- Yes you will see immediately immediately clear who is who, is an artist Azat Minnibaev flipping through a photo album and finds him a shot that captured near Rudolf Nureyev and Mikhail Baryshnikov. - In Nureyev's just a devil some were sitting. Those in the Middle ages was burned. He spent his entire life and flew as in one of the large Grand pas. If in childhood him an angel of the cuff gave...

In a speech Azat, countryman and "almost relative" (Tatars, all the relatives - his own expression) more admiration than condemnation. Although there is some truth in the words of the demon sitting in Nureyev. So many of them, all sorts of memories and judgments, representing Rudolf rude and arrogant shobaloba, poser and ham. Although even its detractors agree on one thing: this was a man who lived only for the scene and only on the scene, managed to become a legend during his lifetime. And even more strengthened the legend of himself with his death.

"IT IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR FLAGS"

And on this rather modest Petersburg kitchen about it continue to speak about Rudice. Ostentatious familiarity in it no no. Mistress cuisine just true to herself - she calls it the way I used to. He was younger than six years, and, although with age, the difference is, of course, had to flatten, Rudik always called her "you". Because accustomed.

They met in Florence in 1989, when the first of almost nevyezdnye Alla Osipenko has finally released outside the Soviet bloc. And that year - after 28 years after parting at the airport Le Bourget continue its partner Rudik was already fantastically rich and famous, and she... was aged ballerina who retired. Age is not allowed to dance " it's incredibly long was her stage career (forty-five, she performed so that the audience could not believe why this Jessica that my life is ruined. But was it worth to know about it all around? Lived in it "some innate pride hereditary Petersburg intelligentsia. Perhaps that is why-and not just because of the difference in the age - Ores and later became a superstar of the world ballet, from the start, and turned to her: "you, Alla".

But then, in Florence, in their application to each other have not changed anything. She said, "you, Rudik", and he says, "you, Alla". It drew attention to his fans. Someone asked the great Rudolf Nureyev: why he calls this woman, and she did - "you"? And here Rudolf was in his repertoire said was abrupt:

- Because it is very difficult to say "you bastard," and to say "you bastard" is easy.

Ask Alla Evgenyevna: but still, about the brutality Nureyev, his explosive character in the company must have gone gossip? Yes. Of course. Rudik was very freedom-loving and proud, could screw up the interlocutor unexpected sharpness - the company of the theatre that many people do not like. "But I don't touched, " she adds with quiet dignity. - Me, he respected and nothing with me does not allow".
somehow haven't managed to find itself. And in recent years it has already started to show-
not more than thirty?) Ended creative longevity, and in teaching Alla Evgenievna

- And did not seem it then Nureyev in Leningrad a little "wild Tatar"?

My interlocutor nods without embarrassment: it was. Slightly seemed.

In 1961, during those fateful Mariinsky (then Kirov) theatre in Paris tour that changed not only the fate of Nureyev, but possibly the face of all the world ballet, he was 23 years old, and she was 29. Rudolf danced with many ballerinas. But it is Alla Osipenko has become his partner in the presented Paris "Swan lake", and the fragment from " La Bayadere". However, companies have been a little different (different age, education, interests), but in the castle sister Marina Vlady, married to some ruined the Marquis, they had to go together.

And herded them the same KGB, and Alla - hardly. In 1956 it, one of the first Soviet ballerina, Western producers dared to propose a contract. Then alle "shepherds" said phase: get out of the plane you are flying home. She obeyed. And, apparently, mindful of the history of the 56 th, in Paris "shepherds" she sat looking and 61);

Two of them were in the company - Smirnov and'. Remember Alla Evgenievna them as now: KGB men constantly sat near her table to dine. And so tired of their conversations that I was no longer what she once said to him straight. And all subsequent evenings defiantly Barker at his own table, more colleagues.

Well, Rudolph? Most likely, he with his freedom came with the "shepherds" even more. And wanted to spit on the indispensable prescription "shepherds" - to go to Paris only in the group of five people, to meet with those people with whom to meet permitted.

