Elmira Zemskova told how hard her husband had experienced the accident, and how she was advised to divorce him.

Last spring, Valery Nikolaev rammed several cars in a car, ran over a traffic police officer and fled the scene of the crime. The wife of the actor Elmira Zemskova at that time was on tour in Vienna, having heard about the accident, she thought it was a duck, she began to call her husband, but he was unavailable.

From friends, Elmira learned that Valery had been detained. The next day, it turned out that Nikolaev left the courtroom without permission, and he was imprisoned for ten days. On March 8, Zemskova returned to Moscow, Valery had just been released. He came home tired, depressed, with empty eyes, he closed himself even more.

Elmira did not engage in clarifications, but simply tried to be with her husband around the clock. And again, she didn't follow. Nikolaev, hurrying on business, drove into the oncoming lane and lost his driver's license. As a result, the court imposed a sentence of fifteen days of arrest and a fine. Elmira went to her husband and brought a package. And at that moment, behind bars, Valera finally realized how he recent months screwed up. As a result, Nikolaev returned home completely broken.

According to Zemskova, it began to seem to her husband that wherever he went, he would get into another trouble, as a result, Nikolaev became afraid to leave the house. The actor has always controlled himself perfectly, it was very difficult to unbalance him. And on the day of the accident, the twenty-fifth of February, nothing foreshadowed trouble. Then Valera confessed to his wife that he himself did not understand how this could happen.

Nikolaev completely immersed himself in his sense of guilt, fear for the future. He understood that he could lose his profession, his family, his audience. Then he apologized publicly on the Internet for the first time - both to the people who were injured in the accident and to his fans.

In the period between the accident that Nikolaev got into and the trial, some well-wishers asked Elmira why she needed such a husband. Some people stopped communicating with Valera after these incidents. But real friends and relatives were always there, supported. Dasha was constantly in touch with her father. There were also fans from Valery's fan club who supported Nikolaev in every possible way.

Elmira herself had doubts that if her husband behaved so strangely, whether he even needed a wife. However, after everything experienced, they even stopped quarreling over trifles. Their love only grew stronger.

At the trial, Valery thanked his wife for understanding everything and being there. “I live for her,” the actor admitted. For both of them, this was a serious lesson. They realized how much they needed each other in sorrow and in joy.

Then Nikolaev and Zemskova acquired a large and kind Alabai Josie, such a great white miracle. They began to walk with Josie, Valery began to gradually come to life.

Recently, with the participation of Nikolaev, the entreprise “Lie to me, baby!” The fact that her husband is busy with what he loves makes Elmira very happy.

Valery Nikolaev was married twice before meeting Elmira. The first time - on a classmate at the Moscow Art Theater School-Studio Natalya Pirogova. From the second wife, actress Irina Apeksimova, Nikolaev already has an adult daughter, Dasha. Elmira and Valery visited Irina, where Zemskova met Dasha. Nikolaev loves and is proud of her very much.

Elmira Zemskova in her youth lived for three years with the juggler Lev. Then she went on tour to Las Vegas, and maintaining a serious relationship at a distance is impossible. A few years later, Elmira found out that Leva had crashed on a motorcycle. On tour, she had foreign fans, but Serious relationships didn't add up. And with Valera, Elmira admits, from the first day it was even comfortable to be silent.

Valery Valerievich Nikolaev. Born on August 23, 1965 in Moscow. Russian theater and film actor, director.

Father is a former forest engineer, teacher. Now a businessman, he has his own company that certifies various products - instrument-making, household, food, providing an international certificate of conformity. Valery said about him: "There are no more companies like his in Russia. He works with the state standard system, but continues to develop his company, and it is very promising".

Valeria's mother worked as an artist, now retired.

Since childhood, he was fond of gymnastics, preparing to take the exam for a candidate for master of sports, but was injured and had to give up his career as an athlete.

At school, a teacher in Russian language and literature constantly organized theatrical lessons. The children put on performances based on various works. Valery liked it, and he decided to try himself in the acting field.

Valery with parents

After school, he applied to several universities at once, including theatrical ones. But he entered the Forestry Engineering Institute, where his father taught. I studied there for a year and dropped out.

He was admitted to the Moscow Art Theater School for a course in 1983. His classmates were Vladimir Mashkov, Irina Apeksimova.

