Krasko’s young wife: “Ivan Ivanovich’s children from his ex-wife are too many in our lives!”

Ivan Krasko

Let's start by seniority. Actor Krasko Ivan was born in 1930. He was born in the village of Vartemyagi near Leningrad.

At first I decided to choose a career as a military man. To do this, he entered the Higher Naval School of the Baltic Fleet. By the way, he graduated with honors. He became the commander of a landing ship on a river flotilla.

However, he realized in time that a military career was not for him. Successfully took advantage of massive layoffs in the navy. Returned to civilian service with the rank of lieutenant commander. He entered the correspondence department of Leningrad State University, the Faculty of Philology.

Only at the age of 31 did he receive his acting education at the Ostrovsky Theater Institute. He successfully played on the stage of the drama theater under the artistic director Tovstonogov.

Soon after this he moved to the Komissarzhevskaya Theater. It is with him that most people associate Krasko the actor. Here he spent half a century of his creative career.

His most notable works were the main roles in the plays “Profitable Place”, “Conversations with Socrates”, “Quench My Sorrows”.

Ivan Krasko: “Bewitching girls is also an art”

Help "MK". For Honored Artist of the Russian Federation Ivan Krasko, marriage to Natalya Shevel is the fourth. They met at the Institute of Humanitarian Education in St. Petersburg, where Natalya studies. At the wedding, which took place in September at the Krasnoarmeysky registry office, Krasko came in the uniform of a sailor - at one time he graduated from the naval school and commanded a landing ship of the Danube River Flotilla.

Krasko had five children. The son from his second marriage, actor Andrei Krasko, died in 2006 from heart failure.

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— Ivan Ivanovich, how do you charm women? Maybe you can share a secret for our readers?

- Seducing girls is also an art. But of course! Sometimes I can do it with just one glance. I never hid my fascination with women and never wanted to deceive anyone.

I can come up and say: “Daughter, you are so sweet, why didn’t you and I get married earlier?” In the theater I said this to two actresses. But they are also the most talented! Which is very important to me. And if they’re just cute, that’s not enough for me. If things with the intellect are unimportant and the purpose of life is not serious, then there is no real beauty.

- Now you are married, and you can no longer use these skills...

- Our marriage was called scandalous. Unusual, perhaps, you can call it. But what does scandal have to do with it?! They accuse that Natasha selfishly married Ivan Krasko. Oh my God! It's simple: she and I are so similar! We have the same characters! Both are fighting cocks. We are similar in our constant desire to find the truth in any matter. We search, and more often than not she turns out to be right, and I really like it.

- What else do you have in common?

“I’m also an orphan, like her, and that’s why we understand each other.” My mother died when I was ten and a half months old. I was raised by Grandma Polya. I loved her very much, but I still missed my mother.

And Natasha’s mother, having given birth to her, jumped out the window and ran away from the maternity hospital. They met only on the set of the program. She started saying that she wanted to find her daughter and tried to claim a relationship. But the conversation did not work out. Natasha tried to find her earlier. But I didn’t start talking here. She is very shrill. She told her mother that she didn’t hold a grudge against her, but she couldn’t accept it.

— Did you support her?

- In everything. I understand her, my life wasn’t easy either, but I didn’t have the contemptuous attitude that Natasha endured as a child. She was bullied by both schoolchildren and teachers because she lived in very squalid conditions. The children teased her about her ragged appearance. And I call Natasha “the little sparrow of Sevastopol.”

- Does it happen that you quarrel?

“I provoke her from time to time.” We are still undergoing mutual verification. I deliberately say something rather harsh to her and look at the reaction. But she has already learned to figure me out. Natasha often amazes me. I look at her and it seems to me that we are the same age. She understands life so deeply! I've been through so much.

- Do you tell each other everything?

“She’s incredibly frank with me.” She told me about all her connections: both about civil marriages and about marriage. She told me to be honest with me and so that I could understand her better. And I understood her. I asked: “Why did you leave this one, and why did that one leave you?” She doesn't say "scum" about anyone. She answered that she was simply not interested in this, and he deceived her. He simply spared money for her, although the man was wealthy. Suddenly he stopped considering her his own. And everything is clear. When you're honest, everything is clear.

I told her myself: “I took you under my wing, do you understand that?” She says: “Of course! This has never happened before.” But due to his youth, a man cannot take him under his wing, and I already understand a lot.

photo: Natalya Chernykh

I said: “Let’s not rush, let’s figure each other out.” We gradually developed a rapprochement, not even sexual, but primarily spiritual. We began to realize that we miss each other when the other is not around. And it began: “Why don’t you answer me?” It’s like Mayakovsky in “A Cloud in Pants,” when he runs, worries, and searches. We realized: we are drawn to each other, we no longer feel comfortable being apart. This means that a connection is necessary... And only then, when they told us: “Marriage? Are you crazy?!”, I answered: “How could it be otherwise?” I say to Natasha: “Will you give birth to a daughter?” I definitely need to see a woman who becomes a mother. After all, for a woman this is the highest purpose.

