Tushnova Veronika Mikhailovna (1915 - 1965), poetess.

She was born on March 14 (27 n.s.) in Kazan in a professorial family. She graduated from high school there. She has been writing poetry since childhood. Then, together with her family, she moved to Leningrad and, at the request of her father, entered a medical institute. She did not graduate from the institute, although she studied for four years. She took up painting, at the same time a serious passion for poetry began.

In 1941 she entered the Literary Institute. M. Gorky, but did not have to study. The war began, and she began to work in hospitals, having a little daughter and a sick mother in her arms. Continues to write poetry.

In 1945, the Young Guard publishing house published Tushnova's poetry collection The First Book. In the 1950s, Tushnova published the poem "The Road to Klukhor", "Ways-Roads".

Tushnova's true talent was revealed in the last period of her work: the collections "Memory of the Heart" (1958), "Second Wind" (1961) and "One Hundred Hours of Happiness" (1965). Love is a cross-cutting theme in her poems, sorrow and joy, loss and hope, present and future are associated with it. She spoke loudly about love, called for truly human relations between people. Her poems were very popular.

Used materials of the book: Russian writers and poets. Brief biographical dictionary. Moscow, 2000.

Veronika Tushnova. Not renounce loving..

“The long winters and summers will never merge:
they have different habits and a completely dissimilar appearance ... "

(B. Okudzhava)

Veronika Mikhailovna Tushnova was born on March 27, 1915 in Kazan in the family of Mikhail Tushnov, a professor of medicine at Kazan University, and his wife, Alexandra, née Postnikova, a graduate of the Higher Women's Bestuzhev Courses in Moscow. The house on Bolshaya Kazanskaya Street, now Bolshaya Krasnaya Street, in which the Tushnovs lived then, was located on a hill. Above, the Kremlin dominated the entire landscape. Here, the Suyumbeki tower was adjacent to the domes of churches. Below, under the mountain, the Kazanka River flowed, and near the mouth of the Kazanka and beyond it were suburbs-slobodas. Veronica loved to visit the Admiralteyskaya Sloboda, in the house of her grandfather Pavel Khrisanfovich, a hereditary Volzhan. Veronica did not find him alive, but the fate of the grandfather-captain occupied the girl's imagination.

Veronica's father, Mikhail Pavlovich, lost his parents early, embarked on an independent path early. He graduated from the Kazan Veterinary Institute, one of the oldest institutions in Russia. He passed the difficult service of a military doctor in the Far East ... Returning to Kazan, Mikhail Pavlovich began working at the Veterinary Institute, a few years later he defended his doctoral dissertation, became a professor, and later received the title of academician of the All-Russian Academy of Agricultural Sciences. Veronica's mother, Alexandra Georgievna, originally from Samara, was an amateur artist. Professor Tushnov was several years older than his chosen one, and everything in the family obeyed his desires and will, right up to serving lunch or dinner.

Veronika, a dark-eyed, thoughtful girl who wrote poetry from childhood, but hid them from her father, according to his undeniable "desire", immediately after graduation, she entered the Leningrad Medical Institute (the professor's family had settled there by that time). After graduating from the institute, she is doing postgraduate studies in Moscow at the Department of Histology of VIEM under the guidance of Professor B. I. Lavrentiev, a graduate of Kazan University. Preparing a dissertation. Her articles appear in the scientific collection.

Veronica is 14 years old.

She was seriously fascinated by painting, and poetic inspiration did not leave. In 1939, her poems appeared in print. She married the famous doctor Yuri Rozinsky and gave birth in 1939 to a daughter, Natalia. Tushnova's second husband is physicist Yuri Timofeev. The details of Veronika Tushnova's family life are unknown - much has not been preserved, lost, relatives also remain silent.

