Her Highness Brik Against the Backdrop of the Luciferian Age

16 hrs. 11 min.

Language Russian

Author Alisa Ganieva

Narrator Larisa Luganskaya

Description

Lily Brik’s name—the muse of Mayakovsky, a supporter of free love, a showy flirt and lover of talent, the sister of the writer Elsa Triolet and the beloved photo model of the founder of Constructivism, Alexander Rodchenko—still stirs minds. She’s credited with achievements and accused of crimes. She is inseparable from high poetry and yellow gossip, from Russian avant-garde and foreign chic. Men fell passionately in love with her and also hated her fiercely; she saved people from prison and drove them to hysteria. Why did the great futurist Mayakovsky and the Red commander Primakov reach for her? Directors Lev Kuleshov and Sergei Parajanov, poet Andrei Voznesensky, composer Rodion Shchedrin, and ballerina Maya Plisetskaya—why were they all drawn to her? How did this not-so-beautiful woman manage to lure men away from their families while remaining friends with their wives and children? What connects her with the Chekists, and how did she survive in the age of Lucifer? Her biography is a story of the flips and tumbles of our history and art—of the Soviet and the bourgeois world, of Stalin and Khrushchev, of death and sex. Alice Gainieva’s book immerses the reader in a world of passion, poetry, suppressed complexes, and mysterious magic called “Lily Brik.”