Helen patricia thompson and her son. American Mayakovsky. Why does a US citizen consider himself the poet's grandson. What did she tell about this meeting

- When Mayakovsky found out about your existence, did he want to return?

I am sure that Mayakovsky wanted to have a family, he wanted to live with us. Everything that is written about him was controlled by Lilya Brik. It is not true that he did not want children. He loved children very much, it was not in vain that he wrote for them. Of course, there was a very difficult political situation between the two countries. But there was also a personal moment. When Lilya found out about us, she wanted to divert his attention ... She did not want another woman next to Mayakovsky. When Mayakovsky was in Paris, Lilya asked her sister Elsa Triolet to introduce Mayakovsky to some local beauty. She turned out to be Tatyana Yakovleva. A very attractive woman, a charming woman from a good family. I do not deny this at all. But I have to say that it was all Brick's game. She wanted him to forget the woman and child in America.

- Many people think that it was Tatyana Yakovleva who was Mayakovsky's last love.

Her daughter, the American writer Francis Gray, came to Russia long before me. And everyone thought that she was Mayakovsky's daughter. Francis even published an article in the New York Times about Mayakovsky's last muse, about her mother. She says that on October 25, he talked about his endless love for Tatyana Yakovleva. But I have a letter to my mother dated October 26, he asked her to meet. I think he wanted to cover up a politically dangerous relationship with my mother with a high-profile romance with Yakovleva.

Only letters written by Lilya Brik have survived in Mayakovsky's archive. Why do you think she destroyed the correspondence with the other women?

Lilya was who she was. I think she wanted to go down in history alone. She had an impact on the public. It cannot be denied that she was a very intelligent, experienced woman. But, in my opinion, she was also a manipulator. I did not know Brikov personally, but I think that they built a career for themselves using Mayakovsky. They said he was rude and uncontrollable. But his mother told something completely different about him, and his friend, David Burliuk, said that he was a very sensitive and kind person.

- Do you think Lilya had a bad influence on Mayakovsky?

I think that the role of the Briks is very controversial. Osip helped him publish at the very beginning of his career. Lilya Brik, one might say, was included in the kit. When Mayakovsky met her, he was very young. And the adult, mature Lilya was, of course, very attractive to him.

- Elena Vladimirovna, tell me why Mayakovsky, in his suicide note, defined his family as follows: mother, sisters, Lilya Brik and Veronica Polonskaya. Why didn't he say anything about you?

I myself thought a lot about this, this question tormented me. When I went to Russia, I met my father's last beloved, Veronica Polonskaya. I visited her at the actor's nursing home. She treated me very warmly, gave me a statuette of her father. She said that Mayakovsky talked to her about me, about how he misses. He showed her a Parker pen, which I gave him in Nice, and told Polonskaya: "My future is in this child." I'm sure she loved him too. Charming woman. So, I asked her this very question: why?

- And why were you not in the will?

Polonskaya told me that my father did it to protect us. He defended it when he included it in the will, and on the contrary, without mentioning us. I'm not sure that I would have lived quietly until these days if the NKVD then learned that the Soviet poet Mayakovsky in America is growing a child from the daughter of a kulak.

I know that he loved me, that he was happy to become a father. But he was afraid. It was not safe to be the wife or child of a dissenter. And Mayakovsky became a dissenter: if you read his plays, you will see that he criticized the bureaucracy and the direction in which the revolution was moving. His mother didn't blame him, and I don't blame him.

- Was Veronika Polonskaya the only one to whom Mayakovsky told about your existence?

Another friend of her father, Sofya Shamardina, wrote in her memoirs about what Mayakovsky told her about his daughter in America: “I never thought that one could miss a child so much. The girl is already three years old, she is sick with rickets, and I can't do anything for her! " Mayakovsky talked about me with another friend of his, told how hard it was for him not to raise his own daughter. But when a book of memoirs was published in Russia, they simply threw away these fragments. Perhaps because Lilya Brik did not want to publish it. In general, I think that there are still many blank spots in my father's biography, and I consider it my duty to tell the truth about my parents.

When you came to Russia, did you find any other documentary evidence that Mayakovsky did not forget about you?

I made one amazing find when I was in St. Petersburg. I went through my father's papers and found there a drawing of a flower made by a child's hand. I think this is my drawing, as a child I drew exactly the same ...

