Biography
Anastasia Menshikova (nee Chernova) is an actress whose career never began due to marriage.
Anastasia Chernova and Oleg Menshikov
Despite her professional education and good reviews from teachers and fellow students, today the young woman is known mainly as the wife of Oleg Menshikov.
Four women and two gossips of Oleg Menshikov
Oleg was born in Serpukhov, near Moscow, into the family of a military engineer and neurologist. Almost immediately after the birth of the boy, the Menshikovs moved to the capital, where the future actor spent his entire childhood, school years and youth.
The child showed extraordinary abilities for music at a very early age. At first, the parents were surprised to discover that the little boy was spellbound and truly passionate about the operetta - he asked to be taken there twice a week.
Then, during a music lesson, it turned out that Oleg was gifted with a unique hearing and ability to play music. His parents sent him to a music school to study violin. However, he also knew how to play the piano, which he did with pleasure during breaks.
They loved him at school. Although his natural restlessness did not allow him to be an excellent student, he also did not intend to fall into C grades - he was ashamed in front of teachers and other students. Moreover, his extraordinary talents aroused the interest of all his classmates. Hooligans, excellent students, and athletes - everyone gathered to listen to Menshikov play, merrily sang along and supported his ideas.
In high school, saturated with the operetta atmosphere, Oleg Evgenievich began staging plays as a director. They were based on his favorite compositions from the operetta, which were combined with texts written by Menshikov himself.
Talent
Kinfolk (1981)
When Oleg graduated from school, he and his parents attended a wedding of representatives of theater circles. At the cheerful and unconventional celebration, he became so inspired that he himself went on stage and acted as a “one-man orchestra” - he played along and sang along, accompanied, danced and performed simple creative numbers.
And he didn’t know that at that time the Sliver teacher, invited to the celebration, Vladimir Monakhov, was looking at him in amazement.
At the end of the evening, the talented boy, of course, was invited to enroll in a theater university. After thinking a little, he decided in favor of the proposal, but his parents were against this choice for some time. They hoped that their son would receive a more “serious” education. However, after grumbling a little, they did not interfere.
Before the selection committee, he read Pushkin so much that he himself became a poet. The teachers recalled: it was not a perfect performance, but perfection was not required. Everything that will remove rough edges and polish your talent will be taught at the school. The main thing is that already during the entrance exams it was clear that this person was gifted and exceptionally gifted.
Student
Flights in dreams and in reality (1982)
He was considered the strongest student of the course and one of the brightest in the entire university. That’s why gossip about his personal life began to circulate so early. Evil tongues attributed an affair to Menshikov with one of the male teachers. But my classmates are still perplexed by this gossip. After all, Oleg was passionately in love during his student years with classmate Victoria Sorokina.
For two years the young people were in this hot, deafening romance, after which the beautiful and ambitious girl left to conquer England and never returned.
Years later, Menshikov went to London on tour. Of course, the young man’s first love could not help but come. Then, according to rumors, a serious conversation took place between the former lovers.
The girl admitted that she still regrets their separation and is ready to immediately drop everything and go with her loved one wherever she says. But Menshikov did not invite, preferring to leave passionate feelings in the past.
Actor
Life on the Limit (1989)
But the fateful meeting occurred when the artist had already become established. In the meantime, he graduates brilliantly from the university and first becomes an artist of the Maly Theater, and a year later he is drafted into the army.
Menshikov served in the theater of the Soviet Army, and after graduating, he was invited to work at the Ermolova Theater, where he worked for a significant amount of time until he created his own entrepreneurial company in the 90s.
Having learned about the start of his business, Boris Berezovsky himself volunteered to help financially. Togo was always amazed by the actor’s deep talent and, realizing that new productions would require money, the oligarch, on his own initiative, met with Menshikov and offered sponsorship.
. There Oleg Evgenievich acted both as an actor and as a director. Seeing his name on the posters, people flocked to the performances, forming long lines in front of the box office, despite the fact that the tickets were not cheap.
The business turned out to be profitable, but soon began to fail. The fact is that one of the co-founders, Oleg Menshikov, was a passionate gambler. He began to squander not only his own money at the card table, but also the money of the partnership. As a result, he owed the company a serious amount and disappeared in an unknown direction.
However, by that time, Menshikov’s film fees had reached such a level that he simply lost financial interest in his own project, leaving the business to fall apart on its own.
