Nadezhda Solovyova is a producer and businessman, a woman with a bright and extraordinary biography, while usually remaining in the shadows, not striving for self-promotion. Meanwhile, there are two grandiose facts in her creative activity and personal life: it was she who opened our country for the tours of the world's outstanding pop stars, and it was she who, unexpectedly for everyone, became the third wife of the famous journalist and TV presenter Vladimir Pozner.
Biography facts. Childhood
Nadezhda Solovyova is a very closed person from the public, which is surprising for her sphere of activity. So, for example, only the people closest to her know what date and in what month her birthday is. The general public only knows that Nadezhda Yuryevna was born in 1955 in Moscow. When the girl was one and a half years old, her mother divorced her father, and when her daughter was four, she entered into a new marriage. Nadezhda's mother and stepfather worked as engineers and were very often absent from home due to business trips. The girl was raised by her grandparents, giving her only granddaughter maximum love and care. They even argued among themselves - who will spend the summer with Nadya, and in this regard, she could choose where to go: to a dacha in the Moscow region, to the Caucasus or to Evpatoria. The maternal grandfather studied foreign languages with Nadia, and it was to him that she owes her excellent command of English. To motivate his granddaughter, he went to different tricks, for example - he bought ice cream only after they had spoken English the whole walk before.
At the age of six, Nadezhda spent some time in the city of Bratsk, where her mother and stepfather worked on the construction of the Bratsk hydroelectric power station. One day, Cuban leader Fidel Castro came there. Such an event caused a stir throughout the city, people fled in droves to the city square. And then Nadezhda persuaded her kindergarten classmates, and they, in the amount of 14 people, fled from the garden to look at Castro. Father, seeing his little Nadia as the leader of the fugitives, got angry, but comrade Fidel came to the rescue, who picked her up in his arms. A photo of Castro was even taken with Nadia in her arms, but after a while, as a result of a fire in the country house, the family archive with all the photographs burned down - this is probably why it is impossible to find Solovyova's childhood photos anywhere.
For the main part of her childhood and adolescence, Nadezhda Solovyova lived in a communal apartment on the Arbat, in the very center of the capital. She was a very energetic and lively girl, loved active games and preferred to be friends with the boys, inciting them to various adventures. For example, together with her “team”, she collected dropped coins from soda machines near the Smolensk grocery store, then the guys used this money to buy mice and rats in a pet store on the Arbat and slip them into pots for residents of the communal apartment where Nadezhda lived. Of course, this petty hooliganism was soon exposed, and the girl was punished by locking her at home for half a day.
Study and early career
From school subjects, Nadezhda especially loved algebra, and decided to enter the Faculty of Applied Linguistics at the Moscow State Pedagogical Institute of Foreign Languages (now MSLU) named after Maurice Torez. But in the year of her admission, this faculty was abolished, and then Solovyova went to translate. Thanks to her fluency in English, study was easy for her, but most of all the girl then became interested in her personal life: she fell in love, then got married and gave birth to a child in the fourth year of the institute. But, despite this, she completed her higher education, having received the Inyaz diploma and the qualification of an interpreter in 1978.
After the institute, Nadezhda Solovyova began to actively work. The 1980 Olympics was approaching, and specialists with knowledge of the language were in great demand. For two years Nadezhda was an employee of the Olympic Organizing Committee, then she taught at the City Courses of Foreign Languages. And then she began to work as a translator and administrator at the Ministry of Health and WHO, the Ministry of Culture of the USSR and the State Concert. It was this period that became an important milestone in the biography of Nadezhda Yuryevna and the starting point for her grandiose projects, which she later carried out.
Creation of SAV Entertainment
In 1986, just through the State Concert, Nadezhda Solovyova went on a two-month trip to India as part of the accompanying team of Alla Pugacheva's tour. Together with the "star" went Evgeny Boldin - at that time her husband, producer and director of the collective.
Solovyova and Boldin, as two enterprising people in the field of show business, began a fruitful cooperation, and their very first project was the creation of the Alla Pugacheva Theater. The idea was to start bringing young talented Russian musicians on tour abroad on a massive scale. All this was accomplished: Vladimir Presnyakov, Alexander Malinin, Alla Pugacheva herself, and in addition - the Bolshoi Theater and the Ballet on Ice went on touring tours in different countries. Solovyova was involved in organizing and conducting all concert trips. However, it was not yet possible to call it big business: the income from such tours was low.
