Таитянка из Кронштадта. Жизнь Бэлы Казарозы, артистки

Leonid I͡Uzefovich - pisatelʹ, istorik, laureat premiĭ "Bolʹshai͡a kniga", "Nat͡sionalʹnyĭ bestseller" i "I͡Asnai͡a Poli͡ana". Avtor dokumentalʹnykh romanov-biografiĭ "Samoderzhet͡s pustyni" o barone Ungerne i "Zimni͡ai͡a doroga" o belom generale Anatolii Pepeli͡aeve i krasnom komandire Ivane Strode, romana "Zhuravli i karliki" i povesti "Pokhod na Bar-Khoto", sbornika rasskazov "Mai͡ak na Khiĭumaa" i knigi stikhov "Memuar"."Bėla Kazaroza - st͡senicheskoe imi͡a Belly Shenshevoĭ, populi͡arnoĭ v 1910-kh ėstradnoĭ pevichki i tant͡sovshchit͡sy. Kogda-to i͡a sdelal ee prototipom geroini moego romana "Kazaroza", no podlinnai͡a istorii͡a ėtoĭ zhenshchiny interesnee li͡ubykh ee literaturnykh prelomleniĭ.Svoi͡u korotkui͡u i ne ochenʹ schastlivui͡u zhiznʹ ona prozhila ri͡adom so znakovymi figurami russkoĭ literatury, zhivopisi, teatra toĭ ėpokhi. Odnim iz ee muzheĭ byl zamechatelʹnyĭ khudozhnik Aleksandr I͡Akovlev, sredi druzeĭ - Tėffi, Meĭerkholʹd, Aleksandr Benua, Mikhail Kuzmin, Aleksandra Kollontaĭ, a nevolʹnoĭ vinovnit͡seĭ ee ranneĭ smerti stala Olʹga Knipper-Chekhova.Ėta kniga - o sudʹbakh li͡udeĭ togo kruga peterburgskoĭ bogemy, chastʹi͡u kotorogo byla moi͡a geroini͡a, i kotoryĭ ischez ili pererodilsi͡a posle revoli͡ut͡sii".Leonid I͡Uzefovich

Leonid Yuzefovich is a writer, historian, winner of the Big Book, National Bestseller and Yasnaya Polyana awards. He is the author of the documentary biographical novels "The Autocrat of the Desert" about Baron Ungern and "The Winter Road" about the white general Anatoly Pepelyaev and the red commander Ivan Strod, the novel "Cranes and Dwarfs" and the novella "The March to Bar-Khoto", the collection of short stories "The Lighthouse on Hiiumaa" and the book of poetry "Memoir".Bela Kazarosa is the stage name of Bella Shensheva, a popular pop singer and dancer in the 1910s. I once made her the prototype of the heroine of my novel "Casarosa," but the true story of this woman is more interesting than any of her literary reflections.She lived her short and not very happy life alongside iconic figures of Russian literature, painting, and theater of that era. One of her husbands was the wonderful artist Alexander Yakovlev, among her friends were Taffy, Meyerhold, Alexander Benois, Mikhail Kuzmin, Alexandra Kollontai, and Olga Knipper—Chekhov became the involuntary culprit of her early death.This book is about the fate of the people of the St. Petersburg bohemian circle, of which my heroine was a part, and which disappeared or was reborn after the revolution."Leonid Yuzefovich