Anastasia Vertinskaya’s biggest love mistakes: Mikhalkov, Gradsky and Efremov

Inimitable Assol, Gutierre, Ophélie … She was called an actress with an “anti-Soviet” appearance and compared to the star of the film “Gone with the Wind” Vivien Leigh. She seduces men with a single glance, but the beauty is not attracted to family life.

The girl was born in Moscow, in a creative family. Poet, singer and actor Alexander Vertinsky and artist Lydia Tsirgvava instilled in their daughter a love of the stage. Little Nastya was interested in painting, music and languages. Parents in every possible way developed and protected the heiress. She admired her father and decided to connect her life with art by entering the Shchukin School.

“My father was so great… It’s a whole era, the name Vertinsky will live on for centuries, it’s a diamond in the crown of our culture… They said to me: ‘You are the daughter of Vertinsky”, and I internally protested: I wanted to be independent of the surname. Then they said to me: “What a beauty!” But in beauty, too, there was no merit. And I wanted to hear: “What an artist!” It was only when they told me that that everything fell into place,” notes the actress.

During her studies, the student met Nikita Mikhalkov. The spark between the youngsters turned into a feeling of fire. However, the future cult director took his beloved to the registry office only when their son Stepan was six months old. The couple did not have their own corner, huddled with friends, but they loved each other very much.

The relationship ended when the couple’s child was three years old. The reason for this was Anastasia’s ambitions and Nikita’s intransigence. He wanted his wife to remain in his shadow and devote herself to the family. The clash of interests played a fatal role.

“I was very much in love… We especially didn’t think about where we should live, how to make money… He was just my beloved Nikiton, cheerful, charming, kind. He was always a leader , he is very talented… We lived and breathed each other… I frantically, almost maniacally wanted to become an actress. And Nikita, of course, went his own way. He needed a woman who would live her life, her interests. He always told me that the purpose of a woman is to sit in the countryside and give birth to children,” the movie star said.

Divorce became Vertinskaya’s personal drama. However, the actress warmly remembers the father of her only child and does not blame him. “I am not by nature the wife of a genius, I cannot be the second person anywhere, only the first. Nikita is always in my close circle, in church I pray for him, for his family, for May they be healthy,” she said.

The performer of the role of Liza Bolkonskaya captured the heart of musician Alexander Gradsky. They lived together for several years. Anastasia could not fall in love with the singer and did not consider him her husband. The union broke up without any particular worries on the part of the celebrity.

“It didn’t last very long and didn’t bring me much disappointment or much seduction. I don’t know what Gradsky said there, you have to ask him. Only I was never officially married to Sasha. But Nikita was my husband, and a good one,” Vertinskaya pointed out.

The longest for the actress was a 20-year romance with a colleague Oleg Efremov. She considers him one of her main mentors on the theatrical scene. The actors were bound by passion, but both enjoyed freedom.

“I had only one husband – Nikita Mikhalkov. Of course, there were romances when there was excitement in the blood, a special uplifting of the spirit, and then it turned into a different relationship . I do not refuse novels, but they are not my husbands. I do not even consider that I had civil marriages. The most “durable” person in my life was Oleg Nikolaevich Efremov, “the star confesses.

Anastasia liked that Efremov did not try to “chain” her to the stove. The actress at one time was satisfied with the role of a mistress, then feelings cooled. “I adored him. He didn’t need me to cook him soup. When I wanted to marry him, it was impossible because he was married. And when he wanted it himself, I didn’t love him anymore, ”she confessed.

The first beauty of Soviet cinema in the crisis period left to teach acting in Oxford. She worked at the Chekhov School in Paris and at the European Film School in Switzerland. Anastasia considers the 12-year period spent abroad a good experience, but she wanted to return home.

The actress has retired from acting and spends a lot of time with her family. Stepan gave his grandchildren – Alexander, Vasily, Peter and Luka. In 2018, great-grandson Fedor was born. Vertinskaya does not regret the losses in her personal life, she does not consider herself alone and unhappy at all. Thanks to her son, she became interested in cooking, which seemed so distant in her youth. Now the star oversees the work of his Moscow restaurants.

“Offering me the formula ‘The main thing for a woman is to be a wife’ was useless. It makes no sense even now. I don’t suffer from it at all, I have no single woman complex Also, it would be terribly difficult for me to live in a marriage,” she pointed out.

Anastasia does not consider herself a hermit. She links the absence of a life partner to her difficult character and her desire to be independent. The actress has remained a free woman who is only really obsessed with acting.

“Father and son are my two idols. They meet all my needs in men. I realized very early that marriage was not my element, I was not made for it. If I were to live again, in the first place I would not make human and amorous errors. That’s for sure … Such mistakes occur during the period of assertiveness. You want to win a man, which, in general, you do not need – you just need a victory. And you gallop, not knowing where your horse’s hoof is stepping, destroying both that person’s life and your own life. That’s what I call love’s biggest mistake,” she said.

Earlier, we collected interesting facts about the career of the iconic Soviet actress. Anastasia’s sister Marianna painfully survived the betrayal of Andrei Konchalovsky. Vertinsky’s parents had a happy forbidden love story.