On September 7, 1894, Gala Dali, a wife and a Musa of artist Salvador Dalí, was born in Kazan, #Russia. Her real name was Elena Dyakonova. Gala and Dali fell in love with each other at first sight. However, they got married only 29 years after they met: all this time, Gala was officially married to Paul Eluard, a #French poet, and went down the aisle a second time, only when she got widowed. “Dali and Gala are not husband and wife. And certainly not an artist and his muse.