Biography of Tatyana Mikhalkova
Tatyana Evgenievna Mikhalkova, the wife of the famous director Nikita Sergeevich, is a recognized public figure. She heads the Russian Silhouette Charitable Foundation, the purpose of which was to support national fashion designers. She is engaged in the preparation and implementation of a large-scale project “New Russia - XXI Century”, providing budding fashion designers with internship opportunities in legendary foreign high fashion houses - Yves Saint Laurent, Lekoane-Eman, as well as in domestic enterprises working in the field fashion industry. She has repeatedly emphasized that fashion is her profession and life.
Why didn't my career work out?
Despite the breathtaking rise, the career of the young model never reached its heights. The whole point is that she met her love. At the premiere of the film “Telegram” by Rolan Bykov, she met Nikita Mikhalkov. He was an aspiring director and a very seductive young man. He liked the woman so much that a date was immediately arranged.
The young people had to go to a restaurant. Nikita Mikhalkov's future wife Tatyana painstakingly prepared for this event. Her fellow fashion models came to her aid. A large layer of makeup was applied to the face, blue arrows and purple shadows were applied to the eyes, and red lipstick was applied to the lips. The look was completed with a Brigitte Bardot-inspired updo. You can imagine what lasting memory the young beauty made on the young director. Seeing Tatyana, he immediately took her to wash. He was so determined in his own intention that the woman gave in. But this behavior did not offend her in the least and, on the contrary, even defeated her. She was flattered by Mikhalkov’s desire to create her real, without any embellishment and feminine tricks.
First experience: Tatyana Mikhalkova - model
The girl got bored with just transmitting other people's thoughts as an intermediary-translator; she wanted to teach and began looking for work in this specialty. One day Mikhalkova was returning home along the Kuznetsky Bridge. She was upset because she was not hired at the Aviation Institute. Moreover, what was especially offensive was that she was refused because of her allegedly inappropriate appearance - Tatyana wore skirts that were too short for a potential youth mentor and long flowing hair. Therefore, having noticed an advertisement for the recruitment of fashion models for the All-Union House of Fashion Models, she thought that she had nothing to lose and decided to go to the casting. Members of the artistic council unanimously approved her candidacy, appreciating the beauty of the applicant’s legs and hair. As a result, somewhat unexpectedly for herself, she became a fashion model.
Tatyana Mikhalkova worked as a fashion model in her youth
For more than five years, the girl worked in a team where the best domestic fashion designers, pioneers of Soviet fashion, including Vyacheslav Zaitsev, worked. It should be noted that Tatyana subsequently became his favorite model. Moreover, the girl’s beauty and professionalism were recognized not only in Russia, but also abroad - she was invited to Italy, as well as to one of the most elite and popular publications - the Estonian fashion magazine “Silhouette”.
The world of fashion and journalism
By chance, having seen an announcement about a casting in the House of Models, I decided for myself, why not? A well-built girl managed to show herself and was accepted. After some time, she became the favorite model of the Soviet-era couturier, Vyacheslav Zaitsev. Not without his assistance, she traveled abroad with shows. And then, Tatyana worked on a contract basis in Italy. The Estonian publication “Silhouette” willingly collaborated with the model Solovyova (Mikhalkova).
The girl has only one role in Nikita Mikhalkov’s feature film, “Red Gold”. There was another cameo role, but it was so tiny that the name of the aspiring actress did not even appear in the credits.
This was the end of the movie, and Tatyana continued to work in the model house. But this business did not work out, despite its dizzying success. One day, a girl went to the premiere of a film by Rolan Bykov and there she met him, the man of her dreams, with whom she connected her life.
At one time, after Tatyana ended her modeling career, she was translating children's literature from English into Russian. In addition, she worked as an English teacher at the Stroganov State Academy of Arts and Industry, Moscow.
Romance of Tatyana Mikhalkova with Nikita Mikhalkov
Tatyana was introduced to her future husband at the House of Cinema by Vivian Gaudet, the third wife of Andrei Konchalovsky, Nikita’s older brother. Mikhalkov had by that time divorced his first wife Anastasia Vertinskaya. He immediately liked Tatyana, and he began to court the modest girl. Very soon a deep feeling arose between the young people. Then Mikhalkov was drafted into the army, and Tanya waited for him for two years. After Nikita returned from service in 1973, they got married. The marriage registration took place not in Moscow, but in the city of Grozny, where 28-year-old Mikhalkov filmed his first film, “A Friend Among Strangers, a Stranger Among Our Own.”
First wife
Few people know that in his youth Nikita Sergeevich was married to Anastasia Vertinskaya. Probably because this marriage lasted only two and a half years. Both spouses had strong leadership qualities, so it was very difficult for two “commanders” to get along under one roof.
