Personal life of the legend
Nikita Sergeevich’s personal life was very stormy, even oversaturated with numerous novels. The young artist turned out to be a very loving person. And even when he was already in a relationship, he still often cheated on his girlfriends.
For example, this happened to actress Anastasia Vertinskaya. Mikhalkov fell in love so much that he even proposed to the beauty. But even when he was already engaged, he began an affair with the famous ballerina Elena Matveeva. The betrayal was revealed when Nikita came to visit her, and Vertinskaya ended up there. However, the marriage still took place, although they failed to create a strong family.
After the divorce, the man did not grieve for long - he again started a fleeting relationship. It is unknown how many novels he had with creative personalities and even ordinary fans, until he met a model named Tatyana Solovyova. It was this woman who became the second and last wife of the Soviet legend. Mikhalkov met old age with her.
Children and grandchildren of Nikita Mikhalkov, photo
There are even nobles in Nikita Mikhalkov’s family - his grandparents. But everyone, without exception, had something to do with creative work. Since childhood, Nikita has absorbed all these talents, but he is used to achieving everything on his own. He tried to pass on this sense of purpose to his own children. As a result, the descendants of this famous artist continued his work and also became successful, self-sufficient people.
This impressive man, who in the past had no trouble charming women, is today not only a good father to his children, but also a loving grandfather to as many as ten grandchildren. The man loves to review childhood photographs of his heirs.
Due to the fact that there was more than one marriage, many fans are interested in how many children Nikita Mikhalkov has. The artist has four children in total – two sons and two daughters. The first marriage produced only a son named Stepan.
Among the children of Nikita Mikhalkov and Tatyana Solovyova:
- Anna;
- Artemy;
- Hope.
After his divorce from Vertinskaya, the actor always maintained a good relationship with his eldest son, as well as with his mother. And he managed to make sure that all his offspring did not need anything. Nikita Mikhalkov has a rather difficult character, but he did not allow himself to humiliate or offend his wives. That’s why all children, without exception, consider their famous father a role model.
His son Stepan, like Nikita Sergeevich himself, has four children. Daughter Anna has three. Daughter Nadenka made her father happy with two grandchildren. And his son Artemy still has only one girl. And one of the many granddaughters even gave the famous grandfather a great-grandson.
All photos of Nikita Mikhalkov’s children are freely available on social networks.
Nikita Mikhalkov became a great-grandfather, and Anastasia Vertinskaya became a great-grandmother
Nikita Mikhalkov, Anastasia Vertinskaya
Director Nikita Mikhalkov
and actress
Anastasia Vertinskaya
broke up more than 45 years ago. The short marriage gave the couple their only son, Stepan, who became a famous restaurateur. Nikita Mikhalkov has been happily married to his second wife Tatyana since 1973.
Stepan Mikhalkov gave the director and actress four grandchildren, the youngest of whom, Luka, was born less than a year ago. And yesterday the restaurateur announced the birth of his first grandson, whom his eldest daughter gave birth to.
25-year-old Alexandra Mikhalkova married 23-year-old actor Pyotr Skvortsov on December 22, 2020. Even before the wedding, she informed subscribers about her pregnancy and several times published photographs with a rounded belly. Yesterday, the eldest granddaughter of Nikita Mikhalkov and Anastasia Vertinskaya gave them a great-grandson.
Alexandra Mikhalkova. September 2020
Stepan Mikhalkov published an archival black and white photograph of his daughter, in which she is depicted as a teenager, adding the hashtag “fathers and sons” and the caption:
“When your daughter gives birth to your grandson, you involuntarily remember moments from the recent past. It seems that recently...”
Subscribers heartily congratulated the restaurateur on the birth of his first grandson, and one of them half-jokingly about (the authors' spelling and punctuation have been preserved. - Ed.).
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#Quote: “A witch is a permanent condition of every woman.” #AnastasiaVertinskaya Today is the birthday of the outstanding Soviet and Russian theater and film actress Anastasia Aleksandrovna Vertinskaya, People's Artist of the RSFSR. She played in several theaters in Moscow, for the longest time on the stages of Sovremennik and the Moscow Art Theater, taught acting in Oxford, Paris and Switzerland, and headed the Charitable Foundation of Russian Actors. She acted in films from the age of 17, the most famous films: “Amphibian Man” (1961), “Scarlet Sails” (1961) by Alexander Ptushko, “Hamlet” (1964) by Grigory Kozintsev, “War and Peace” (1965−1967) by Sergei Bondarchuk, “Anna Karenina” (1967) by Alexander Zarkhi, “Don’t Cry!” (1969) by Georgy Danelia, “Lovers” (1969) by Elyor Ishmukhamedova, “The Case of Polynin” (1970) by Alexei Sakharov, “Shadow” (1971) by Nadezhda Kosheverova, “Premature Man” (1972) by Abram Room, “Nameless Star” (TV 1978) by Mikhail Kozakov, “Gadfly” (TV 1980) by Nikolai Mashchenko, “Theft” (TV 1982) by Leonid Pchelkin, “Dark Nights in Sochi” (1990) by Vasily Pichul, “The Master and Margarita” (1994) by Yuri Kara and others.
