Valery Nikolaev's wife in difficult times turned out to be his main support and support. Valery Nikolaev How long have you known each other? It looks like you have such a hasty wedding ...

The actor married circus artist Elmira Zemskova a couple of months ago. For many, this news came as a surprise. "Antenna" was the first to talk with the newlyweds.

How long have you known each other? It looks like you have such a hasty wedding ...

In 2008, I participated in the Circus with Stars project. After one of the rehearsals, Volodya Turchinsky and I (TV presenter, record holder in strength sports, died of a heart attack in 2009. - Approx. "Antennas") and Sasha Mokhov went to the locker room. In the corridor I saw Elmira. Red hair, long suede coat. Some kind of alien! I would have stood there if Vova Turchinsky hadn't pushed me into the dressing room.

I had just returned from a tour of Germany and just for a couple of minutes looked into the Circus on Tsvetnoy Boulevard - to resolve some urgent issues. Valera in this trinity singled out immediately. She asked her mother who he was. The fact is that I rarely visit Russia and have not seen films with his participation. Mom answered: actor Nikolaev.

Elmira Nikolaevna then told her mother: “This is my future husband". By the middle of the project, I typed good shape, and to impress me was something.

Before one of the numbers, I approached Valera in the buffet, made a compliment and added that I was rooting for him. He invited me to the cinema...

I'm guessing a movie about love?

I don't even remember. I was so worried then that my hamstrings were shaking.

Did we have before the movie? Fortunately, the theater is dark. After some time, Elmira invited me for tea. And a month later, we no longer planned in the evenings what we would do tomorrow, but decided it together in the morning.

Valery looked after beautifully?

He is romantic! Not from the series big bouquet for the holiday, ”although this also happened. And every day some surprises, deeds. I remember my cat was sick. Valera took her to the veterinarian, then he bought medicines. When he learned that I had poor orientation in Moscow, he showed me the city. I constantly felt that he not only listens to me, but also hears me. This went on for over a year.

And then, despite the fact that everything was fine, for some reason you broke up ...

I started touring...

And I have insanity. We hardly spoke for several years. From case to case they crossed paths, called up. During this time, a lot has happened in my life. And at a certain moment I realized that I had exhausted the limit of such an existence. On April 18 of this year, I was driving in a car with very bad thoughts in my head. Suddenly I caught myself calling someone. Heard in the tube "Hello!" and I realized: I dialed Elmira on the machine.

And if he had called the day before, I would not have answered: I was in India. And then, having returned home, she turned on her cell phone, and Valera's number immediately appeared. The call surprised me, because we did not call each other for three years. But there was no resentment. He didn’t do anything bad to me, he didn’t do terrible things. So I invited him home.

I arrived, and so I stayed forever.

Photo from the personal archive of Valery Nikolaev

Did Elmira's parents accept you right away?

Elmira's dad Nikolai Zemskov died when her daughter was 12 years old. And we met Elmira's mother Nina at the Aeroport metro station. She walked with Klepa, a Stafford who bites through car tires. First, Cleopatra had to please. Happened. When Eli's mother returned home after a vacation, Klepa and I slept together on the couch. Then the hostess was imbued with confidence in me. True, the question arose: what should I call Elmira's mother? Mom is hard. She is only three years older than me. And one morning it dawned on me: to speak in one word “Mother Nina”. She, a beautiful young cheerful woman, appreciated the joke. And now I eat delicious hodgepodge and fish soup that she is preparing.

There were a lot of rumors about Nikolaev's relationship with women. Didn't that bother your mother, Elya?

Mom doesn't believe the rumors. And it hurts me more that circus performers are called circus performers in the newspapers.

Are you jealous of your husband?

I'm not jealous. I think: if the husband wants to leave, change, he will do it. You won't have any effect. There are always a lot of women around Valera. But I know how much he loves me, so I am one hundred percent sure of him.

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Valery, as a romantic person, probably, did he make an offer spectacularly?

We went to the Novodevichy Convent for a walk. We sat down near the pond, and he took out a ring ...

I then said that it was not wedding ring, but engagement. Elya, in response, deigned to put her head on my shoulder. She withstood a long pause in the registry office after the words of the registrar. Stanislavsky himself would have said: "Elmira Nikolaevna, the audience is waiting." A friend even had to pinch her so that Elya finally said: “Yes!”