— Have your younger sons already chosen an occupation for themselves in life?

- Natalya Nikolaevna (previous wife, she is 47 years younger than Krasko - Ed.), mother of my Vanya and Fedya, a wise woman. She herself is engaged in creativity and draws children there. And I condone them in this. Fedya is studying at a music school, and the cello is becoming more and more familiar to him. And Vanya has ballroom dancing and is already participating in competitions with all her might. But it can be difficult to get them out of the Internet, tablets, and shooters. I say it's better to solve crossword puzzles.

Igor Gorbachev, one of my teachers, when he saw that I was sitting during a break with a crossword puzzle, said: “That’s right, Vanya, sharpen your brain.” I think this is one of the reasons for my longevity.

— Did you also bring your son Andrei into the acting profession?

- No, he did everything himself. That's how I taught him. Now I tell Natasha, my young wife: “Don’t rely on my protection. There will be no point. You'll immediately start to star and burst like a bubble. Work every day." She understands everything. Silently he will come and hug me.

— Did Andrey have to convince you for a long time that he was an actor?

- Sometimes they even try to pick on me, saying that you didn’t believe in Andryushin’s acting. No, I’m just conveying greetings from Grandma Polya to the next generations - I’m a little strict in the sense of assessing the talents of my children. And at first I accepted Andrei’s first works very strictly. Some admired him from the very beginning.

Only in “Checkpoint”, “72 Meters” did he completely convince me that the guy had grown up and become a real master. And he also turned out to be a real man, a man. Ten years of timelessness, there was no work in cinema - but he did not disappear, did not become embittered. He cast cement graves, was a driver, and sewed jeans, jackets, and bags. He didn’t become embittered, but accumulated what the actor needed. Life observations.

— As a father and son, did you have any favorite activities together?

— Andryukha and I loved to just talk. Of course, we didn’t meet much – life, business, worries. We have always loved the bathhouse in the village. There, in nature, communication takes place in a kind of primordial way.

— Did you share everything with each other?

- Real men never talk about their love stories. Therefore, neither I interfered in his affairs, nor he, ever. And when you start to savor this, there is something mean in relation to a woman, something treacherous. If a man blurts out everything to himself, he immediately disappears as a person for me. Just like a drunk man. It's like losing face.

— How to maintain good relationships with close women even after a breakup?

“You must have the courage to admit that not only the other person is to blame, but also you.” Look for the good in a person. Everyone has both rubbish and good. You need to be able to see this and focus on kindness.

In youth, physiological attraction is very strong. Then human relationships are added. When Natalya Nikolaevna, my former wife, and I had the issue of divorce, I said: “Natalyinka, you are a free person. I taught you this myself, and you are free to do as you please. But Vanya and Fedya are our children. They only have us as mom and dad.” The sons immediately perked up: “How is it that mom and dad are breaking up?” I said: “Guys, mom and I will figure it out ourselves, but we are your mom and dad. We will not leave you without our attention, you are under our wing.” This is just normal, natural, fair.

photo: Natalya Chernykh

If one does not respect the other, does not consider himself equal, this is one of the reasons for the collapse of a marriage. It happens that a man tries to suppress his woman because he is either a parasite or believes that he is more important. And why? On what basis? What if we try honestly? Understand that in a relationship everyone is equally valuable and important. Although there are men who deliberately become henpecked. Like Mstislav Rostropovich. Slava pretended that he absolutely agreed with his wife, Galina Vishnevskaya, on everything: “That’s it, Galka. Just don’t touch me.” But they truly loved each other. And that was the most valuable thing.

— Aren’t you afraid that Natasha will remain in your shadow?

- She cannot be outshone. The character is such that be healthy! And I like this roughness of her. She is a talented person and writes poetry. She wants to be an actress too. I say: “You are already an actress!” They have a new theater going on there at her former acting course. But they are overly interested in Western drama. Supposedly it’s more modern, more frank, more honest. We often argue about this topic. I believe that Chekhov and Pushkin have not yet been truly played.

— You often refuse roles. Why?