Tell me, you feel like Mayakovsky's daughter. Do you believe in genetic memory?

I understand my father very well. When I first read Mayakovsky's books, I realized that we look at the world in the same way. He believed that if you have talent, then you should use it for social, social action. I feel the same way. And my goal was to create textbooks, books from which children learn something about the world and about themselves. I wrote textbooks on psychology and anthropology, history, tried to present all this in such a way that children would understand. I also worked as an editor for several of the largest American publishing houses. She edited fiction, including Ray Bradbury. It seems to me that an excellent activity for the daughter of a futurist is to work with science fiction writers.

- You have pictures on your wall. Did you inherit this talent from your father too?

Yes, I love to draw. At the age of 15 she entered an art school. I, of course, am not a professional artist, but something turns out.

- Can you call yourself a revolutionary?

I think my father's idea of ​​revolution is the idea of ​​bringing social justice. I am a revolutionary myself, in my own understanding, that is, in connection with the role of women in society and in the family. I teach philosophy of feminism at New York University. I am a feminist, but not one of those who seeks to belittle the role of men (which is typical of many American feminists). My feminism is my desire to keep my family together, to work for its good.

- Tell us about your family.

I have a wonderful son, Roger, an intellectual property lawyer. He is Mayakovsky's grandson. An amazing blood flows in his veins - the blood of Mayakovsky and the blood of a fighter for American independence (my husband's ancestor was one of the founders of the Declaration of Independence). I have a grandson, Logan. He is finishing school now. He's from Latin America, Roger adopted him. And although he is not Mayakovsky's own great-grandson, I notice that he has exactly the same wrinkle on his forehead as my father. It's funny to see how he looks at the portrait of Mayakovsky and wrinkles his forehead.

To be honest, I still miss my father very much. It seems to me that if he knew me now, if he knew about my life, he would be pleased.

You have lived almost all your life under the name Patricia Thompson, and now the name Elena Mayakovskaya is also on your business card.

I have always had two names: Russian - Elena and American - Patricia. My mother's friend was Irish Patricia, and she helped her when I was born. My American godmother was called Elena, and my grandmother was also called Elena.

- Tell me, why do you hardly know Russian?

When I was little, I didn't speak English. I spoke Russian, German and French. But I wanted to play with American kids, and they didn't play with me because I was a foreigner. And I told my mom that I didn't want to speak all these useless languages, but I wanted to speak English. Then my stepfather, an Englishman, taught me. And Russian has remained at the children's level.

Did you speak Russian at all with your mother?

I resisted, refused to read Russian. Maybe because for me the death of my father was a tragedy, and I unconsciously left everything Russian. Besides, I have always been an individualist, I think I inherited this from my father. My mother also supported me in this, she was a very strong, courageous woman. It was she who explained to me that you cannot remain in the shadow of your father, be his cheap imitation. She taught me to be myself.

© From the personal archive of Elena Mayakovskaya

I would say - Russian American. Few people know that even during the Cold War, I always tried to help the Soviet Union and Russia. When I worked as an editor for Macmillan in 1964, I edited a test and selected photographs for the book Communism: What It Is. I deliberately made several edits in the text so that Americans understand what good people live in the USSR. After all, then the Americans were drawn not quite an adequate image of a Soviet person. When choosing photographs, I tried to find the most beautiful ones; show how Soviet people know how to enjoy life. And when I was working on a children's book about Russia, I emphasized that the Russians liberated the peasants even before the abolition of slavery in America. This is a historical fact, and I think this is an important fact.

Elena Vladimirovna, you assure me that you feel and understand your father. Why do you think he committed suicide? Do you have any thoughts on this?

First, I would like to say that even if he committed suicide, it was not because of the woman. He had reasons to live. Burliuk told me that he believed that Mayakovsky had been planted with bullets in a shoebox. In the Russian aristocratic tradition, receiving such a gift meant dishonor. The dishonor for him began with a boycott of the exhibition; no one came there. He understood what was happening. It was a message: if you do not behave yourself, we will not publish your poems. This is a very painful topic for a creative person - to be free, to have the right. He was losing his freedom. Mayakovsky saw in all this a prediction of his fate. He simply decided that there was only one way - death. And this is most likely the only reason for his suicide. Not a woman, not a broken heart - that's absurd.