After the first course, he left to serve in the army. 2 years served near Tula in the missile forces. Then he continued his studies.

He graduated in 1990, was accepted into the troupe of the Moscow Art Theater named after A.P. Chekhov.

"Thank God, I was lucky to work at the Moscow Art Theater, thank God, since childhood I was lucky to see real stars - Evstigneev, Papanov, Mironov, Leonov, Borisov"- says Valery.

While studying, he did an internship at the University of Florida, where he received a diploma in dance class (step). A year later he again went to the USA, where in Sarasota state university learned to dance again. He studied at the acting schools "Julliard School" (New York), "Barbican Center", "McCarter Theater" (Princeton, New Jersey).

Received acquaintances in the United States helped Valery subsequently star in several Hollywood blockbusters. Among his works are roles in the English television series Stop Thief and the Hollywood blockbusters The Saint by Philip Noyce and The Turn.

In domestic cinema, the first cameo role (a bar visitor) was with the actor in 1987. In the 90s, he began to play more serious roles, although not the main ones.

Widespread fame came in 1999 after starring in the TV series "Birthday Bourgeois". He played the former orphanage Vladimir Kovalenko, who became a big businessman. This role has become his hallmark.

Then he played Viktor Bystroletov in the adventure television series "Homeland is waiting", Anton Polskikh in the series "Dear Masha Berezina". He starred in two serious European projects released in Germany: a fantastic action movie "Ice Planet" and melodrama "Road to the clouds".

As a choreographer, he staged five performances at the Chekhov Moscow Art Theater, as well as the ballet part of the musical "My Fair Lady" (Moscow, 2000).

He was the host of the program "Beyond Stories".

In 2008, he received an award for the best directorial debut at the First All-Russian Film Festival "Golden Phoenix" in Smolensk for the film "Bear Hunt".

In 2014, he took part in the Ice Age project together with Maria Petrova.

Valery Nikolaev often becomes a participant in scandals. So, drunk, he can disrupt a circus performance, believing that someone was unfair to his wife.

Valery Nikolaev made a scandal in the circus

In February 2016, Nikolaev became the hero of a criminal chronicle. The actor arranged an accident in the center of Moscow, knocking down a pensioner at a pedestrian crossing. He fled the scene of the crime without helping the injured woman. When the police overtook the actor a day later, he wanted to detain Nikolaev.

Valery Nikolaev's height is 178 cm.

Personal life of Valery Nikolaev:

He married for the first time when he studied at the Moscow Art Theater School with classmate Natalia Pirogova, whom he began dating from the beginning of his studies. But the marriage lasted only about a year.

Natalya Pirogova - first wife

"We lived with Nikolaev good life together We have a beautiful daughter. And, fortunately, they did not acquire reasons to be enemies., - Irina Apeksimova later recalled this marriage.

They broke up after filming in the TV series Bourgeois's Birthday, during which Nikolaev had an affair with (because of this, Daria even divorced her husband).

with Daria Poverennova

Note that Valery Nikolaev, despite the divorce from his second wife, always took part in raising his daughter. Dasha studied ballet, but eventually followed in the footsteps of her parents and entered the Moscow Art Theater School.

Valery also had a relationship with singer Tatyana Ovsienko (she also divorced her husband because of an affair with an actor).

with Tatyana Ovsienko

Nikolaev also had an affair with actress Lyubov Tikhomirova.

with Lyubov Tikhomirova

There were persistent rumors about the actor's close relationship with his partner in the Ice Age project, Maria Petrova, and at that time he had been dating his future third wife Elmira Zemskova for several years.

with Maria Petrova

In September 2014, Nikolaev married for the third time - to the aerial gymnast of the Yuri Nikulin circus, Elmira Zemskova. By the way, she is the only artist in the world who works on a unique apparatus - a spiral.

We met for five years. “We got married only after five years of relationship because Elmira was constantly on tour,” said Nikolaev.

with Elmira Zemskova

In an interview, the couple said that they were thinking about children. Valery said that he dreams of a son, because he already has a daughter, Dasha, and Elmira wants two.