“When I was offered the role of a scoundrel who plays poker for people, the phrase suddenly came out of me: “I don’t want to give him my face.” I don’t want to give my face to scoundrels and murderers - this affects my health. I played Skull in “Gangster Petersburg” - I had a heart attack, then the role of a murderous official in the film “Corruption” - again a serious heart attack. And after that I suddenly thought: “Vanya, why the hell do you need these roles of killers? How can you give yourself up to something like this?” And Natasha understands and supports me in this.

- You understand each other, but not everyone has found understanding...

— Natasha, unexpectedly for me, answered this very simply: “People are driven into certain limits. They constantly cut their wings with borders and barriers.” She hates it! She is a free bird! I tell her: “So what? Will you like some guy and run away from me?” She replies: “Why do I need it? I'm interested not with him, but with you. You conquered me with your attitude towards freedom and creativity.”

— What is the most important thing in life for you?

- Harmony, measure. When Socrates was asked what he would wish for young people, his answer was: “Nothing beyond measure.” Therefore, when I talk with Natasha, I say that boundaries are just a sign that you need to know your limits. Set limits for yourself. And feel - are you living righteously? And then you will not have stress. Stress comes from the consciousness of sin. No need to get carried away. I learned to tell myself in time: “I’ll stop here.” I always remember that you have to live, and not just try to grab. Pushkin wrote a fairy tale about a fisherman and a fish. This is about all of us. But these are just words. I tell Natalya: the main thing is not words, but deeds. And she is becoming more and more convinced that my actions are for her benefit...

Natalya Krasko: “The main thing in life is self-development”

— Natalya, what role do you dream of for yourself?

— I want to play a complex character, ambiguous. So that he will definitely change in the end, become better.

— So you’ll still play the villain?

— Even if my hero is a negative person, he must evoke sympathy. Even in fairy tales there is obligatory empathy for a negative character. We remember children’s Christmas trees, there is always a moment of forgiveness: “Children, will we forgive Baba Yaga?”, and everyone shouts: “Yes!” Now, Ivan Ivanovich says, a good story might turn out to be about how, somewhere in the outback, a Russian woman took pity on a worthless man and corrected him with her love by marrying him. But I don't agree with him.

- Why?

- Because you can’t change someone else. Ivan says to me: “You have revived life and creativity in me.” I answer that everything is in our own heads, and if you yourself are not ready, then nothing will come of it. If Ivan Ivanovich himself had not been so loving, sincere and open, then nothing would have worked out for us.

— What is the most important thing in life for you?

— Self-development and self-education. You need to understand to yourself how far you are from the ideal. And only then, if you want to move on and grow above yourself, you need to act. Once I came to repentance and said that I wanted to start a new life tomorrow, and the priest answered me: “It won’t work that way. And it may not work out either tomorrow or in a week.” Because changing yourself is a long and difficult process. The desire to start a new life is a giant leap, an incentive, and then action is needed.

Film debut

On the big screen, actor Krasko Sr. first appeared in Vladimir Vengerov’s military drama “Baltic Sky.” He played a cameo role as a pilot. For a very long time he was given only episodic roles in films.

His first serious role was work in Herbert Rappaport’s television melodramatic detective story “Police Sergeant,” which was released on Soviet screens in 1974. Actor Krasko played Major Grigoriev, an experienced operative who helps a young novice employee (Nikolai Zakharov) catch a gang of robbers.

In total, Ivan Krasko played in almost a hundred films. The actor appeared in the historical adventure film by Stanislav Rostotsky and Nikita Khubov “Squadron of Flying Hussars”, the adventure film by Nikolai Kovalsky “Makar the Pathfinder”, the mystical drama by Oleg Teptsov “Mister Decorator”, as well as in the TV series “Streets of Broken Lanterns”, “Agent of the National security", "Deadly force", "Turkish March", "Sea Devils".

Novels and “romances” from Krasko’s personal life

At the age of 21, the future artist marries a girl, Ekaterina, with whom he has his first child, daughter Galina. After 4 years of marriage, the marriage broke up.

Ivan did not stay alone for long; a year after the first divorce, Kira Petrova became his wife , who bore him a daughter, Julia, and a son, Andrei (he died on the set of one of the films from cardiac arrest). Kira Petrov's wife died in 1997, leaving the already famous artist a widower.

Krasko was married to costume designer Natalia Vyal for ten years (2001-2011). During this period, Ivan’s youngest children were born - sons Fyodor and Ivan.

All three of the above marriages were unsuccessful and broke up. Today Ivan Krasko is in an official relationship with his 60 years younger, Natalia Shevel . This marriage caused a storm of discussion and gossip among the artist’s colleagues and many journalists, but despite everything, neither Ivan himself nor his young wife are together at all events and rehearsals, holding each other’s hands.

Personal life

In 1994, Krasko received the well-deserved title of People's Artist of Russia. It is noteworthy that his personal life is very eventful. He is currently married for the fourth time.

