First wife
The director was married 2 times. His first wife was Anastasia Vertinskaya. Mikhalkov was popular with women from a young age. During his student years he met Vertinskaya. Their romance developed rapidly. By that time, Anastasia was already a famous actress. She had many fans, including famous ones. But Mikhalkov managed to outshine everyone.
Nikita Mikhalkov and Anastasia Vertinskaya
Anastasia recalls that it was impossible not to fall in love with Nikita. The couple started dating, but then the young people quarreled due to Mikhalkov’s jealous nature. Nikita left for another shoot. And upon his return he began dating the ballerina Matveeva.
But after some time, the young people found themselves in the same company. Their romance flared up with renewed vigor. Soon the couple had a son, after which Anastasia and Nikita got married. However, their life together lasted no more than two years.
Despite the fact that they had a common profession, after the birth of the child there were few common points of contact. Anastasia stopped acting, devoting herself to the child. Nikita was always offended that everyone except his wife admired him. She didn't say whether she liked what her husband was doing. In relation to Mikhalkov, she was ironic and restrained.
When appearing together in public, all attention was focused on Vertinskaya. Mikhalkov was not affected by this, but a certain complex appeared. The marriage of two strong personalities was bursting at the seams. Anastasia and Nikita loved each other, but were unable to find a common language. Vertinskaya did not want to sit at home, she was interested in her career and cinema. And Mikhalkov wanted to see his wife next to him, who takes care of the children and cooks borscht. Of course, the relationship with Anastasia left a certain mark on Mikhalkov’s development.
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Nikita Sergeevich Mikhalkov is very proud of his famous family, which goes back to those close to the tsar himself. In his interviews, he strongly emphasizes the importance of family values. Despite this, the famous director and actor’s personal life has always been stormy and confusing.
Since childhood, Nikita Mikhalkov had everything, from a huge Moscow apartment to the most fashionable jeans. When your dad is a famous Soviet poet, the author of the words of the USSR anthem, you don’t have to prove anything to anyone. Therefore, young Nikita devoted all his strength to enjoying the pleasures of life.
Youth hobbies
He was lucky in the square: he was not only the scion of a famous family, but also a very handsome young man. It is clear that there was no end to the fans. Since childhood, he fell in love a lot and often, but the trouble is: it’s all the wrong ones.
Tatyana Tarasova, the daughter of a famous hockey coach, left his boyish feelings unanswered. The same story happened with Elena Shchors, the granddaughter of a Civil War hero. And with Katya Moskatova, the granddaughter of the chairman of the Central Audit Commission of the CPSU. To win sympathy, Nikita learned to skate, gave flowers and gifts, and once even hung by one hand on the edge of a high-rise building balcony. But everything is in vain.
Deciding that he should gain experience in love affairs, after graduating from school Nikita started an affair with a woman who was 25 years older than him. Like a true gentleman, Nikita Sergeevich never mentions her name in his memoirs. It only hints that this was a famous bohemian person whose favor was sought by many high-ranking officials.
There was no great love, but there was youthful vanity. “It was very poignant to look at her surrounded by fans and realize that she was actually yours!” - admitted the future director.
Nikita studied at a theater school, acted in films from the age of 14, and attended all student parties. One day, during a banquet at one of the film festivals, a beautiful girl headed towards him. He recognized her immediately - Nastya Vertinskaya! Everyone around her was crazy about her. She came up to him from behind, hugged him by the neck and either jokingly or seriously whispered in his ear: “I love you!” Loud enough for your tablemates to hear. And she disappeared. And Nikita was left wondering: what was it?
But the calculation of the insidious seductress was justified - Cupid’s arrow pierced his heart once and for all. “It was like electricity...” Nikita tried to explain his feelings to his friends.
Beautiful Assol
The romance with Anastasia Vertinskaya developed rapidly, like a volcanic eruption. The young people were representatives of intelligent families, their parents made their contribution to art. But, unlike the still undecided Nikita, Nastya at her young age after the films “Scarlet Sails” and “Amphibian Man” was already an accomplished star. Nikita couldn't believe that she paid attention to him.