At the beginning of the summer of 1941, Tushnova entered the Moscow Literary Institute named after M. Gorky: Her desire to professionally and seriously engage in poetry and philology seems to be beginning to come true. But I didn’t have to study. The war began. Veronika Mikhailovna's father had died by that time. There was a sick mother and little daughter Natasha. In November 1941, military fate returned Veronika Mikhailovna to her native city. Here she works as a ward doctor at the neurosurgical hospital, created on the basis of the GIDUV neurological clinic. Before her eyes pass the fate of many people.

In February 1943, Veronika Mikhailovna returned to Moscow. Hospital again; she works as a medical resident. 1944 was of exceptional importance in the creative biography of the poet. In the "New World" appears her poem "Surgeon", dedicated to N. L. Chistyakov, a surgeon at the Moscow hospital where Veronika Tushnova worked. In the same year, Komsomolskaya Pravda published the cycle Poems about a Daughter, which received a wide readership response.

In 1945, her poetic experiments came out of print, which she called "The First Book". The whole further life of Veronika Tushnova was connected with poetry - it is in her poems, in her books, because her poems, extremely sincere, confessional, sometimes resemble diary entries. From them we learn that her husband left her, but a green-eyed, father-like daughter was growing up, and Veronica hoped that he would return: “You will come, of course, you will come to this house where our child grew up.”

The main theme of Veronika Tushnova's poems is love, with all its sorrows and joys, losses and hopes, divided and unrequited ... whatever it is, life makes no sense without it.

Not renounce loving.
After all, life does not end tomorrow.
I will stop waiting for you
and you will come quite suddenly.
And you come when it's dark
when a blizzard hits the glass,
when you remember how long ago
we did not warm each other.
And so you want warmth,
never loved,
that you can't bear
three people at the machine.
... And in the house there will be sadness and silence,
the wheezing of the counter and the rustle of the book,
when you knock on the door,
running upstairs without a break.
For this you can give everything
and so far I believe in it,
it's hard for me not to wait for you,
all day without leaving the door.

And he really came. But everything happened not at all the way she imagined it for many years, dreaming of his return. He came when he was ill, when he became very ill. And she did not renounce ... She nursed him and his sick mother. “Here everyone condemns me, but I can’t help it… After all, he is the father of my daughter,” she once said to E. Olshanskaya.

There is another very important side of V. Tushnova's work - this is her tireless translation activity. She translated the poets of the Baltics, the Caucasus, and Central Asia, the poets of Poland and Romania, Yugoslavia and India ... Translation work was important and necessary: ​​it made the poems of many, many foreign poets accessible to the Russian reader.

It is not known under what circumstances and when exactly Veronika Tushnova met the poet and writer Alexander Yashin (1913-1968), whom she fell in love with so bitterly and hopelessly and to whom she dedicated her most beautiful poems, included in her last collection "One Hundred Hours of Happiness". Hopeless - because Yashin, the father of seven children, was married for the third time. Close friends jokingly called the family of Alexander Yakovlevich "Yashinsky collective farm."

The poetess, with whose poems about Love under the pillow a whole generation of girls fell asleep, herself experienced a tragedy - the happiness of Feeling, which illuminated her last years on Earth with its Light and gave a powerful stream of energy to her Creativity: This Love was divided, but a secret, because, as Tushnova herself wrote: "There is between us Not a big sea - Bitter grief, A stranger's heart." Alexander Yashin could not leave his family, and who knows, could Veronika Mikhailovna, a person who understands everything, and perceives sharply and subtly, - after all, poets from God have "nerves at their fingertips", - decide on such a sharp turn of Fates, more tragic than happy? Probably not.

They were born on the same day - March 27, met secretly, in other cities, in hotels, went to the forest, wandered all day, spent the night in hunting lodges. And when they returned by train to Moscow, Yashin asked Veronika to get out two or three stops so that they would not be seen together. The relationship could not be kept secret. Friends condemn him, the family is a real tragedy. The break with Veronika Tushnova was predetermined and inevitable.

