The most precious inheritance: How was the relationship in the family of Irina Alferova with her own and adopted children

2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55

Sergey Martynov and Irina Alferova have been living together for a quarter of a century. He was called the Soviet Alain Delon for his incredible beauty and special masculine charm, and Irina Alferova, despite the many roles she played in the cinema, for many viewers remained Constance Bonassier from the film "D'Artagnan and the Three Musketeers". After the wedding, they lived together, but soon in their family, in addition to their own daughter Irina Alferova, three children appeared at once in a difficult adolescence.

Later happiness

They met a long time ago, even during the audition for the movie "Rico Brothers", which took place in Minsk in 1978. At that time, Sergei Martynov was not yet married, and Irina Alferova had been the wife of Alexander Abdulov for two years, with whom she raised her daughter from her first marriage. The actor still recalls how Irina made an indelible impression on him already at the moment of the first meeting on the platform. He even tried to convince the director to take Alferova into the picture, but the director Gennady Ivanov had his own opinion on this, and another actress was approved for the role.

Their second meeting took place seven years later during the scoring of some foreign tape. At that moment, Sergei was already married, Irina seemed quite happy with life, but at the same time, both were incredibly attracted to each other. But this time it was limited to a friendly conversation on the way home after work.

And in 1991 they met during the filming of the film "Sheriff's Star" in the city of Chernivtsi. Irina then already divorced Alexander Abdulov, while she was on the verge of depression, not knowing what to do next with her life.

Sergei Martynov was also not in the best state of mind. His wife and two of his children had already moved to London, and he clung to any opportunity to stay in Russia. So he agreed to this job also because it gave him a chance to postpone his final move to a later date. He could not refuse him at all: his wife was offered a good job in the UK.

But the meeting with Irina ruined all his plans. At first, he simply helped the actress get out of depression, and then realized that he should not part with this woman. He was in love and happy, seeing that his feelings were mutual. Fortunately, the wife of the actor, Ksenia, reacted with understanding and sensitivity to her husband's relationship with the actress, and later she even made friends with Irina Alferova.

In 1995, Sergei Martynov and Irina Alferova became husband and wife. And then a misfortune happened: Martynov's first wife died suddenly. The question of what to do with children was not even raised in the acting family. My father just went to London and returned to Moscow with Anastasia and Sergei.

There are no other children

Of course, Irina Alferova was worried about how her husband's children would accept her. But as soon as I saw them with her husband at the airport, I immediately realized: these are her children too. Therefore, she built a relationship with them, as with her own daughter Ksenia. By the way, Ksenia herself immediately accepted Nastya and Sergey and began to treat them like her own brother and sister. She managed to make friends with Sergei Martynov even earlier and confessed more than once: she is very glad that her mother is now truly happy.

But in that terrible 1997, the family of Irina Alferova increased by one more person. The actress found out that her own sister was dying in Novosibirsk and immediately went there. She managed to say goodbye to Tatyana, and after the funeral she took her sister's son Sasha and her mother to the capital. So she had her fourth child.

Irina now admits: before she was sure that she would have one and only daughter, the most extraordinary. But fate gave her four extraordinary children. Nastya and Sergei began to live with their spouses, and Sasha and his grandmother settled with Xenia. Surprisingly, the actress's own daughter was never jealous of her mother for other children, did not complain that they got more of her attention and care.

After the children moved, Sergei Martynov made repairs on his own so that everyone was comfortable. Now in his office there is a nursery, and the bathroom has become much larger. Irina Alferova learned to combine household chores with work in the theater and filming in the cinema, but she categorically refused her husband's offer to hire an au pair: she did not like strangers in the house.

The actress began to get up early again, remembered what parenting meetings, cooking for a large family, cleaning a large apartment are. In the morning she fed everyone with breakfast, accompanied the children to school, cleaned and went to the shooting or to the theater, however, she first went to her mother with Sasha, solved the problems that arose, helped, advised, if necessary - scolded. And in the evening she returned home, helped the children with their homework, cooked, fed, and cleaned again.

She always remembered how hard it was for Nastya and Sergei after the death of their mother, did not forget that Sasha was also having a hard time. Irina Alferova was always glad to be able to help each of them. The children of Sergei Martynov went to an English school in Moscow, they had problems with Russian, so Irina often had to help them write essays or just suggest Russian words.

Nastya and Seryozha sat over their textbooks at night, trying to catch up with the school curriculum, and as a result, they graduated from school almost perfectly, in their certificates there were only one four. The guys treated their father's wife with great warmth and were even surprised: “Can it be difficult with Irina? She is a very gentle and kind person. Dad is much stricter."

Irina had a much more difficult time with her nephew. Unfortunately, he did not succeed in many things, but the actress always remembered that Sasha had a very difficult childhood. Irina Alferova hired tutors for him, always supported and helped. She constantly insures him and now, when he has already grown up, graduated from the law faculty of the university and began to work as a lawyer. Nastya and Seryozha received higher education in London, now Anastasia is a successful artist, she married a fashionable stylist. Sergei, together with his wife, is in charge of an exhibition of paintings and is raising a daughter, Juliet.

Irina Alferova and Sergei Martynov turned out to be a big, friendly, and most importantly, a happy family. However, with such parents it could not be otherwise.

The audience admired her, but her colleagues disliked her - in the Lenkom theater she was called an ice beauty because Irina Alferova always kept aloof and behaved, as many thought, cold and arrogant. But in fact, this detachment had completely different reasons, which the actress usually does not talk about in interviews …