He himself was head over heels in love with Nastya. He was often jealous and was the first to get into a fight because of her. Beautiful, famous, rich, they simply enjoyed each other. However, satiety soon set in, and the time for quarrels and insults began. The offended Vertinskaya left, and Nikita, with his characteristic frivolity, plunged into a new romance - with the ballerina Elena Matveeva.
One day they came together to a friend's birthday party. Andrei Mironov appeared there in an embrace with Anastasia Vertinskaya. Ironically, Nastya was seated at the table opposite Nikita. Their glances met and... “I only woke up on the staircase, kissing Nastya,” said Mikhalkov. Their romance flared up again. Nikita felt uncomfortable in front of Elena: “I am still tormented by a terrible feeling of guilt... Sometimes it seems to me that she truly loved me, but I didn’t understand it then...”
No matter how Nikita worked on himself, along with passion, unbridled jealousy returned. Therefore, when Nastya announced that she was pregnant, he rejoiced like a child. “Now he won’t jump off, he won’t get away from me!” - he thought.
According to the recollections of friends, Nastya was the prettiest pregnant woman in the world. The young people settled in the Mikhalkovs’ Moscow apartment, and then moved out of town to Nikita’s brother, Andrei Konchalovsky. Nastya became friends with his wife, the girls ran the household together.
If Nikita was never adapted to everyday life, then Nastya inherited her economic spirit from her grandmother, who raised her. Vertinskaya ran the house well and cooked deliciously. And with the birth of her son Stepan, she devoted herself entirely to motherhood, forgetting about her acting career.
When the baby was six months old, Nikita and Nastya got married and returned to Moscow again. Alas, the passion in their relationship lasted for six months. Nikita was eager to make a career; he had already starred in the film “I Walk Around Moscow” and was busy with new projects. He needed the approval and respect of his young wife. But Vertinskaya remained politely cold with him.
The whole house was supported by it; my little son did not let me get enough sleep. Sometimes, in the middle of the night, an enthusiastic Nikita, who had returned from filming, would wake her up and start telling and telling... She could only nod sleepily in response and wait for him to leave behind. This annoyed him. He mistook fatigue for indifference.
In addition, next to Nastya, he was constantly tormented by male complexes: wherever they appeared as a couple, enthusiastic fans would certainly recognize her, not him.
Resentments accumulated like a snowball. And one day Nikita heard from his wife: “You know, I don’t love you anymore...” This was not news, but it hurt my pride. And how to live now? Nikita packed his things and moved out of the apartment. For a year he lived in communal apartments, spent the night with friends, and then bought a cooperative one-room apartment. In the same house, Nastya and Styopa settled in a two-room apartment. For the sake of their son, they maintained, if not friendly, then normal relations with each other. Many years later, Anastasia Vertinskaya would publicly make peace with Mikhalkov. And in an interview she will say that in fact she was not born for marriage, and Nikita Mikhalkov, despite other high-profile novels, was the most important love of her life.
Model Tatyana
Marriage with Tatyana Solovyova was less romantic, but turned out to be more reliable
After the divorce, finalized in 1971, the loving Nikita again gave vent to his feelings: in his life one romance was replaced by another, but he did not ask anyone to marry. Once, at a premiere at the House of Cinema, he was introduced to the charming, slender blonde Tatyana Solovyova, who worked as a model for Vyacheslav Zaitsev. Mikhalkov was amazed by her beautiful eyes and elegant simplicity. He immediately began to court the beauty and invited her to a restaurant.
Tatyana was flattered and discouraged at the same time. Despite the field in which she worked, she had absolutely nothing to go on a date with! The girls from the Model House helped out: some brought a dress, some helped with shoes, some helped draw arrows and lent bright red lipstick.
The next day, seeing Tatyana, Mikhalkov gasped. Instead of yesterday's forest nymph, there stood in front of him a painted doll with a babette on her head. Without saying a word, Nikita took Tatyana by the hand and dragged her to the restaurant toilet. There, under a stream of ice water, he washed off the girl’s festive makeup and asked her to let her hair down. Only much later did Tatyana understand: it was a test, a test of character. And the girl passed it with success.
She never squeaked and obediently entered the restaurant without any makeup, with drops of water on her eyelashes. Nikita was wearing faded jeans and a simple windbreaker. Tatyana decided that he simply did not have money, and tried to order only the cheapest dishes, until Nikita, with an imperious gesture, took the menu from her and made the royal order himself. “I was immediately captivated by his confidence and authority,” Tatyana admitted. “I didn’t know then that he was considered the number one groom.”