"The unsolvable cannot be resolved, the incurable cannot be healed...". And judging by her poems, Veronika Tushnova could only be healed of her love by her own death. When Veronica was in the hospital in the oncology department, Alexander Yashin visited her. Mark Sobol, who had been friends with Veronika for many years, became an unwitting witness to one of these visits: “When I came to her ward, I tried to cheer her up. She was indignant: no! She was given evil antibiotics that tightened her lips, it hurt her to smile. She looked extremely bad. Unrecognizable. And then he came - he! Veronica ordered us to turn to the wall while she got dressed. Soon she called quietly: "Boys ...". I turned around and freaked out. There was a beauty in front of us! I will not be afraid of this word, for it is said precisely. Smiling, with glowing cheeks, a young beauty who has never known any ailments. And then I felt with particular force that everything written by her was true. Absolute and irrefutable truth. Perhaps this is what is called poetry ... "

In the last days before her death, she forbade Alexander Yashin to be allowed into her ward - she wanted him to remember her beautiful, cheerful, alive.

Veronika Mikhailovna was dying in severe agony. Not only from a terrible illness, but also from longing for a loved one who finally decided to release bitterly sinful happiness from his hands: The poetess died on July 7, 1965. She was barely 50 years old. There were manuscripts left on the table: unfinished pages of the poem and the new cycle of poems...

Yashin, shocked by the death of Tushnova, published an obituary in Literaturnaya Gazeta and dedicated poetry to her - his belated insight, filled with the pain of loss. In the early 60s, on Bobrishny Ugor, near his native village of Bludnovo (Vologda region), Alexander Yashin built a house for himself, where he came to work, experienced difficult moments. Three years after the death of Veronica, on June 11, 1968, he also died. And also from cancer. On Ugor, according to the will, he was buried. Yashin was only fifty-five years old.

She called her feeling "a storm that I can't handle" and trusted its slightest shades and modulations to her poems, like diary lines. Those who read (published after the death of the poetess, in 1969!) Poems inspired by this deep and surprisingly tender feeling, could not get rid of the feeling that in their palm lies "a pulsating and bloodied heart, tender, trembling in the hand and tries to warm his palms with his warmth": A better comparison cannot be imagined. Maybe that's why Tushnova's poetry is still alive, books are republished, placed on Internet sites and Tushnova's lines, light as wings of a butterfly, by the way, created "in extreme suffering and acute happiness" (I. Snegova) know more than details her complex, almost tragic, biography: However, such are the Fates of almost all true Poets, it is a sin to complain about this.

What did I refuse you, tell me?
You asked to kiss - I kissed.
You asked to lie - as you remember, and in a lie
I have never refused you.
It's always been the way I wanted it.
I wanted to - I laughed, but I wanted to - I was silent ...
But mental flexibility has a limit,
and there is an end to every beginning.
Blaming me alone for all the sins,
having discussed everything and thought it over soberly,
you want me not to be...
Don't worry, I've already disappeared.

Tushnova Veronika Mikhailovna (March 14 (27), 1915, Kazan - July 7, 1965, Moscow) - Russian poetess.

Born in Kazan in the family of Mikhail Tushnov, professor of medicine at Kazan University. She graduated from high school there. Since childhood, she wrote poetry, she wrote her first poems at the age of 9-10 years. At the insistence of her father, she entered the medical department of Kazan University. Then she studied at a medical institute in Leningrad, where the family had moved by that time, but she did not graduate from the institute, although she studied for four years. She took up painting, at the same time a serious passion for poetry began.

At the beginning of the summer of 1941, Tushnova entered the Moscow Literary Institute named after M. Gorky: Her desire to professionally and seriously engage in poetry and philology seems to be beginning to come true.

But the war began. Veronika Tushnova's father had died by that time, leaving her sick mother and little daughter in her arms. Using her medical knowledge, Tushnova worked in hospitals as a doctor for almost all the years of the war - she nursed the wounded. And she continued to write poetry ... That's what they called her affectionately: "doctor with a notebook."