I know that you had a wedding in Suzdal.

I don't like big feasts with traditional white dresses. We bought my outfit spontaneously.

Of course, we drove from the Circus on Tsvetnoy Boulevard to an apartment on Maslovka and “accidentally” ended up in Crocus. This dress would be the envy of a Cirque du Soleil costume designer. Narrow as the neck of a glass, corset, breeches to the knee under the skirt. Very cool. When I showed it to Ele, the first answer was “No!”. Then I took a closer look, and in addition to the dress, we bought two more outfits. After all, the bride must change clothes three times for the wedding.

We did not make a list of guests and menus in advance. At first, they generally wanted to celebrate it together. But in the end, Valera offered to go to Suzdal. I agreed. I have never been in this city, and I'm tired of the Moscow bustle. Only 12 people were invited to the celebration.

The wedding took place on September 8, on Monday. We flew to Suzdal by helicopter. It is unsuitable for an aerial gymnast to move on the ground. There we were already waiting for guests, local artists. Very talented people. Then we went to Vladimir. In the Bogolyubov Monastery a kitten with huge blue eyes. The priest blessed us so that we could take it. The kitten was named Eve. True, a week later the veterinarian advised me to change the name to Adam. And it became clear why the cat immediately crushed the house under him, scared the dogs away and hunted me. In general, now his name is Vladimir Central. ...September 13 was 40 days without my dad. Many said that this was not the time for celebrations, but I think he was happy for us. In the summer, my father was diagnosed with blood cancer. God bless Ira Apeksimova, she placed him in the Botkin hospital. Without her help and her friends, dad would not have received better care than in Germany and Switzerland combined.

A good relationship with an ex-wife is rare. Do Irina and Elmira already know each other?

Yes, I introduced them. True, after that the second meeting took place at the funeral of his father.

Elmira, do you communicate with Dasha, Valery's daughter from her marriage to Apeksimova?

We met a couple of times. There was no dinner with heart-to-heart conversations yet. But I would like it.

Valery Valerievich Nikolaev. Born on August 23, 1965 in Moscow. Russian actor theater and cinema, director.

Father is a former forest engineer, teacher. Now a businessman, he has his own company that certifies various products - instrument-making, household, food, providing an international certificate of conformity. Valery said about him: "There are no more companies like his in Russia. He works with the state standard system, but continues to develop his company, and it is very promising".

Valeria's mother worked as an artist, now retired.

From childhood, he was fond of gymnastics, was preparing to take the exam for a candidate master of sports, but was injured and had to give up his career as an athlete.

At school, a teacher in Russian language and literature constantly organized theatrical lessons. The children put on performances based on various works. Valery liked it, and he decided to try himself in the acting field.

Valery with parents

After school, he applied to several universities at once, including theatrical ones. But he entered the Forestry Engineering Institute, where his father taught. I studied there for a year and dropped out.

He was admitted to the Moscow Art Theater School for a course in 1983. His classmates were Vladimir Mashkov, Irina Apeksimova.

After the first course, he left to serve in the army. 2 years served near Tula in rocket troops. Then he continued his studies.

He graduated in 1990, was accepted into the troupe of the Moscow Art Theater named after A.P. Chekhov.

"Thank God, I was lucky to work at the Moscow Art Theater, thank God, since childhood I was lucky to see real stars - Evstigneev, Papanov, Mironov, Leonov, Borisov"- says Valery.

While studying, he did an internship at the University of Florida, where he received a diploma in dance class (step). A year later he again went to the USA, where in Sarasota state university learned to dance again. He studied at the acting schools "Julliard School" (New York), "Barbican Center", "McCarter Theater" (Princeton, New Jersey).

Received acquaintances in the United States helped Valery subsequently star in several Hollywood blockbusters. Among his works are roles in the English television series Stop Thief and the Hollywood blockbusters The Saint by Philip Noyce and The Turn.

In domestic cinema, the first cameo role (a bar visitor) was with the actor in 1987. In the 90s, he began to play more serious roles, although not the main ones.

Widespread fame came in 1999 after the performance leading role in the series "Birthday Bourgeois". He played the former orphanage Vladimir Kovalenko, who became a big businessman. This role has become his hallmark.

