Sergei Nasibov was considered one of the most beautiful actors in Soviet times. Now he almost never plays, having gone into the shadows. However, the artist sublimates his creative beginning in a different way.
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Nasibov almost every day pleases subscribers on the Web with his paintings. The main characters of his paintings are nude figures of women in the style of Picasso. His works are exhibited in galleries from time to time (now there is a proposal to organize an exhibition in St. Petersburg), but Sergey considers this activity exclusively for the soul.
“When I moved to America (in 1988) I painted houses to live,” the actor told the Born in the USSR program in 2015.
He left, being a bachelor, without much fuss. So it happened. However, Sergei Nasibov is unmarried even now. With his second wife, Vetta, a graduate of the Bolshoi Ballet School, Sergei divorced, maintaining friendship and respect. He regularly visits California, where he has a house left to visit his youngest daughter Anastasia and his ex-wife.
– We divorced Vetta, but she is still my wife. Former … – Nasibov admitted evasively.
Recall that the first wife of the artist was Ekaterina Durova. Every year, Nasibov celebrates her birthday and mourns on the day of her departure (Lev Durov’s daughter died in 2019 at the age of 60). With his classmate at GITIS, Ekaterina Durova, Sergei also parted in a friendly way, and they both spoke good words regarding each other, but at the same time, Ekaterina set a condition – not to disturb their daughter Ekaterina. So Sergei Nasibov did. But upon returning to Moscow, he began to communicate a lot with Catherine, then with her children.
– I have two daughters – Katya and Nastya, – he said.
But regarding his great love – the legendary theater and film actress Natalya Gundareva – Sergey does not apply. Questions regarding their stormy romance and three-year life together are evasive. For example, in one interview he put it this way:
– Natasha Gundareva is not a closed topic. But what to say? Yes, she is a wonderful actress and a very vulnerable person.
And to the journalist’s question: “Did you have a great love?”, Nasibov responded: “Let’s not turn our conversation into an Indian melodrama.”
By the way, Sergei Nasibov refutes the popular newspaper version that Gundareva allegedly took her husband away from Lev Durov’s daughter, and for his sake she left her husband Viktor Koreshkov.
“Both I and Natasha were already divorced at the time of our intimacy,” the actor commented.
He also denied another rumor – regarding hatred between the favorites of the all-powerful artistic director of the Mayakovsky Theater Tatyana Doronina and Natalya Gundareva.
“There was nothing like it. Normal relationship. Goncharov also loved Gundareva, and loved Doronina as an actress. They were very different. But he loved both and staged performances on them. Later I worked with Tatyana Vasilievna in a different capacity – an actor in her theater, the Gorky Moscow Art Theater, where she invited me. Worked interesting. He played in the production of Roman Viktyuk, – Sergey Nasibov told EG.
Sergei Nasibov acts in films from time to time, but is more involved in painting and communicating with relatives. The other day, actor Stas Sadalsky reviewed the American TV series Motherland, in which Sergei Nasibov also starred, and wrote: “Sergey is a chic artist. I was stunned and jumped in surprise on the screen.
Stanislav Sadalsky was friends with Sergei Nasibov and Natalya Gundareva during their romance. Sadalsky, on the other hand, accompanied Gundareva on her last journey with tears in his eyes. Sergei Nasibov at that time lived in America.
In the female faces in the paintings of Sergei Nasibov, the features of Natalia Gundareva, and Ekaterina Durova, and other women are visible. But it’s hard to tell one from the other. Yes, and is it necessary?
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