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Anastasia Vertinskaya.
Gallery of 10 photos The granddaughter of Nikita Mikhalkov and Anastasia Vertinskaya is interested in art. Alexandra studies at the Surikov Moscow State Academy of Arts. Viewers remembered her husband from the films “Duelist”, “Apprentice”, “Indigo”, “Children”.
Stepan Mikhalkov is the only child of 73-year-old Anastasia Vertinskaya. Nikita Mikhalkov had three more children in his second marriage.
Now Anna is 43 years old, Artem is 42, Nadezhda is 31 years old. Nikita Sergeevich has ten grandchildren, six of whom were given to him by Tatyana Evgenievna’s children, and four by his eldest son from his first marriage, Stepan.
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Unfortunately, birthdays are only once a year #belovedfamily #birthday #happybirthday #belovedhusband #nikitamikhalkov
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Nikita Mikhalkov with his wife Tatyana
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Son of Nikita Mikhalkov - Stepan Mikhalkov
Stepan Mikhalkov was born in 1966. Now he is 52. He was born in his first marriage with Anastasia Vertinskaya and became the first-born of the actor. The guy inherited a talent for drawing from his ancestors and even studied at an art school. Where I just improved my skills.
For several years the guy received higher education related to foreign languages. But then he entered the capital’s film school, where he mastered the profession of director. Stepan now has his own successful business - his own studio, which records advertising and music videos. In addition, he owns an international chain of his own restaurants.
There was also cinema - he starred in several films and tried himself as a producer. In a sense, we can say that the eldest son repeated the fate of his father - he also had two marriages and also four children: Alexandra, Vasily, Luka and Peter.
Stepan Mikhalkov, eldest son, restaurateur
Stepan Mikhalkov, the director's eldest son, was born in 1966. His mother, Anastasia Vertinskaya, is an actress and the first wife of Nikita Mikhalkov. Their marriage lasted only five years: they got married the year Stepan was born and divorced in 1971. Anastasia’s father is the legendary Alexander Vertinsky, a popular romance singer and actor in the first half of the 20th century.
Anastasia herself was very famous in the USSR: she played the main female role in the film “Amphibian Man”.
Stepan wanted to follow in the footsteps of his parents. In 1991, he graduated from the Moscow Film School, and later, together with Fyodor Bondarchuk, founded one of the first professional music video production studios in Russia.
Stepan himself acted in films, but soon left this field and went entirely into business. Since the beginning of the 2000s, Stepan Mikhalkov has been a famous restaurateur; he is the owner of the Khleb&Co chain.
Son of Nikita Mikhalkov - Artem Mikhalkov
Artem Mikhalkov is nine years younger than his half-brother. He was born in the star’s second marriage with Tatyana Mikhalkova. Like Stepan, Artem received a degree in directing. The guy acted in few films, but he can be seen in films:
- Ninth Company;
- Counterplay;
- Path;
- Siberian barber.
Artem also linked his destiny with cinema, but mostly remains behind the scenes as a director or screenwriter. The man is married to a journalist and has a daughter, Natalya.
Biographical minimum of Nikita Mikhalkov
He was born in May 1945, his father and mother were famous people. Father Sergei Mikhalkov is a writer, and mother Natalya Konchalovskaya, her grandfather was Vasily Surikov, a famous artist. His older brother Andron lived on good friendly terms with him and was always an example for Nikita. From a young age, Mikhalkov knew that he would devote himself only to the field of cinema and theatrical art. His first wife, Anastasia Vertinskaya, appeared in his life from the moment he began his career.
Daughter of Nikita Mikhalkov - Anna Mikhalkova
Anna became the actor's first daughter. Like Artem, she was born from his second wife, a year earlier than Artem. Since childhood, the girl dreamed of becoming an actress. And she first came to the set as a child - when her father began filming the film “Anna: From Six to Eighteen.” Every year for twelve years, Nikita Sergeevich asked his daughter the same questions and wrote down the answers to them.
Growing up, Anna studied art history in Italy and Switzerland. And then, already in her homeland, in Russia, she graduated from VGIK, and then from MGIMO. The woman’s filmography includes about a dozen films, including “Bedouin,” “Burnt by the Sun” and “Playing the Victim.” It may come as a surprise to some fans, but it was she who was the presenter in the program “Good night, kids!” Now she is married to a private entrepreneur and has raised three children - Andrei, Sergei and Lydia.
