The father of the future actor was a strict and capricious man. It is known that in Nizhny Tagil, where the family lived, he held a high position. As they say, he was not the last person. Mom spent her whole life doing housework and raising her son, but she had a good education and adored art and culture.
For example, it was she who instilled in her son a love for the theater.
When Anatoly Alexandrovich was a teenager, dad left for a promotion, for which the whole family went to Bryansk. There, young Vasiliev quickly joined the new school team and became the star of the local drama club. The kind and artistic boy was called the life of the party and was adored by both his peers and his teachers.
Moscow Art Theater
By high school, Tolik became so interested in theater that he decided to enroll in theater school. The teachers and mother supported me, but my father was shocked by this choice. As a result, Vasiliev, under pressure, entered the mechanical engineering college, studied there for two years and, without finishing, fled to Moscow. He returned home only with a document stating that he had entered the Moscow Art Theater School.
Mom was happy, but father was horrified. He dreamed that his son would become an engineer, and then, having a good education and work experience, he would follow in his footsteps. However, now the mother has won back her son and his desires. She knew from Tolin’s childhood that the child had real acting talent.
Brief biography of Georgy Martirosyan
The future actor grew up in a family far from cinema, and only became interested in theater in high school, when he enrolled in a school drama club. The passion turned out to be so strong that, without finishing high school, Martirosyan became a student at the Rostov Theater Institute, whose teachers made an exception for the talented young man and accepted him even without a matriculation certificate.
Georgy served in the army in the ensemble of the North Caucasus District as an entertainer, and after service he worked for some time at the Rostov Academic Drama Theater. Later, Martirosyan became an actor at the Rostov Youth Theater, where he quickly became a key artist.
After moving to Moscow, Georgy Khachaturovich managed to get a job at Lenkom, and then, without waiting for worthy roles, he moved to the Moscow Satire Theater. Later Martirosyan was an actor at the Theater. Mayakovsky and theater.
His film debut was a small role in the film “Ivanov’s Boat,” played in 1973, after which directors began to actively invite Georgy Martirosyan to their projects.
Tanya
Exciting theater studies began, magical, glowing Moscow, the most charming first love. The lively and cheerful Tanya studied in the same course as Anatoly Alexandrovich. The lively, interesting and even somewhat extravagant girl quickly drove the quiet Tolik crazy.
Before he knew it, he proposed to the blonde.
The viewer knows Tatyana only under her husband's last name - Tatyana Vasilyeva. The same one - charming and attractive, who knows for sure that men turn around in her wake.
However, Tatyana herself will say in a later interview that she considered herself “big and awkward” with a bunch of complexes and fears. She had to become a “lighter” and an expressive person so that the tall, charming, handsome Vasiliev would pay attention to her.
Repeated fate
They were happy together for 13 long years. In 1978, a year before the filming of “The Crew,” a film that would glorify Anatoly Alexandrovich, the couple had a son, Philip. The artist was happy and could not think that five years later in the circle of his loved ones they would start saying that Vasiliev repeated the fate of his Valentin: his wife fell in love with another.
Another tall and charming actor, Georgy Martirosyan, stood in the way of the then already established actress who finally fell in love with herself.
The affair “on the side” was short-lived. Martirosyan quickly offered to live together. She took four-year-old Philip and said directly to Vasiliev’s face that she was leaving for someone else. For the first time in his life, Anatoly Alexandrovich raised his hand to a woman.
In an interview, much later, Tatyana Vasilyeva admits that the blow was justified and deserved. She considers her husband’s reaction to be normal and shows that at that moment he still loved her.
Second wife of Georgy Martirosyan
Martirosyan married for the second time in 1983, and his wife was also an actress. He met Tatyana Vasilyeva at the Satire Theater, where they played in the same play - “The Wood Grouse's Nest.” At first, the feeling that flared up between the stage partners had to be hidden - Tatyana was married to actor Anatoly Vasilyev, and Georgy himself was still a married man.
In the photo - Georgy Martirosyan and Ekaterina Vasilyeva
As soon as they became free from previous family ties, Martirosyan immediately proposed to his new chosen one. Three years later, a daughter, Elizaveta, was born into the family of Georgy Khachaturovich and Tatyana Grigorievna. In addition to his daughter, Martirosyan also raised Vasilyeva’s son from his first marriage, Philip, with whom he developed a good relationship.
The acting couple tried not to advertise their personal life, so when twelve years later it became known about their divorce, it came as a big surprise to many. After the divorce, Martirosyan and Vasilyeva remained in normal relations, and each went their own way - Tatyana began an affair with the artist Nikas Safronov, unlike Martirosyan, who concluded that he was an inveterate bachelor who was destined to remain lonely.