Mikhalkov’s father, a famous poet, aptly called this union “educational and training.”
Nikita and Anastasia
Young people simply had no idea what marriage was. They were both constantly busy filming, Anastasia as an actress, and Nikita had just begun to get interested in directing and take his first steps in this direction. In addition, Mikhalkov’s firm conviction that a woman should sit at home and take care of her family irritated Vertinskaya’s active nature. She was not going to sacrifice her career for a man, even taking into account the fact that they already had a son, Stepan.
Mikhalkov's first wife left him, taking her son.
Personal life of Tatyana Mikhalkova
After marriage, Tatyana continued to demonstrate new clothing samples at the Model House. Moreover, her appearances on the podium continued until she went on maternity leave in the seventh month of pregnancy. After this, her modeling career ended. Nikita Sergeevich objected to their children going to kindergarten or being raised by a nanny. Therefore, the young mother decided to devote herself to home and family. Later they had two more children.
Tatyana Mikhalkova ended her modeling career after starting a family
Today their children are already adults. Anna and Nadezhda are actresses, Artem is an actor and director. The eldest daughter gave her parents three grandchildren - Andrei, Sergei and Lydia, the youngest - two - Nina and Ivan, Artem has a daughter Natalya.
It’s impossible not to mention that Tatyana Evgenievna really loves bows. They are positioned today as her signature PR move and a kind of calling card. It turns out that Mikhalkova’s devotion to this accessory arose during her work at the House of Models, when she visited the Lenin Library to admire the famous photograph of Coco Chanel with an elegant and modest bow in her hair. Since then, Tatyana began to give preference to this decoration, collecting a whole collection of bows of various colors and shapes.
Popular actors
I wanted to know: what was Tatyana, Nikita Mikhalkov’s wife, like in her youth, when she had just started dating her future husband. How he saw her, how she fell into his heart. We are all already accustomed to Tatyana Mikhalkova with a black bow in her hair, dressed in the same long black dress. For some time now, this woman decided that she should only go out in black dresses; in all her later photos, if not in them, then in dark blue outfits.
But as a fashion model, Tatyana Mikhalkova wore a variety of clothes; in those days she was very thin and weighed only 47 kilograms with a height of 172 centimeters. Tatyana herself says that no one demanded excessive slimness from the models at the House of Models; women of different types, ages and sizes worked there. But if the model was as beautiful as Tatyana, then she could start working in an experimental workshop, where fashion was created for the elite - the wives of Politburo members, actresses representing our country abroad, and other difficult mortals. In her youth, Tatyana Mikhalkova was unusually beautiful, of course - Nikita Mikhalkov fell in love with her and decided to make this girl his wife, he was about 28 years old at that time, he was already divorced from his first wife Anastasia Vertinskaya, with whom he had The marriage produced a common son, Stepan. I believe that Nikita Mikhalkov decided not to rush headlong into marriage for the second time, but to first think through and weigh everything carefully. He chose as his life partner a beautiful, but meek, intelligent, soft-character girl, who looked at him as if he were a god and didn’t particularly contradict him, but at the same time always had her own backbone. It’s clear that Tatyana Mikhalkova was not such an uncomplaining victim in a relationship, it often happened that she kicked, but at the same time she understood that the main one in their family was and will be Nikita. Who is strong and who is weak in this pair is immediately clear. Nikita Mikhalkov allows herself to be loved, Tatyana is immensely happy about this, and many would dream of being in her place, next to such a charismatic, self-confident man. Tatyana Mikhalkova, in her seventies, is still the same tremulous doe in her soul, a girl who is madly in love with her husband, as her three now adult children unanimously affirm. Well, Nikita Sergeevich Mikhalkov... he is completely immersed in the creative process, he is a director, actor, screenwriter, producer, entrepreneur, public figure, blogger... With such hectic activity, where can he find enough time for his legal wife, but nevertheless he is at home, does not leave the family, does not ignore his wife. Tatyana Mikhalkova is also a busy person, but all her worries and troubles are rather a way to escape from sad thoughts and not suffer excessively from Nikita’s inattention. Tatyana Mikhalkova heads the Russian Silhouette Charitable Foundation, which supports Russian designers and revives national traditions. Tatyana Mikhalkova is a very good mother, her children and grandchildren adore her, and that says a lot!
In this photo, Tatyana Mikhalkova with her granddaughter Natalya, the daughter of her son Artem.
With son Artem and granddaughter Natalya.
Childhood photo of Tatyana Mikhalkova.
Family photo: Tatyana and Nikita Mikhalkov with their children Anna and Artem.
