“My dear sister” – such an inscription Faina Ranevskaya ordered to knock out on the grave of Isabella Allen -Feldman. Separated in her youth (after the revolution, Faina remained in Russia, and Bella with her parents went abroad), the sisters met only 40 years later, when the lone widowed Isabella decided to return to her homeland. And Ranevskaya had to use all his considerable connections (up to the omnipotent Furtseva) so that the “white-emigrant sister” would be allowed to stay in the USSR. Faina Georgievna not only prescribed Bella in her two -room apartment, but also devotedly took care of her until her death.
It’s not to say that the sisters lived a “soul into the soul”, they were too different, besides the Parisian Parisian, absolutely incompatible with Soviet reality, sometimes wildly enraged Ranevskaya, but the sister was the only truly close, dear person for Faina Georgievna. Only with Bella could she drop the eternal “clown” mask and be herself. Such a Ranevskaya – vulnerable, homemade, reaching for family …
Author
Allen-Feldman Isabella
Publisher
Yauza, 2014
Series
The unique autobiography of a woman-epoch
Genre
Culture and art figures
16+
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