Then he played Viktor Bystroletov in the adventure television series "Homeland is waiting", Anton Polskikh in the series "Dear Masha Berezina". He starred in two serious European projects released in Germany: a fantastic action movie « ice planet» and melodrama "Road to the clouds".

As a choreographer, he staged five performances at the Chekhov Moscow Art Theater, as well as the ballet part of the musical "My Fair Lady" (Moscow, 2000).

He was the host of the program "Beyond Stories".

In 2008, he received an award for the best directorial debut at the First All-Russian Film Festival "Golden Phoenix" in Smolensk for the film "Bear Hunt".

In 2014, he took part in the project " ice Age"Paired with Maria Petrova.

Valery Nikolaev often becomes a participant in scandals. So, drunk, he can disrupt a circus performance, believing that someone was unfair to his wife.

Valery Nikolaev made a scandal in the circus

In February 2016, Nikolaev became the hero of a criminal chronicle. The actor arranged an accident in the center of Moscow, knocking down a pensioner at a pedestrian crossing. He fled the scene of the crime without helping the injured woman. When the police overtook the actor a day later, he wanted to detain Nikolaev.

Valery Nikolaev's height is 178 cm.

Personal life of Valery Nikolaev:

He married for the first time when he studied at the Moscow Art Theater School with classmate Natalia Pirogova, whom he began dating from the beginning of his studies. But the marriage lasted only about a year.

Natalya Pirogova - first wife

"We lived with Nikolaev good life together, we have beautiful daughter. And, fortunately, they did not acquire reasons to be enemies., - Irina Apeksimova later recalled this marriage.

They broke up after filming in the TV series Bourgeois's Birthday, during which Nikolaev had an affair with (because of this, Daria even divorced her husband).

with Daria Poverennova

Note that Valery Nikolaev, despite the divorce from his second wife, always took part in raising his daughter. Dasha was engaged in ballet, but in the end she followed in the footsteps of her parents and entered the Moscow Art Theater School.

Valery also had a relationship with singer Tatyana Ovsienko (she also divorced her husband because of an affair with an actor).

with Tatyana Ovsienko

Nikolaev also had an affair with actress Lyubov Tikhomirova.

with Lyubov Tikhomirova

There were persistent rumors about the actor's close relationship with his partner in the Ice Age project, Maria Petrova, and at that time he had been dating his future third wife Elmira Zemskova for several years.

with Maria Petrova

In September 2014, Nikolaev married for the third time - to the aerial gymnast of the Yuri Nikulin circus, Elmira Zemskova. By the way, she is the only artist in the world who works on a unique apparatus - a spiral.

We met for five years. “We got married only after five years of relationship because Elmira was constantly on tour,” said Nikolaev.

with Elmira Zemskova

In an interview, the couple said that they were thinking about children. Valery said that he dreams of a son, because he already has a daughter, Dasha, and Elmira wants two.

Filmography of Valery Nikolaev:

