The author of relativity and absolute love

When receiving the duties of the Soviet security agency, Margarita Konenkova certainly could not predict how her life would change when she became acquainted with Albert Einstein. Yet Margarita's life had changed so much that she could not return.

Margarita

'Margarita was so beautiful that I felt she was the creator of some mysterious artist' - Margarita's husband, the famous Russian sculptor Sergei Konenkov wrote so in his diary when he recalled his first meeting. with the future wife.

Yes, Margarita is a girl who knows how to impress. After she moved to Maxcova from the small town of Sarapul, she came to live with the family of Dr. Ivan Bunin and studied Law. Here, she became acquainted with the young sculptor Sergei Konenkov. The two love each other and then get married shortly.

Margarita easily blends into the capital life. The marriage between her and Konenkov could be considered smooth, but this did not prevent her from having sexual adventures with famous figures like musician Sergei Rakhmaninov and singer Fedor Shaliapin. Her husband certainly knows. But he was not only a talented sculptor but also a wise man, so he turned a blind eye to the passions of his young wife.

In 1923, Konenkov and his wife went to the US to attend a Russian and Soviet art exhibition in New York. At first, their US trip only lasted a few weeks, but then, due to uncertain circumstances, they returned to Russia more than 20 years later.

In America, Margarita changed completely. She was called by the Americans 'Rodin Russia's wife'. In a short time, she was fully integrated into the lives of American artists. She started wearing gorgeous dresses and expensive jewelry.

The couple's house became a "noble living room" for New York artists. Konenkov himself built a completely wooden "home bar" , and Margarita always stood out in the reception. And much of it is thanks to her that her husband often receives orders from the most influential figures in America. In 1935, the Prinston University board asked Konenkov to sculpt Albert Einstein's bust of a scientist.

Einstein

Einstein was 56 years old at the time and he had two wives.

He married for the first time at the age of 20 with a Serbie woman over a 4-year-old man named Mileva Marich. Although they later had two children together, the relationship between the couple was rather cold. Mileva is often jealous of Einstein because he is admired by many women.

Usually, a wealthy patriarch takes a car to pick him up somewhere. Moreover, Mileva also argued that Einstein had ruined her scientific career because she was a talented mathematician.

If Einstein had to take the second test before passing the university, Mileva had just passed the university the first time. These contradictions grew and eventually they broke up.

However, Mileva calculated everything with mathematical accuracy and when she divorced she set the condition that if Einstein won the Nobel prize, he would only have the reputation and the material part of the prize must be given to her. Indeed, Einstein later kept that commitment.

After parting with Mileva, Einstein began searching for a new partner and the first person he noticed was his cousin Elza. Elza is a beautiful but short-sighted woman who only loves beautiful dresses and expensive jewelry.

Of course, she loved Einstein too, but it was Einstein and his glory. But Einstein himself was completely indifferent to the luxurious luxury. At least until 1935, when he crossed the threshold of the Soviet sculptor Konenkov's house and got acquainted with Margarita. That year Einstein was 56 and Margarita was 39 years old.

Love

People often say: 'They meet and immediately love each other'. But it was different for Einstein and Margarita: Their love grew slowly and slowly, so deep that it could not be stopped.

Back then Einstein lived in Prinston. Konenkov only went there once and then carved Einstein's bust in memory. Margarita is more and more energetic to Prinston.

After Elza died in 1936, Margarita replaced Elza's position next to Einstein. In order for Margarita to legally stay in Prinston, Einstein used a trick.

He wrote Konenkov a long letter saying Margarita was seriously ill. Attached to the letter are many medical certificates issued by doctors of Einstein's friends and advice that Margarita should stay for a long time in Saranack - Leyka, a well-known resting place and also where Einstein preferred to rest. Konenkov agreed with that advice.

Konenkov soon realized that the relationship between Margarita and Einstein exceeded the friendship framework. He blamed his wife and forbade his wife from seeing Einstein anymore. But to no avail. Margarita continued to meet Einstein until the day she and her husband returned to the Soviet Union.

The end

Einstein and Margarita.

The Konenkov couple returned to the Soviet Union in 1945. A few days before parting, Einstein gave Margarita a gold watch. By the end of the twentieth century, this watch was auctioned and some love letters exchanged between Einstein and Margarita.

It is these love letters that change the general notion of the relationship between the two. It was previously believed that Margarita did everything for the Soviet security agency.

She was accused by many people of taking advantage of relations with the American elite, including Einstein, to steal "atomic secrets" for the Soviet Union. Especially some photos of Margarita stand beside Robert Oppenheimer, the "father" of the American atomic bomb.

Do you know Einstein? Yes, he knew everything and saw Margarita. He even tried to help her. Indeed, he agreed to meet the Russian consul in New York Pavel Mikhailov. However, it was later known that this meeting was fruitless because Einstein refused to cooperate with the Soviet security agency.

After the Konenkov couple returned to the country, Margarita and Einstein continued to exchange letters with each other for another 10 years until Einstein died in 1955.

Einstein's letters are often sad and subdued by the author's mood. For example, he wrote in a letter at a time when the two sides were far apart: 'Unlike you, I can have a few dozen years to live and be creative. I think a lot about you and sincerely wish you to be excited and brave to enter your new life. '

Perhaps he did not know that his new life in Margarita's beautiful Maxcova and lavish life was the life of a wife taking care of housework. The couple did not have children, so when Konenkov died in 1971, Margarita was completely alone.

She did not go anywhere and avoid meeting friends and relatives. She died in 1980, holding only a casket with papers, including Einstein's poem for her. But this is not the great physicist Einstein, nor the Nobel Einstein prize, but her lover Einstein, who gave her an absolute affair.