“Children are glue. My wife and I do not need him”: the personal life of Boris Akunin

Boris Akunin (real name Grigory Shalvovich Chkhartishvili) – a writer, literary critic and historian, whose words are listened to all over the world. His books are a bible to many, and the interviews are categorized into quotes.

Akunin married twice. Boris only lived with his first Japanese wife for a few years and broke up, according to rumors, because of too different mentalities. And then he met the woman of his life – Erika Ernestovna.

It was an absolute success. Erica is a literary editor, proofreader and translator, so creating books has become their common cause. Akunin’s wife resumed relations with agents, publishers and the media. She is also her husband’s main adviser: if Erika doesn’t like such and such a piece, Boris will certainly sit down to finalize it.

The couple have been happy for many years. Spouses do not have children – it was their conscious decision. “A truly happy married couple has no need of children at all, for husband and wife are quite self-sufficient to each other. A man and a woman are like two uneven surfaces, each with bumps and bumps.

If the surfaces do not fit together tightly, glue is needed, without it the structure, that is, the family, cannot be saved. Here, children are the same glue. If the surfaces match perfectly, a tubercle in a hollow, the glue is useless,” Akunin said.

Many, of course, view this statement with hostility – they say, Boris opposes procreation. However, the sentence is much deeper. With this statement, the writer meant that attempts to reattach a collapsing relationship by a child are, as a rule, doomed to failure. And the stories of many couples confirm this (although of course there are exceptions to every rule).

The common idea of ​​Boris and Erica are books, thoughts and trends that they bring to the masses. For 8 years, the couple has lived in Europe – France, Italy, England. This was their protest: in 2014, in disagreement with Russia’s policy, they left the country.

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