- Tell me, do you like biographical books written about your father?

I, of course, did not read everything that was written. I'm not his biographer. But some of the facts that I read in the biographies translated into English were clearly not true. My favorite book is by Swedish author Bengt Yangfeldt. The man really wanted to find previously unknown facts about my father, and he managed to unearth something.

Tell me, are you going to write a biography of Mayakovsky for the Americans? In general, in America, do they know who Mayakovsky is?

Educated people, of course, know. And they are always very interested when they find out that I am his daughter. And I will not write a biography. But I would like a woman to write a biography of Mayakovsky. I think that it is a woman who is able to understand the peculiarities of his character and personality in a way that no man can understand.

- Your parents decided not to tell anyone about your existence, and you kept a secret right up to 1991 ... Why?

Can you imagine what would have happened if the USSR had learned that Vladimir Mayakovsky, the singer of the revolution, had an illegitimate daughter in bourgeois America?

- And why did you decide to reveal the secret of your mother and Mayakovsky?

I considered it my duty to tell the truth about my parents. The well-made myth about Mayakovsky excluded my mother and me from his story. This missing piece of history must return.

- How do you think your mother, Ellie Jones, would react to your decision to tell this secret?

Before her death, in 1985, my mother told me that I had to make a decision myself. She told me the whole story of their love, and I recorded it on a tape recorder, it turned out six cassettes. They later served as material for my book Mayakovsky in Manhattan. I think she would be glad to know that I have written a book about their love story.

Who was the first person you revealed your secret to?

I first told the poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko about this when he was in America. He didn’t believe me and asked for my documents. I then said: look at me! And then everyone believed. And I am very proud to become a professor, to have published 20 books. I did all this myself, no one knew that I was Mayakovsky's daughter. I think that if people knew that Mayakovsky has a daughter, all doors would be open for me. But there was nothing like that.

- Did you visit Russia immediately after that?

Yes, in 1991 I came to Moscow with my son Roger Sherman Thompson. We met with Mayakovsky's relatives, with the descendants of his sisters. With all friends and admirers. When we drove to the hotel, I first saw the statue of Mayakovsky on the square. My son and I asked the driver to stop. I could not believe that we were there ... I was in his museum on Lubyanka Square, in the room where he shot himself. I was holding in my hands the calendar opened at the day of April 14, 1930 ... the last day of my father's life.

Have you been to the Novodevichy cemetery?

I brought some of my mother's ashes with me to Russia. She loved Mayakovsky all her life, until her death. Her last words were about him. At my father's grave in the Novodevichy cemetery, I dug up the ground between the graves of my father and his sister. There I placed some of my mother's ashes, covered it with earth and grass. I think my mother hoped someday to connect with the person she loved so much. And with Russia, which has always been in her heart.

The history of the relationship between Elena Vladimirovna's parents, like many stories of short-term romantic love, is full of warm, but vague memories and conclusions, which are sorely lacking in factual confirmation. Many of the events described are known only from the words of Mayakovskaya herself or from the memoirs of her mother.

Here are some facts. In 1925, Vladimir Mayakovsky went to America at the invitation of his friend David Burliuk. Mayakovsky does not speak English and needs an interpreter. It becomes Ellie Jones, who until recently was called Elizaveta Petrovna Siebert. Elizaveta Petrovna's parents, wealthy peasants from Bashkotorstan, descendants of German emigrants, immediately after the revolution, on the advice of friends, fled to Canada, and Liza herself briefly stayed in Russia and worked for a charitable organization. She was well educated and knew several languages, including English. At work, she met the Englishman George Jones, whom she married and left - first to England, then to America. Apparently, by the time of the meeting with Mayakovsky and her husband, Ellie was no longer living, although there was no official divorce.

Mayakovsky spent three months in the United States, during which, according to Elena Vladimirovna, Ellie and Vladimir did not part: they went to parties, walked along the Brooklyn Bridge and, in general, behaved quite recklessly. Here Patricia Thompson quotes her mother in her book of memoirs “Mayakovsky in Manhattan. A love story with excerpts from the memoirs of Ellie Jones ":" We were close for some time when he asked: "Are you doing anything - are you using any protection?" And I answered: “To love is to have children,” he said: “Oh, you are crazy, baby!” ... I am sure: in his entire life, the poet did not have another three months of complete freedom and absolute devotion to a woman. When we first met, he wished: “Let's just live for each other. Let's keep everything between us. It doesn't concern anyone else. Only you and me. " The only time when he lived with a light heart and was happy. "

A reproduction of the photograph "Ellie Jones with her daughter Patricia (Mayakovsky's daughter)". State Museum of Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky.