Filmography of Valery Nikolaev:

1987 - Armchair - bar visitor
1991 - Niagara - Pyotr Krasnovitsky
1992 - A very faithful wife - Zhenya, Tanya's husband
1992 - Little things in life - Gosha, Katya's husband
1993 - Love by order - Alex
1993 - Nastya - Sasha Pichugin
1994 - The life and extraordinary adventures of a soldier Ivan Chonkin - Balashov
1995 - Male mascot
1995 - Lonely Player - Mitya Sukhozhilov
1995 - Shirley-myrli - tap dancer
1996 - Russian hard worker
1996 - Scar. Assassination attempt on Pinochet
1996 - Thief Hunters
1997 - Turn ("U Turn", France, USA) - Arkady
1997 - Saint ("The Saint", USA) - Ilya Tretyak, Russian mafia
1998 - Insidious enemy ("Aberration", New Zealand) - Yuri Romanov
1998 - Dream Team
1998 - Strip
1999 - Bourgeois's birthday - Vladimir Kovalenko, nicknamed "Bourgeois", businessman
2001 - Ice Planet
2001 - Birthday Bourgeois 2 - businessman Vladimir Kovalenko, nicknamed "Bourgeois"
2002 - Russians in the city of angels - Yuriev
2002 - Cinema about cinema - Vitaly, director
2003 - The Motherland is waiting - Viktor Bystroletov, agent "Traveler"
2003 - Don't even think - Feldman
2003 - Next 3 - Nikolai Shakhov ("Shah")
2003 - Road to the clouds
2004 - The Terminal (The Terminal, USA) - Milodragovich
2004 - Balzac age, or All men are their own ... - Ilya
2004 - Dear Masha Berezina - Anton Polskikh
2005 - Mirror Wars: The First Reflection - Boris Korin, test pilot
2005 - In the rhythm of tango - Valery Sosnovsky
2006 - Streets of broken lamps. Cops-7 - Vasily Igorevich Babichev, groom
2006 - Witch - Ivan, journalist
2007 - Bear Hunt - Oleg Fedorovich Grinev, nicknamed "Bear", broker - ( director)
2008 - Artifact - Eric Shore
2008 - On the roof of the world - Oleg
2008 - Answer me - Alexander Vladimirovich Groshev
2008 - Photographer - Kirill Bazhenov, famous photographer
2008 - Egoist - Egor Dmitrievich Mikhailov, businessman
2009 - Eyes blue as the sea - Nikita
2009 - Clever, beautiful - Alexei Knyazev, plastic surgeon
2009 - Fifth execution - Sanya "Cat", sniper
2010 - White sand - Alexander Vetrov
2010 - Hindu - Nikolai, deputy, business partner of Lazarev
2010 - Thirty-seventh novel
2010 - Fights. True story. Tehran-43 - Popov, head of the NKVD special brigade in Tehran
2011 - On the hook! - diving instructor
2011 - Key of the Salamander - Sanya "Cat"
2011 - Recruiter ( director)
2012 - Teaching guitar - Oleg Markov, surgeon
2012 - Lone Wolf - Konstantin Sergeevich Stanislavsky, investigator of the prosecutor's office
2012 - 1812: Uhlan ballad - Jacques de Witt, Count
2013 - Double life - Roman, Mark's brother
2013 - The Perfect Murder - Sergey Arzamasov, famous lawyer
2015 - Cult - Oscar
2015 - Husband on call - Andrey

The actor married circus artist Elmira Zemskova a couple of months ago. For many, this news came as a surprise. "Antenna" was the first to talk with the newlyweds.

How long have you known each other? It looks like you have such a hasty wedding ...

In 2008, I participated in the Circus with Stars project. After one of the rehearsals, Volodya Turchinsky and I (TV presenter, record holder in power types sports, in 2009 he died of a heart attack. - Approx. "Antennas") and Sasha Mokhov went to the locker room. In the corridor I saw Elmira. Red hair, long suede coat. Some kind of alien! I would have stood there if Vova Turchinsky hadn't pushed me into the dressing room.

I had just returned from a tour of Germany and just for a couple of minutes looked into the Circus on Tsvetnoy Boulevard to resolve some urgent issues. Valera in this trinity singled out immediately. She asked her mother who he was. The fact is that I rarely visit Russia and have not seen films with his participation. Mom answered: actor Nikolaev.

