First marriage
Inna met her future husband, football player of the USSR national team, Andrei Kanchelskis at school. A year later the couple got married. The wedding took place on June 22, 1991.
Almost immediately, the career of the young athlete Andrei began to gain momentum. He signed a contract with the English Manchester United. Andrei Kanchelskis has become a fairly sought after world football star. The couple moved to England. Andrey spent all his time on the football field, and Inna at home.
The Ukrainian girl began to spend her holidays at resorts. The first time, however, I visited Yalta. And on weekdays, while Andrei was playing away, Inna kept house and went shopping with the other wives of Manchester United players.
In the Russian championship
At the beginning of 2004, Kanchelskis flew to Russia, where he signed a contract with Dynamo Moscow. But he was excluded from the team’s application at the last moment. The reason was a conflict with the Czech head coach Jaroslav Grzebik.
According to one version, the reason for the suspension was Kanchelskis appearing drunk at training at a training camp in Spain.
After this failure, he signed a contract with Ramensky's Saturn. Andrey showed himself well, and his team finished in 7th place. After the end of the season, Ignatiev was replaced as coach by Tarkhanov, who was interested in extending the contract with the player. True, he transferred him to the position of full-back, but he played most of the matches in the first team. At the end of the season, the team finished 11th.
The last club in Kanchelskis’ career was Krylya Sovetov Samara. He turned out to be the oldest player in the championship at 36 years old. At the same time, he spent the season with dignity - 22 games and 1 goal. The team finished tenth, Gadzhiev was replaced by Oborin, who decided to take a course towards rejuvenating the squad.
Tragedy
At the beginning of 1992, Inna Kanchelskis lost her child. The baby died right in the womb. My parents placed a plaque in the cemetery with only their last name. They didn’t have time to come up with a name for the baby. On December 23, 1993, the young family finally had their first child. Andrey was born in Manchester. Five years later, Kanchelskis gave birth to a daughter, Eva. She was born on March 23, 1999 in Glasgow. Now Andrei is trying his hand at the football field, and Eva is at the ballet barre.
The family lived quite richly. The couple and their children spent all their vacations at resorts. In addition, the family's income made it possible to buy a large apartment in the castle of the admiral of the British fleet near London, in East Grinstead. Until 2003, Inna and Andrey lived either in England or in Italy. But at the end of the year, Andrei signed a contract with Dynamo Moscow and went to the Russian capital.
However, his career did not work out in Moscow. Two years later, Andrei Kanchelskis went to Samara to defend the honor of “Wings”. Inna refused to move and remained in the capital. From that moment on, the gradual collapse of the family began. The couple lived together for 15 years; the abrupt breakup came as a complete surprise to all friends and acquaintances.
“Nobody expected this. But it happens that a person falls in love with another. What can I do? - says Andrey.
Tragedy in a young family
In 1992, grief happened in the family of Inna and Andrey. Inna lost her child. He died in the womb. The parents buried the unborn child and wrote only the last name on the slab, since the name had not yet been invented.
They suffered this tragedy hard, both were in prolonged depression, but they gathered the strength to move on with their lives. Some time later, a child was born into the Kanchelskis family, whom they named after their father - Andrey. After 5 years, Inna gave her husband and daughter, Eva.
Both son and daughter are active and restless children. Andrey plays football, like his father, and Eva goes to ballroom dancing. The family lived in abundance and did not deny themselves anything. The good earnings of the head, Andrey, allowed them to live in different countries. They lived the longest in England, then in Italy. Then the footballer signed a contract with Dynamo, and they moved to Moscow.
Meeting with Stas Mikhailov
Andrei Kanchelskis played his last match in 2006. Inna was already together with singer Stas Mikhailov.
There were rumors that Andrei was an alcoholic and a fighter, and Inna only pushed her men to the bottle. And leaving the football player was solely for financial reasons, since Stas’s career had already begun to take off.
