Alexander Zbruev with his daughter Tatyana.
Photo: Anastasia Pleshakova
Alexander Zbruev will celebrate his 86th birthday on March 31. Until now, the master of Russian cinema had no grandchildren. And finally a joyful event occurred in the family. The artist’s first grandson was born to his daughter Tatyana. The boy was called Leo.
Alexander Viktorovich has two daughters. The first, Natalya, was born in the legal marriage of the People’s Artist with the star of the film “War and Peace” Lyudmila Savelyeva. Now Natalia is 56 years old. She, like her parents, chose the profession of actress, but now she does not work due to serious health problems.
The second daughter, Tatyana, was born from a brief romance between Zbruev and his colleague at the Lenkom Theater, Elena Shanina. She graduated from GITIS and plays with her parents. in a theater.
Two years ago, 31-year-old Tatyana got married. The chosen one of the acting heir to the dynasty was director Alexander Zaikin. Alexander is the same age as Tatyana; Before the wedding, the lovers dated for several years. The husband of Zbruev’s daughter graduated from the Academy of National Economy and Public Service under the President of the Russian Federation. Alexander is also no stranger to creativity: in his free time he writes electronic music under the pseudonym AC Zazaza.
Tatyana, the daughter of Alexander Zbruev, with her husband Alexander Zaikin. Photo: social networks.
Lenkom’s colleagues assumed that the newlyweds would become parents soon after the wedding. But in the end, their first child was born two years later.
“Levochka immediately became everyone’s favorite,” EG.RU quotes the happy grandmother Elena Shanina.
The actress always speaks affectionately of her daughter’s chosen one.
“Our daughter Tatyana, before joining the troupe of the Lenkom Theater, bore my surname – Shanina. But Mark Anatolyevich agreed to take Tatyana to the theater as a representative of a theatrical dynasty (she loved dynasties), and for this Zbruev had to give Tatyana her last name … she married an absolutely magical young man; In her case, she might not have been otherwise,” Shanina stated.
The first wife of Alexander Zbruev was the actress Valentina Malyavina. They were married from 1959 to 1963. In 1967, two years after the release of the film “War and Peace”, Zbruev married the performer of the role of Natasha Rostova, Lyudmila Savelyeva. His only daughter, Natalya, while still a schoolgirl, starred in the role of Malakhova, Vasya Lopotukhin’s classmate, in the Soviet comedy-fantasy television film “If you believe Lopotukhin…”, directed by Mikhail Kozakov.
