Elena Shchapova de Carli. It's Me - Elena

Countess Elena Shchapova de Carli was the first Russian fashion model in America, where she emigrated in 1974 with her husband, Eduard Limonov. She now occupies a high social position in Italian aristocratic society. This collection, in addition to the novel "It's Me, Elena"—a unique response to its protagonist's famous book "It's Me, Eddie"—includes a large selection of poems, allowing one to form an adequate understanding of the writer's work. Before us is a truly remarkable phenomenon, a kind of "Pygmalion in reverse": the literary heroes of Eduard Limonov's novel "It's Me, Eddie" enter into a squabble, stepping out of the pages and assuming a form imposed by the author's imagination. The second protagonist of the famous book, Countess Elena Shchapova de Carli, has written her own version of this love story, in which "Eddie the Crocodile" plays a prominent role. Eduard Limonov, who was in love with the young poetess, once exclaimed: "They say that a beautiful woman cannot be a good poet. But she can!"