How Vera Glagoleva's daughter turned a hockey player into an exemplary family man: Anastasia Shubskaya and Alexander Ovechkin

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

The name of Alexander Ovechkin has long been in the ranks of famous hockey players such as Vladislav Tretyak or Valery Kharlamov. On the ice arena he has no equal, he is fast, impetuous and almost invincible. And outside the sports field, he always attracted attention, primarily with his personal life. The most beautiful and famous girls constantly appeared next to the hockey player, and he deservedly gained fame as a womanizer. But Anastasia Shubskaya, the youngest daughter of actress and director Vera Glagoleva, was able to change the whole life of the famous Ovi.

Delayed meeting

For the first time, Alexander Ovechkin and Anastasia Shubskaya met at the Beijing Olympics. The 14-year-old girl came with her father, who was in China on duty, and 23-year-old Alexander Ovechkin, who was already a real star at that time, decided to cheer for the Russian Olympic team.

Neither the hockey player nor the daughter of Vera Glagoleva attached any importance to this acquaintance. True, they danced a slow dance at some kind of reception, talked very nicely and departed in different directions. And they probably hardly remembered each other.

Alexander Ovechkin conquered more and more hockey peaks, and with them women's hearts. At various times, Victoria Lopyreva and Zhanna Friske were called Ovechkin's friends, and he almost went down the aisle with tennis player Maria Kirilenko, but the bride, for some reason, broke off the engagement in July 2014. And in November, he suddenly saw an Instagram photo of Anastasia Shubskaya.

During the time that has passed since the moment they met, the girl literally blossomed. She graduated from high school and the production department of VGIK, managed to star in two films and planned to continue her education in the United States. The hockey player did not hesitate for a long time: he immediately greeted his old acquaintance in direct, and a minute later Anastasia's phone rang. The clock was one minute past midnight, which meant that Nastya's birthday had come.

Young people began to call up often, and Nastya has since watched matches with Ovechkin at night. She used to love watching hockey battles, but now she has become a real cheerleader.

In winter, the girl moved to Los Angeles, where she was to study at the School of Acting. Soon the first meeting of Nastya and Alexander took place. True, the actress was very worried whether they would find common topics for conversation, and whether they would be disappointed in each other during a real meeting, but all her fears were in vain.

Alexander Ovechkin turned out to be an amazing conversationalist with whom it was easy to talk about any topic. No matter how much time they spent together and talked on the phone, communication was never drawn out or boring.

Magical transformations

The novel changed both of them a lot. Alexander Ovechkin, who never liked to walk, began to respond with pleasure to Anastasia's suggestions to take a walk in the park. She suddenly discovered a culinary talent in herself and began to cook. As the girl said, before the appearance of a hockey player in her life, she was familiar only with theory, and began to practice after a desire to please her beloved.

She was not at all embarrassed by rumors about Ovechkin's past novels. It was only important that now he was with her. She saw no point in being jealous of what Alexander had before their meeting in Los Angeles. Soon, the lovers already lived together in Washington, and then met each other's parents. Alexander made an official proposal to Anastasia, and in the summer of 2016 they became husband and wife. True, a full-fledged wedding was played a year after the wedding, on July 8, 2017.

A year later, the first-born Sergei was born in the family, and in May 2020 Anastasia gave birth to her second son, Ilya.

Perfect family

Vera Glagoleva at one time described Nastya as a purposeful, but very wayward girl. Mom spoke of the youngest daughter with great tenderness, but admitted: if she does not want to do something, then it is impossible to force her. Anyway, Nastya could be called a person with a complex character.

But when Alexander Ovechkin is asked about his wife, all the characteristics of a hockey player are only superlative. According to him, Anastasia is an amazingly caring and gentle wife and mother, she always sympathizes with the needs of all family members and especially with her husband's sports regime. The youngest son is still very young and needs attention, and the eldest is only two and a half years old. But Anastasia tries not to burden her husband with worries about the children and always lets him sleep before the game, copes with the kids on her own.

Anastasia herself admits: the peace in their family is the merit of Alexander. He is very kind, caring and, unlike Nastya, calm and restrained, and almost always reacts to the emotional outbursts of his wife in the same way. He simply says that he is ready to discuss everything, but only at that moment when the wife calms down. They are the complete opposite of each other, Anastasia even said that she is a flame, and her husband is ice. This is what helps to maintain a stable peace in the family.

Since Anastasia Shubskaya appeared in the life of the invincible captain of the Washington Capitals NHL club, rumors about Alexander Ovechkin's romances and hobbies have completely disappeared. But the hockey player does not get tired of confessing his love to his wife and thanks fate for meeting the best woman in the world.

More than three years ago, the talented actress and director Vera Glagoleva passed away. The departure of the actress was a huge loss for the cinema and for all fans of Vera Vitalievna's original talent. But there are still three daughters of an actress and a director, who cherish the memory of their mother, trying to be worthy heirs of her talent.