Then Solovyova and Boldin had the idea of creating an agency to invite popular foreign performers on tour to Russia, most of whom had never been to our country for ideological reasons before. And so, in 1987, Nadezhda Yuryevna Solovyova and Yevgeny Borisovich Boldin became the founders and co-founders of the first private agency SAV Entertainment in Russia, which took over the promotion of foreign performers on the Russian stage. And the first, whom Solovyova "brought" to Russia, was the great musician Elton John - the tour took place in 1994 in the Kremlin Palace.
And then an avalanche of world pop stars' tours literally went: all possible representatives of show business, whom one could wish to see and hear, came to our country and gave concerts in the capital and other cities. Among the most famous are Paul McCartney, Tina Turner, Scorpions, Deep Purple, Kiss, Bon Jovi, Joe Cocker, Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey, Sting, Luciano Pavarotti, Vanessa Mae and many, many others. Soloviev's concert by Paul McCartney, which took place on May 24 in Moscow on Red Square, is especially distinguished.
Each visit of each performer or collective was given by Solovyova at the cost of an incredible amount of work, excitement and hassle: she had to solve all sorts of problems of sometimes very capricious and arrogant "stars" and their administrators - from customs clearance of equipment and ending with a brand of wine served in the dressing room. Sometimes the requirements of the artists were unassuming, and sometimes they were quite exotic: for example, Mariah Carey asked for five humidifiers in the room, the whole room was enveloped in steam!
The partnership of Nadezhda Solovyova and Evgeny Boldin in SAV Entertainment lasted until 2006, then Boldin took up other projects. He was replaced by Vladimir Zubitsky.
Other projects of Nadezhda Solovyova
Nadezhda Yurievna did not stop there - besides SAV Entertainment, she just has a huge number of other projects. For example, she opened a record company, created the SAV PR agency, opened the Planet Hollywood restaurant in Moscow, organized a grand concert for the 300th anniversary of St. Petersburg, which was attended by over forty heads of state of the world, and much, much more.
Solovyova is especially proud of her work with Andris Liepa on the revival of Diaghilev's famous Russian Seasons. The project involved artists from the Bolshoi Theater, the Mariinsky Theater, and the Kremlin Ballet. The original sets and costumes were restored (by artists Anna and Anatoly Nezhnykh).
Solovyova is also a film and television producer. She produced 20 films, including "In the rhythm of tango", "Virtual Alice", "The personal life of Dr. Selivanova", a series of films "Zemsky Doctor", etc. Many of these films were composed by Solovyova's first husband Valery Myagkikh. In addition, some of them starred their daughter Alisa Myagkikh. As a TV producer, Solovyova collaborates with many domestic journalists and presenters, in particular with her second husband, Vladimir Pozner.
Today Nadezhda Solovyova is one of the most famous and influential figures in Russian show business. Her activities have been repeatedly appreciated by various awards and prizes, for example, the Ovation Prize.
Personal life
During her studies at the Institute of Foreign Languages, Nadezhda Solovyova married the composer Valery Nikolaevich Myagkikh, he was 11 years older than his wife. On September 23, 1977, the couple had a daughter, Alice, who, after graduating from school and receiving a higher education at the Financial Academy, subsequently chose the career of an actress and TV presenter. Alice is married to businessman Pavel Altukhov.
The second husband of Nadezhda Yuryevna was the famous journalist Vladimir Vladimirovich Pozner. They met, as two people passionate about their work, at work in 2004, during the Time to Live! Telethon to fight AIDS. The event was organized by Solovyova, and Posner interviewed the participants. A spark flashed between Posner and Solovyova. The lovers were not stopped either by the age difference (he is 70, she is 49), nor by previous marriages: Solovyova was still married to Myagkiye, and Pozner had been married to his second wife Ekaterina Orlova for 30 years. Despite this, both Posner and Solovyova divorced, and in 2008 they officially started a family.
Today they are happy together - they are united not only by love, but also by joint work on television, in various business projects, etc. Spouses constantly discuss something, argue and even quarrel, but this only warms up their feelings - they are always interested in each other.