Movie
Pokrovsky Gate (1982)
He became famous throughout the USSR in the early 80s, while still a student. He made his debut in the television drama “I Wait and Hope,” where he was noticed by the wife of Mikhail Kozakov, who was then looking for his student Kostya to play the main role in “Pokrovsky Gates.”
Kostya, as often happens, was still nowhere to be found. The director was worried; almost two dozen actors had already attended the auditions. On the advice of his wife, Kozakov found this “Shurka” from “I Wait and Hope” and invited him to audition. Even before the command “motor!”, when Menshikov entered the pavilion with his smile, flexible plasticity and a sea of charm, it became clear to the film crew: this is Kostya.
After the release of this film, Menshikov woke up as a celebrity, and Nikita Mikhalkov noted him as one of his most talented actors. Two more virtuoso collaborations - “Burnt by the Sun” and “The Barber of Siberia” - became beloved and revered paintings all over the world.
Love
Waiting and Hoping (1980)
Meanwhile, the gossip around the celebrity did not subside. Conversations around his bisexuality and accusations of affairs with actors surfaced again. Against this background, loved ones saw just other novels.
At first, for some time, the actress of the Mossovet Theater Margarita Shubina was next to Menshikov. This union was long and bright. According to friends, no one has ever held the attention of a celebrity as tenaciously as Margarita. Things were confidently heading towards the wedding, when a quarrel broke out between the lovers. To this day, no one knows what happened, only the actors began to move away from each other by leaps and bounds.
Oleg Evgenievich was distracted from the painful breakup in the arms of circus performer Lyudmila Kolesnikova, but that romance did not last long.
At the age of 43, the actor, unexpectedly for everyone, secretly married a young GITIS student, Anastasia Chernova. And again gossip: envious people say that this marriage is a condition of one influential woman who has dirt on the artist. The couple themselves tell a different story.
Nastya
The couple met at Zhvanetsky’s concert - there they found themselves in the same company. Nastya had white roses in her hands. The maestro liked the girl so much that he began to attract her attention in incredible ways. Not only did he tell stories and laugh endlessly, but at some point he leaned over her bouquet and began chewing the petals with gusto.
The girl, on the one hand, was fascinated by the famous actor, but on the other hand, she was perplexed. The final touch to her state of shock was the celebrity’s last maneuver - the actor, who was almost escorting her to the exit, suddenly asked for a phone number.
They first talked, then went on a date... The actor proposed to his beloved two years after they met - over the phone. It was her birthday, which the man was unable to attend due to his busy work schedule. Nastya agreed.
Now she calls her husband a difficult person and says that she does not always fully understand him. But he loves Oleg endlessly. There is a beautiful tradition in their small family - on the day they met, February 14, Nastya invariably comes home with a bouquet of white roses. True, now Oleg Evgenievich does not try to chew them.
Woe from Wit (2000)
Golden Calf (2005)
Captain Fracasse (1984)
Moonsund (1987)
Burnt by the Sun (1994)
Burnt by the Sun (1994)
Childhood and youth
Anastasia Chernova was born on June 26, 1983 on the Taimyr Peninsula, in the town of Talnakh. The girl’s mother is from Uzbekistan, and her father is from Chuvashia. Five children were born into the family, Nastya herself became the penultimate. Later, the parents divorced, but the mother did not turn the children against their father - on the contrary, she always said that he loved them and would always be their dad.
Anastasia Chernova with brothers and sisters (Anastasia - with a doll)
Nastya never doubted that she would become an actress. Therefore, after finishing school without difficulty, she left for Moscow to storm theater universities. The girl entered GITIS the first time and studied in the workshop of Alexander Zbruev.
In the capital, the girl first lived in a dormitory, but then her mother insisted that she and her sister join forces and rent a separate apartment. So the girls moved into a small room. According to teachers, the girl turned out to be talented and persistent in her studies. Classmates say that Anastasia was an open and friendly person who could not stand conflicts.
Anastasia Chernova
In addition, student Chernova was distinguished by her vulnerability and was terribly worried before the release of student performances - sometimes even to the point of tears. However, Nastya had plenty of willpower: at the time she entered university, the girl was plump, and she didn’t like it at all.