Daughter of Nikita Mikhalkov - Nadezhda Mikhalkova
Nadezhda is the youngest of all the artist’s children and is his favorite. The woman is now 32 years old. As a child, she played several roles in her daddy's films. But she had no desire to continue the acting dynasty.
Therefore, after graduating from school, she entered MGIMO to study journalism. And then I decided to try myself as a designer. But still she is a person with a diverse education. Her filmography includes a small number of films. For two she became a director. Today she hosts the program “Rules of Style” and is a member of the acting troupe of “Another Theater”.
Now the woman is divorced, raising her daughter Nina and son Ivan.
As you can see, the children of Nikita Sergeevich Mikhalkov were all able to successfully realize themselves in life and become self-sufficient people.
Studio Trite Nikita Mikhalkov
May 21, 2014
Given your busy schedule, how did you find the time and desire to come to Siberia?
I think that if there is a soul and heart of Russia, then it is not necessarily located in Moscow or St. Petersburg. And Omsk has always been of great importance for the country: both under Catherine, and during the Civil War, and now. This is a stunning region of incredible beauty, many of my friends live here. When people ask me about my favorite places, I name Omsk. I will be glad and proud if the Movement festival takes root here.
Tell us about your latest film, Sunstroke. When can she be seen?
I submitted my application for “Sunstroke” 37 years ago, when Bunin could not be touched. And for many years I could not approach this picture, until I came up with the idea of combining “Sunstroke” and “Cursed Days.” This is a stunning document of the era, a diary that Bunin kept during the years of the revolution and the Civil War - passionate, cruel, absolutely unlike this writer in terms of bile, causticity, and resentment. In the film I decided to combine the happy, crazy day that the hero of “Sunstroke” lives through, and the chilling documents of the post-revolutionary era. Filming is over, now we are working on graphics, preparing a full-length version and five episodes for television.
For many years you made wonderful films about love, but then you left this topic. And finally they returned with “Sunstroke”. What prompted you to do this?
I only shoot about love! But it’s not just about a man’s love for a woman. My films are about much more, because in general everything around is love! In the most specific and at the same time broad sense of the word. As in the quote of the brilliant Ilyin: “You must live for what you can die for.” Because you can only die for what you love. Whatever it is: family, woman, child, homeland... I didn’t make a single picture for money or fame, commissioned “for the party or the government.” I'm not ashamed of any of my videos. I took them off because I couldn’t help but do it.
In the last film, “Sunstroke,” you starred your granddaughter Natasha, Artem’s daughter. What kind of role did she get and how did she cope with it?
She doesn’t have any particular role, she just sits, watches and reacts to what the magician shows. Moreover, no one on the set knew that Natasha was Tema’s daughter, my granddaughter. When I gave the editor the material, he also didn’t know anything about Natasha, but while editing and putting together the scene, for some reason he kept inserting her reactions. Then I thought: “Well, it’s clear: they told him that this is my granddaughter, and he wants to please me.” But he decided, not directly, but casually, to ask: “Who is this girl? Why did you mentor her so much?” And he exclaimed: “Listen, she reacts like that, it’s just amazing!” I say: “Well, yes, nothing. Do you know who she is? “No, what difference does it make!” - he answers, and I realized that he really doesn’t know. He smiled and said: “Okay, otherwise I already suspected you of being a toady. Because this is my granddaughter." "Come on!" – the editor gasped and began to cut it out. At this point we had to stop him: “Stop, stop, don’t rush. If it’s good, then let it stay!” After Natasha acted in the film, she suddenly began to get hysterical behind the scenery. Tema and I rushed to her: “Natasha, what happened?” And the girl burst into tears: “That’s it, life is over! I’ll never come here again, it’s such a disaster.” She decided that this was the end of her film career. So she definitely has the desire to become an actress. But I don't know if her wish will come true. This is a deceptive thing: as you grow older, your character and temperament change.
Tell us about your relationship with Lyudmila Gurchenko. Is it true that she had no female friends?
Lyudmila Markovna was not friends with anyone at all. It was not a woman, but a comet. Lyusya was all about acting; there was no other way for her. For example, another wonderful actress Lena Solovey could refuse the role for the sake of her family and children. In order for her to star in “The Mechanical Piano,” I made an incredible somersault - I took the child, the nanny, and everything else on the expedition with her, just so that she would agree. You say to Lyusya Gurchenko: “There is a role!” She: “We need to poison mom, stab dad, hang brother - whatever! I’m ready, I’ll do anything!” She was always playing something and was in character. I adored Lucy, she never lied and in this way she was very similar to Nonna Mordyukova - the most powerful lump who screamed into the microphone at me on Rodna: “You work for the camera, and I work for the people!” They are very similar, but they had different textures. Lyusya was entirely woven from different materials, a tenth of each of which would have been enough to become a People's Artist of the RSFSR. And she alone was woven from them, and it was a surplus, so Lucy suffered because of this and could not be happy in her personal life. Of course, it was difficult for me and Gurchenko, like for many.