However, no one from the love triangle said a bad word about each other. Inna met Stas at a time when she no longer lived with Andrei, but Mikhailov was married to another woman. The king of chanson fell in love with Inna so much that he filed for divorce. However, Andrei Kanchelskis claims that his ex-wife began having an affair with Stas Mikhailov while she was still married to him.
“Their affair happened while we were still married. Inna admitted to cheating herself. I proposed to disperse peacefully, without trials. That’s why I left my apartment in Moscow and my car, and now we’re arguing about my house in London. Inna has savings and it’s not enough for her. She never worked a day during our 15-year marriage,” says Andrey.
“Inna is only interested in money, my ex-wife even filed a lawsuit to collect alimony from me, although I paid it regularly without a court decision! It’s important to me that my children are well-fed, clothed and healthy,” says Andrey.
Inna had already attended Mikhailov’s first solo concert in Moscow in 2006. They say that Stas himself came up to meet Inna after the concert in a restaurant. After this, the romance began. At one of the concerts, the artist invited his beloved onto the stage and introduced him to the public as the woman to whom all his compositions are dedicated. At that time, the artist was not as in demand as he is today; he lived in a one-room rented apartment, where he brought Inna.
They say that Inna actually manages all of Stas Mikhailov’s affairs and is his secret producer who invested money in the performer. After her divorce from Kanchelskis, she received quite a bit of compensation, so she had the opportunity to spend the money on an aspiring chansonnier. This is supposedly where the artist’s steep rise began. However, Stas Mikhailov himself denies the information that he used his wife’s money. At first he was embarrassed by the fact that Inna had more wealth, but later he himself became rich.
After her parents’ divorce, Eva began to live with her mother and Stas, and Andrei Kanchelskis Jr. stayed to study in London, but during the holidays he came to Moscow to visit Inna. By the way, both his father and Stas pay for his studies, since Inna does not work.
In August 2009, Inna gave birth to Stas’s daughter, Ivanna. It is noteworthy that the baby was born when her parents were not even married.
The wedding took place only in 2011. The event was celebrated royally. Stas Mikhailov, who in a few years made a dizzying career for himself and became the richest musician in Russia according to Forbes magazine, spent half a million euros on the celebration.
The couple celebrated their wedding in the French mansion Château d'Esclimont, which is located in the Eclimo valley near Paris, not far from the famous Versailles. Three dozen relatives and close friends were invited to the holiday, including the Gazmanov family, Taisiya Povaliy and Viktor Drobysh. The children also arrived in France: the son of Stas and Inna Gorb Nikita, the daughter of Mikhailov and Natalya Zotova Dasha, as well as Inna’s son Andrey and daughter Eva.
Inna Mikhailova practically does not communicate with journalists and quite rarely gives interviews. However, on occasion, she always talks about her husband and only good things. “I prefer to be in the shadow of my husband. In family. I feel comfortable behind Stas’s wide and strong back…” says Inna.
Andrey Kanchelskis: “Inna and I just didn’t have enough patience”
Andrey Kanchelskis // Photo: Starface.ru
The litigation dragged on for three long years, Andrei and Inna could not decide how to divide the property. The stumbling block was an old house in the southern suburbs of London, in which they once lived with their children, Andrei and Eva. And now the parties have finally signed a settlement agreement. Today, 43-year-old Kanchelskis is not easy to find in Moscow. Since the end of June, he has been working in Nizhny Novgorod, coaching the local Volga football team. He hasn't talked about personal topics lately. But for StarHit he made an exception.
The main thing is that peace has been achieved!
— Andrey, whose initiative was it to sign a settlement agreement?
From the first day we broke up, I insisted on this. But it was not possible to come to this decision. But what happened has passed, the main thing is that now everything has been resolved peacefully.
- So, as you wanted, you divided the house in London into four shares: for yourself, Inna and the children?
We agreed on a division on terms that suit both me and my ex-wife.
— Do you often meet with children?
Yes, everything is fine, we communicate. Yesterday we saw our daughter and son.
— Recently, the program “While Everyone is Home” visited Stas Mikhailov, and Inna spoke warmly about you on air and thanked you for the children.
I don't follow the media. But nevertheless, it’s nice to hear kind words.
