the sale of his belongings painfully and accused Vladi of commercialism, even betrayal. And she said that she wanted to turn the page because it was very difficult to remember. “My heart hurts a little... Because it’s very difficult to dive into the past, into a past life. In this wonderful and dramatic story of ours. We lived together for 12 years, and that’s not enough,” said Marina Vladi.
In the documentary film “Vladimir Vysotsky. And, smiling, they broke my wings,” included footage of Marina Vladi examining exhibits in the Vysotsky Museum in Yekaterinburg. Marina barely holds back her tears and says that she is here for the first and last time. He admits that he is categorically against documentaries and feature films about himself and Vysotsky. “As long as I’m alive, I don’t want anyone to represent me,” says Marina.
Based on materials from: starhit.ru
Marina Vladi was saved by an oncologist
For us, Marina Vladi is, first of all, the widow of Vladimir Vysotsky. They have written, are writing and will continue to write about their love, television will continue to talk about it: this is a rewarding topic, and the media will not stop parasitizing on it as long as Vysotsky is listened to in Russia. Vladi has two aspects in these stories: the great love of the great singer and the indifferent, cold, greedy bitch for whom he worked tirelessly.
Vladi in them is always Vysotsky’s woman, he is the main one, but you can look at it from the other side. When they got married, she was 32 years old, she received a prize at the Cannes Film Festival and was a world-class movie star - unlike Vysotsky, who was unknown abroad. She was married twice - to a famous actor and director and to a pilot, an airline owner, and a rich man. She raised three sons. Unlike Vysotsky, she was impeccably raised in a very good family: her father was an opera singer who fought in World War I for France and remained there, her mother was the daughter of a tsarist general. These people did not know the delights of early Soviet life, with its heroism and suffocating poverty, humiliating life, and Vysotsky’s songs were precisely its embodiment.
Marina Vladi and Robert Hossein
Marina Vladi and Jean-Claude Brouillet
Marina Vladi had a brilliant career, filming at least once a year (it also happened that she received four roles in a year), and she was also busy in the USSR. Her marriage to Vysotsky was far from prudent - but then love came into its own. They were together for ten years, until Vysotsky’s death, she wrote a book about him and sang his songs. After living with the well-mannered Robert Hossein, who loved her touchingly (she married him at the age of 17), after marriage with the brilliant adventurer Jean-Claude Brouillet, who founded two airlines in Africa and grew black pearls, the relationship with Vysotsky turned out to be an adventure like a safari. In her book, Vladi spoke in detail about Vysotsky’s drinking bouts and his addiction to drugs. Even without this, he was a difficult, difficult, powerful person. Throughout the ten years of their life together, Vysotsky methodically destroyed himself, and it ended with his death. Thus ended their story, which will be retold in Russia until the end of time, but Marina Vladi’s life continued.
Marina Vladi and Vladimir Vysotsky
Until the beginning of the 2000s, she acted a lot; she had roles even in her old age. A year after Vysotsky’s death, when she was so severely depressed that she was afraid to drink herself to death, Vladi met an unusual, bright and very good man - oncologist Leon Schwarzenberg, hero of the Resistance, future Deputy Minister of Health of France. They lived together for 12 years, until his death. The doctor was a scientist and politician, philanthropist and public figure. He helped the homeless, advocated euthanasia - it cost him his government job. Marina and Leon lived happily, in love and harmony, but 15 years ago he died, and she was left alone in a huge house near Paris.
Marina Vladi and Leon Schwarzenberg
Now Marina Vladi is summing up her experience. She gets rid of the house, sells what is in it - jewelry, paintings, things, including those remaining from Vysotsky, including his death mask. Vladi awaits a small apartment in Paris, a secure old age and loneliness: one of her sons lives in the south of France, another in the Pyrenees, the third in Tahiti. She had a wonderful career, she was loved by unusual, bright men who remained in history - what more could you want from life?
Author: Alexey Filippov – news.ru