His first chosen one was Ekaterina Ivanova, whom he married at the age of 21, when he was still building a military career. They lived together for four years. They had a daughter, Galina. In 1955 they separated.

A year after the breakup, Ivan marries Kira Petrova. A year later they have a son, also an actor. Father is proud and happy. In addition, nine years later the couple had a daughter, Julia, who now bears the double surname Svekrovska-Krasko. The marriage with Kira turned out to be the strongest and longest in the life of the hero of our article. But eventually they also break up. After living together for 41 years, they are getting divorced.

Natalya Vyal becomes the third wife of the People's Artist of Russia. They spent 10 years in marriage. During this time, they gave birth to two sons - Fyodor and Ivan. But this union also cracked in 2011.

In 2015, 85-year-old Krasko Sr. will marry for the fourth time, and to his student Natalya Shevel, who is only 25 years old.

The hero of the day Krasko was asked from the theater

Ivan Ivanovich gave himself a new apartment for his 80th birthday

On the eve of the holiday, rumors began to circulate around the Komissarzhevskaya Theater, where Ivan KRASKO has been serving for 45 years, that the actor was called to the carpet by his superiors and asked to seriously think about retirement. Like, 80 years is a respectable age, it’s time to retire. But the hero of the day flatly refused to leave: he says he still needs to raise his two youngest sons, who are 6 and 8 years old, and take care of their grandchildren. In addition, the other day Uncle Vanya, as many lovingly call Krasko Sr., moved into a new apartment in the center of St. Petersburg, which now needs to be furnished.

At first Ivan Ivanovich

announced that he would celebrate the anniversary within the walls of his native theater. But then he unexpectedly changed his mind and invited guests to the restaurant of the St. Petersburg House of Actors, on Nevsky Prospekt. Apparently, the talk about Krasko being asked to leave the theater is not an empty phrase.

When, a few days before the holiday, the hero of the day was asked about gifts, he directly said that he would gladly accept the money. Almost all the guests brought plump envelopes.

One of the most significant gifts was presented by Sergei Selin
, who appeared at the very height of the celebration. Ivan Ivanovich put envelopes with valuable papers in the inner pocket of his jacket, causing it to quickly swell, and one side became longer than the other.

Not only Uncle Vanya’s colleagues, students, co-workers, but also all his relatives gathered for the holiday. Even daughter Yulia and grandson Ian (eldest son of the late Andrei Krasko

) arrived from Warsaw. The host of the evening was the wife of the birthday boy, Natalya, who, although 47 years younger than him, said more than once that she did not feel the age difference with her beloved husband.

“Natasha and I also have a wedding anniversary this year,” Ivan Ivanovich noted, tenderly hugging his wife. – These ten years have flown by in a flash. With Natulya I am infinitely happy, which means I am young in soul and heart.

Calls mother-in-law mom

No less valuable guests were Ivan Ivanovich’s mother-in-law, Galina Dmitrievna, and her sister Lyudmila. The hero of the occasion gets along well with both ladies, despite the fact that he is much older than them. Krasko likes to tell how, at the moment of their first acquaintance, his future mother-in-law looked at him in bewilderment.

“Do you mind if I call you mom?” — the actor asked.

Galina Dmitrievna did not object...

It would seem that the 80 years that Ivan Ivanovich exchanged is a respectable age. But people older than him came to congratulate Krasko. For example, the famous actress Tatyana Lvovna Piletskaya,
whose godfather was the legendary artist
Petrov-Vodkin.
He even painted her childhood portrait, which is now worth a lot of money.

Just like Ivan Ivanovich, his old friend Piletskaya is not at all planning to retire. She is full of strength and energy and continues to work. For example, I recently starred in the TV series “Palm Sunday.”

The multifaceted and vibrant life of Ivan Ivanovich was easy to track by those invited to the celebration. Not only colleagues from the screen and stage, but also friends from the navy gathered for the banquet. After all, Krasko did not immediately become an artist. After school, he graduated from the Higher Naval School and was appointed commander of the landing ship of the Danube River Flotilla.

It’s a pity that only one and a half hundred of the master’s relatives and friends could fit into the restaurant hall of the Actor’s House.
In fact, there are thousands of times more people who admire his talent. “I understand that we can’t do without a guest list,” Ivan Ivanovich threw up his hands on the eve of the celebration. - Someone will have to be offended. However, it’s my custom: whoever wants it, comes...

"Express Gazeta" joins all the congratulations pronounced this evening and wishes the hero of the day good health and long life!