Their romance was interrupted by a summons to the army. Someone says that Mikhalkov asked to go there voluntarily. Someone claims that the intrigues of the offended father, a big shot from the Politburo, with whose daughter Nikita had an affair and then refused to marry, are to blame for everything. One way or another, 27-year-old Mikhalkov went to serve in Kamchatka, in the Pacific Fleet.
Tatiana wrote him long letters, and he responded with philosophical quotes from the classics. And not a word about love, which upset the girl incredibly. She eventually moved and did not tell him the new address. Having been demobilized, Nikita came to her with a marriage proposal and did not find her... Then he traveled around the entire area by taxi and found out in which apartment the model girl lived. He found his bride, invited him to a restaurant and proposed to her. A few months later they got married. But not in the capital, but in Grozny, where Nikita flew to shoot his next film. A year later, Anna was born to them, a year later Artem, and 11 years later Nadezhda.
Tatyana understood that Mikhalkov simply needed a caring life partner who would reliably provide the rear. A shadow wife, not a star wife. Tatyana left her career and with the birth of her first child became a housewife. Moreover, Nikita immediately spoke out sharply against nannies and kindergartens. For him, art and cinema have always been and will be in first place, and family in second. Tatyana came to terms with this. I just couldn’t come to terms with my husband’s violent temperament and his constant infidelities.
Romances on the side
As a creative person who appreciates beauty, Nikita Mikhalkov has always been very amorous. He tried to protect his wife from unnecessary worries and hid his affairs. But this was not always possible. For example, the public became aware of his relationship with actress and director Nadezhda Repina.
But perhaps the ugliest scandal erupted because of his relationship with the young actress Alisa Priznyakova, whom Nikita Sergeevich was introduced to by his daughter Anna. You could lose your head from Alice’s charming smile!
The director's acquaintances assure that he disguised their connection as best he could, appearing at social gatherings as a threesome - he, Alice and their mutual friend, supposedly the girl's fiancé. They say that this affair lasted a year, Nikita Sergeevich even seriously thought about divorce. But after explicit photographs in the press, Tatyana found out about this. She asked Nikita to stop her bad behavior. The children took the side of the offended wife - Mikhalkov remained in the minority. He had no choice but to leave his mistress and return to the bosom of his family. Alice quickly found solace in the arms of Mikhalkov's friend, a wealthy jeweler.
According to eyewitnesses, on the set of films in which Nikita Mikhalkov takes part, various incidents periodically occur. Cuckold husbands appear who want to ruin the face of the famous director. Or even insulted fathers, whose daughters Mikhalkov allegedly seduced, shoot from a pistol. On the sidelines of show business there are rumors that one of the TV presenters gave birth to a daughter from Mikhalkov. And not so long ago, one well-known newspaper even published information that in fact Nikita Sergeevich has a non-standard orientation and goes to America to arrange personal castings for young men. But no gossip or dirt sticks to the director’s “white robes.” After all, it’s true what they say: the brighter the light, the thicker the shadow.
Elena PETROVA
FAMILY PHILOSOPHY The main woman in Nikita Mikhalkov’s life has always been his mother, poetess and translator Natalya Konchalovskaya. It was she who instilled in her sons the idea: betrayal is betrayal, and family is the only stronghold in life. Nikita Sergeevich’s film library contains documentary materials where he interviews his father and directly asks: did he cheat on his mother? And the famous Soviet writer answers honestly: he cheated! But what can you do if a creative person needs adventure for inspiration?
Second marriage
Who is Nikita Mikhalkov's second wife? After the divorce, the actor did not marry for 6 years. He still had a lot of fans, but he was in no hurry to go to the registry office. He met his future wife Tatyana when he was a famous actor and began his directorial career.
Tanya Solovyova worked as a fashion model. But she was an incredibly modest girl. The meeting with Mikhalkov took place at the House of Cinema. They were introduced to each other at the premiere of the film “Telegram” by Andron’s wife Vivienne.
Tatyana Solovyova in her youth
The very next day Nikita invited the girl to a restaurant. The couple started dating. Their relationship developed rapidly. The actor soon realized that in front of him was a woman with whom he would like to have children. He proposed to Tatyana just a few months after they met.