That's why they made was the famous "oraevskii jump at the airport Le Bourget". And jump the now - one of the legends of the past century.

From Paris, the troupe was supposed to fly to London. All was going up the ramp in Le Bourget, and the last of the artists went Alla and closing, as expected, was a shepherd. Rudolf with them for some reason was not, and Asipenka involuntarily looked around for his eyes. Found. Rudik tried to break through to his own, and the second KGB men pushed him back into the airport. Catching sight of your partner, Rudolf threw up his arms with crossed fingers - classic gesture "the sky in the box" - trying to explain to her that sign, what happens with him. She immediately understood: there is something irreparable. But one of the shepherds drove the rest of the company in the plane, and the second was left with Nureyev at the airport. Only later colleagues learned: before our flight back to London Nureeva explained that he will not fly with all

- he was sent to Moscow. He realized that the reason polozila too free his behavior. Probably, the "sky in the box", as he has shown in a farewell gesture for him, and it wouldn't turn, but... stage career could well perish. And forever.

The decision came spontaneously. Alla Osipenko as a direct witness of this event can not say for sure

- was it made the famous oraevskii jump over the barrier in the literal sense. Perhaps Rudik around "shepherd" just passed some other, spare move, which he pointed fans. In any case, the company still managed to see him on the airfield-running to their plane.

But the ladder is already pulled away, separating Soviet artists and "traitor of the Motherland". Almost three decades. Or rather forever.

In Moscow by order of "the shepherd" he did not fly. Ibid, at the airport, Nureyev asked the police for political asylum. It was granted.

And arrived in London the company "grazed", not even keeping at least a semblance of external decency.

In London I was locked in my room, -

recalls Alla Evgenievna. Was afraid that I'll run away. Opened and brought under escort for Breakfast, to a rehearsal, a play... In Paris we lived in one room with Natasha Makarova, my friend, and in London we were settled and explained that I can on her bad influence. But in the 70 m it's still too ran away. And I'm not.

SAUSAGES FOR KGB

"Alla, you need sausages?" so sometimes began a telephone conversation Alla Osipenko with her long-term friend, sister of rudica Rose. Rose, too, once he moved to Leningrad from Ufa as her g (other relatives and lived, and died in Ufa). Daughter Rose ghoul went to the same puppo kindergarten with his son Alla Osipenko.

But the issue of "sausages" -this is the password was invented to KGB: women having reason to believe that their telephones tapped. If in conversation sounded this question meant that Rose there's new information about brother because of the cordon. The magazine has published an article about it, the video footage of his performance or a letter sent on occasion. And if Allah replied: "Yes, sausages right" - that meant that in the evening she'll be nobody, can come and bring all this to her house.

Something happened a funny thing, " recalls Asipenka. - There were difficult times, and rose called me and suggested sausages. But to me the evening had come people, so I said that I sausages today I don't have. And the rose: "you don't understand! These sausages, two kilograms I bought today can bring!"

Soon after the "escape" of rudica in Leningrad over him was held in absentia court. Judged artist on the article "treason". Efforts friends at the trial failed to prove that treason was "involuntary" - with this formulation and was sentenced in absentia and sentenced to seven years of imprisonment.

By the way, this sentence officially never been with Nureyev is cleared. Now, of course, anyone already don't care about this legal curiosity. So was the "treason" really "involuntary"? Today Alla Evgenievna believes that after all freedom-loving Rudik somehow one day he left behind the boxes". However, in those days, thoughts of immediate escape he was not yet. He really wanted to dance in London with the whole troupe. But on the whole the Parisian fee bought the material for new costumes wanted to dance in "Legend about love", this statement is then planned in Leningrad. Suitcase with tissues was already immersed in a plane flying to London. So he is there and flew away.

"Now Alla Evgenievna says bewildered and resentful: recently the United States published a book Fedorovsky about Nureyev, where, Alla Osipenko, "almost accused of treason". She says, "But on the contrary, I defended him!"