Elmira Nikolaevna then told her mother: "This is my future husband." By the middle of the project, I got in good shape, and I had something to impress.

Before one of the numbers, I approached Valera in the buffet, made a compliment and added that I was rooting for him. He invited me to the cinema...

I'm guessing a movie about love?

I don't even remember. I was so worried then that my hamstrings were shaking.

Did we have before the movie? Fortunately, the theater is dark. After some time, Elmira invited me for tea. And a month later, we no longer planned in the evenings what we would do tomorrow, but decided it together in the morning.

Valery looked after beautifully?

He is romantic! Not from the “big bouquet for the holiday” series, although this also happened. And every day some surprises, deeds. I remember my cat was sick. Valera took her to the veterinarian, then he bought medicines. When he learned that I had poor orientation in Moscow, he showed me the city. I constantly felt that he not only listens to me, but also hears me. This went on for over a year.

And then, despite the fact that everything was fine, for some reason you broke up ...

I started touring...

And I have insanity. We hardly spoke for several years. From case to case they crossed paths, called up. During this time, a lot has happened in my life. And at a certain moment I realized that I had exhausted the limit of such an existence. On April 18 of this year, I was driving in a car with very bad thoughts in my head. Suddenly I caught myself calling someone. Heard in the tube "Hello!" and I realized: I dialed Elmira on the machine.

And if he had called the day before, I would not have answered: I was in India. And then, having returned home, she turned on her cell phone, and Valera's number immediately appeared. The call surprised me, because we did not call each other for three years. But there was no resentment. He didn’t do anything bad to me, he didn’t do terrible things. So I invited him home.

I arrived, and so I stayed forever.

Photo from the personal archive of Valery Nikolaev

Did Elmira's parents accept you right away?

Elmira's dad Nikolai Zemskov died when her daughter was 12 years old. And we met Elmira's mother Nina at the Aeroport metro station. She was walking with Klepa, a Stafford who bites car tires without any problems. First, Cleopatra had to please. Happened. When Eli's mother returned home after a vacation, Klepa and I slept together on the couch. Then the hostess was imbued with confidence in me. True, the question arose: what should I call Elmira's mother? Mom is hard. She is only three years older than me. And one morning it dawned on me: to speak in one word “Mother Nina”. She is a beautiful young cheerful woman appreciated the joke. And now I eat delicious hodgepodge and fish soup that she cooks.

There were a lot of rumors about Nikolaev's relationship with women. Didn't that bother your mother, Elya?

Mom doesn't believe the rumors. And it hurts me more that circus performers are called circus performers in the newspapers.

Are you jealous of your husband?

I'm not jealous. I think: if the husband wants to leave, change, he will do it. You won't have any effect. There are always a lot of women around Valera. But I know how much he loves me, so I am one hundred percent sure of him.

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Valery, as a romantic person, probably, did he make an offer spectacularly?

We went to the Novodevichy Convent for a walk. We sat down near the pond, and he took out a ring ...

I then said that this is not a wedding ring, but an engagement ring. Elya, in response, deigned to put her head on my shoulder. She withstood a long pause in the registry office after the words of the registrar. Stanislavsky himself would have said: "Elmira Nikolaevna, the hall is waiting." A friend even had to pinch her so that Elya finally said: “Yes!”

I know that you had a wedding in Suzdal.

I don't like big feasts with traditional white dresses. We bought my outfit spontaneously.

Of course, we drove from the Circus on Tsvetnoy Boulevard to an apartment on Maslovka and “accidentally” ended up in Crocus. This dress would be the envy of a Cirque du Soleil costume designer. Narrow as the neck of a glass, corset, breeches to the knee under the skirt. Very cool. When I showed it to Ele, the first answer was “No!”. Then I took a closer look, and in addition to the dress, we bought two more outfits. After all, the bride must change clothes three times for the wedding.

We did not make a list of guests and menus in advance. At first, they generally wanted to celebrate it together. But in the end, Valera offered to go to Suzdal. I agreed. I have never been in this city, and I'm tired of the Moscow bustle. Only 12 people were invited to the celebration.

