It is believed that love at first glance is not long. Broke out, grown and went out. But the history of the love of Primaudonna Galina Vishnevskaya and the brilliant cellist Mstislav Rostropovich convinces that real love at first sight still exists and, consecrated by marriage, can last all his life.
Lilies, cucumbers and light raincoat
Their first meeting occurred at the Metropol Restaurant. The rising star of the Bolshoi Theater Galina Vishnevskaya and young cellist Mstislav Rostropovich were among the guests at the reception of a foreign delegation. "I raise my eyes, and the goddess is conducive to me from the stairs ... I even lost the gift of speech. And at the same minute he decided that this woman would be mine, "Mstislav Leopoldovich recalled many years.
At the end of the evening, Rostropovich quite persistently proposed to hold the singer. "By the way, I am married!", "Vishnevskaya said. "By the way, we'll see!", "Rostropovich parried. And then there was a festival "Prague Spring". Rostropovich, having learned that Vishnevskaya will be in the delegation, took with him all his ties and jackets, changed them in the evening and in the morning hoping to impress the lady of the heart.
In dinner, Rostropovich noticed that Galina was not indifferent to salty cucumbers. The cellist snuck into her room with a huge bouquet of the Lily of the Lily of the Lily and supplemented with salty cucumbers. In a note left on the table, Rostropovich wrote: "I don't know how you react to such a bouquet, and therefore I, to guarantee the success of the enterprise, I decided to add a salty cucumber to him, you love them so much."
And finally, the musician managed to conquer Vishnevskaya when he threw his light raincoat on Earth so that she was after the rain walking along the path in Prague Garden. And she passed, and he won it.
Not easy solution
Their romance developed rapidly. After returning from Prague after 4 days, Rostropovich put the question before Galina: "Or will you come to live to me - or you do not love me, and everything between us is over." By the time of his back, Vishnevskaya had 10 years of reliable marriage, caring and faithful husband - Director of the Leningrad Theater Operetta Mark Ilyich Rubin. He saved her from tuberculosis, he buried her little son. The situation was not easy. And Vishnevskaya, sending her husband to the store, threw sneakers and a robe to a suitcase and ran away.
When Galina came to his chosen one, it turned out that at home only sister and mom, he himself went to the store a couple of minutes ago, saying that his wife would come. Rostropovich's mother somehow embarrassed on a chair, Vishnevskaya - on a suitcase, and they both spun. And then Mstislav Leopoldovich came. In Avoska champagne, fish. Lovely spouse: "Well, I got acquainted!"
Love Life
They lived together for 52 years, to the death of Rostropovich. They were raised by two daughters, were friends with Opt Solzhenitsyn and Brodsky, they were deprived of Soviet citizenship, survived the wardings, enormous success on the world musical scene. During the August coup in 1991, Mstislav Leopoldovich was at the White House. They returned from the exile already in New Russia.
In the mid-1990s, Maestro gave an interview to the Riderz Digest correspondent. He was asked "Is it true that you married a woman four days after dating?" "True," Rostropovich replied. "What do you think about this now?", I didn't get a journalist. "I think that I lost four days!", "Answered Mstislav Leopoldovich.