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Video: How Valentin Gaft's illegitimate son lives, with whom the actor has not seen for more than 40 years
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Valentin Gaft, who passed away in December 2020, was an amazing actor. His roles in theater and cinema speak for themselves, and his epigrams are biting and precise. In the last years of his life, Valentin Iosifovich was happy with his wife, actress Olga Ostroumova, with whom he lived for almost a quarter of a century. Before meeting her, he had two marriages and many novels, one of which, short but passionate, led to the birth of his son Vadim. True, the actor did not immediately find out about his existence, and after that he did not see him for more than 40 years.
The sad ending of a beautiful novel
This story began more than half a century ago, at a time when Valentin Gaft was not yet a successful and very popular actor. The film "Garage" had not yet been released on the screens, and the actor had not yet played the role of Ivan Antonovich Pokrovsky in the film "Say a word about the poor hussar." He was barely 36 years old, he served in the Sovremennik Theater, was extremely passionate about creativity and enjoyed the well-deserved attention of the fair sex.
Artist Elena Nikitina met the actor at one of the theater evenings. Valentin Gaft also drew attention to the charming girl, and soon a passionate romance broke out between them. True, none of them was ready for the birth of children at that time. Elena subsequently forever remembered how the face of Valentin Gaft changed after the news of her pregnancy.
He then sat in a chair and literally a second later Elena saw a completely different person opposite, collected, tough, closed. He got up and left. And the young woman was left alone with her thoughts and doubts. But even now, years later, she does not blame her former lover, on the contrary, she understands that the situation from the point of view of Valentin Gaft looked completely ambiguous. It was an easy, non-binding romance, and suddenly - pregnancy and impending fatherhood.
He left, thereby giving Elena the right to decide what to do with all this. And she, on reflection very sensibly, decided to leave the baby. She was 31 years old, and so, by Soviet standards, Elena was considered far from young for the first birth. And after parting with the actor, she somehow suddenly realized: for a long time, her relationship with him had not been a fleeting, easy romance. Elena Nikitina actually fell in love with Valentin Gaft. And then she loved him all my life.
With love for the father
Soon Vadim was born, but Valentin Gaft found out about his existence only three years later, when he accidentally met Elena on the street. Then he asked her for a photograph of the boy and left again, showing no initiative to meet the child. And a year later, Elena Nikitina, along with her son and her mother, left for Brazil, where her sister had settled by that time. In Moscow, it was difficult for her to raise a baby alone.
Despite everything, she continued to love the actor. And Vadim was brought up in respect and love for his father. She told her son about her father, showed pictures, shared memories and never said a single bad word about him. And there was nothing to say, because Valentin Gaft was not at all to blame for the fact that they did not have a relationship.
The only thing that upset Elena was the impossibility of communication between father and son. She and Vadim took the initiative several times, but Valentin Iosifovich was not ready to communicate. Once Vadim even flew to Moscow, but shortly before the planned arrival, Valentin Gaft's daughter Olya tragically died, and he simply could not physically see his son. True, when a misfortune happened to Vadim in Moscow (he was attacked by a taxi driver), Valentin Gaft helped financially and phoned his son.
Then Valim returned from Moscow inspired, because now he knew for sure: dad did not turn away from him, and their meeting would definitely take place. True, more than one year must pass before the real acquaintance of father and son.
Inherited talent
Vadim Nikitenko, in fact, with his mother's milk absorbed love not only for his father, but also for his profession. After leaving school, he entered the theater institute, then served as an actor in the Brazilian theater, today he works as a theater director in São Paulo. He also has a son, who was born on the same day as his grandfather, only with a difference of several decades. Vadim Named the heir in honor of his father. Valentin Adariu Frateschi is also engaged in creativity, however, he found himself in music and even founded his own group.
When the meeting between Vadim Nikolaev and Valentin Gaft did take place, both could not hold back their tears. They met for the first time in the studio of the Let Them Talk program, and Valentin Iosifovich later said more than once that he was happy to have a son. Vadim flew to Moscow with his mother, and spent three whole days with the actor. During the first meeting with Vadim, Valentin Gaft uttered the most important words, asking his son for forgiveness for decades of lack of communication. And Elena for her fear and unwillingness to become a father.
After that significant meeting, the actor often contacted his son via video link and dreamed of meeting his grandson. Unfortunately, the coronavirus pandemic disrupted all plans. Vadim was never able to bring his son to Moscow. When Valentin Gaft passed away, he did not even have the opportunity to say goodbye to his father. He mourned him at home, in Brazil … Now he hopes, after all restrictions have been lifted, to go to his father's grave and bring his son, Valentin Adariu Frateschi, there.
Valentin Iosifovich Gaft is a whole era in theater, cinema, on television. The era that December 12, 2020 went with him. He was multifaceted and contradictory, in him in the most inconceivable way incredible charm and rare intransigence, shyness and self-esteem were combined.
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