In a congratulatory telegram for the New Year, Mayakovsky asks Ellie: “Write everyone. Everything. Happy New Year". Some biographers suggest that in this way Mayakovsky lets her know what is in the course of her pregnancy. For a long time, fearing censorship, Ellie does not mention her condition ("I think you understand my silence"), and only in a letter dated May 6 asks to send her $ 600 to pay her hospital bills. Mayakovsky replies: "It's not that I didn't want to help, but objective circumstances do not allow me to do what I want." Still, the NKVD is not asleep.

On June 15, 1926, Ellie has a daughter who received the surname of her legal husband - Helen Patricia Jones. Everyone affectionately calls the girl the same as her mother - Ellie. Mayakovsky's letter on the occasion of his daughter's birth has not survived, but Ellie's answer remained: “I was so delighted with your letter, my friend! Why didn't they write before? I am still very weak. I can't write much. I don’t want to be upset when I remember a nightmarish spring for me. I’m alive. I'll be well soon. Sorry to upset you with a stupid note. "

"Recht (Charles Recht, the lawyer who helped Mayakovsky with his first American visa - Esquire) will return in August," Ellie writes further. - I am sure that you will get a visa. If you finally decide to come - wire. I wrote my address. I live in Long Island. With me Pat. She did not leave me all this time. Darling. I waited, waited for letters from you - and they are in your boxes? Ah, Vlad. "

Mayakovsky never came to America. On one of the empty pages of the poet's notebooks for 1926, it is simply written - "daughter". Elena Vladimirovna believes that with this appeal, the poet appeals to his distant daughter, whom he was destined to see only once. In his book about Mayakovsky, Swedish biographer Bengt Yangfeldt writes that, according to Sonya Shamardina, one of the few who knew about the existence of little Ellie, Mayakovsky confessed to her that “I never thought that one could have such strong feelings for a child<…>I think about her all the time. " However, he could not help his daughter financially or otherwise.

Photo: V. Khomenko / RIA Novosti

Reproduction of "Ellie Jones" drawing by Vladimir Mayakovsky. State Museum of Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky.

The only meeting between father and daughter took place in September 1928. Mayakovsky arrived in Nice, where Ellie and her daughter were waiting for their American visa. He spent three days with “two Ellies”, and on October 27 he sent a letter from Paris (the address - touching spelling mistakes of a non-English speaker: Nice, 16 avenue Schakespeare. M-me Elly Jonnes): “Two lovely, two Ellie's family! I've missed you all already. I dream to come to you for at least another week. Will you accept? Will you caress?<…>I kiss you all eight paws. Your Ox. "

And they never saw each other again.

1993 marked the 100th anniversary of the birth of Mayakovsky. At a symposium in New York dedicated to the life and work of the poet, Elena Vladimirovna made a report "What does it mean to be the daughter of Mayakovsky." Unfortunately, the collection of works of the symposium is available only in five US libraries and only in paper form, so Russian readers can only guess how the famous father influenced the life of his American daughter. One thing is clear - in 1991, Elena Vladimirovna, together with her son, Roger Sherman, first came to Russia. In Moscow, they met Mayakovsky's relatives, visited the poet's museum on Lubyanskaya Square and his grave at the Novodevichy cemetery. Thompson begins to speak actively, give interviews, tell the interested press about his parents' romance, about the only meeting with his father, which took place in 1928 in Nice, about the fact that Ellie Jones was the poet's greatest love, but the relationship was "politically dangerous", and he "covered" them with a loud romance with Tatyana Yakovleva. Thompson also claims that her goal is to rehabilitate her father, who "simply could not kill himself because of a woman." In 2003, a Russian translation of the book "Mayakovsky in Manhattan: A Love Story" was published, which was published in America in 1993. The material for this book was the conversations of Patricia with her mother and the memoirs of Ellie Jones themselves, which she managed to dictate to film during her lifetime.

