The sixties generation—“shestidesyatniki”—is a special phenomenon in our culture. They were united not only by art, but also by an unbridled love of life, extravagant behavior, and reckless deeds that went beyond all bounds.
Their personal lives were even brighter than their public and cultural life. Landau, Pokrovskaya, Efremov, Akhmadulina, Messerer, Evtushenko, Voznesensky, Rozhdestvensky, Aksenov—and, of course, Vysotsky… In this book, an informal history of the most striking couples of the sixties. Tragedy, comedy, farce, erotica, and drama. Without the sixties generation, the twentieth century would have lost half of its charm.
Contents:
1. Lev Landau and Kora Drobantseva:
"My beloved, quantum-mechanical..."
2. Bulat Okudzhava and Olga Artsimovich:
"We lived a long time and died on the same day"
3. Alla Pokrovskaya and Oleg Efremov:
A young lady and a hooligan
4. Rimma Kazakova and Georgy Radov:
"I love you, and you’re such a bad guy!"
5. Vasily Aksenov and Maya Karmen:
The most important love story .....
6. Bella Akhmadulina and Boris Messerer:
"No will, no peace, but happiness definitely exists"
7. Yevgeny Yevtushenko and Maria Novikova:
"The last attempt to become happy"
8. Andrey Voznesensky and Zoya Boguslavskaya:
"Ave, Oza..."
9. Robert Rozhdestvensky and Alla Kireyeva:
"My eternal love"
10. Vladimir Vysotsky and Marina Vlady:
"I love you and in difficult times—
In the future and in the past, in the present"
11. Rudolf Nureyev and Erik Brun:
Love of rivals