The third version
The third version is that the death of the great dancer was planed before head. This theory advances Valentina Pashinina in her book "The unknown Esenin". In this work she suppose that Isadora Duncan was killed by soviet agents. But why and for what?
The years that was spent in Soviet Russia showed truth about the socialism regime and the environment around country. Semi hunger, lots of homeless children, worker families without homes, insanitary in hotels,thievery,lawlessness in service, trains which arrived and set off not by timetable and other things. But the most she didn't like is how the government lead their life. Well dressed, living in good apartments and houses (some of them with servants),singing foreign songs, having what to eat, at the time when people die from starvation, some of them lost their homes - such things couldn't disturb Isadora. She called them for that “the new bourgeoisie”. Later, in her European tourney, she would tell that she haven’t mat a real Bolshevik in Soviet Russia, only outside. Who knows, maybe this effected on poor situation of school?
Also, the soviet government almost didn’t help celebrated dancer with a dance school. A year after the foundation of Moscow school they stop to help and didn’t send a money on its maintaining. . In vain she asked the government to help her. But they ignored her. Isadora only wanted warm room in winter and some food for her pupils, good electric, water, salary for teachers and some cloth for costumes. She was prohibited to dance “Slavic march” because of the royal anthem, which was in this march. Also, the dancer knew about shooting of royal family in a basement of the house in Yekaterinburg and about this was not desirable for people to know. If she told all this, then already fragile reputation of country was severely damaged. And that she would possible begin anti-bolshevik propaganda. And that’s why they didn’t want Isadora to write about her Russia days in autobiography.
Secondly, her relationship with Esenin could be another cause of her murder. It is known, that lots of those who knew closely poet or somehow was attached to him, was eliminated or died by mysterious circumstances.
Thirdly,
Isadora’s ideas of free body and mind didn’t suit with the politics of
communist party, where interests and view of citizens were subordinated to the state
or to the leader.
Who
was the killer of Isadora?
Pashinina
states that it was ex-white guard officer Peter Morgani and his companion
Vanjusha.
That
at that day when Isadora was going to seat in the car, she offered her friend
her coat and the driver his jacket. But she refused. Her body was covered by woolen
shawl, which Duncan
usually wore. Ivan, who followed her to the car, threw shawl on her shoulders,
not listening her protests.
After
that the car moved only on ten yards. Such thing couldn’t be called driving and
at such speed the scarf couldn’t flew up to the air. The author suggests that
Isadora’s scarf were geared for the spokes of a wheel machine, only in such
case asphyxiation would happen.
The
second thing on which writer emphasis is that there wasn’t any wild crowed,
which saw her death and tore the shawl on pieces and witnesses who saw the death . At 9:30
pm in the autumn not much people you would see.
The
third evidence is the difference in evidences. Mostly, there were two main
witnesses of car accident, Mary Desti and Peter Morgani. It was Morgani, who
wrote about wild crowd. As well,
he describe Duncan as “ sad woman with red eyes “, unlike
Desti, who showed a dancer as cheerful and carefree person. In his writing “ The last letter of Isadora
Duncan” he indented postponed his
meeting with Isadora on September, to put away the suspicion from him.
Here how he describes his month with Isadora. Having
heard about lonely famous dancer, who lives in red villa, they decided to meet
with her. His friend Vanjusha was already in love with Isadora Duncan, although
he never saw her before. After their meeting Isadora fell in love with young
men too. Two weeks his love lasted for her, and then he moved away to Belgium. More 20 days later the tragedy
happen. But, the accident was on 14th September!
Month
later Vanjusha died in the car crash.
Who
was Peter Morgani, not much known. It could be possible that he was Isadora’s Russian
secretary in need who agreed to help her to write a memoir. In the letter to
Irma she wrote that she finely found well up secretary. Interesting thing, the
first pages of her days in Russia
for the second book of biography was lost right after the death.
Here
is the version of Valentina Pashinina.
P.S. Not long
time ago I saw BBC documentary about the causes of death of Marilyn Monroe.
I think the Isadora
Duncan death could be a good material for their next documentary.
The end.
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