Yelena Shchapova
Yelena Sergeevna Shchapova de Carli 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.