1987 - Armchair - bar visitor
1991 - Niagara - Pyotr Krasnovitsky
1992 - Very faithful wife- Zhenya, Tanya's husband
1992 - Little things in life - Gosha, Katya's husband
1993 - Love by order - Alex
1993 - Nastya - Sasha Pichugin
1994 - Life and extraordinary adventure soldier Ivan Chonkin - Balashov
1995 - Male mascot
1995 - Lonely Player - Mitya Sukhozhilov
1995 - Shirley-myrli - tap dancer
1996 - Russian hard worker
1996 - Scar. Assassination attempt on Pinochet
1996 - Thief Hunters
1997 - Turn ("U Turn", France, USA) - Arkady
1997 - Saint ("The Saint", USA) - Ilya Tretyak, Russian mafia
1998 - Insidious enemy ("Aberration", New Zealand) - Yuri Romanov
1998 - Dream Team
1998 - Strip
1999 - Bourgeois's birthday - Vladimir Kovalenko, nicknamed "Bourgeois", businessman
2001 - Ice Planet
2001 - Birthday Bourgeois 2 - businessman Vladimir Kovalenko, nicknamed "Bourgeois"
2002 - Russians in the city of angels - Yuriev
2002 - Cinema about cinema - Vitaly, director
2003 - The Motherland is waiting - Viktor Bystroletov, agent "Traveler"
2003 - Don't even think - Feldman
2003 - Next 3 - Nikolai Shakhov ("Shah")
2003 - Road to the clouds
2004 - The Terminal (The Terminal, USA) - Milodragovich
2004 - Balzac age, or All men are their own ... - Ilya
2004 - Dear Masha Berezina - Anton Polskikh
2005 - Mirror Wars: The First Reflection - Boris Korin, test pilot
2005 - In the rhythm of tango - Valery Sosnovsky
2006 - Streets broken lanterns. Cops-7 - Vasily Igorevich Babichev, groom
2006 - Witch - Ivan, journalist
2007 - Bear Hunt - Oleg Fedorovich Grinev, nicknamed "Bear", broker - ( producer)
2008 - Artifact - Eric Shore
2008 - On the roof of the world - Oleg
2008 - Answer me - Alexander Vladimirovich Groshev
2008 - Photographer - Kirill Bazhenov, famous photographer
2008 - Egoist - Egor Dmitrievich Mikhailov, businessman
2009 - Eyes blue as the sea - Nikita
2009 - Clever, beautiful - Alexei Knyazev, plastic surgeon
2009 - Fifth execution - Sanya "Cat", sniper
2010 - White sand- Alexander Vetrov
2010 - Hindu - Nikolai, deputy, business partner of Lazarev
2010 - Thirty-seventh novel
2010 - Fights. True story. Tehran-43 - Popov, head of the NKVD special brigade in Tehran
2011 - On the hook! - diving instructor
2011 - Key of the Salamander - Sanya "Cat"
2011 - Recruiter ( producer)
2012 - Teaching guitar - Oleg Markov, surgeon
2012 - Lone Wolf - Konstantin Sergeevich Stanislavsky, investigator of the prosecutor's office
2012 - 1812: Uhlan ballad - Jacques de Witt, Count
2013 - Double life- Roman, Mark's brother
2013 - The Perfect Murder - Sergey Arzamasov, famous lawyer
2015 - Cult - Oscar
2015 - Husband on call - Andrey

"Bourgeois" found a way to take revenge on Edgard Zapashny

"Bourgeois" found a way to take revenge on Edgard Zapashny

The story that happened in the Circus on Vernadsky Avenue, someone figured out to film it, and it quickly spread around the Internet. During the performance, a man in a vest, shorts and Che Guevara's beret appeared on the arena. The audience saw in the character of the actor Valery NIKOLAEV, who demanded to the whole audience that the director of the circus, Edgard ZAPASHNY, publicly apologize to his wife Elmira ZEMSKOVA.

It happened during the circus festival "Idol". Valery, looking around the hall, praised me for good organization, and then told the public that he married a circus gymnast Elmira Zemskova and even showed a tattoo in honor of her on his arm, - said the director of the circus Edgard Zapashny. - At first, you might think that this is part of a clown reprise. But then Valery turned to me again: “When did you have the last festival?” I said a year ago. To which he said: “A year ago, my wife was kicked out of this circus by guards with machine guns! And she worked for 18 years without insurance at a great height. I couldn't understand what was happening. Had to withdraw Nikolaev from the hall."

Behind the scenes, Zapashny approached the actor to find out what he was dissatisfied with and why he had been dragging on with explanations for a whole year. And he noticed that the star of the once thundering television series “Birthday of the Bourgeois” is clearly not in himself: the pupils are greatly dilated, his eyes shine. It is unlikely that he was drunk - it was more like the impact of some kind of "dope". Zapashny ordered the guards to escort Nikolaev to the car. He got into the driver's seat and drove away. 15 minutes later he called back and tried to apologize. But he spoke indistinctly, swearing through the word.

I invited Valery to come the next day, but he did not appear, - says Zapashny. - Maybe he mixed up the circuses? I personally don’t know Elmira Zemskova, she works at the Nikulin Circus on Tsvetnoy Boulevard - Nikolaev regularly arranges similar shows there. Somehow he was caught in the stable, and he also tried to get into the tigers - he had to call the police.

Mother-in-law stood up for son-in-law

Elmira, who was ill, refused to comment on her husband's trick - her mother took the floor Nina Zemskova. She is also a circus performer, she trains aerialists in the Circus on Tsvetnoy.