BY THE WAY

According to family legend, the family's surname used to be Kraska. Ivan Ivanovich’s grandfather, a Belarusian, suffered greatly that people, having learned how to call him, immediately began to mock him. They say what kind of paint it is - ocher or red lead. As a result, the man went to the county office and asked to make changes to the metrics. But the official there balked: they say, this is a jurisdictional matter. The only thing he agreed to was to clean up the tail of the surname with a razor so that instead of the letter “a” it became “o”. So the family became Krasko.

Actor Andrei Krasko

Ivan Krasko’s son from his second marriage, Andrei, followed in the footsteps of his father, also becoming a famous artist. Andrey was born in Leningrad in 1957. I was often sick as a child. Because of this, his mother, who worked as a school teacher, was forced to leave school and get a job as a kindergarten teacher.

For the first time, Andrei appeared on stage in tandem with his father. At the New Year's party he was a bunny, and dad was Santa Claus. As a child, the hero of the second part of our article struggled with the choice of who to become. At different times he dreamed of becoming a fireman, a miner and an astronaut. But in the end he decided to become an actor, like his father.

He began his career at the youth theater in Leningrad. A few years later he tried to enter the theater institute, but failed the exams. Simply poorly prepared.

Because of this, Andrei Krasko worked for a year as a set assembler at the Komissarzhevskaya Theater, where his father also worked. Only in 1974 did he enter the Leningrad Theater Institute. He ended up in the creative workshop of theater director Arkady Katsman and People's Artist of Russia Lev Dodin.

After graduating from university, I ended up in a placement, very popular in Soviet times, in the theater for young spectators in Siberia, in Tomsk.

From deck to stage

Vanya graduated from school and wanted to enter the theater institute. But in the post-war period, in the village consciousness, being a performer would mean becoming a laughing stock in the eyes of fellow villagers. And so Krasko realizes his second childhood dream - he becomes a cadet at the naval school. True, at the same time, he continues to engage in acting, but as an amateur in the seafaring art circle. After graduation, the young lieutenant is sent to serve in the Danube Fleet, where within two years he becomes the captain of a landing ship.

At this time, the country's leadership decides to reduce the army and navy in favor of developing nuclear weapons. Ivan Krasko by that time was already beginning to be burdened by the service, and happily went under layoff. Returning to Leningrad, he first wants to enter the theater institute, but he never decided to apply. “I saw the applicants - beautiful, young, with a loose tongue - I felt like an alien,” he later recalled. Instead, the future actor enters the evening department of the philological department of Leningrad State University.

In parallel with his studies, he goes to a theater studio, where he meets such future stars as Sergei Yursky and Igor Gorbachev. Soon he finally enters the Leningrad Theater Institute named after A. N. Ostrovsky. After graduation, he went to work at the Bolshoi Drama Theater of Leningrad, which was then directed by the famous Tovstonogov.

"Police Sergeant"

Then he goes to work at the Liteiny Theater, then at the Theater named after. Komissarzhevskaya, where he still works.

At the same time, Krasko begins to act in films. His debut took place in 1961 in the film “Baltic Sky”, and although the role was episodic, the actor was noticed. True, until 1974 he was trusted only with supporting roles. His first major role was the character of Major Grigoriev in the film “Police Sergeant.” Then there were hundreds of heroes on stage, in movies, and TV series. To date, his filmography has exceeded one and a half hundred works; he has also voiced cartoons and computer games.

First roles

Andrei Krasko first appeared on screen in 1979. He played a driver in the short film "Personal Date". Then he appeared in episodic roles in several more films, but in 1982 he was forced to interrupt his acting career due to military service. It fell to him to repay his debt to his homeland not far from his parents - in the Arkhangelsk region.

Popularity came to Krasko in the 90s. The actor, whose photo regularly appeared on the pages of film magazines, played in many successful television projects.

Often on the same set with my father. For example, in the detective series “National Security Agent”, in which Krasko Jr. plays one of the main roles (Andrei Krasnov, assistant to the main character Alexey Nikolaev, whose role went to Mikhail Porechenkov), and his father in one of the episodes plays a grandfather who was mortally wounded bandits.

Also notable works in his career were roles in the comedy by Alexander Rogozhkin “Peculiarities of the National Hunt”, the dramatic action film by Sergei Bodrov “Sisters”, the dramatic disaster film by Vladimir Khotinenko “72 Meters”, the military drama by Fyodor Bondarchuk “9th Company”, the film adaptation of the novel by Boris Pasternak "Doctor Zhivago", military detective Dzhanik Fayziev "Turkish Gambit"

In the world of Ivan Krasko's profession

Starting from the age of 30, a young man named Ivan is trying in every possible way to establish and show himself as a talented and capable actor. At first, he is invited to perform roles only in plays for minor roles.

