Lilya Yuryevna Brik (alternatively spelled Lili or Lily; Russian:
Ð›Ð¸Ð»Ñ Ð®Ñ€ÑŒÐµÐ²Ð½Ð° Ð'рик; November 11 [O.S. October 30] 1891
â€" August 4, 1978) was a Russian author and socialite, connected to
many leading figures in the Russian avant-garde between 1914 and 1930.
She was known as the beloved (muse) of Vladimir Mayakovsky. Lilya Brik
was married for a long time to the poet, editor and literary critic
Osip Brik (1888â€"1945), and she was the older sister of the
French-Russian writer Elsa Triolet (1896â€"1970). Pablo Neruda called
Lilya "muse of Russian avant-garde". Her name was frequently
abbreviated by her contemporaries as "Л.Ю." or "Л.Ю.Ð'." which are
the first letters of the Russian word "любовь" lyubov,
"love".She was born Lilya Kagan (Ð›Ð¸Ð»Ñ ÐšÐ°Ð³Ð°Ð½) into a wealthy
Jewish family of a lawyer and a music teacher in Moscow. Both she and
her sister Elsa received excellent education and were able to speak
fluent German and French, and to play the piano. Lilya graduated from
Moscow Institute of Architecture.As teenagers, the sisters were famous
for their beauty. Their portraits were done by Alexander Rodchenko,
Alexander Tyshler, David Shterenberg, David Burlyuk, Fernand Léger
and later by Henri Matisse and Marc Chagall. When she was twenty years
old, Lilya married poet-futurist and poetry critic Osip Brik whom she
had met when she was 14 and he was 17; they were married March 26,
1912. (Her sister Elsa married Louis Aragon, a notable French writer).
Ð›Ð¸Ð»Ñ Ð®Ñ€ÑŒÐµÐ²Ð½Ð° Ð'рик; November 11 [O.S. October 30] 1891
â€" August 4, 1978) was a Russian author and socialite, connected to
many leading figures in the Russian avant-garde between 1914 and 1930.
She was known as the beloved (muse) of Vladimir Mayakovsky. Lilya Brik
was married for a long time to the poet, editor and literary critic
Osip Brik (1888â€"1945), and she was the older sister of the
French-Russian writer Elsa Triolet (1896â€"1970). Pablo Neruda called
Lilya "muse of Russian avant-garde". Her name was frequently
abbreviated by her contemporaries as "Л.Ю." or "Л.Ю.Ð'." which are
the first letters of the Russian word "любовь" lyubov,
"love".She was born Lilya Kagan (Ð›Ð¸Ð»Ñ ÐšÐ°Ð³Ð°Ð½) into a wealthy
Jewish family of a lawyer and a music teacher in Moscow. Both she and
her sister Elsa received excellent education and were able to speak
fluent German and French, and to play the piano. Lilya graduated from
Moscow Institute of Architecture.As teenagers, the sisters were famous
for their beauty. Their portraits were done by Alexander Rodchenko,
Alexander Tyshler, David Shterenberg, David Burlyuk, Fernand Léger
and later by Henri Matisse and Marc Chagall. When she was twenty years
old, Lilya married poet-futurist and poetry critic Osip Brik whom she
had met when she was 14 and he was 17; they were married March 26,
1912. (Her sister Elsa married Louis Aragon, a notable French writer).
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