Lilya Brik

Model, Deceased Person

1891 – 1978

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Who was Lilya Brik?

Lilya Yuryevna Brik is known best as a muse of Vladimir Mayakovsky. She was an older sister of Elsa Triolet and wife of Osip Brik. Pablo Neruda called her "muse of Russian avant-garde". Her name was frequently abbreviated by her contemporaries as "Л.Ю." or "Л.Ю.Б." which are the first letters of a Russian word «любовь» — love.

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Born
Nov 11, 1891
Moscow
Also known as
  • Lilya Kagan
  • Lilya Urievna Kagan
  • Lilya Yuryevna Brik
  • Лиля Юрьевна Брик
Siblings
Spouses
Ethnicity
  • Jewish people
Profession
Died
Aug 4, 1978
Peredelkino

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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