He played in such well-known films as "Rablove "," Tenderness "," Lives such a guy "," Lovers "and in others Rodion Nakhapetov, about the biography, whose personal life you can read in this article, was called the most romantic hero of cinema in the USSR. Without anyone's support, without influential relatives and friends, he was able to achieve both success and national glory and love, and recognition of the audience, and incredible popularity. He was married to a beautiful blonde, actress Vera Glagoleva, in marriage with whom two wonderful daughters were born. However, in 1988, much has changed in the biography of Rodion Nakhapetov. He left his family in the USSR, and he went to the USA to realize his great American dream, he also found his second love here. Almost 30 years living in the States, he, however, did not consider himself an expatriate. Yes, and in Russia it is still loved and appreciated.
The future actor and director was born in the winter of 1944.in the city of Pyatikhatki, which was on the Ukrainian land exhausted by the fascist invaders. With the birth of Rodion, as well as with the choice of his name, an amazing story is connected. Rodion's parents Rafail Nakhapetov and Galina Prokopenko met in the partisan detachment and a spark broke out between them, and despite the fact that Raphael had a family in Armenia. However, the war separated them, at some point they lost each other. The pregnant woman continued to serve as a liaison in the underground squad Rodina and performed very complex and responsible tasks.
Однажды она оказалась в плену у немцев и после long torture she was sentenced to death. However, seeing in what position the woman is, replaced the execution in a concentration camp. On the way to the concentration camp, the woman managed to escape. Then she fell under bombardment and found herself in the basement of a ruined house, where she produced her son. The boy miraculously survived. After the mother and her child were rescued from the ruins, she wrote it under the name Rodina, the so-called underground organization. Father did not know about the birth of his son, and Rodion thought that his father was killed at the front. Later it turned out that Raphael Tatevosovich remained alive and after the war ended he returned to his homeland, to his family.
Rodion Nakhapetov, biography, personal lifewhich is narrated in this article, after the war with his mother settled with his grandmother in Krivorozhye. Then Galina and her son went to Dnepropetrovsk, where she settled herself first as a Pioneer leader, then as a teacher of Russian language and literature at the school. She was given a corner with a bed where she and her son lived for about a year, until Galina became close with her colleague, a mathematics teacher, and married him. When the boy was 7 years old, the woman was diagnosed with tuberculosis and hospitalized in a specialized clinic. Stepfather immediately after that left the family, and the boy was identified in an orphanage before the mother's recovery from a serious illness. There he spent 3 years of his childhood. After discharge from the dispensary, the woman took her son from the orphanage, but she was not taken to the school any more, and then they got a job as a tutor in a camp for political prisoners. A compassionate woman helped the prisoners to send letters to the will, but for this she herself and her son got "beyond the fence" of the camp.
In 1962, Galina wrote a letter to N.Khrushchev, but the reaction to this was unexpected: she was sent to a psychiatric hospital for treatment. The boy scrambled for life as he could, and after some time he was able to rescue from the hospital mother, already sick with cancer. After becoming a director, he made the film "The Psychiatrist", whose prototype was his mother. It's unbelievable, how many hardest stories includes the biography of Rodion Nakhapetov. The personal life and fate of his mother are so heavy that it is even difficult to believe how much misfortune could have fallen to this unhappy woman, a real heroine. It is also difficult to believe that a boy who went through such trials could get out and find a worthy place in life.
The character of Rodion was tempered as a resultincredible life difficulties: staying in an orphanage, constant material need, illness of the mother. He set himself the goal at all costs to break the chains of poverty that bind him. However, his idea of fix was to become known and recognizable by all people. Friends of his adolescence and youth say that he was uncommunicative, inferior, compliant, walks with friends preferred playing chess, he liked reading books, especially science fiction literature. He also visited a ship modeling circle, painted, studied music, but the family's difficult condition did not allow him to delve into one of these hobbies. There was a time when he decided to go into the sailors and enter the Nakhimov school, but soon became interested in theater and began to take an active part in the drama circle of the school where he had a friend Zhenya Bezrukavy - in the future an actor.
Once in Dnepropetrovsk was organizedmeeting with such well-known actors as Sergei Bondarchuk, Marina Ladynina, Boris Andreev. After that, the young man became infected with a dream about the theater, about the profession of a theatrical actor. After graduation, friends Rodion and Zhenya decided to enter the Dnipropetrovsk Theater School together. After that, the courtyard fellows began to call Rodion a "actor". In 1960, he did not finish his studies at the school, went to the capital of the USSR. Here, from the very first attempt, he entered the acting faculty of VGIK, in class to Yulia Raizman. Having graduated from this faculty, he decided to continue his studies this time already at the director's faculty of the same university. Since 1978, he became an actor and director of the famous film studio Mosfilm. By this time, there have already been major changes in the biography of Rodion Nakhapetov - personal life, children, family worries ...
Если помните, при рождении мать назвала сына Homeland. Of course, a strange name for the boy. That's what the employee of the passport office thought when issuing his passport and cut his name by one letter. Thus, at 16 the future actor from the Motherland of Nakhapetov turned into the Motherland, and Rodion, albeit unofficially, he became after the release of the first film with his participation, which was called "The First Snow." The issuing editor thought that there was a typo in the credits, and she forwarded the actor's name to a more familiar one. Since then, the actor has become known as Rodion Nakhapetov. This name also brought him recognition!
During the filming of "To the End of the World",directed by our hero, he met his future wife. She played a major role in this film. Vera Glagolev and Nahapet immediately began to sympathize with each other, and then between them there was something more that led them to the Palace of Marriages. They married in 1974. Actress for 14 years was a muse for Nahapetova. In marriage, the couple had two wonderful little daughters - Maria and Anna.
In 1988, Nakhapetov decided to move to the United Statesan invitation from the Independent Television Association of the United States. It was here that he met his future wife - Natasha Shlyapnikoff. After this fateful meeting, Rodion Rafailovich decided to leave the family and unite himself by marriage with Natasha, who also became his manager. So Rodion Nahapetov was in the States. Biography, personal life (photo of the second spouse can be seen in the article) have changed dramatically. The actor had a good success in the States, but the pull of his homeland did not allow him to leave Russia for a long time. So, he and his wife began to live in two countries. In addition, Rodion did not want to interrupt communication with his beloved daughters for a long time. By the way, they often came to him on vacation, and got along well with Natasha. In the new marriage, the director has no children. Recently Nakhapetov became a grandfather, he does not cherish his soul in his beautiful granddaughter. This is Rodion Nahapetov. Biography, his personal life, as you see, bright and rich.