In 1945, the publishing house "Young Guard" published the first collection of poetry by Tushnova, which she called "The First Book". It was a relatively late debut - Veronika Mikhailovna was already 29 years old - and he somehow passed unnoticed, quietly ... The second book by Veronika Tushnova, "Ways - Roads", will be published only ten years later, in 1954. This book is based on poems often written on the road and inspired by road meetings and impressions, meeting new people and new places. "Azerbaijani Spring" is the name of one of Tushnova's poetic cycles.

In the interval between the two books, Tushnova worked hard and hard: as a reviewer at the Khudozhestvennaya Literatura publishing house, as an essayist in a newspaper, she translated Rabindranath Tagore from interlinear characters, and she did it superbly, because she was a lyricist, "by its very line essence," as she herself said . She was looking for her own path in poetry. I searched hard, painfully, often losing time and losing a lot both for my heart and for my talent.

In 1952 Tushnova wrote the poem "The Road to Klukhor". (She was also included in the 1954 book.) This poem was very well received by critics and reviewers. Tushnova's true talent was revealed only in the last period of her work: the collections "Memory of the Heart" (1958), "Second Wind" (1961) and "One Hundred Hours of Happiness" (1965). Love is a cross-cutting theme in her poems, grief and joy, loss and hope, present and future are associated with it. She spoke loudly about love, called for truly human relations between people. Tushnova's love lyrics were strongly influenced by her love for the poet Alexander Yashin, who was married and could not leave his family.

Tushnova Veronika Mikhailovna
Born: March 27, 1911
Died: July 7, 1965 (aged 54).

Biography

Veronika Mikhailovna Tushnova (March 14 (27), 1911, Kazan - July 7, 1965, Moscow) - Russian Soviet poetess who wrote in the genre of love lyrics. Translator. Member of the Union of Writers of the USSR (1946). Popular songs were written on her poems: “Do not renounce, loving”, “You know, there will still be! ..”, “One Hundred Hours of Happiness” and others.

Mystery of the year of birth

In a number of biographical articles and autobiographies, Tushnova's birth year is 1915. The dates 1915-1965 are engraved on the monument on the grave of Veronika Mikhailovna at the Vagankovsky cemetery, as the poetess herself wished so shortly before her death. However, in the materials of the Kazan Literary Museum. M. Gorky and Tushnova’s collection “You can give everything for this,” published in 2012 in the Golden Series of Poetry, compiled by the daughter of the poetess Natalya Rozinskaya, it is stated that Veronika Mikhailovna was born on March 27, 1911. The Poetry Lovers Club of Veronika Tushnova conducted a study and found an extract from the register of births about her baptism in 1911. This date was confirmed by the daughter of the poetess N. Rozinskaya. The year of birth in 1911 is also confirmed by the fact that Tushnova graduated from school in 1928, in the same year she entered the medical faculty of Kazan University, which was impossible at the age of 13.

In 2011, jubilee literary events dedicated to the 100th anniversary of Veronika Tushnova were held in many cities of Russia.

Biography and review of creativity

Born in the family of a scientist, professor of the Kazan Veterinary Institute Mikhail Pavlovich Tushnov (1879-1935). Mother - Alexandra Georgievna Postnikova, a graduate of the Higher Women's Bestuzhev Courses in Moscow. In Kazan, the family lived in a house on Bolshaya Kazanskaya Street (now Bolshaya Krasnaya), then on Mislavsky Street. In summer - on the Volga, in Shelange. The memory of her native Volga expanses nourished Veronika's work all her life. Hobbies of her childhood and youth are animals and flowers.

In 1928 she graduated in Kazan from one of the best schools in the city - No. 14 named after. A. N. Radishcheva with an in-depth study of foreign languages, spoke English and French well. The first to notice Tushnova's literary talent was her school teacher of literature, Boris Nikolaevich Skvortsov, who often read her writings aloud as exemplary. After school, at the insistence of her father, who saw her as a future doctor, she entered the medical faculty of Kazan University. Biographers especially note the imperious and despotic character of Veronica's father, everything in the family obeyed his desires and will, up to the daily routine, serving lunch or dinner.