Anastasia Chernova with her mother
As a result, Anastasia managed to lose weight, become the owner of a figure that can only be envied, and acquire a significant number of admirers.
During his senior year, Oleg Menshikov played in the play “Invasion,” directed by Nikolai Agafonov
One of the center’s popular areas of activity is IVF, that is, artificial insemination. If Nastya really turned to the medical center for advice on IVF issues, then perhaps Oleg Evgenievich can soon be congratulated on the birth of not one, but two babies. Oleg Evgenievich often mentions his love for various legends... Oleg Evgenievich, tell us a little about your personal life! - So that it becomes a little public?
I will continue to refuse. And so the team of Yermolovites went to GUM to the point for sending telegrams to TCHK to send their cherished wishes to the artistic director Oleg Menshikov. Expand text…May everyone be happy in the new year 2020! May all your dreams come true! Remember each other, your family and friends, please them with your attention! The actor spent his childhood and early youth in the capital.
His parents noticed this, bought Oleg a violin and sent him to a music school. The future actor went to a regular school at the age of six. Menshikov immediately got used to lessons and homework. He watched the Count of Luxembourg and Maritza several times. His passion for operetta led to Oleg beginning to stage plays in his senior year. Young Oleg Menshikov showed good directing abilities and even discovered acting talent in some of his classmates.
Almost immediately after the birth of Oleg Evgenievich Menshikov, his family moved to Moscow. Menshikov even became the godfather of Dogileva’s daughter Ekaterina. Over the past month, Menshikov's wife has been seen several times at the famous Perinatal Center in southwest Moscow.
Movies
Nastya got married immediately after graduating from RATI and, not wanting her husband’s fame to become the engine of her acting biography, decided to postpone building a career until better times.
Anastasia Chernova put aside her career for marriage
Therefore, now the actress has only 2 films in her filmography: she performed episodic roles in the TV series “Streets of Broken Lanterns 4” and “News”.
Personal life
Nastya met Oleg Menshikov on February 14, but not at all at the celebration of Valentine's Day. The girl came to the concert of Mikhail Zhvanetsky, where Oleg also happened to be - and she got to the comedian’s performance by accident, she just happened to have an extra ticket.
Anastasia Chernova with Oleg Menshikov and his parents
The girl and the Russian film star were introduced during the intermission by mutual friends. Oleg decided to attract Anastasia’s attention in an original way: he began to eat rose petals from the bouquet that the girl was holding in her hands. According to Nastya, she couldn’t even say anything from amazement.
As a farewell, Menshikov asked the girl for her phone number. The actor called that same evening, but had to wait 2 months for the next call. Online sources claim that Oleg was kept from taking decisive action by the age difference, although he liked Nastya right away.
Anastasia Chernova with her husband
Menshikov proposed over the phone on the girl’s birthday: he simply asked, “Come on?”, and Nastya answered, “Come on!” According to the girl in an interview with Komsomolskaya Pravda, before the official registration of marriage, the couple did not live together - they only met. And Anastasia moved to Oleg only after the actor became her husband.
The wedding, which took place in 2005, was quiet. The actors did not tell the press or their colleagues about it, so later this news came as a surprise.
Anastasia Chernova and Oleg Menshikov
At first, it was not easy for the spouses in their personal lives: they had to get used to each other, find a common language in everyday life. Nastya admitted that for the first 1.5 years she addressed her husband strictly as “you”. The girl was getting used to the difficult character of her husband, Oleg was getting used to the abundance of relatives and his wife’s stubbornness. However, the efforts paid off, and the couple has been living happily together for more than 13 years.
Anastasia Chernova with her husband and terrier Nathanya
Rumors have been circulating in the press and on the Internet for a long time that the couple wants to have children, but for now Oleg and Nastya continue to remain childless. But when he learned that his wife wanted a dog, Menshikov bought a Yorkshire terrier, which Nastya named Nafanya.
Anastasia Chernova and Dmitry Tashkin in the show “Dancing with the Stars”
Since her marriage, Anastasia has fully participated in only one project - the show “Dancing with the Stars” in 2013.
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A long-term relationship connected Menshikov with actress Margarita Shubina, and relatives already expected that this romance would culminate in a wedding, but Shubina was never destined to become Oleg Menshikov’s wife.