Maybe then played the role of her words she exclaimed, including at the judgment, when KGB "shepherds" in bestestest: "why was it right for him to settle -- you, Nureyev, immediately fly to Moscow! Of course, it frightened. After all, if you had to return it to the Union - once potection behave had. To think up some excuse to send it, for example, with me, with my partner, saying that we urgently call on the government's concert..."

In those years such words really looked "protection". After all, in front of friends stood goal: to prove that the same Oraevsky "treason" was "involuntary". And only a man long forgotten (or never knew) the reality of those years, can interpret these words as a "betrayal Nureyev": why, in fact she offered geresni-Kam to lure him home fraudulently!

To Alla Evgenievna sometimes come to visit young dancers - and listen to her stories about the past, just not believing that such a thing could be. "How is it you were offered the overseas contract, and you had no right to sign it?!" says young people.

- Yes, - sadly smiles former ballet dancer. - We not have the right. We were like... like children.

Perhaps purposely says "like children", not to say humiliating "like slaves".

Rudik her name was there, abroad, through sister Rosa. But since 1961 "unreliable" Osipenko has become for the West off-site. No, somewhere abroad it was released in Romania, Mongolia -- the socialist countries. And if she had decided to follow the example of rudica, it would also need to run. Illegal. And from where? From Mongolia does not run.

But there were, of course, other reasons for Alla Osipenko stayed to live here. "My roots here, and leave forever I just could not do it," she says without a trace of affectation today. Relatives of the grave? Of course, but not only that... the Radical ne-turbulence (her mother, nee Borovikovsky, was the great-niece of the famous painter), brought up in a strict matriarchal the house of his grandmother, monarchists - it, Lessa, just couldn't imagine a different point of globe where would feel like home. Another thing, of course, working on contract... why not? But then, much later, narabotalo abroad, Alla Evgenievna was happy just returns and not by departures.

But rose still went to her brother. First, she married a foreigner and went abroad her grown daughter ghoul. Rudik name was sister to himself, but rose hesitated for a long time. Came to consult " alle - whether to go. Worried: For there I will sit to Rodicu on the neck!.."

However, abroad have Roses escalated persecution mania: she felt that it wants to reach the hand of the KGB, she tried to avoid any contact with fellow countrymen. In all, arrived from the Soviet Union, saw the official agents. And in that very 1989, ujina with a former partner in Florence, Alla suggested: "let's call now Rosa!" Rudolph told what is happening with my sister. "And I know the password, - cunningly said Alla. "You, the main thing, the room dial..." Nureyev dialed sisters and said into the receiver: "rose, here came from Russia, I want to talk to you..." -"no, No, I'm not going to talk!" came over telephone wires. Then she grabbed the tube from the hands of rudica and shouted into it: "rose, I need sausages!" - "Alla, it's you!!!" - could only gasp rose.

THE SOURCE AND THE MOUTH

History recorded: Rudolf Nureyev was born on March 17, 1938 in the near train station Razdolnoye. This fact he always stressed and interpreted as a sign. Childhood and youth have passed it in Ufa, in this strange city, where Russian-Tatar-Bashkir-Jewish (and God knows what) conglomerate cultural traditions of the matter pours into the big world another bold star.

To study at the Leningrad choreographic school named after Vaganova Nureyev sent Bashkir theatre of Opera and ballet, where he started his stage career as artist of the corps de ballet. After graduating from the Vaganova Rudolf take to work at the Kirov (Mariinsky) theatre, where he quickly became Prime-Minister. In 1961 "involuntary traitor to the Motherland" only 23, but he is already seen in the world of ballet - shortly before the "escape" he was awarded the title best dancer of the world 1961.

Abroad Nureyev finds itself in as a partner prima English Royal theatre Margot Fonteyn. This duet all ballet lovers almost unanimously recognized as one of the best in ballet history. His fans behave on the performances and meetings at airports no less enthusiastically than the Beatles fans.