In 1931, in connection with the transfer of his father to the All-Union Institute of Experimental Medicine (VIEM), the family moved from Kazan to Leningrad, where Tushnova continued to study at the medical institute. Soon the family moves to Moscow, where the father, as a famous scientist, gets an apartment on Novinsky Boulevard. Entered graduate school at the Department of Histology VIEM. In the capital she took up painting, at the same time a serious passion for poetry began. In 1938 she married psychiatrist Yuri Rozinsky. In the same year, the first poems were published.

In 1941, on the advice of Vera Inber, who read her poems, she entered the Literary Institute. A. M. Gorky. But she did not have a chance to study there: with the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, together with her mother and little daughter, Natasha was evacuated to Kazan, where she worked as a ward doctor at a neurosurgical hospital for wounded soldiers of the Red Army. Two years later, in February 1943, he returned to Moscow, worked as a medical resident in a hospital. The first marriage breaks up.

In 1944, her poem “The Surgeon” was published in Novy Mir, dedicated to the highly experienced operating doctor N. L. Chistyakov, who worked in the same hospital. Also in 1944, the Komsomolskaya Pravda published the cycle Poems about a Daughter, which received a wide readership response.

The debut collection of poems and poems was the "First Book" (1945), published by the publishing house "Young Guard". The famous actor Vasily Kachalov was fascinated by Tushnova's work, who, according to his biographer V.V. Vilenkin, "read" Veronica's poems to his family and guests.

In 1947 she participated in the first All-Union Conference of Young Writers.

Tushnova's second collection - "Ways-Roads" - was released only 9 years after the first, in 1954. The heightened lyrical feeling of the poetess was most fully revealed in the last years of her life in the collections "Memory of the Heart" (1958), "One Hundred Hours of Happiness" (1965 ) and others, in which she reflects on high love, on deep human relationships.

Conducted a creative seminar at the Literary Institute. A. M. Gorky. She worked as a reviewer at the Khudozhestvennaya Literatura publishing house, an essayist in a newspaper, and translated from Bengali (from interlinear) R. Tagore. Fruitful cooperation and friendship connected Tushnova with the Serbian poetess Desanka Maksimovich, to whom she dedicated the original poems. Translations from Tatar by Gabdulla Tukay are known.

Of great interest are Tushnova's travel poems, written based on frequent trips around the country, depicting her modern life and the peculiar atmosphere of airports, stations, and trains. Observations, reflections and experiences on the road are organically woven into lyrical and love stories.

most famous poem Tushnova, which immortalized her name - “Do not renounce, loving” (written in 1944). Romance to the music of Mark Minkov was first performed in 1976 in the performance of the Moscow Theater. Pushkin, but became a super hit in 1977 performed by Alla Pugacheva. For decades, the masterpiece has enjoyed constant success with listeners. Pugacheva herself later called the song the main one in her repertoire, admitted that a tear breaks through during her performance, and that a Nobel Prize can be given for this miracle.

In the spring of 1965, Veronika Mikhailovna fell seriously ill and ended up in the hospital. She died in Moscow on July 7, 1965 from cancer. She was buried at the Vagankovsky cemetery with her parents (plot 20).

Personal life

She was married twice, both marriages broke up. From the first marriage with a psychiatrist Yuri Rozinsky, a daughter, Natalya Rozinskaya (philologist), was born. Grandchildren - Natalya Pelekhatskaya (correspondent of "Russian Radio") and Mikhail Loginov (editor-in-chief of the journal "Profile"). Five great grandchildren.

Tushnova's second husband (from the beginning of the 1950s) was Yuri Pavlovich Timofeev, a writer, editor-in-chief of the Detsky Mir publishing house. They lived together for about 10 years, parting was very difficult.

The last years of her life, Veronica was in love with a poet Alexandra Yashina which had a strong influence on her lyrics. According to testimonies, the first readers of these poems could not help feeling that they had in their palms “a pulsating and bloodied heart, tender, trembling in the hand and trying to warm the palms with its warmth.” However, Yashin did not want to leave his family (he had four children). Veronica was dying not only from illness, but also from longing for her beloved, who, after painful hesitation, decided to let sinful happiness out of her hands. Their last meeting took place in the hospital, when Tushnova was already on her deathbed. Yashin died three years later, also from cancer.

