Lilya Brik Net Worth is
$700,000

Mini Biography

Lily Brik, among Russian and Soviet culture’s most enigmatic women who was simply admired simply by many important men, was known on her behalf wit and beauty and helped many talented visitors to become famous. She was created Lilya Urievna Kagan, in 1891, in Moscow, Russia, right into a Jewish category of an attorney and a music instructor. Young Lilya was raised inside a trilingual family members environment, she received a fantastic personal education and soaked up from your intellectual and creative circles of both Russian capitals, St. Petersburg and Moscow. Lilya analyzed piano professionally; furthermore to her indigenous Russian and Yiddish she spoke fluent German and French. She analyzed art and structures and graduated from Moscow Institute of Structures. Lilya and her junior sister, Elsa, who later on became referred to as Elsa Triolet, were both well-known for their personal elegance and particular beauty. Lilya was only a teenage woman when she captivated attention from the well-known Russian opera basso Feodor Chaliapin Sr.. In those days, as Lilya understood the energy of her attraction, intellect, and sex charm, she became component of Russian ethnic milieu. She was probably perhaps one of the most popular and influential ladies in the 1910s, 1920s, and 1930s Russian and Soviet tradition. Lily Brik’s encounter was for the cover of LEF journal and on several posters of this period. She also helped many talented males to become popular and happy, plus some males, like poet Mayakovsky, had been unsatisfied without her business. On Feb 26, 1912, Lilya married Osip Brik in Moscow, and quickly the few moved to St. Petersburg. That they had a dacha-home in Levashovo, an upscale suburb of St. Petersburg. There, in July of 1915, Lilya’s junior sister, Elsa, released her partner, poet Vladimir Mayakovsky, to Osip and Lilya. Mayakovsky became enthusiastic about both, captivating and coquettish Lilya Brik, and intellectually demanding Osip Brik. But Lilya continued to be wedded to Osip Brik, who prolonged his hospitality to her biggest admirer. Osip Brik financed the publication of futurist poetry collection ‘Cloud in Jeans’ (1915) by Vladimir Mayakovsky, that was influenced by their muse, Lilya. In those days Lilya became involved with silent film. In 1918 she produced her film debut co-starring with Mayakovsky in Zakovannaya filmoi (1918) that was made by the “Neptun” film studio room in St. Petersburg. Through the Russian Revolution the Briks resided in Petrograd (St. Petersburg). There Lilya’s spouse briefly served in the unique militarized Revolutionary Car Group, and experienced increased to the rank of the Commissar. In June of 1920, the Briks relocated to Moscow where Osip Brik was employed like a Legal Councel for the CheKa (forerunner from the KGB). Following that Osip Brik was terminated having a verdict, “for negligent attitude and evasion from function”, however the Briks still were able to help emigration from the parents of article writer Boris Pasternak. Through the 1920s the Moscow apartment of Lily and Osip Brik was the getting together with place for such Russian culture luminaries as Boris Pasternak, Maxim Gorky, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Sergei M. Eisenstein, Kazimir Malevich, Alexander Rodchenko, Yuri Tynyanov, Vsevolod Meyerhold and many more. Lily and Osip Brik had been being among the most energetic proponents of brand-new artistic concepts in art, books, theater and film in the 1910s – 1930s Russia. These were both essential people of Russian Formalism and Futurism in books and artwork. In 1922-23 Lily and Osip Brik produced a vacation to European countries and stopped at Wassily Kandinsky and Bauhaus in Germany. In the 1920s, Lily Brik directed two motion pictures. In 1926, she created and aimed a documentary entitled ‘Jews for the land’, predicated on a situation by Mayakovsky and Viktor Shklovsky about Jewish collective farms in Russia. After that Lily Brik aimed a parody on “bourgeous movie theater” entitled ‘Steklyanny glaz’ (aka.. The Cup Vision 1929). From 1922-1928 Lily Brik was also involved with publishing the publication ‘LEF’ (Leftist Front side of Arts), which became the system for the LEF group, as well as for the Russian Dada and Constructivist artwork. Lily Brik’s family portrait by Alexander Rodchenko made an appearance around the cover of LEF publication. She was the inspirational pressure for the band of Russian avant-garde authors, performers and film directors, such as for example Vladimir Mayakovsky, Alexander Rodchenko, Lev Kuleshov, Dziga Vertov, Sergei M. Eisenstein, Sergei Yutkevich, Viktor Shklovsky, V. Ivanov-Zhemchuzhnyj yet others. In 1930, while she was on a journey in Europe, Lily Brik found that her good friend and film partner Vladimir Mayakovsky dedicated suicide after his breakup with actress Veronika Polonskaya. Lily, who previously double kept him from committing suicide, was too much away to have the ability to help him this time around. After Lily Brik’s notice to Joseph Stalin, who accepted her idea to create the collected functions of Mayakovsky, his poetry was contained in the Soviet college curriculum and reissued in substantial printings. She divorced from Osip Brik. From 1930-1937 she was wedded to Soviet General Vitali Primakov, who was simply falsely accused of relationships with Anti-Soviet Trotskyist business and was carried out in 1937, through the Moscow Tests and “Great terror” under dictatorship of Joseph Stalin. During crisis Lily Brik was supported by non-e additional, than Nikolay Cherkasov who was simply a solid supporter of retired and handicapped stars and writers. He individually donated substantial amounts of money to numerous less fortunate stars and cinematographers who experienced beneath the communist routine. Cherkasov discovered that Lily Brik was still left homeless in Moscow, which she’s no income. Cherkasov utilized his star capacity to pressure the Soviet regulators: he published a letter towards the Soviet Authorities requesting “proper care and lodging for celebrity Lily Brik, the widow of article writer Vladimir Mayakovsky” and quickly Lily Brik was given a decent spot to reside in central Moscow. From 1938-1978 she was married to writer Vasily Katanyan. The house of Lily Brik and Vasili Katanyan was the reaching place for unofficial ethnic milieu in the 1950s and 1960s Moscow. In those days Lily Brik performed important function in supporting the brand new era of talented authors, musicians, performers, and filmmakers in the previous Soviet Union. She was instrumental in the first profession of poet Andrei Voznesensky and filmmaker Sergei Parajanov and also other aspiring skills. In 1978, after experiencing an incurable disease, she dedicated suicide by firmly taking a lethal dosage of sleeping supplements. That was on August 4, 1978, in Peredelkino, Moscow, Russia. Lily Brik was model for portraits simply by such famous artists mainly because Marc Chagall, Alexander Tyshler, Alexander Rodchenko, David Burlyuk, Fernand Léger, and Henri Matisse.

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