She was called Elena Dyakonova. But history remembers her as Gala—the muse and wife of French poet Paul Éluard, and later of the Spanish artist Salvador Dalí. When we say this short name, sounding the same in all languages of the world, our imagination draws the image of an extraordinary woman—determined and charismatic. She wasn’t a beauty, but she had a special feminine magnetism that made men lose their heads.
The whole world still rereads Dalí’s diaries and letters, in which he praises his wife.
The book by writer Elena Litvinskaya tells what kind of woman she was and how she lived her life. The edition is supplemented with illustrations and recollections of the heroine’s contemporaries.