Nonna Mordyukova was not honest with her beloved.
The son of Vyacheslav Tikhonov and Nonna Mordyukova was considered an eligible bachelor. Few could resist the handsome brunette, around whom girls always revolved. Vladimir Tikhonov himself immediately drew attention to the bright Natalya Varley.
The student at the Shchukin School was also popular with the opposite sex. She rejected the sympathy of Leonid Filatov, briefly married Nikolai Burlyaev, and at the same time did not hide her affair with Konstantin Raikin. But under the pressure and charm of the heir to the star family, the star of “Prisoner of the Caucasus” surrendered.
When Tikhonov Jr. was working on the set of “Russian Field,” Varley hastily arrived on the set to announce his future paternity. The actor immediately proposed marriage to her, but Mordyukova strongly did not approve of her potential daughter-in-law. The couple still got married, but the actress decided to upset their relationship in a less than honest way. She explained to her son over and over again that the unborn child may well not be his.
It even got to the point that Tikhonov did not meet his wife with their newborn baby from the hospital and soon divorced her, succumbing to the persuasion of his mother. Mordyukova was sure that Varley gave birth to a son from her former admirer, the famous comedian Konstantin Raikin. In addition, the boy Vasya was like two peas in a pod and had nothing in common with the famous “Tikhonov breed.”