He quickly gets rich. Buy property. Including the island. Becomes a citizen of the world, working around the globe, which gives him the right to say: "France is my home, Italy is my love, America is my money".

In 1987 he was allowed to enter the country - 48 hours, accompanied by a vigilant "shepherds" from the KGB to the dying mother.

In Ufa from superstar turned away and officials from the culture and the local masters of arts. There is evidence that dying mother, too, did not know the son, though it happened unconsciously - in death delirium. He convinced her that he is her son, and she, pointing to his old photo, stated: "this is my son."

Two years later Nureyev decided to go back on tour in the Mariinsky. Having traveled the whole world, he again wanted to come to its roots. The hype around his arrival lot - but the play "La Sylphide" does not work. Hear puzzled voice: surely this is the famous superstar? Why did it come in such terrible shape?

And he was 52 years old, and he is terminally ill. But this still know nothing at home. Only in the West people had already begun to guess... But the whole truth about the diagnosis Nureyev comes out only after his death. Diagnosed with AIDS Rudolf Nureyev was able to live for twelve years.

But is it true that the rich and famous, he became greedy and arrogant, as this claim?

- It depends on who he believes Alla Osipenko. - Were carried out after him, and such strange things: being already quite a wealthy man, he preferred to eat the rich friends... But take this fact. After retiring from the stage, Margot Fonteyn lived in Panama husband is disabled, confined to a wheelchair, and after a while start to need. And here it every month began to come anonymous remittances. It was the question of who could be the benefactor. And only then learned that it was done by Nureyev.

Happened the same to the Alla Evgenievna. Then, at dinner in Florence in ' 89, Rudik said to her: "You must stay and work here." Soon she received an invitation from Marika Besobrasova, daughter of General Bezobrazov, was in charge of the ballet school in Monte Carlo. The daughter of immigrants of the first wave, Marika preferred not to deal with the Soviet. And on paper Osipenko, straightened in Soviet institutions, looked only a glimpse. Later Alla Evgenievna was invited to work in the States, and then in other countries... And only many years later I read in the newspaper interview with Marika, where she admitted that invited Osipenko to work on the recommendation of the Rudolf Nureyev. And satisfied.

I just gasped, " says Alla Evgenievna. "So it did for me then Rudik... But Rodica was no longer alive and was no one to thank.

In an interview Nureyev said about his wealth, I have a house, I'm on your island, but me nowhere no one is waiting. I am only on the stage".

Soon after his death, when it became clear that the times have changed irrevocably, Ufa officials from culture established the festival of young ballet of a name of Rudolf Nureyev and hung a plaque on the wall of the Bashkir Opera and ballet theatre. The inscription on the Board stated that it was stage life of the great artist.

And with Alla E. Osipenko on her kitchen we talked the next day after the St. Petersburg center of arts of a name of Sergey Diaghilev she was awarded amatsha "Dublin core-vipavska" medal. "For many years of devotion to art..."

...On a series of graphic works Azat Minicheva, which he called "Grand-pas", the shape of a dancer there is no head. However, almost all, even far from the ballet people, accurately say, "Nureyev". Why so? Maybe that is recognized by the characteristic shape - far away, by the way, is not perfect, short-legged? ("Short legs and short arms, to me because of this dance was Sneem even not very convenient," confessed Alla Osipenko.)
Maybe that is recognized by the inimitable oraevskii charisma on the same one... or the devil, or the spark of God... in short, on the same one, because of what he became, and has remained a legend.

Forgive me Alla Evgenievna that I write about it now... at the end of her two-hour conversation, which was conducted in a very reserved and quiet tone in her voice suddenly broke in tears. It happened, when she said:

- Such is the price of our achievements...

In the sense of the price of what is called indifferent terms "culture" and "art". Maybe better to say otherwise. The price of that "slap angel"?

...Nureyev, of course, the angel laid firmly. But others also inherited. Just each one of those crazy with their many years of dedication to the art," your angel. And his cuffs.