Yelena Shchapova
{{short description|Italian-Russian model, writer and poet (born 1950)}}
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| birth_name = Elena Sergeevna Kozlova
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| birth_place = Moscow, USSR
| occupation = model, writer
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| partner = Eduard Limonov
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Yelena Sergeevna Shchapova de Carli ({{langx|ru|link=no|Елена Сергеевна Щапова де Карли}}, nee Kozlova (Козлова), also known by her Italianised name Contessa Elena Sciapova de Carli, born 22 June 1950, Moscow, USSR) is an Italian-Russian model, writer and poet.
Biography
Elena Sergeevna Kozlova was born in Moscow in 1950. Besides working as a model, she wrote poetry.
Her first husband was Viktor Schapov, an artist. She was married to Eduard Limonov in 1971. She and her husband emigrated from the Soviet Union to the United States in 1974. Shortly after, she divorced Limonov and married an Italian nobleman, Count Gianfranco de Carli, also gaining Italian citizenship.
Shchapova published her first book, "It's me Yelena", in 1984, as a response to It's Me, Eddie.
Literature
Yelena Shchapova is one of the main characters in Limonov's book It's Me, Eddie. She is also a character in Carrère's novel Limonov.
External links
- [http://www.pravda.ru/economics/rules/16-02-2005/50326-elenadecarli-0/ Interview with Yelena Shchapova] on Pravda.ru
- [http://www.ntv.ru/novosti/371716 Reportage about Yelena Shchapova] in NTV
- [http://karavanistoriy.narod.ru/0203_06.pdf Interview with Yelena Shchapova]
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Category:Russian emigrants to Italy
Category:Russian female models
Category:Russian women novelists
Category:Soviet emigrants to the United States
Category:Italian people of Russian descent
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