Photo: Denisov Roman / TASS photo chronicle

In the book, she recalls Mayakovsky's "long legs" in detail and speaks of the strong bond that united her with her father for life, which is surprising, given that Thompson saw Mayakovsky only once, and then at the age of two. However, if you look at the photographs of Thompson, the resemblance to the poet is immediately evident. But they, apparently, were not only similar in appearance.

Patricia grew up in New York and graduated from high school in music and arts in 1944, loved to draw, like her father, and had a good ability. In preparation for her legal career, she received her BA from Barnard College, Columbia University. She then studied law for two years, even wrote a draft dissertation entitled "Sources of Capital in International Law," but never defended herself. During her studies, she begins working as an editor in various publishing houses, and, apparently, this time she found her calling. In 1960 she received a master's degree in sociology, in 1973 she defended another master's degree in family and consumer relations, and in 1980 she became a master of education with a specialization in educational programs and teaching.

Thompson taught for a long time at Lehman College of the City University of New York. It is, of course, not the most prestigious university in New York, but famous college alumni include writer Andre Asiman (Call Me by Your Name), human rights activist Laetitia James and jazz musician Bob Stewart. Thompson has always described herself as an adept of feminist theory, and her scientific and academic interests were mainly education and gender studies. For example, over the years she has taught courses "Food, Fashion and Feminism", "Women and Media", "Women and Power", "Mothers and Daughters", "Family Relations". From 1974 to 2000, she actively spoke at seminars and conferences with reports, wrote several books and put forward a philosophical theory of Hestian, pro-family feminism (on behalf of Hestia, the goddess of the hearth): she argues that it is worth separating domestic relations from market relations and that these two loci require women to behave differently.

In the last years of her life, however, Elena Vladimirovna focused entirely on the memory of her father. She came to Russia about 10 times, and in 2008 she was awarded the Order of Lomonosov (awarded “for high achievements in state, industrial, research, social, cultural, public and charitable activities, in the field of science, literature and art”), confirming her relationship with the famous poet. Thompson died on April 1, 2016, a little short of the age of 90, and bequeathed to scatter her ashes over his father's grave. We could not find out whether we managed to do this.

* In the documentary " Vladimir Mayakovsky: The third extra”(2013), a version was also put forward that the Soviet sculptor Nikita Antonovich Lavinsky was in fact the son of Mayakovsky, but this hypothesis has no confirmation.

Daughter Patricia Jay Thompson

Vasily Vasilievich Katanyan:

The fact that Mayakovsky has a daughter was known by those who were interested not only in his work, but also in life. However, where is she, who is she, and why is nothing known about her?

And here she comes to visit us. I went out to meet her at the entrance and recognized her from afar, although I had never seen her before. She towered over the crowd of passers-by - large, big-eyed, smiling, dressed in a colorful American-style. She looks like Vladimir Vladimirovich, especially his sister Olga - in a word, to that family. Patricia came with her son Roger. He is a cute, funny and intelligent person. Just think, after all, Mayakovsky died at thirty-seven years old, and his grandson was forty-two! However, it happens. Outwardly, he looks like a German, fat, blonde, but American by nature. We rise to us, sit down, the first phrases. Patricia is agitated, starts crying several times, but after a minute she already laughs.

And the story of our acquaintance is as follows.

After the poet's death, Lilya Yurievna made several attempts to find mother and daughter, using return addresses on envelopes from Mrs. Ellie Jones to Mayakovsky in Moscow and his notebooks. I turned to America to David Burliuk, who was familiar with Ellie, asked him to do it carefully, what if the secret of birth is hidden from the girl? Burliuk replied that he had gone to these addresses in vain, Mrs. Jones had moved, and where it was not known. Elsa Triolet could not figure out anything when she was in the USA. The searches undertaken by Mayakovsky's friend Roman Yakobson, who lived in America, were also unsuccessful. “A daughter could get married, take her husband’s surname and find no traces,” said Lilya Yurievna. When I was in New York, I asked Tatyana Yakovleva if she knew what was wrong with Mrs. Jones? And to my amazement, she heard about her and her daughter for the first time - from me in 1979!

And yet Helen-Patricia and Roger are sitting at our house, in Moscow! How were they found?