The wedding took place on September 8, on Monday. We flew to Suzdal by helicopter. It is unsuitable for an aerial gymnast to move on the ground. There we were already waiting for guests, local artists. Very talented people. Then we went to Vladimir. In the Bogolyubov Monastery, a kitten with huge blue eyes approached us. The priest blessed us so that we could take it. The kitten was named Eve. True, a week later the veterinarian advised me to change the name to Adam. And it became clear why the cat immediately crushed the house under him, scared the dogs away and hunted me. In general, now his name is Vladimir Central. ...September 13 was 40 days without my dad. Many said that this was not the time for celebrations, but I think he was happy for us. In the summer, my father was diagnosed with blood cancer. God bless Ira Apeksimova, she placed him in the Botkin hospital. Without her help and her friends, dad would not have received better care than in Germany and Switzerland combined.

A good relationship with an ex-wife is rare. Do Irina and Elmira already know each other?

Yes, I introduced them. True, after that the second meeting took place at the funeral of his father.

Elmira, do you communicate with Dasha, Valery's daughter from her marriage to Apeksimova?

We met a couple of times. There was no dinner with heart-to-heart conversations yet. But I would like it.

Valery Valeryevich Nikolaev is a Russian actor whose calling card was the main role in the TV series Bourgeois's Birthday. But there are many other roles in his piggy bank, including in Hollywood projects, and his favorite role is honest, courageous and determined men.

Childhood and youth

Valery Nikolaev was born and raised in the capital, near the River Station. The mother of the future actor worked as an artist until she retired, her father used to teach at the Forestry Engineering Institute, later a company involved in the certification of goods.

Valera grew up as an active mobile boy, disappeared all day with his friends in the yard, loved to play football and hockey, and did not stand aside during street fights. From an early age, he was professionally engaged in gymnastics and even dreamed of an Olympic podium. The resulting hand injury crossed out the young man's ambitious plans, but he nevertheless became a candidate for master of sports.

Valery became interested in theater as a teenager thanks to a teacher of the Russian language. She often turned lessons into real performances, inviting students to transform into literary characters. It was then that Nikolaev woke up an interest in the acting profession, to which he decided to devote his future life.

But immediately after school, he failed to enter a theater university, and Valery, following the path of least resistance, took the documents to the Forestry Engineering Institute, where his father worked. Very soon he regretted his decision, and a year later he became a student at the Moscow Art Theater School, getting on the legendary course of Oleg Tabakov. Together with him, the basics of acting learned Evgeny Mironov, Philip Yankovsky, Vladimir Mashkov and Irina Apeksimova, who later became his wife.

During his studies, Nikolaev twice went to America for an internship: he studied the language, professionally studied dance and choreography at the universities of New York and Gainesville, and studied acting at the famous Juilliard School of the Arts. These skills were very useful to him in the future, and the contacts and acquaintances received in the USA opened Russian actor road to Hollywood.

Actor career

In 1990, Nikolaev defended his diploma and was invited to the troupe of the Chekhov Moscow Art Theater. Valery served in the theater for eight years, staged five performances as a choreographer, but still made his main bet on cinema.

Nikolaev began acting in his senior year, and having tried his hand at domestic cinema, in the late 90s he went to conquer Hollywood. He was lucky to work with such eminent directors as Oliver Stone and Philip Noyce, and meet on the same platform with a whole constellation of famous overseas actors. So, he played a rather important role in the action movie "Saint" with Val Kilmer (the film was nominated for the anti-award " golden raspberry”), the thriller The Turn with Sean Penn, the drama The Terminal with Tom Hanks.

But the real calling card of Valery was the role of Vladimir Kovalenko in the TV series Bourgeois's Birthday (2000), which glorified him in everything post-Soviet space. In this serial thriller, he tried on the image of an orphan who independently (and most importantly, honestly) earned a fortune. When trying to find his parents, the man is drawn into a string of intrigues. The series fell in love with the audience, and a year later the light saw a sequel.

Valery Nikolaev in the program "Night Session" with Renata Litvinova

For the next ten years, Nikolaev was literally in great demand, he was willingly invited to both Russian and foreign projects, and in 2007 Valery made his debut as a director, making the film "Bear Hunt", where he himself played leading role. He also invited Dana Borisova, Vasily Livanov and Emmanuil Vitorgan to the project.

Valery Nikolaev in the show "Ice Age"

Thanks to his excellent physical shape, the actor has repeatedly become participants in various television projects in which he demonstrated his strength, agility and endurance.