Tushnova's last book, One Hundred Hours of Happiness, is a diary of this love, written by a seriously ill poetess.

Memory

The fate and work of the poetess is dedicated to one of the series of the author's program of Lev Anninsky "Ambush Regiment" (2008) of the TV channel "Culture".

Creation

First book. 1945.
Ways-roads. 1954.
Road to Kluhor. 1956.
Heart memory. 1958.
Second wind. 1961.
Lyrics. 1963, 1969.
One hundred hours of happiness. 1965.
Poems. 1969.

Songs on poems by Veronika Tushnova

And you know, there will still be! .. (music by Mark Minkov) - Spanish. Alla Pugacheva and Kristina Orbakaite
Remember me (“I say goodbye to you ...”) (music by Vyacheslav Dobrynin) - Spanish. Sofia Rotaru, Alla Pugacheva, Irina Allegrova
They don’t renounce, loving (music by Mark Minkov; for the first time, the song was performed by a dramatic actress in the performance of the A. S. Pushkin Theater “Men, wear men's hats” (1976) based on the play by A. Khmelik, the author of the music for which was M. Minkov) - Spanish. Alexander Gradsky, Alla Pugacheva, Lyudmila Artyomenko, Tatyana Bulanova (Old songs about the main thing 3), Dima Bilan
One Million Years BC (music by David Tukhmanov) - Spanish. David Tukhmanov and the group "Moscow" (album "UFO")
Parting words (“Well, you can leave ...”) (music by Evgeny Artamonov) - Spanish. Lilia Tolmacheva
Oh please! (music by Alexander Dulov) - Spanish. Alexander Dulov, Galina Khomchik and Elena Frolova
How many days (music by Louise Khmelnitskaya) - Spanish. Inna Razumikhina
One Hours of Happiness (music by Konstantin Orbelyan) - Spanish. Alla Pugacheva, Irina Otieva, Erna Yuzbashyan, Tamara Gverdtsiteli
Insomnia (music by David Tukhmanov) - Spanish. Sofia Rotaru
Without promises, life is sadder (music by Nikita Yanoshchuk, film "I teach guitar") - Spanish. Alina Sergeeva

Veronika Tushnova (1911-1965) is a well-known Soviet poetess, whose lyrical works are well known to more than one generation of readers. Her poems formed the basis of many popular songs, including: "You know, there will still be! ..", "Loving do not renounce", "Remember me", "Insomnia". The lyrical collections "Memory of the Heart" and "One Hundred Hours of Happiness" are considered the pinnacle of the poetess's work.

Childhood and youth

Veronika Tushnova was born on March 14 (27), 1911 in Kazan. Her father, Mikhail Pavlovich, was a famous microbiologist who became an academician of the All-Russian Academy of Agricultural Sciences in Soviet times, and her mother, Alexandra Georgievna, was a talented amateur artist. The future poetess studied at one of the best schools in her native city, where she was taught to speak German and French perfectly.

From an early age, the girl showed extraordinary creative abilities, which were always supported by her literature teacher. Veronica was very interested in painting and poetry, her poems were often published in the school wall newspaper.

When V. Mayakovsky and S. Yesenin once arrived in the city, this became a huge event in the life of a girl. Since then, both poets have become important landmarks in her creative path.

The beginning of a creative career

Nevertheless, at the insistence of her father, she decided to enter the medical faculty of the university in her native Kazan. True, the girl completed her studies already in Leningrad, where she moved with her family in 1936 after the death of her father. Having received a medical degree, Tushnova decided to seriously engage in poetry. On the advice of the poetess Vera Inber, in 1941 she entered the Literary Institute, but all plans were disrupted by the war.