“I knew who my father was from the age of nine,” says Patricia. “But it was a family secret. Mom was very afraid of the Soviets, she was jealous of Lilya Brik and did not want Moscow to know about us. I was adopted by my mother's husband, whom I loved very much, and only when they were gone, I began to look for contacts and made the first attempt when I met Yevtushenko. I introduced myself to him as Mayakovsky's daughter, but he did not believe it and asked if I could prove it. I answered that I could and gave him my phone number. But he didn’t call. ”

And it turned out that at the same time Helen-Patricia was found by the TASS correspondent in New York, Sergei Babich, and me. The fact is that the exhibition of Alexander Rodchenko has returned to Moscow, and its organizers, young gallery owners Joe Walker, Christopher Ursity and McGuinness visited us and told us:

“When the exhibition, which was a great success, was already closing, a tall, 65-year-old lady came to the gallery, and with the words 'mu father, my father' went to the stand where the famous Rodchenkov photographs of Mayakovsky were hanging. "Mayakovsky is my father," she explained to us. "<…>Patricia moved on to the story about her mother, rightly wondering why they did not write anything about their romance in our country - after all, her father is so famous! For a long time we explained that Mayakovsky was a "great revolutionary poet" (all the more so - why?), And a revolutionary poet does not face an affair with an emigrant (what's wrong with that?), That the sanctimonious system condemned such a connection (for what?), that the censorship did not pass this kind of detail (why, actually?).

Patricia J. Thompson(b. 1926), daughter of Mayakovsky and E. Jones. Specialist in family psychology and household economics. Professor. Lives in the USA:

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But Vladimir Vladimirovich had only one child, and an illegitimate one. Gleb-Nikita was born thanks to the affair of the writer with the artist Elizaveta Lavinskaya. But in 1991 it suddenly became clear: all this time the poet lived overseas own daughter!

In 1925, a Soviet cultural figure came to the States on a creative business trip. There he was assigned a guide and an interpreter. Ellie Jones.

In fact, the woman's name was Elizabeth Siebert, she was the daughter of an industrialist who left Russia on time. According to eyewitnesses, a spark immediately flashed between the poet and the educated beauty.

Mayakovsky and Jones practically never parted. At all receptions, the couple appeared exclusively together. Together they went not only to social events and meetings with publishers.

The lovers wandered around New York, admiring the sights. It was then, according to the poet's daughter, that the man wrote the poem “ The Brooklyn Bridge».

The couple's tumultuous romance lasted three months. When Mayakovsky left America, Ellie was already pregnant.

Soon came into being Ellen Patricia, the only daughter of the poet. Unfortunately, Vladimir Vladimirovich himself was able to see her only once in Nice, when little Pat was three years old.

Having learned from mutual acquaintances that his beloved and daughter were nearby, Mayakovsky rushed to them from Paris, where he was at that moment.

The daughter remembers him very vaguely, but says with confidence: the famous father treated her very gentle and tender... After a short date in Nice in 1928, the man wrote to his “ two Ellie”, Dreaming of a new meeting.

Mayakovsky took a photograph of his daughter with him. According to friends of the poet, the photo settled on his desk. Unfortunately, when Mayakovsky left the world, in the things of a writer as follows hosted by Lilya Brik.

The woman carefully destroyed almost all evidence of Vladimir Vladimirovich's daughter. She only missed a page in her notebook, where "daughter" was written not far from the New York address.

Patricia's mother was very afraid that the Soviet authorities would deal with her baby. Even before the birth of the girl, a commissioner came to the woman and asked who the child was from.

We must also not forget that Lilya Brik had communications in the NKVD... Fortunately, the heiress of Mayakovsky's copyright either did not want to, or could not eliminate the little rival.

I gave the child a surname George Jones... Once Ellie entered into a fictitious marriage with this man in order to escape from the USSR, and now an old friend helped her a second time.

Later, Mayakovsky's daughter got married and gave birth to a son. Only in her declining years, when the Union ordered to live long, the woman revealed the secret of her origin, calling herself Elena Vladimirovna Mayakovskaya.

In the video below you can see part of the TV program, where Patricia was a guest. After these shots, all doubts about whether the woman is really the poet's daughter disappear. The family resemblance can be seen with the naked eye!

Peru Patricia owns the book " Mayakovsky in Manhattan: a love story"Describing the relationship of her parents. The woman believed that her father was sent to the world by another enemy, and until the end of her life she defended this point of view.