Anna Nikolaevna Shatilova is a legend, a whole era in Soviet television, a peculiar face and voice of our country. Invariably elegant, austere, but with warm eyes, charming and bewitching, with a unique voice - she has always delighted and will delight the audience.
In Soviet times, the most popular program was Vremya, and only exceptional, outstanding people should have conducted it. Igor Kirilov and the beautiful Anna Nikolaevna Shatilova rightfully became such. Few of their contemporaries know that legends were made about this couple, they were considered a family, they fell in love with them, they received letters in bags. But, unfortunately, very little is known about the biography and personal life of Anna Shatilova.
Biography of the leading Anna Nikolaevna Shatilova
Anna Nikolaevna was born in the Moscow region in 1938 and knows firsthand about all the hardships of childhood during the war. When the girl was only 3 years old, her father went to war and never returned home. Only many years later, Anna Nikolaevna managed to find traces of him in the lists of those who died in one of the Nazi concentration camps.
Anna Shatilova's mother worked throughout the war in an orphanage, where her daughter was constantly with her. The baby did not think about any creativity at that time. Her craving for beauty was limited to reading poetry with classmates and rarely attending the theater or film shows. After school, Anna entered a pedagogical university, despite a complete lack of interest in the exact sciences, she successfully graduated from it. Quite by chance, the girl got into the presenters' competition organized by the Directorate of the State Television and Radio Broadcasting, which determined her future fate.
Career of Anna Nikolaevna Shatilova
Anna Nikolaevna Shatilova became the winner of the competition of the leading State TV and Radio and got on the radio. A few years later, in 1962, she was invited to audition as the leading news program on television. The girl was successful here too, she entered a unique team - the legendary Levitan, Olga Vysotskaya, Vladimir Gertsik.
Many of Anna Nikolaevna Shatilova's colleagues, who came to TV with her, could not stand such a busy schedule and left. Anya worked selflessly, scrupulously studied the basics of the profession, for days, and sometimes for several days, disappeared in Ostankino.
Shatilova led not only Soviet news, but also managed to work in Japan, where she worked for a year as an announcer for a Russian-language channel. There were also acting jobs in her career - roles in two films and a television series. Anna Nikolaevna still actively takes part in various talk shows, even starred in Urgant's parody video for Madonna's song.
Personal life of Anna Shatilova
Married to her only husband, Alexei Borisovich Shatilov, Anna Nikolaevna lived for 44 years. They had a son, Cyril. Since 2008 Anna Nikolaevna is a widow. But the son and his family are actively involved in her life, not allowing her to plunge into sadness for her deceased husband.
In addition, her colleagues in the “shop”, both from the Soviet period and contemporaries, do not allow her to lose heart. The frankness and honesty, the huge life experience of the legendary presenter are always in demand on talk shows. She gladly accepts invitations, and not one of the authors of such programs has yet regretted that Anna Nikolaevna Shatilova became his guest.