— Andrey, you are speaking rather reservedly about everything now. And in an interview immediately after the divorce, you called Inna both a traitor and a liar...
In fact, a lot is attributed to me. Yes, he gave interviews, but he didn’t say everything that was written in the newspapers. Recently, Eva sent me an MMS - a photo of the cover of a “yellow” newspaper, where supposedly my words: I don’t want my daughter to become a prostitute and an alcoholic in London! Eve asks: “Dad, is this true?” I say: “Of course not.” Yes, they called me a couple of times and asked if I was against Eva going to study in London. I replied that it was too early for her. Apparently, they decided to make a sensation out of this.
— Why aren’t you enthusiastic about the idea of Eva studying in England?
My opinion is that we could wait, because she is only 13 years old. My daughter and I talked about this, she herself expressed a desire to go. This is important for me, I believe that parents should not put pressure on their children, impose their opinion on them. For example, my son plays rugby. Of course, I would like him to play football, but it didn’t work out.
— Do you have a trusting relationship with your children?
Unfortunately, we rarely see each other. Andrey has been studying in London for a long time and is now entering university there. But we talk on the phone. He consults with me more often than his sister. He even introduced his girlfriend to me, I approved. (Laughs.) When he arrives in Moscow, he immediately calls. Usually my son and daughter and I meet at the Evropeyskiy. We can watch a movie, go ice skating, have a snack at a restaurant, and in the summer we go to Gorky Park. I always buy gifts for children.
- You are a British citizen, you can visit your children quite often...
I would love to, but I don’t have time at all. You won’t believe it, but I haven’t rested for three or four years. Now I would gladly go to the sea for two weeks, fall on the sand and forget about everything. But it turned out that I didn’t even have time to rest, returning from Ufa (since December 2010, Andrei was the head coach of the Ufa football club. - Note from StarHit), and immediately went into battle, to training camp in Nizhny Novgorod.
I'm ready for a new relationship
— What, besides work, fills your life now? Are there any purely male weaknesses and joys?
My main weakness is shopping. I love good things and shoes. Although I haven’t gone shopping for four months. I think this passion will pass as soon as a new family appears, when they start to control me, and I myself realize that there are things more important than clothes.
— So you are now actively searching?
Rather, in a passive way. (Laughs.) Work comes first for now.
— And when are you going to change your priorities?
Of course, it’s hard to work constantly. But I think it's not time to relax yet. On the contrary, as in the film “Moscow Doesn’t Believe in Tears,” life is just beginning at 40! It looks like I’m getting my second wind. So for now I’m earning money for the future!
— What are your plans?
Build a house, plant a tree...
— Back in London?
Why not? Although I also wouldn’t refuse a house somewhere near Florence...
- Well, this time, if you decide to build a house, you’ll probably take some insurance so that you don’t have to share...
(Laughs.) No, we just need to try to prevent the situation from repeating itself. To be forever.
— Are you disappointed in women after breaking up with your wife?
Of course, immediately after the divorce it was difficult, I was worried. After all, we lived for 15 years. Although in one program the ex-wife said that we had only been together for two years. I don’t understand, maybe her year is going by seven and a half years... But that’s not the point. Yes, it was hard. Therefore, at first I was cautious with women, but now everything is getting better. I'm ready for a relationship again, I want a family, children. We will work on this.
— Have the criteria for the chosen one changed?
I made certain conclusions for myself. I believe that a woman, first of all, should have such qualities as honesty, devotion, kindness and patience. One of the reasons why everything ended this way with my ex-wife was that we just didn’t have enough patience.
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Litigation
In 2009, former spouses Inna and Andrey began to divide property acquired during marriage through the court: apartments in Moscow and England, as well as expensive cars. The Kanchelskis never fully figured out their relationship; they communicate only through lawyers. Meanwhile, the former spouses started another dispute. According to Andrey, Inna does not allow him to see his children often. The father meets with his son and daughter in fits and starts, but often calls each other. He even went to court to officially gain the right to see his children and take them with him on vacation.