In the photo - the actor in the company of his new lady
However, recently Georgy Khachaturovich began to be noticed in the company of a charming young girl who is thirty years younger than him.
Philip
However, then the actress, heated by a quarrel, divorced Vasiliev on the same day, and immediately signed with Martirosyan. Now it’s as if out of spite. She will say that there was nothing in the second husband that would have won him over the first and will call that relationship not love, but obsession. Soon after the birth of their common daughter, they will divorce.
As for Vasiliev, he will sincerely hate his wife for a long time and will not help his son.
In the interview, the actor will talk about his bitter regrets that Philip’s growing up passed him by. When the son grew up, they began to communicate again. Philip's girlfriend helped them reunite, who understood that her beloved missed his father and did everything possible to reconcile them. Now Anatoly Alexandrovich is happy to take part in the growing up of his grandchildren.
Family with Tatyana Vasilyeva
After a divorce from his first wife, the actor again established his personal life. With his future wife, Tatyana Vasilyeva, he worked together at the Satire Theater. Playing husband and wife in the same play, they soon felt a strong attraction to each other. But in those days, the actress was married, so the lovers had to hide their romance. Only three years later she left her husband, after which the actors got married. They registered their marriage by chance when they went on vacation to Pitsunda. Then they didn’t want to put them in the same room, so they had to go to the mountains and sign with the village council. In 1986, the couple became parents: their daughter Elizabeth was born.
actor with his second wife Tatyana Vasilyeva
Georgy Khachaturovich helped his wife not only with housework, but also assisted in building a career. While the parents were busy with their creative projects, the little daughter lived with her grandmother in Rostov for some time. When Lisa went to school, the actor took it upon himself to take her to school. Despite the fact that there were rarely quarrels in the family, after twenty years the couple still separated. According to Martirosyan, he never understood why this divorce happened, since he always valued family relationships. The artist himself does not agree with the accusations of his ex-wife, who reproached him for infidelity. He is sure that the main reason for the dissolution of their marriage was ordinary jealousy on Vasilyeva’s part. After the divorce, the former spouses maintained friendly relations, and they sometimes had to play together on stage and meet on the set.
Spouses on stage
It is interesting that Vasiliev cannot forgive his first wife and prefers not to remember that divorce. He is hurt not only by his wife’s betrayal, but also by the fact that Tatyana Vasilyeva has been pitting her son against him for a long time. However, in 2011, the actors got on the same stage to play - who did you think? Spouses who are divorced and share a son! They say that Vasiliev accepted this offer only because he was in dire need of money and projects. Then the artist just suffered a heart attack and remained out of work for a long time, which means without money.
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Despite the fact that thirty-six years have passed since the divorce from his first wife, Anatoly Alexandrovich does not like to remember his first marriage, and since then he has never been with Tatyana Vasilyeva communicated, except for their joint participation in the play eight years ago.
In the photo: Anatoly Vasiliev and Tatyana Vasilyeva in the play “Prank”
The actor agreed to this only for the sake of money - after suffering a heart attack, he then had almost no work, and he decided to accept Vasilyeva’s invitation.
Nine years after the divorce, no major changes occurred in Anatoly Vasilyev’s personal life, and then he married a second time - his chosen one was a girl named Vera, who worked on television.
Family of Anatoly Vasiliev
Later, Anatoly Vasilyev’s wife became the editor-in-chief of the Culture channel.
Anatoly Vasiliev with his wife
The second wife gave birth to the actor’s daughter, Varvara. The eldest of Anatoly Vasilyev’s children, son Philip, like his father, had to go through a divorce, but his first wife and children remained close people to Anatoly Alexandrovich. In his second marriage, Philip had a daughter, the granddaughter of Anatoly Vasilyev.
In the photo: Anatoly Vasiliev with his daughter Varvara
Matchmakers
But the project after which Vasilyev was remembered and loved was the Ukrainian series “Matchmakers.” Anatoly Aleksandrovich played the role of “Zaya” - an intelligent, good-natured man, professor of philosophy and one of Yuri Anatolyevich Kovalev’s matchmakers. In three seasons, he played one of the main roles and was a real favorite until he came into conflict, first with the performer of the other main role - Fyodor Dobronravov, and then with the producers of the series.
The artist believes that the first season was the most thorough.
There was depth, elaboration of details, eternal meanings. But in the second season, the series changed its director, introduced more hilarious lines into the comedy and made it lighter.
The third season has already been filmed according to the sitcom principle. One of the main producers of “Matchmakers,” Vladimir Zelensky, openly said that he wanted a script based on the replica-laughter principle, while Vasiliev wanted a more complete and ponderous film. He wanted to leave the series as a tragicomedy not only about the joys, but also about the sorrows of family relationships.
