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Anna Kovalchuk
The detective series “Secrets of the Investigation” was destined to become a long-liver of domestic television. At the end of last year, the 22nd season of the film, beloved by the audience, was released on the screens. Anna Kovalchuk, the leading lady, celebrates her 46th birthday on June 15. Four years after the actress was glorified by “Secrets …”, she was divorced with her little daughter in her arms.
“I regret that I left Moscow then”
Kovalchuk’s first husband Anatoly Ilchenko was her classmate, but he never became a popular actor. It could be seen in very famous films – “Streets of Broken Lights”, “Opera”, “Foundry”, “Cop Wars”, “Gangster Petersburg”.
That’s just the roles got small. In the second season of “Secrets of the Investigation” Anatoly also played a supporting character – a police sergeant. From time to time, Ilchenko still appears in the cinema.
Anatoly and Anna studied in the northern capital – at the Leningrad Institute of Theater, Music and Cinematography. They started dating already in the first year, and after the third year they settled together in a rented room. However, after graduating, Ilchenko and Kovalchuk almost broke up forever.
“She was taken to the Lensoviet Theater in her third year. But I wanted to go to Moscow. In the capital, director Valery Belikovich took me to his Theater in the South-West. We did not communicate for a year, ”Anatoly recalled.
Anna even had an affair with another colleague, Sergei Peregudov. It didn’t grow. Then Kovalchuk was in Moscow on business and invited Ilchenko to meet. The old feelings are rekindled.
Anatoly eventually dropped everything and went after his beloved. Then he admitted: “I regret that I left Moscow then. Belikovich predicted my fate: “Tomorrow you will get divorced and what will you do? And the theater is forever. This is your home, you have great roles!”
“They wrote that I beat my wife!”
Their marriage lasted almost six years. The daughter Zlata was born, who is already over 20 today. The heiress was also captured in “Secrets of the Investigation” – as the child of the main character.
Ilchenko worked for an oil company for some time. Later he started his own business – a company for organizing holidays.
“Once I realized that without the theater I was suffocating. I went to try out in all the theaters. They took me to the theater “Comedians,” Anatoly said.
Anna became an extremely popular actress. Interesting proposals poured in as if from a cornucopia. Time for home was not enough catastrophically.
“We didn’t have a family in the normal sense. At some point, we realized that we had become brother and sister, ”says the first husband of the star.
Both claim that they parted without scandals and maintained an excellent relationship. “We communicate normally,” Kovalchuk said. Ilchenko echoed her:
“They wrote that I beat my wife! Complete nonsense! Please don’t make a monster out of me. We didn’t even really fight. How can you feel bad about Anna, who gave me a wonderful daughter? I was present at the birth.”
To each his own
That their union was destroyed by someone else, both former spouses deny. Both re-arranged their personal lives. Anatoly married a colleague in the theater “Comedians” Natalya Terekhova. The couple had two sons – Dmitry and Artem.
Anna has been married to businessman Oleg Kapustin for 16 years, to whom she gave her son Dobrynya in 2010. Kapustin called Kovalchuk to the registry office six months after they met, but the actress preferred to first check her feelings.
Today, the spouses do not hide: different times happened in their marriage. Survived at least one major crisis. Kovalchuk shared with reporters:
“Misunderstandings accumulated at some point. Oleg, realizing that he was doing something wrong, suggested, even insisted that the two of us go to Sicily. There we rested and discussed what was going on.”
Today Anna is busy in the theater in five repertoire performances. Including plays Korobochka in Dead Souls, Agafya Tikhonovna in the production of City. Marriage. Gogol. A new film with the participation of Kovalchuk is in production. The audience will soon see her in the role of Princess Dashkova in the historical film “Catherine. Favorites”.