After a while, everything changed: the actor begins to captivate the audience with his charisma and talent, after which his status among his colleagues increases significantly: he is given good roles, invited to star in films and play in TV series.

Thanks to such active and rapidly developing activities, Krasko received many awards: he received the title of Honored Artist of the RSFSR in 1976, and for another 16 years he was awarded the status of People's Artist of the Russian Federation. In addition, Krasko is a regular winner of a large number of awards and the owner of a lot of award medals and orders.

Personal life

Like his father, Andrei Krasko was married several times. His first wife was actress Natalya Akimova, who played Antonina in Alexei Balabanov’s dramatic thriller “Cargo 200”. The newlyweds soon separated; they had no children.

Krasko’s second chosen one was Miriam Alexandrovich. In 1980, they had a son named Ian. But even the child could not save their marriage - divorce followed again.

After the second failure, Krasko no longer entered into official marriages. In a civil marriage he lived with actress Margarita Zvonareva (they had a son, Kirill, in 1997), then, for about three years, with Elena Tarasova, then with Karolina Popova (in 2003, they had a daughter, Alisa).

The last serious relationship in his life was an unregistered marriage with Svetlana Kuznetsova.

What did the “endless” youth of Ivan Krasko lead to?

On September 23, the artist turns 88 years old - a double symbol of infinity, which is confirmed by the actor’s stormy personal life

Those who were born in the USSR know Ivan Krasko thanks to his roles in cinema and theater, his talented son Andrei, his books and memoirs. The younger generation of viewers knows the elderly actor only from scandalous talk shows, articles in tabloids and showdowns between the numerous wives and mistresses of Ivan Ivanovich.

Real name of Ivan Krasko

For many, the life of 88-year-old Ivan Krasko seems abnormal: some young girls are constantly hovering around, and he does not hesitate to talk about sex and love. But behind all this bravado, it seems, hides a deeply lonely and unhappy person who, by and large, is not needed by anyone.

At the age of six he was left an orphan. His mother died when Vanya was only 10 months old from blood poisoning. Out of grief, my father began to drink heavily and died in 1936. So little Vanya Bakhvalov remained in the care of the village grandmother Poli , a strict but fair and very hardworking woman. After the war, the boy's life changed dramatically. The mother's brother returned to their village. And he adopted Ivan. And Bakhvalov became Krasko .

The post-war period was difficult and hungry. One of the few joys for the children was cinema. And, like most boys and girls of that time, Vanya fell in love with cinema and knew all the lines of his favorite characters. I adored Chapaev Vasiliev brothers and imagined how he would play Petka .

But harsh times demanded a serious profession, and not dreams of acting. And Krasko went to the Leningrad Naval School, after which in 1953 he was assigned to the Danube Flotilla, rising to the rank of commander of a landing ship.

The first film role of Ivan Krasko. Still from the film “Baltic Sky”, 1961

Choosing between wife and profession

While still at school, Ivan got married. The girl Katya Ivanova fell in love with a handsome cadet and promised to marry him when he became an officer. They lived from '51 to '55. And they became the parents of a daughter , Galya .

In fact, the young people did not intend to get divorced. But, they say, the mother-in-law intervened in the affairs of the young family.

In the mid-50s, large-scale layoffs began in the navy and Krasko decided to take advantage of the situation and fulfill his dream - to enter the theater. The mother-in-law not only didn’t like the plans, but caused a storm of indignation: how can a man become a clown when he has a young wife and daughter?!

At the instigation of his mother, Ivan’s wife set the condition: “Either I, or the theatrical one.” Ivan demobilized as a civilian and submitted documents to the Leningrad Theater Institute.

The former spouses did not communicate for several years, and Katya, out of resentment, did not allow her ex-husband to see her daughter Galya. But gradually everything got better. Ekaterina and Ivan managed to find a common language, and Galya and her father developed a very warm and trusting relationship.

But Ivan’s dream didn’t work out the first time. Arriving at the exam at the institute and seeing beautiful and young school graduates, Krasko felt like an old man - he was already 25 years old at that time. And he never decided to show his talents to the commission.

In order not to waste time, he entered Leningrad University to study philology. Over the course of two years, the sailor became imbued with student life and, plucking up courage, finally went to the theater.

Still from the film "The Prince and the Pauper", 1972

Father and son

The 88-year-old actor's career includes about 150 film roles. But most importantly: for many, Ivan Ivanovich Krasko is a symbol of theatrical St. Petersburg, its noble and intellectual representative.