This is what Tatyana Mikhalkova was like in her youth.
With daughter Nadezhda.
With granddaughter Natasha.
Years go by, but Tatyana Mikhalkova’s limbs are still as slender and beautiful!
Tatyana Mikhalkova currently
When her son and daughters grew up, Tatyana Evgenievna had the opportunity to express herself in society and realize her creative abilities in the world of fashion that interested her. In 1997, to promote national traditions in clothing, she created the Russian Silhouette Foundation. Under her leadership, fashion shows of many domestic fashion designers were organized. In 1999, Tatyana Evgenievna founded the All-Russian competition of young clothing designers - on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of Alexander Pushkin, held in this regard under the title “I remember a wonderful moment...”.
Tatyana and Nikita Mikhalkov are one of the strongest families among Russian celebrities
Every year the number of participants and the geography of the competition, as well as the quality of the submitted works, grew. The list of contenders for victory has always been diverse - about a thousand fashion designers from Moscow, Hanoi, London, Sochi, Kharkov, and Nalchik demonstrated their collections here. The final of the competition, through the efforts of Tatyana Evgenievna, takes place in Gostiny Dvor in Moscow. Over the years of its existence, “Russian Silhouette” has become a real source of personnel for the Russian fashion industry. The competition diploma, which is invariably presented by the chairman of the jury Mikhalkova, allows the winners to receive invitations to all kinds of exhibitions and fashion shows, to find worthy use of their abilities and good work. Among the diploma recipients who are successfully developing their own clothing lines are the artist-fashion designer Tasha Strogaya, the idol of Russian IT-girls Alexander Terekhov, the owner of the TAKSAgroup design studio Natalya Tarasevich and many others.
Tatyana Evgenievna travels a lot around Russia and around the world, creating a number of projects on television. Among them are programs about fashion “Bazaar” on TVC, “You are a supermodel” on STS. In 2001, the Russian Academy of Arts awarded her the title of its honorary member for her significant contribution to the development of Russian design. Mikhalkova is an academician of NAIM, awarded many orders and memorials, including the medal of the International UNESCO Foundation.
Hearth Keeper
Tatiana's career as a fashion model has come to an end. Soon the young and promising director made her an offer, and she could not refuse. They merried. The husband did not want her to work. In his mind, a lady should take care of a house, a spouse, and raise children. But it doesn't work. He was very persistent in his own beliefs, and Tatyana had no choice but to accept them.
Soon they had children. Their wife was also involved in raising them. According to the husband, there is no place for nannies and others in a true family. But it was hard for Tatyana to sit at home all the time. She was used to a hectic life filled with events, and being confined to four walls overwhelmed her.
Thanks to her remaining connections and undeniable beauty, she occasionally appeared on the podium. Even pregnancy did not become an obstacle to this. At that time, a trapezoidal silhouette was in fashion, which perfectly hid a rounded tummy. She continued to work until she was seven months old. But very soon this activity was over for her. Tatyana Mikhalkova dedicated herself to home and family, and her young husband to cinematography.
Anniversary
Not long ago, Tatyana celebrated her own anniversary - 65 years old. The whole family celebrated. Famous people of the capital were invited as guests. Among them are composer Eduard Artemyev, Yuri Nikolaev, Governor Boris Gromov and many others. All those present note the hospitality and benevolence of the owners. Friends and relatives recalled incidents from the life of the family. Everyone remembered the fact that Tatyana was the first in the Russian Union to dare to wear maxi skirts and shorts. She was having fun with all her heart. She was flattered by everyone's attention. In addition, Tatyana is extremely pleased that in recent years her family has grown significantly in size.
Family comes first
Despite her constant employment, Tatyana Mikhalkova devotes most of her time to her children and her famous husband. Keeping a hearth in a starry house is not an easy task. However, Tatyana copes with it successfully. In interviews, she speaks only positively about her husband. She says that he has a complex character, and living with him is not at all easy. However, she never questions all his decisions and words.
It is customary in a family to trust each other. Any suspicion is offensive to the spouses. Tatyana is captivated by her husband’s creativity. She always zealously defends him from any criticism. She is the same reliable protector for her children and grandchildren. She is a wonderful mother and grandmother. All their loved ones come to her with their troubles and are sure to receive support.
Own business
When the kids grew up, it was time to get back to work. Tatyana Mikhalkova, whose biography is very interesting, founded a charitable foundation called “Russian Silhouette”. His task was to help young and professional fashion designers. Thanks to this, many now famous people in the fashion industry confidently declared themselves. Tatyana herself often travels around the country in search of new ideas and budding designers. She really likes to help young talents, such as she herself once was.
