Elena Bianchi Biography

I had the opportunity to prepare the material about the public movement "Green House", whose enthusiasts create a children's environmental center in Veliky Novgorod, which will most likely have the name of the writer. They talked about the grandiose idea to arrange in the walls of this center the museum of the author of the "Sinichka calendar" and many other fascinating and cognitive works.

Of course, the name of the Keeper of the Family Archive surfaced in the conversation. In fact, from early spring to late autumn, Elena Vitalievna lives at the cottage on the border of Lyubotinsky and Khvininsky districts. Masterfully controls with a motor boat, not trusting anyone "at the helm", walks five kilometers to the nearest store and is happy with his unity with nature.

But now things are delaying her in the northern capital. She prepares a new book about her husband - a scientist and writer Alexei Levyerovsky, whose flight will be celebrated next year. We met in St. Petersburg in a cold professor’s apartment, where each piece of furniture, paintings, souvenirs, bouquets have long been wilted flowers wear a unique aroma of the era, which will be discussed.

Then all the actors of this narrative were alive, young and happy. Unread letters - you know, one of my good Novgorod acquaintances once said that it is no longer possible to write about Bianchi, ”Elena Vitalievna admits confusedly. But, in my opinion, the problem is that everyone simply retells a long time ago. But I myself do not know everything about my own father and each time I learn something new, analyzing the next pack of letters or unpublished manuscripts.

There are really a lot of manuscripts. A few years ago, a “complete” collecting of the works of Bianchi - five volumes came out. In fact, there is much more material. It is necessary to print at least another two -volume. And these are only the literary works of the author himself.

And there is also a curious correspondence with Tolstoy, sweet in a close friendly circle was called the "Baron Munhgauzen" for a long humpbacked nose and habit of losing, Baruzdin, Charushin and other writing elite of the 30s. For example, letters of the military era, which are still waiting in the wings of an unknown Bianka, the story of the Bianchi family is full of surprises, mysterious events and legends.

One of them completely refutes the Italian origin of the family, about which so much has been said and written. It turns out that Sunny Italy has a very distant attitude towards this surname. By the way, the great -grandfather of Elena Bianchi, she very funny pronounces her surname - “Bianca” - with an elusive accent either the old St. Petersburg school, or Polyglot, who knows several languages, was the famous Opera singer.

But in Germany. And he wore a discreet German surname Weiss, which means "white". Impresario of the performer were unhappy. The name on the poster is also the key to success. And then the vocalist was offered a profitable tour of Italy. However, the exit was found quickly enough. Weiss was replaced by Bianca, just making an adaptive translation of the surname.

Then many descendants of the opera singer resorted to this tested method. Yes, and Vitaly Valentinovich himself during the Civil War was Belyanin. The situation then did not have bluer -free foreign names. Could sorry, and slap. However, the Soviet government was not without a sense of humor. And the future famous writer was not allowed to subsequently accept the family name.

In his documents it was: Belyanin-Bianchi. However, this fact is more likely to be the category of curioses. But the real sensation for me was a thin battered notebook, in which this notebook with the poetic experiences of his father, which he hardened to fill out from gymnasium time, did not show almost no one showed almost no one. The father handed her a notebook from her hands, punishing her hand, and maybe on the title sheet of the manuscript collection the inscription: "I wanted to collect my poems and give them to you.

Of course, not everything, but this is the beginning. I will collect, complement, I will sign it. And I’ll" arrange "as you want, in this piece of paper, in this piece of paper." Such a testament left Bianchi to his heiress. According to Elena Vitalievna, his father always considered himself a poet in his soul. But, comparing himself with his favorite block, whose poems he dotted with numerous notes, he experienced such flour of self -flagellation that he carefully hid the table written in the distant box.

This notebook was perhaps for the writer one of the largest values. So it turns out that this small selection is perhaps the very first poetic printed publication of Vitaly Bianchi, who saw the light 45 years after the death of the writer. She opens her poem, written by a small, 8-year-old boy from a prosperous Petersburg family, but Don Quixote, written in the school "in the last lesson, at dusk": the image is suffering.