Elena Dyakonov and Salvador Dali. It was a strange marriage of the artist and a mad Russian "Atomic Leda." Gala, as European-called herself Elena, with the accent on the second syllable, was smitten with a passionate love of a young genius at a glance. She was 36, he was 25. She became his muse, the divine Helen, Galatea serenity. This is an image of Salvador Dali carries on his most famous painting - a woman "with a red lobster on her head" and "chops on the back." It is up to the end of his days was his guiding light, inspiration and eternal companion of unsurpassed talent.

The first meeting

Elena Dyakonov was born in Kazan, August 26, 1894. Pretty soon left without a father, the girl raised her stepfather. Mom called it in his own way - Galina. At 18, she met her first husband - the French poet Paul Eluard. The meeting took place in a Swiss sanatorium, where Elena was treated for tuberculosis, and the young poet - ... poetry. The subtlety of nature girl and her lover's ardor shake the Frenchman, he calls her Galoy - Gala (from the French. 'Celebration, holiday'), after five years, young people become husband and wife. A year later, a young family comes daughter Cecile.

In 1921, the couple met with the famous avant-garde artist of the German Max Ernst. Gala posing him and becomes his mistress. A year later, Max moved into the house and Eluard "Swedish family" lives openly, not caring about the secret of their relationship.

In 1929, the gala with her husband for the first time visited the home of the Spanish painter Salvador Dali. Meeting and Gala of the young genius was both "a stroke of lightning," love at first sight Love at first sight - there or not? . Three years later, after the death of Eluard, the lovers were married. Gala threw not only her husband but also her daughter. Was it a payment or violent feeling? History put everything in its place.

The main plot of inspiration

Their love written hundreds of books, filmed, is legendary. From the standpoint of the layman it had a strange relationship: Gala was not just a muse of a famous artist, she became a part of him, of his work. He wrote to her portraits of violent, Gala - the only model and the main story of inspiration, as if it disappeared into the woman. "My beloved, my" Oliveto "(olive), my muse" - so gently and enthusiastically called Catalan wife. Gala was his eternal love for the ages, he went with her name and got up with the first idea about it.

Overbearing and inviting, it is constantly maintained its degree of creativity. Critics are inclined to think that, most likely, Dali would not leave the descendants of all those masterpieces of his genius that the world enjoys today, if it had not met his Russian puzzle. Gala iron will organize the working process of the Master, promoted his work. Today, it is called a producer.

In the dedication to his autobiography, "Diary of a genius" Salvador Dali wrote: "I dedicate this book to my genius, my victorious Gala Gradiva, my Helen of Troy, my St. Helena, my glorious, as the sea surface, Gale Tranquil Galatea." This declaration of love Declarations of love - a cherished phrase   for centuries.

Mature love

In the life of any family love is tested. And they fell on the share of the star couple. Gala direct energy into the creation of her husband, she also sells its insatiable sensuality side. Contemporaries noted that the Russian seductress often sought sensual love with handsome young men, Dali posed for his paintings. The artist was also insatiable, only in his work. Strange Relations strange pair. The couple held their famous "happenings" scandalous erotic spectacle. They participated in the Gala Salvador watched from the sidelines. Modest and notorious husband and a bright, energetic wife. From Parisian aristocrat Gala became a nurse, nurse, secretary, manager and this imperious mistress of a vast empire famous Dali.

Going with him from obscurity and poverty, taking him up into an unattainable Olympus, Gala has become a "predator" in the apt words of one American journalist. Dali wrote about the secret of his success: "The method of this really exists. And he called the "paranoid-critical method." This method works only on the condition that possess soft motor of divine origin, a kind of living nucleus of some gala - and it alone - the only one in the whole world. "

Years passed and Gala beginning to age. The older she gets, the more she wanted to love young men. You're a lot of broken destinies, scorched this frantic passion. Medieval castle Pubol, presented by Salvador Dali on her birthday 74 years - a decision the complicated family relationships. Gala did not allow her husband to visit her without written notice. In 1982, at age 88 violent Gala died in his castle. The last seven years without a wife become a living hell for Dali. It quickly faded. The fire that occurred in 1984, in which the artist was almost killed, deprived him of the ability to create. Salvador Dali died on January 23, 1989. Without Gala, he wrote only one work.

Russian enigma

The share of "Russian Princess" Helen Dkonovoy had the good fortune to be the muse of the three great geniuses of his era - the French poet Eluard, the German avant-garde artist Ernst and the greatest Spanish maestro Salvador Dali. She loved and was loved. Passionately, furiously, almost insanely. It is this love of her name immortalized in the centuries, captured on the canvases of the Spanish genius. No matter what it is to be remembered - gray eminence, dissolute harlot or a witch, scheming.

"I love Gala more mothers, more than his father, more than Picasso, and even more money" - so he wrote Salvador Dali on the flag of one of his paintings. For him, it remained muse, love of life.

Jeanne Pyatirikova