How did you manage to raise such good, talented and, most importantly, very humble children? What is your education system?
I was probably a moderately strict parent. My mother said that you need to educate while lying across the bed; As soon as I lay down, it was already too late. A deep misconception, which, fortunately, is gradually revealing its depravity: all flowers should bloom, let them grow as they want, there is no need to forbid them anything. This is a terrible mistake. But this does not mean that children should be terrorized, beaten, humiliated, or kept under a tight rein. My education system is not connected with listening or singing the anthem every morning, or looking with adoration at the portrait of the leader. It is necessary to develop immunity and respect. I’ll give you one example, and you can decide for yourself whether I was strict with the children or not. Tema and Anechka were given a turtle at the dacha. And so they tried to persuade me to leave her, but I was against it. I suggest that the children give the turtle to the living corner at school, but they assure: “Dad, we will take care of it!” Well, we left the turtle. I arrive on the first evening from work, everything is fine - a turtle in a box, happy. The second day - the same, the third, fourth, and on the fifth - the box is empty, there is grass, milk in a bowl, only there is no turtle. And the time is one in the morning. I go to the children’s bedroom and wake them up: “Where is the turtle?” Anya and Tema in trembling voices: “And we, and she... We went for a walk with her... And then they called us to dinner, and she got lost...” Me: “We quickly got up and went to look for the turtle.” Night, flashlights, mother in horror, children in tears: “Where to look?..” But I am adamant: “Look! Because it is a living being, and you are responsible for it.” At seven o'clock in the morning, in tears and snot, smeared in the ground, scratched, they bring a turtle. “Well done,” I say. “Well, what are we going to do with her next?” They unanimously said: “Let’s send her to school!” Let's! But someone will say, they say, some kind of nonsense - more of a turtle, less of a turtle, but these are children. The most important thing in this example is to focus the child on the word given to him. Concentrate on respect for a living being and your word - therefore, for yourself. But, I swear to you, at that moment I didn’t have such Makarenko-like thoughts in my head, but there was normal indignation from rudeness: “They promised!” And it is on such moments that the “building” of a person is gradually built.
What do you like to read and what do you recommend?
The last book I read was “Red Light” by Maxim Kantor. I don’t do much idle reading; I mostly read a lot in preparation for the painting. I can admit that I love Zakhar Prilepin. It seems to me that he is a very serious guy, although sharp and versatile. But basically, one way or another, I always return to Russian classics, getting great pleasure from it.
Is it true that you recently became a winemaker?
I've never been a wine person. But one day my friend Kostya Tuvykin, with whom we work and hunt together on my farm near Nizhny Novgorod, told me: “There are good vineyards in Italy, let’s buy them and make wine.” I say: “I don’t know how.” It turned out that very old vineyards in Tuscany were dying, the farm was falling apart, and it was being sold. But wine and bread are biblical things, there is something mystical about it... And I decided: let's try it! We took these vineyards and started making wine, and it turned out to be really wonderful. We called the first batch (white and red) "12". Now we are preparing a new batch, of different varieties, there will be another batch, called “Black Eyes”. And after it we will release sweet wine “Urga”. I would never have given permission to call it that if it weren't for a truly high-quality product. This is not a commercial story, it does not bring in any money, God willing, it pays for itself. But there is an inner feeling of creation, I feel great pride: making your own wine is the same as holding a loaf of bread grown from wheat in your fields. It is no coincidence that Berlusconi took two boxes of wine from me. Then he sent a photo with the inscription: “Dear Nikita, thank you not only for the communication, but also for the wine!” I immediately sent it to the winemakers, and they made and hung a huge poster there. Wine is not produced on an industrial scale, but we produce 4-5 thousand bottles per batch. For some presentation purposes, for example, our wine was bottled on flights Moscow – Sochi during the Olympics.
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Who is Nikita Mikhalkov
Nikita Mikhalkov is not only a great actor, but also a very talented director and screenwriter. In addition, he also became involved in political and public issues. Also, he very successfully engaged in business in the fields of winemaking, information technology and several others. It is true what they say: a talented person is talented in everything. And he achieved all this on his own, which is doubly amazing.
The biography is impressive. Since childhood, Nikita already wanted to connect his life with the world of cinema. And he made every effort to make this dream come true. After graduating from school, he entered the Shchukin Theater School, but never graduated. While already in his fourth year, he was expelled for violating the ban - he starred in his first film.
But expulsion from school did not upset the future star. He immediately entered the second year of VGIK and upon completion of his studies received a director’s diploma. After which he joined the army. Subsequently, Mikhalkov took part in the creation of such films as:
- Noble Nest;
- Hound of the Baskervilles;
- State Councillor;
- Tired of the sun, and others.