A year ago, Elmira was really not allowed to attend the performance, Nikolaev's mother-in-law recalled. - Valery - honest man, and Zapashny's behavior towards Elya offended him. He wanted to apologize to her. Valera and Elmira got married on September 8, and before that they had been dating for five years. And believe me: my son-in-law is a decent person. If he had thrown scandals or rowdy Elmira, she would not have married him.

Of course, Valera chose not the best place for an explanation, Zemskova agreed. - But when he talked to Edgard, he was absolutely sober. Yes, perhaps Valera drank at some point, but now I don’t notice this sin in him. And with the appointment of Zapashny, our artists really stopped going to the Circus on Vernadsky Street: they are not allowed in. But it's pointless to talk about it with Edgard.

Zapashny himself does not deny that a pass system has been introduced in his circus.

We do not have armed guards, because our circus is government agency. But we have no right to neglect safety: we have children at the show, animals in cages. My artists will not get into the Nikulin Circus just like that, from the service entrance. If Zemskova couldn't ask the press secretary to give her a pass, that's not my problem.

In the Nikulin Circus, where Elmira works, they also saw Valery more than once, but they remember this more calmly.

Nikolaev always comes to us in a suit and with a tie,” the administrator said. Oksana Druzhinina. - Last time was September 1 - said that he and Elmira were going to get married. We were happy for Elya: a talented gymnast from circus dynasty, gorgeous. I have known her since the age of six. With Valera, Elmira has her first marriage. And they met during the television show "Circus with the Stars", where they worked in pairs. As for the conflict, as I understand it, Elmira was not allowed in because she had a pass from another circus. Of course, she told her husband about it. And he exploded.

Third try

* In 1984, 19-year-old Moscow Art Theater student Valery Nikolaev married a classmate Natalia Pirogova, with whom he broke up three years later, having met Irina Apeksimova. The artists got married in 1988, but divorced 12 years later. In marriage, a daughter, Dasha, was born.

* On the set of the series "Bourgeois's Birthday" (1999), Nikolaev began an affair with an actress Daria Poverennova which she carefully concealed.

* In 2003, the actor became interested in the singer Tatyana Ovsienko, and a year later was seen in connection with the actress Lyubov Tikhomirova. Marriage with Elmira Zemskova is the third for Nikolaev.

The relationship between Valery Nikolaev and Elmira Zemskova developed over the course of five years and finally culminated in a wedding in September. " Valera himself organized our wedding. I didn't know anything about her training.. We once walked near the Novodevichy Convent. They sat on a bench by the lake, Valera knelt down and, holding out a ring, offered to marry. Everything I did for our wedding was holiday menu and on one of her visits from Cuba, together with her future husband, she chose Wedding Dress. Even two. Both are not wedding, so I will often wear them in ordinary life. I didn't have a dream to wear White dress with a veil. Valera bought wedding rings himself: they are made in the shape of infinity. There was no magnificent celebration: 14 people were guests. Signed on Monday, without fuss. It really turned out to be our holiday, which was made for two," Zemskova said.

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Of course, spouses dream of children. “Valera wants, of course, a son, because he has a daughter, Dasha. And I have two, but first a daughter,” Elmira said. Nikolaev worries about his wife when she performs under the dome of the circus without insurance. "That's why he doesn't want me to work. But I explain:" Valery, I need to say goodbye to the audience. If I leave now, I will not forgive. "The circus was my life, and my husband understands me. Of course, he wants me to be with him, alive and well. And, choosing between the circus and Valera, I will choose it. Soon I will finish my circus activity. I have been working at the arena since the age of 12, that is, already 18. I have the right to a legal pension: for aerial gymnasts, the experience is 15 years," Zemskova noted.

Despite the fact that Nikolaev - an interesting man and many novels were attributed to him (with Daria Poverennova, Tatyana Ovsienko, Lyubov Tikhomirova, and now with his partner in the Ice Age project, Maria Petrova), Elmira Zemskova admitted that she was not jealous. " If a man wants to leave, he will. And it's pointless to keep tight rein. I will not allow myself or him to live with the motto "to the leg." It's embarrassing when I see how the fans fit in Valera and, seeing me, are humiliated. But I’m definitely not jealous,” the Express newspaper quotes the gymnast.