Galina Benislavskaya is a creative person, a journalist who has connected her life with literature. She was born in December 97 of the outgoing nineteenth century in the northern capital of the Russian Empire.
Children's years of Benislavskaya
The girl was a half-breed - half Georgian and half French. Since her mother was very ill and was not able to support and raise a child, Galina was adopted by her maternal aunt on the maternal side - Nina Zubova (her last name was from her first husband). She worked as a doctor and was married for the second time to her colleague Arthur Benislavsky, who became a real father for Galina and gave the girl his last name.
Galina Benislavskaya, whose biography is interesting to all connoisseurs of Yesenin’s creativity, spent her serene childhood and adolescence in the provincial Latvian town of Rezekne, but received an excellent education in the St. Petersburg female gymnasium, which she graduated with honors. She was a very capable girl, sociable and quite ambitious.
The revolutionary spirit of young Galina
It was at this turning point for Russia, when the bloody World War I was torn apart by the advent of the new twentieth century and revolutionary moods were already in the air, Benislavskaya, under the influence of her close gymnasium friend and her parents, who were obsessed with the idea of fighting the tsarist autocracy, entered May seventeenth year in the party of the revolutionary movement of the Bolsheviks.
Her adoptive family had serious concerns and her daughter's views raised serious concerns. And on this basis of political disagreement, as well as the desire for an independent life, Galina strengthened her decision to leave St. Petersburg and go to study in distant Kharkov. There, in the same significant 1917, she entered the university at the Faculty of Natural Sciences.
New life in Kharkov
After some time, the city was occupied by the troops of the interim government, and a student at Kharkov University, who dreams of quickly leaving this place and getting to the red ones, ideologically close to her, set off. Galina was determined to leave faster. She left the city in the direction of the large Bolshevik army, but was arrested by the whites along the way. The girl was nearly shot according to the laws of war.
But a fluke saved her. At that moment, when she was brought to the headquarters to clarify all the circumstances and personality, she in the crowd of the military recognized her adoptive father - Arthur Benislavsky, who served in the army of the White Guards as a field assistant. Upon learning that Galina was in a situation that could cost her life, he immediately clarified the story, confirmed her identity and the fact of her paternity. He also helped her cross the front line, enrolling her sister of mercy and issuing all the necessary documents. But the epic of a whirlpool of unforeseen situations in her life did not end there, since it was the obtained certificate that caused serious suspicion among the revolutionary authorities after Galina managed to safely reach them.
But this time, the perspicacious girl was not taken aback, she referred to the father of her friend - the Bolshevik, who by telegram confirmed that Galina Benislavskaya was a member of the revolutionary party and joined her in May 1917.
Party work
Later, already in the capital, she, on the recommendation of the same party colleague, got a job in the emergency commission. Here she worked for four years, and then she, as a competent specialist, was invited to her place by the Moscow newspaper of the workers and peasants "Poor", where Galina served for quite some time.
Love of literature
The passion for literature at Benislavskaya not only manifested itself on a professional level, but also became her true love. She was a regular in any interesting literary evening or the performance of talented and promising poets. And then one day at one of these evenings a fateful meeting took place - the ingenious young poet Yesenin and Galina Benislavskaya found each other .
The birth of love
An impressive girl fell in love with him from the very moment she heard his poems deeply sunk into her soul (September 19, 1920). By the end of the year their personal acquaintance took place. Yesenin and Galina Benislavskaya met in the literary cafe "Stall Pegasus", where the creative elite gathered.
After that, the girl became a close person for Yesenin, and very soon their relationship grew from friendly to a romantic relationship. For some period of time he lived with her, but after meeting with the ballerina Isadora Duncan Yesenin sharply cut off his connection with Benislavskaya. A broken girl’s heart was not able to withstand such unexpected and dramatic changes, which was reflected in the appearance of a serious psychological disorder. She even had to go to the hospital after another nervous breakdown.
Another heart wound
Time passed, Galina Benislavskaya recovered a little after serious experiences, and it seems that the love wound was healed up a little, but it was not as simple as we would like. Yesenin returned from a romantic trip with his new lover, Duncan, after which they broke up, and again settled at Benislavskaya, who unquestioningly received him. But this love epic prepared for her one more blow: the summer of 25 was the period of the final break of their relations, in which Sergey was once again the initiator. The reason was his upcoming marriage to Tolstoy.
Soul throwing, suffering and torment again became inseparable companions of the unfortunate girl. Galina left Moscow to be away from all the upcoming events and places that were unpleasant for her, giving off painful echoes in her soul. There was no Benislavskaya in the capital during the funeral of her lover.
Despair leading to suicide
Unable to cope with her love experiences, Galina Benislavskaya shot herself at Yesenin's grave in the winter of 26 years. There, the girl left the last message. The death note of Galina Benislavskaya did not leave any doubts about her serious and voluntary intention: "She killed herself here ... In this grave everything is the most precious to me." Although she was not lucky enough to be with her beloved in this life, the grave of Galina Benislavskaya was next to the grave of Sergei Yesenin.
Who was Benislavskaya for Sergei Yesenin?
Galina occupied a special place in the life of the poet; she always loved him madly, as if from a distance, and perceived him as he was.
Their acquaintance lasted five long and painful years for Galina. All this time she was actively engaged in his literary affairs. It was she who was his voluntary and personal secretary, conducted all negotiations with leading publications and editorial offices under the agreements. Galina always tried to give him advice that terribly burdened the freedom-loving poet, maybe these differences and gave a serious crack in their relationship. Nevertheless, when he was near, she was immensely happy. Despite such a strange relationship, Yesenin devoted poetry to Galina Benislavskaya as a beautiful girl with an oriental appearance. The poetic lines ended exactly like this:
Shagane, you are mine, Shagane!
There, in the north, a girl too,
She looks terribly like you
Maybe he thinks of me ...
Shagane, you are mine, Shagane!
Benislavskaya covered their relationship in her diary, which she left incomplete.