In the photo: Oleg Menshikov with his wife Anastasia
It is unknown what kind of black cat ran between the lovers, but gradually the romance faded away, and Margarita remained in the past. To forget about the difficult separation, Oleg Evgenievich began an affair with circus performer Lyudmila Kolesnikova, but it was short and did not leave a noticeable mark on the actor’s biography.
In the photo: Oleg Menshikov and Anastasia Chernova
And only in 2005 an event occurred that completely changed Oleg Menshikov’s personal life, but those around him learned about it much later. At forty-five, the actor married a girl twenty-three years younger than himself.
The actor’s future wife, when they met, was studying at GITIS, and the fateful meeting took place at a concert - Anastasia Chernova found herself in the same company with Menshikov, who immediately charmed the girl. Oleg was the life of the party, joked a lot, and at the end of the evening, quite unexpectedly, he asked her for her phone number.
Their romance lasted two years, and then the actor invited Nastya to become his wife. Menshikov did not want a noisy celebration of the wedding, so the wedding was very modest - after the ceremony at the registry office, the newlyweds celebrated an important event in their personal lives in the presence of only their closest friends.
After the wedding, they settled in Menshikov’s two-room apartment on Frunzenskaya Embankment. Meeting Anastasia forced Oleg Evgenievich to change.
“Meeting Nastya disciplined me in many ways, taught me a lot and continues to teach me... You stop thinking about yourself. “I used to have some love stories, novels, but I didn’t take responsibility for anyone, only for myself,” shares the actor.
The actor’s wife is from Taimyr. Having arrived in Moscow, she entered GITIS, and during her studies she became the wife of a famous actor, which her classmates did not immediately find out about.
Having become the wife of Oleg Menshikov, Anastasia Chernova moved away from the profession - she never acted in a movie, and she doesn’t work in the theater either. The only role in her career was a tiny episode in the TV series “Streets of Broken Lanterns.”
Her whole life is devoted to her husband, his problems, and she is almost happy, with the exception of one thing - she has no children. When she and Oleg just started living together, and Anastasia started talking about wanting a child, Menshikov was categorically against it - he had a lot of work, and children require constant attention and care.
After fifteen years of marriage, he changed his view on this, and was ready to become a father, but in order for Oleg Menshikov’s children to be born, desire alone was not enough - due to health problems, Anastasia and Oleg cannot yet become parents.
The actor even turned to Chinese healers for help, but this did not help.
Now the actor’s wife still lives only for her husband, but never ceases to hope that she will still be destined to experience the happiness of motherhood.
“I adore my husband! I'm ready to live in his shadow. He’s a brilliant actor!” says Anastasia.
According to Nastya, her husband is a difficult person, and not because he is so famous, but simply because he has such a character, and it took her a very long time to get used to addressing Oleg Evgenievich as “you.”
The actor names traveling among his favorite hobbies - he has already visited many countries, but one of the most memorable for Menshikov was a trip to Tibet.
Anastasia Chernova now
Anastasia continues to remain in the shadow of her star husband. She does not act in films or theater, and appears at events only in the company of her husband. Nastya also does not maintain public blogs on Instagram and other social networks, so her accessible photos appear thanks to the efforts of journalists.
Anastasia Chernova with her husband in 2020
The former graduate of a theater university seems to be happy with life, but in a 2014 article in the magazine “Caravan of Stories” one can find words that for Anastasia to be completely happy, she still lacks professional demand. It seems that in 2020 the situation has not changed: Nastya still does not act in films and does not give reasons for publications in the press.
Biography of actress Anastasia Chernova: childhood
Menshikov's future wife was born on the Taimyr Peninsula, this happened in 1983. Anastasia Chernova is an actress whose childhood years were spent in the small town of Talnakh. If you believe the memories of her school teachers, as a child Nastya had a hot temper and had difficulty finding a common language with her peers. Her dream was a successful career as an actress; this desire is recorded even in school essays.
The biography of actress Anastasia Chernova indicates that she studied well at school. Of course, the excellent student was envied by her classmates, who called her a nerd. In addition to lessons, Nastya found time to attend various clubs. She played in amateur performances, studied dancing and music. She did not enjoy success with male representatives at that time, which was due to her excess weight and complex character.
Nastya Chernova’s childhood was not cloudless due to problems in the family. She was still a child when her parents divorced. The resentment against her father turned out to be so strong that the actress still refuses to communicate with him.