As with the university, the artist did not immediately find his stage. There was the legendary Georgy Tovstonogov and his Bolshoi Drama Theater, there was a theater on Liteiny, and only the third time he got to the Komissarzhevskaya , which had become his home, where he is still an actor, almost 53 years old.

When the actor became a member of the Komissarzhevskaya Theater troupe in 1965, he was already married for the second time. Kira Petrova in 1956 during his first year at the theater institute. The girl studied at the pedagogical school, to become a teacher of Russian language and literature. Krasko looked after her very gallantly, gave her flowers, gifts, took her to the theater, read poetry. That same year, the young people got married.

They lived together for 40 years. And they became parents twice. They had a son, Andrei , and a daughter, Yulia . Andryusha was a very sick child. For the sake of her son, Kira’s mother quit school and got a job as a teacher in the group where Andryusha went. It was in kindergarten that father and son first appeared on stage together. At the New Year's party, Ivan Ivanovich played Santa Claus, and Andryusha played the bunny.

Andrei Krasko became a famous actor, many people loved him. He has probably even outgrown his father in popularity. But at the age of 48, Andrei died suddenly on the set of “Liquidation.” Doctors said it was heart failure.

And Andrei’s sister, Yulia Krasko, became an art critic.

Andrey Krasko in the film “72 meters”, 2004

Third time in the same river

Ivan Krasko divorced his second wife Kira Petrova in 1997, after 40 years of marriage. They say that the main reason for the separation of the spouses was the actor’s constant infidelities. And despite this, the divorce was difficult for the woman. She fell ill and died that same year. According to Ivan Ivanovich, before his death, his wife understood and forgave him.

Having become a bachelor at the age of 67, the artist went into all serious troubles. He always said that he loved women very much. And not only their external beauty, but also their spiritual beauty.

It was from this time that Krasko, according to many, began to act weird. At 71, he married 24-year-old Natalya Vyal . Fans were shocked by the age difference between the newlyweds - 47 years. They met at the Komissarzhevskaya Theater. Natalya worked there as a costume designer.

Vyal gave the artist two sons - Ivan and Fedor . It would seem that a measured family life, demand for theater and cinema - what else is needed for happiness? But the tragedy that happened in 2006, when his son Andrei Krasko died on July 4, broke Ivan Ivanovich. His relatives tried to save him, to pull him out of the black pit of despondency, but the family fell apart in 2011. And then absolutely amazing things began to happen.

Tango threesome

In September 2015, Ivan Krasko married his student Natalya Shevel . At that time, the groom was 85 and the bride was 25 years old. A whole sea of ​​slop was poured on the newlyweds in the press.

They were accused of everything: commercialism, madness, and much more! The couple lived together for three years. Everyone somehow came to terms with and even got used to this couple. But recently, something unimaginable began to happen on television: a talk show comes out in which Natalia is accused of cheating, then their intimate life is publicly discussed, then a program appears on the air about Ivan Ivanovich’s new lover.

Spouses with an age difference of 60 years either announce their divorce or say that everything is fine with them. Ivan Krasko once shared with reporters that he wants to return to his third wife Natalya Vyal and his sons. At the same time, the fourth wife is not going to let Krasko go... She wasn’t going to. The story continues to develop to this day.

Death of an actor

The saddest thing in this story is that the father significantly outlived his son. Today Ivan Krasko is 86 years old. Since 2014, he has not appeared on screen, but leads a very active life, especially considering his recent marriage.

But the pain that Andrei Krasko suffered in childhood and adolescence did not go away in his adult life. He suffered from chronic asthma, which greatly undermined his health.

In 2006, he was on the set of Sergei Ursulyak’s detective television series “Liquidation,” in which he played along with Mikhail Porechenkov and Vladimir Mashkov. Filming took place in Ukraine, in the town of Ovidiopol, which is located in the Odessa region.

The actor became ill right on the set. Doctors diagnosed heart failure. On July 4 he died. He was 48 years old.

The actor was buried near St. Petersburg at the village cemetery in Komarovo. He left two sons and one daughter.

The third wife of 88-year-old Ivan Krasko is expecting a child

Serious passions are boiling around People's Artist Ivan Krasko. The 88-year-old actor’s beloved women cannot calm down and are constantly sorting things out. This time, the celebrity’s fourth wife, Natalya Shevel, and his third wife, Natalya Vyal, came face to face. The latter's pregnancy added spice to the situation.

Ivan Krasko divorced his fourth wife Natalya Shevel at the end of 2020. She is 60 years younger than the chosen one. Having become free, the artist returned to his third wife, Natalya Vyal, who is the mother of his two sons. He again called her his bride and decided to marry the young woman. However, the actor’s plans were not destined to come true.

It turned out that Vyal was expecting a child from his new lover. The woman dated director Alexander Bolshakov for a long time.

