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. She worked as a model and 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 Carlo, 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.
