Nikita Sergeevich Mikhalkov is a famous Soviet and Russian film director, actor, producer and screenwriter, has the title of People's Artist of the RSFSR and the post of chairman of the Union of Cinematographers of Russia.
Children from the first marriage
Mikhalkov was married 2 times, the director's first wife was actress Anastasia Vertinskaya, they were married for only 4 years. In 1966, they had a son, who was named Stepan.
Stepan Nikitich Mikhalkov is a restaurateur, entrepreneur, producer and a bit of an actor who starred in the early 90s in two little-known films "Hitchhiker" and "Shooting Angels", he was born in 1966. In 1991, together with another son of a famous person, Fyodor Bondarchuk, he founded one of the first studios professionally engaged in the creation of commercials and music videos. Acted as a producer of the films "On the Move" and "9th Company". In 2001, together with the famous restaurateur Arkady Novikov and with the same Bondarchuk, he opened his first restaurant "Vanil", after which he took up the restaurant business seriously. Now he owns 4 restaurants and a chain of bakery business class "Bread & Co". Stepan Mikhalkov has three children from his first marriage: 2 boys and a girl.
With his first wife, Anastasia Vertinskaya, Mikhalkov maintained a warm family relationship, which they still maintain.
Mikhalkov's children from his second marriage
The second wife of Nikita Mikhalkov was a fashion model from the All-Union House of Models Tatyana Shigaeva, who later became the president of the Russian Silhouette Charitable Foundation. The director has been married with her for more than 40 years, during which time they have formed a strong family and three children were born and raised: two girls Anna and Nadezhda, and a boy Artem and 6 grandchildren.
The eldest daughter Anna was born in 1974, graduated from VGIK, starred in many Russian films and TV series, is the host of the children's program "Good night, kids". The first time she appeared on the screens in the documentary film "Anna from 6 to 18", which told about her childhood and early adolescence and was filmed by her father. With her roles in films not shot by her father, she constantly proves that she is an actress by vocation, and not by pull. She supports independent auteur cinema, how many of the author's films she helped to act in films and generally come into being, in others she performed the main roles. She is married to entrepreneur Albert Bakov, from whom she gave birth to three children: 2 boys and 1 girl.
Mikhalkov's son Artem was born in 1975, graduated from the directing department of VGIK, after which he filmed, filmed himself, took part in various television projects and hosted several not-so-famous television programs on NTV and STS. Until March 2013, he was married to a journalist named Daria, from whom he has a daughter, Natalya.
Mikhalkov's older children, Anna and Artem, were born during the filming of the film "At home among strangers, a stranger among friends."
Nadezhda Nikitichna Mikhalkova is the director's youngest daughter, born in 1986. At the age of 8, she starred in her father's film Burnt by the Sun, which won an Oscar for Best Foreign Film. In Burnt by the Sun, she practically played herself - Nadia, the daughter of the division commander Kotov, played by Mikhalkov himself. She has been acting in films to this day, while Nadezhda does not have an acting education, she studied at MGIMO as a journalist. She tried her hand at producing and as a fashionable clothing designer. As a producer, she worked on the film Tell Leo, as a designer, she organized a fashion show of clothes under the Nadine brand. She is married to film director, screenwriter and producer Rezo Gigineishvili, from whom she had 2 children: daughter Nina and son Ivan. Not so long ago, constantly busy Nadezhda and Rezo, so that the grandchildren were constantly under the supervision of their relatives when they left, moved to live in the Mikhalkov family estate, located near the city of Babaevo, Vologda Oblast.
It is also worth adding that the Mikhalkov family has real aristocratic roots dating back to the distant 15th century, how many talented and creative people there were, you can find out by looking at the genealogical tree of this family.