The bitter truth for Krasko was revealed in the studio of the “Actually” program. The host of the program, Dmitry Shepelev, and the invited guests again began to discuss the stormy personal life of 88-year-old actor Ivan Krasko. As a result of the conversation, it turned out that Natalya Vyal spent three years trying to return her ex-husband to the bosom of the family. At the end of 2020, a happy event happened - they started living together. However, now Krasko’s young bride, the mother of his sons, is pregnant. And not at all from Ivan Ivanovich.

The current situation infuriated Natalya Shevel. On the set of the Channel One program “Actually,” the actress said: Ivan Krasko should find out about Natalya Vyal’s pregnancy. “I want Ivan Ivanovich to open his eyes and see what kind of worm lives with him. This worm crawled into my family, destroyed it, left me with nothing,” Shevel said through tears. She is sure that for the elderly actor this news will come as a bolt from the blue. Also, the actor’s fourth wife does not understand why her rival took her husband away from her if she did not live with him. After all, in the end, Vyal exchanged the actor for the director.

Ivan Krasko with Natalya Shevel in 2014. Photo: Timur KHANOV

Natalya Vyal did not remain silent. He boldly responded to the claims made by her rival. The woman said that she took the elderly Ivan Krasko into her house not as his wife, but as his close friend. “She divorced Ivan Ivanovich. I sheltered him in my apartment, where he lives with his children. “Shut your mouth,” the pregnant woman retorted.

The news about the pregnancy shocked the elderly Krasko, who was behind the scenes and heard everything. The artist went into the studio to dot all the i’s. “Natalya Nikolaevna said so convincingly right there that she was ready to return. Moreover, I will quote it. She personally told me: she had never met a better man in her life,” said the artist killed by the news.

He will never understand who benefited from this whole farce. “What is this? Ten years of some great deception? Stoicism?” Krasko addressed his third wife.

Vyal refused to talk about this topic with her ex-husband. “Appreciate it,” she muttered through clenched teeth.

Creation

After graduating from the institute, Ivan was taken into his theater troupe by the director of the BDT Tovstonogov. Only it was rare to play on stage; it was impossible to break through the ranks of the honored and famous artists of the BDT (Basilashvili, Kopelyan, Doronina, Strzhelchik, Luspekayev). Krasko did not want to remain an eternal student on the sidelines and in 1965 he went to the Komissarzhevskaya Theater, where he has been serving for more than half a century. He played his best roles in productions:

• "Prince and the Pauper";
• “Hush, Athenians!”;
• "Conversations with Socrates";
• "Lady with Camellias";
• "Eros";
• "Plum";
• "Jester Balakirev";
• "Quiet my sorrows";
• "Dresser";
• "Kin IV".

Ivan came to cinema in 1961 and played a cameo role in the film “Baltic Sky”. Then for a long time (almost thirteen years) he acted only in episodes.

He became famous in 1974 after the release of the serial film “Police Sergeant”, where director Herbert Rappoport entrusted the actor with the main role of Major Grigoriev. After this picture, Krasko regularly received film offers and played in films of any genre - from comedies to action films, from melodramas to detective stories. Ivan Ivanovich is recognized as the star of the episodes and the master of supporting roles:

• chairman of the collective farm in “Yurka Dawns”;
• Eagle owl in the film “Salt of the Earth”;
• Colonel Ustimovich in the “Squadron of Flying Hussars”;
• boyar Roman in “The Kidnapping of the Sorcerer”;
• investigator in "Village Story";
• the thoughtful Larionov in “Young Russia”;
• merchant Guselnikov in the film “Semyon Dezhnev”;
• brigade commander Ivan Sergeevich in “Makar the Pathfinder”;
• Viktor Nikolaevich in “Afghan Break”;
• folk healer in the melodrama “You are...”.

The most famous role of Ivan Krasko in the cinema of the Soviet period is the ataman of the bandits Solovyov in the film “The End of the Emperor of the Taiga.”

Since the beginning of the 2000s, the actor has starred a lot in cult TV series:

• "Streets of Broken Lanterns";
• "Empire under attack";
• "National Security Agent";
• "Destructive force";
• "Lines of Fate";
• "Brezhnev";
• "Master and Margarita";
• "March of Turetsky";
• "Zhurov-2";
• “It happened in Kuban.”

Ivan Ivanovich’s voice can often be heard in the dubbing of foreign and animated films; in domestic cinema, the actor is invited to read voice-over texts.

In 2010, the actor released the book “Tales. Behind the Scenes,” in which he shares with readers his memories from life, about colleagues and friends, about events that left an indelible mark on his life.