After the outbreak of hostilities, Veronika, together with her mother and daughter, returns to Kazan, where she works as a ward doctor in a military hospital. During this time, she wrote a whole notebook of poems. It is here, among the hardships and hardships of sick people, that a real poetess is born. No wonder they managed to call her "the doctor with a notebook." The woman personally experienced the pain and suffering of each patient. In 1944, the Novy Mir magazine published her poem The Surgeon, and the Komsomolskaya Pravda published a cycle Poems about a Daughter, which received a great response from readers.

Poetess with a capital letter

In 1945, Tushnova made her literary debut - her debut collection entitled "The First Book" was published. The poet Pavel Antokolsky was very helpful in compiling and editing it. The works of the poetess were again a great success. Veronica's poems were read by the famous Soviet actor Vasily Kachalov. True, many critics and colleagues called the sadness characteristic of Tushnova's poems intimacy, which was a bad sign for those times.

It is not surprising that the new collection "Ways-Roads" was released only in 1954. The poetess was simply afraid to openly publish what her soul was experiencing. She often created material for a new book on the road, traveling throughout the Soviet Union. However, this time she heard a lot of criticism. "Does not have its own creative face, has not found its voice", - incessantly poured from the lips of critics.

The poetess reached the peak of her work at the end of her life, when the books "Memory of the Heart" and "One Hundred Hours of Happiness" were published, in which she shares with the reader her experiences and thoughts about high and pure love, about the complexity of human relationships.

She had an amazing ability to convey difficult life experiences in simple lyrical language. Tushnova was never an apologist for the Soviet regime, she always managed to maintain a balance between the necessary politeness and her favorite lyrics. In her poems, she mentions the symbols of power as if by chance, without focusing on them.

Lyrics of the song

The most famous and deeply touching poem "Loving Don't Renounce" was written in the military year of 1944. The famous romance, the author of the melody of which was the composer M. Minkov, debuted on stage in 1976 in the production of "Men, wear men's hats." But Alla Pugacheva, who performed it a year later, brought real fame to this work. Once the singer admits that this romance is the main one in her repertoire, and when she sings it, it is very difficult to keep from crying.

The melody for another well-known song to the verses of Veronika Mikhailovna "You know, it will still be" was also written by Mark Minkov. And again, the brilliant performance of A. Pugacheva brought great fame to this work.

Personal life

In 1938, Veronica marries psychiatrist Yuri Rozinsky. Soon the couple has a daughter, Natalia, to whom her mother will dedicate the following lines:
Dull, moonless
The night has come
I thought about my son
And they said: "Daughter".

Despite this, family life did not work out - the husband left the family. Veronica did not leave hope for his return and he returned when he became seriously ill and needed care. The woman accepted him and was with him until her death, despite the fact that many condemned such an act.

The second spouse of the poetess was the famous writer Yuri Timofeev. But this marriage, too, cannot be called successful. There were many fights and misunderstandings. After a decade of living together, a difficult divorce awaited them.

Veronica met her true love later. This is the poet and prose writer Alexander Yashin. Their full rapprochement was hampered by Yashin's current marriage, in which four children were born, and he himself was not ready for a break with his wife, who suffered from a mental disorder. The poetess understood the hopelessness of the situation and was ready for anything, just not to lose her beloved. They met secretly in out-of-town hotels, they liked to go to nature in the suburbs. For the sake of such rare meetings, Veronika Mikhailovna lived in recent years. One day she will write about Alexander: "With the habit of an eagle, with a dove's soul, with a cheeky grin, with a child's smile." But due to gossip and gossip, they were forced to leave.

Her latest collection of poetry, One Hundred Hours of Happiness, has become a real pamphlet of deep but unhappy love. In the spring of 1965, Tushnova was admitted to the hospital with a disappointing diagnosis - oncology. She was dying, experiencing the most severe mental and physical anguish. All this time, Yashin visited her in the hospital, and only at these moments she literally changed. A few days before her death, she asked not to let her beloved come to her - she wanted to remain in the memory of the one he knew before.

Veronika Trushnova died on July 7, 1965. The poetess is buried at the Vagankovsky cemetery of the capital.