However, Mikhalkov was soon drafted into the army. He did not go to Kamchatka to serve. After returning, the young man went to see the girl, but it turned out that she and her family had moved to another place. Having made an effort, Mikhalkov finally found his beloved. The couple got married in 1973 in Grozny, where at that moment Nikita was filming his first film.
First wife - Anastasia Vertinskaya
In his youth, Nikita Mikhalkov, of course, had interests in several girls. But a serious feeling was in no hurry to drag the already active young man into its net.
For the first time, Nikita Mikhalkov fell in love with his classmate at the Shchukin School. At the age of 16, Anastasia Vertinskaya played Assol in Scarlet Sails and the main female role in Amphibian Man. They were watched by tens of millions of viewers. She played Ophelia in the film Hamlet.
Mikhalkov was also famous for the film “I Walk Through Moscow.” But it was not fame that attracted the young people to each other. Among Vertinskaya’s many fans there were bigger stars than Nikita Mikhalkov: Mironov, Smoktunovsky and others. However, the guy won Anastasia’s heart with unusual antics and gifts. If everyone else gave the usual flowers, then Nikita placed bottles of perfume cast from his mother under his beloved’s door. Having called the apartment, he disappeared. But Nastya knew whose tricks these were. One day she realized that the admirer was reliable, faithful and had a real masculine character. And Nikita was struck by Anastasia’s extraordinary beauty.
In 1966, the lovers played a typical Soviet wedding - in a restaurant with relatives. Soon a son was born. But after 3 years the marriage broke up. The main reason was the creative ambitions of Vertinskaya, who was not satisfied with the role of Mikhalkov’s submissive wife. She dreamed of being an actress and was ready to bring her family to the altar of creativity. Nikita had an equally strong character and clear plans for working in cinema.
Officially, Anastasia Vertinskaya never married again. The main men in her life are her father, a famous singer and actor, and her son, now a famous restaurateur. Nikita Mikhalkov’s first-born son’s name is Stepan.
Biography of Tatyana Solovyova
The girl worked as a fashion model at the House of Models on Kuznetsky Most for more than 5 years. Mikhalkov did not like the profession of his chosen one. Therefore, he introduced Tatyana to his friends as a teacher. After the wedding, he insisted that his wife leave her profession.
It is worth saying that Solovyova never dreamed of walking on the catwalk. She graduated from the Institute of Foreign Languages. The girl tried for a long time to get a job as an English teacher. But chance changed her fate. After another refusal, Tatyana read an advertisement for a set of models. The girl went straight to the Model House, where she was immediately hired.
At first, she felt awkward on the catwalk, because she didn’t know how to walk gracefully or do makeup. Its parameters did not really correspond to the standards of the models. All the girls were taller than Tatiana. And her height was only 172 cm. But she quickly got used to the podium. Over time, Tatyana became Zaitsev's favorite model. She was invited to work for an Italian agency and for Silhouette magazine in Estonia.
Models at that time were not famous, they were not paid high fees. Besides, they were always being watched. The girls' reputation had to be impeccable.
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Family life
In 1974, Tatyana had a daughter. For several more years she worked as a fashion model, although Mikhalkov really did not like it. His career was put on hold after the birth of his second child. The husband gave Tatiana an ultimatum: either family or work. Of course, the woman chose her husband and children.
The personal life of Nikita and Tatyana was not always simple and smooth. Conflicts often arose in the family. But the wise woman learned to smooth out rough edges and not contradict her husband. You can see what Tatyana looks like now in photos and videos on the Internet. The children have long grown up and found their calling. However, after many years, Tatyana still managed to return to the world of fashion.
In the nineties, Tatyana created the Russian Silhouette Foundation. The main activity of the organization is to support young designers and create a national style. What is Nikita Mikhalkov’s wife doing now? As part of the front program, she organizes shows for emerging talents. Every year, young fashion designers receive awards and support for further development. Thanks to the competition, many new names were discovered.
Photos of Mikhalkov’s wife and children can be seen on Instagram and social networks. The director's daughters act in films and play in the theater, and the son tries his hand at directing. Tatyana actively travels around the world, she has created several interesting projects about fashion on television.
