Zinaida Neigauz biography

Obolensky Igor: The second life of Pasternaka, the second life of Pasternak Boris and Zinaida Pasternak with his son Leonid 80 years ago, the great love found great love in August Boris Pasternak unexpectedly decided to leave Moscow for several months. Together with him, the wife of the famous pianist Henry Neigauz Zinaida Nikolaevna disappeared from the capital.

The reason for such a sudden departure was in heart affairs. Pasternak fell in love with the way he never loved. The acquaintance of Boris Pasternak and Zinaida Neigauz by and large was accidental. Zinaida was never a fan of Pasternak, his poems seemed to her some incomprehensible. And in general, her friend Irina Asmus, who, for her misfortune, presented young people to each other.

But Boris Leonidovich realized that he had met a woman who should never miss. It was important for him to have a person next to him, for whom he would not just want to create. I want to live. The first meeting of Zinaida Neigauz with Pasternak took place in the year. She was already 30 years old, her new fan is 7 years old. When the poet spent the first night with Zinaida, the next morning she wrote a letter to her husband, who was on tour.

Then Zinaida Nikolaevna was told that the letter was handed over to Neuhausa right before the concert. And during the performance, the pianist suddenly closed the piano lid and cried. Neigauz returned to Moscow, an explanation took place, and Zinaida Nikolaevna promised that she would remain with her husband. But Pasternak was not going to retreat. The painful triangle, in which the lovers found himself, was resolved in the summer of the year, when Pasternak brought Zinaida Nikolaevna to Georgia, to Kobuleti.

The decision was made, and Zinaida Neigauz soon became Zinaida Pasternak. She was also a great mistress. Boris Leonidovich, and he loved order, always had a delicious table, I didn’t eat such a wonderful borsch anywhere. ” In the year, Boris and Zinaida Pasternak had a son Leonid. Pregnancy fell on terrible days of terror gaining. Zinaida Nikolaevna recalled how, one day, the “collector” of writing signatures came to them home under the letter with the approval of the death sentence to the enemies of the people Tukhachevsky and Yakir: “The first time I saw Borya Released.

He almost with his fists attacked the arrived, although he was not to blame for anything, and shouted: “To sign, you need to know these people and know what they did. I don’t know anything about them, I did not give them life and have no right to take it away. The state of people should be disposed of by the state, not private citizens. Comrade, this is not a countermark to the theater to sign, I will never sign it!

To this, he told me: "A child who will not be born from me, but from a person with other views, I do not need it, let him die." As a result, however, Pasternak’s signature in a letter published in the newspaper still appeared. Without his knowledge. The relationship between Boris Leonidovich and Zinaida Nikolaevna were either gently splashing, then menacingly raging - probably, it was not without reason that life together began by the sea.

There was no question of any reverence! When he read her works, she could say: “You would have written more about people, it was better! I miss you terribly and almost crying when I write this ...

” - Pasternak complained in a letter to his wife in August. He then remained near Moscow, in Peredelkino, and Zinaida was in evacuation. A few days before the victory, the son of Zinaida Nikolaevna from Neigauz died. She herself looked so bad that Irina Sergeevna Asmus, the one who introduced her to Pasternak, even offered to write a testament. She assured that Pasternak, after the death of Zinaida Nikolaevna, would definitely marry again and he would not be up to the child, so that the upbringing of Leni should be entrusted to Irina Sergeevna.

Zinaida Nikolaevna, however, did not write a will and answered Asmus that another question - who would die before. I liked her appearance, and to talk to the manner of talking, on the contrary. Despite coquetry, there was something hysterical in it. She was very flirting with Borea, ”Zinaida Nikolaevna recalled. The fact that Pasternak became close to Ivinskaya, Zinaida Nikolaevna not only knew, but also justified her husband in her own way: “I had a feeling of guilt, and I still think that I was to blame for everything.

My social activity in Chistopol and Moscow tightened me with my head, I abandoned Borya, he was almost always alone, and another intimate circumstance that I cannot get around played a role. The fact is that after the death of Adika, who shook me, close relations seemed to me blasphemous and I could not always fulfill the duties of my wife. I began to quickly grow old and, so to speak, surrendered my position to my wife and mistress.

” The most difficult period in the life of Pasternaks came after Boris Leonidovich became the Nobel Prize laureate. They will not print you anymore. ” So, we can say, to some extent, she also reproached him, ”said Vera Prokhorova. After the death of her husband, she remained in fact without a livelihood.A draft of her letter to Khrushchev has been preserved with a request “not to leave in a hopeless situation”, since “it is very difficult to be unsecured in the old age, without a pension and not have confidence in the future and not know how to pay off your debts.” Zinaida Pasternak died in the year from the same disease as her husband, from lung cancer.

She was buried in the Peredelkino cemetery - next to the grave of Pasternak. Site section:.