Personal life of Valery Nikolaev

Nikolaev's personal life is no less exciting than his professional career, and could well become the plot of an exciting melodrama with action elements. His first wife was classmate Natalya Pirogova, whom he married in 1984, after returning from the army.

But the student marriage did not last long, and soon the windy Valery had an affair with another classmate, Irina Apeksimova, whom he left in 1988. Six years later, baby Dasha was born to the spouses, but the family idyll collapsed overnight on the set of Bourgeois, where Valery became interested in Daria Poverennova.

Upon learning of her husband's betrayal, the proud Apeksimova immediately filed for divorce and even refused to act in the continuation of the series. However, Valery broke up with Daria two years later, leaving the actress in the deepest depression.

Then Nikolaev had affairs with singer Tatyana Ovsienko, actress Lyubov Tikhomirova and figure skater Maria Petrova, and the third official wife of the actor in 2014 was circus performer Elmira Zemskova.

In addition to love affairs, the actor became famous for high-profile scandals, which he periodically arranged in a fair amount of drunkenness. Nikolaev repeatedly became a participant in an accident and violated the rules of traffic rules, because of which he was brought to administrative responsibility and lost his driver's license. Once knocked down a woman, fortunately, she survived. In early 2017, the actor was arrested for 15 days for driving without a driver's license.

In March 2016, the show “Let them talk” reported that the fourth wife had left Valery. With this, the journalists justified his recent inappropriate behavior - a couple of weeks before that, he made a brawl in a car dealership. Dana Borisova stood up for the actor - according to her, the actor is in deep depression due to failures in his personal life and lack of demand in the profession. Dmitry Maryanov and Maria Shukshina.

The infamous actor Valery Nikolaev, who was noted for a number of brawls, commented on the news of the divorce.

33-year-old circus performer Elmira Zemskova divorces 50-year-old actor Valery Nikolaev. During his wild adventures in Moscow, she was in Vienna, where she worked under a contract. Zemskova flew to her husband as soon as free time appeared. While Elmira paid fines and repaired wrecked cars, Nikolaev continued to brawl, Life News reported.

Cunning journalists, having barely found out about the new status of the star of the series "Birthday of the Bourgeois", immediately contacted Valery Nikolaev to find out the details. "I rejoice! On *** from the field - the mare is easier, ”the publication quotes the words of the infamous actor.

This is the fourth marriage of Valery Nikolaev. The couple was officially together for more than two years, during which time they did not have children. Before that, Nikolaev was married to famous actresses Irina Apeksimova, Lyubov Tikhomirova, and also lived in a civil marriage with Daria Poverennova and Tatyana Ovsienko.

According to some media, it was a series of personal troubles that knocked down the already shattered psyche of Valery Nikolaev. Having knocked down a 54-year-old woman in his car, the actor made another accident a day later. Having dragged the traffic police officers on the hood, he blocked the doors and windows in the car and refused to get out. The police had to break the windshield. Even after serving ten days in the Moscow Special Detention Center No. 2, Nikolaev is not going to plead guilty. Moreover, he wrote a counter statement for a knocked out tooth and police misconduct.

Few colleagues are ready to justify the artist. However, they include ex-lover, actress Lyubov Tikhomirova. “Valera needs to be supported. His parents have died, so he is going through a difficult period. I believe that our common human task is higher than personal interests. It’s not nice when actresses talk about their love story with him on the pages of magazines and PR at his expense, and in a difficult situation, none of them came to the rescue. I don't understand the reaction of people close to him. Valera's wife is on tour now. I understand that Elmira has a contract and she performs abroad, but it was possible to fly in for the weekend. When such a situation, it is necessary to mobilize, and not look for excuses for inaction, ”said the actress.

Interestingly, Tikhomirova found an opportunity to help former lover. “I have my own family and child, and I, in fact, have nothing to do with him, but I found Valera a lawyer, doctors. I am for Valery to be punished, but there is no need to publicly sling mud at him. The woman is alive and well serious injury she didn’t get it, she doesn’t want to shine, because she is from Uzbekistan. From whom did she receive the money? Valery is proud, so we will not hear public repentance from him. He believes that the police officers also committed offenses,” Tikhomirova said in a recent interview.