This year they will celebrate their fifth wedding anniversary, their daughter is growing up. In general, a solid positive!

BUT nya, Vitya, you met in 2012 and soon got married.

Victor: Yes, everything happened quickly. I saw Anya and fell madly in love. And before that, I didn’t think about marriage at all, at that time I liked everything in my life.

What exactly did you like?

V .: At that time, the Yesterday Live program started on Channel One, plus there was also a program in Comedy. Yes, and on a personal level, everything suited me. Well, I, of course, did not plan that in two or three months

After we meet, I will propose to someone. And then, like a boy, I saw the eyes and realized that there was nothing more I could do with myself. I only thought about those eyes.

Anna: How nice to hear it again! ( smiling.)

V .: I studied everything on the Internet: who she is, whom she meets, and so on ... I started asking my friends, and they say: “Vitya, calm down, do you have another spring ?!”

And I say: “No, guys, this is not spring. She will definitely be mine."

True, Vadim, this has never happened before, so that I got so carried away, worried so much about whether I was taking the first steps correctly, whether I called on time. I checked every letter in the text message for Anya to see if I wrote everything correctly. I didn’t want to spoil something from the very beginning, I didn’t want to hear, they say, go for a walk, boy!

Very anxious! And from your side, Anya, what did it all look like?

A .: It seemed to me that Vitya was careless about our relationship. He once completely forgot about the date. I didn't even feel his pressure. Apparently, I was so immersed in my experiences, but I also fell in love at first sight. Therefore, on the contrary, I had a feeling of such a “non-donatization”. And then he forgets that we should meet. I had a difficult filming schedule at the time, and I deliberately set myself a day off, as we agreed to meet at specific number. But Vitya did not call. And then I told him everything I thought about him.

To what extent was the girl harsh, Vitya?

V .: For some reason, the girl called me Vasil. Not Vasiliev, not Vitya, but Vasil. She was clearly preparing for this attack-talk and mustered her courage. Before that, Anya was so neat, intelligent, but here it’s tough: “So, so! Listen to me, Vasil ... "I think: what else is this? Nobody called me that! And she continues: “I’m not your next young lady ...” I hung up, sat by the phone for about an hour and did not understand what to do: call - do not call, apologize - do not apologize.

I absolutely cannot imagine you, Anya, being so aggressive.

A .: I was just very angry. True, I later apologized for what I said in a hurry. And she called him Vasil on purpose to offend. And everything worked out: she pulled a nerve out of him.

V .: I came up with some kind of nickname! ( smiling.)

Vitya, did you really have a complete calm before meeting with Anya? No explosions and lightning in personal relationships? This I mean that such behavior of Snatkina instantly knocked the ground out from under your feet.

V .: Probably, by and large, there were no explosions and lightning, as you say. Or I just didn't notice it. Of course, I had sympathies, there were big sympathies and so on. But in this way, to see and understand that, probably, it is with such a grandmother that I would like to meet my old age - this has never happened before! And only with Anya I wanted to have children, to have a big friendly family, I wanted to set an example for the children. Then I found out that our parents are very similar, brought up about the same.

A: It's true. Our parents have a similar attitude to life, they are very simple, easy. My former engineers. Dad plays the guitar, and mom, as Vitya says, tries to sing.

V .: Indeed, when Anya talks about her parents, you can immediately imagine mine.

A .: Vitya's parents have been together for a very many years, mine are generally thirty-five years old!

V .: That is, before my eyes there was always an example of strong family relationships. Therefore, of course, I really did not want to make a mistake. It happened to me in a relationship: I thought that everything was already fine, but after a while I realized that this was not what I needed.

A .: Well, well, I also want to listen.

V .: With Anya, I felt that she is a reliable person and will always be there. I immediately wanted to give her beautiful gifts. For example, when I was preparing for the first time to congratulate her on her birthday, I decided to give her a watch.

A: These are. ( Shows.)

V .: A friend came to me and asked: “What will you give her?” I show him the watch. He looked at them and said: "Oh, now she's not going anywhere from us!"

A .: Here, do not go anywhere! Gotcha. ( laughing.)

Anya is so serious, responsible, hyperpositive in every way. Surely there were fewer novels in your life than the windy Vasilyev.

A .: You know, Vadim, somehow I was always at work. Until the age of seventeen she was engaged in professional sports, gymnastics. Then she entered VGIK and even during her studies began acting. I was obsessed with filming and the profession, I was not interested in anything else at all.

V .: Anya first got into night club when she was twenty-nine years old, can you imagine?! We enter, she says: "Where to go?" Music plays, people run up to me: “Vitka, hello, how are you?” I say: "Here is Anya, get acquainted."

A .: There is some of his girlfriend in short skirt he runs up to him, smack-smack, I'm looking at it ... For me, it was all like I got to another planet.

Sorry, Anya, I still don't believe that you were such a blue stocking.

A: I can tell you more. Until the age of thirty, I did not live with anyone in a civil marriage, my home was the house of my parents. I left them only after Vitya and I got married. We went to honeymoon trip and after that I came home and packed my things. I have everything like in such classic fairy tales, books.

Did everything suit you before? Parents are nearby, life is adjusted, there is no need to show any independence. So?

A .: I then earned money to buy an apartment for myself, but I didn’t see the point in living in a rented apartment. Of course, my mother also had complete control. She, like me, likes to control everything. But I did not leave not because of this, of course. It just worked out for me, you're right.

Didn't you have romances at school too?

I was not interested in all this, honestly. The boys followed me, but I developed some sort of boyish-friendly relationship with them.

Vitya, didn't all this bother you? adult, beautiful girl- and so inexperienced in personal terms.

V: I even liked it. I was probably proud that I was the first whom Anya truly fell in love with, well, maybe not the very best, but one of the first, and that I could tell and show her a lot in life.

And what other worlds, Anya, have opened up to you after meeting Vitya, in addition to visiting nightclubs?

A .: The new thing is, first of all, my departure from my parental home, because I had to learn to live together with my husband. We stepped into our conscious life without a penny of money, because everything went to the wedding. Vitya paid for it in full, I didn’t have any money at that moment - I invested everything in the renovation of my new apartment. We started from scratch, but were so happy!

A reasonable question: if there was no money, why arrange a pompous wedding?

A .: I don’t know, it was Vitino’s desire.

V .: I wanted all my friends, all my relatives to come. Something told me that this would be my only wedding. And I am convinced that I did everything right. We celebrated in St. Petersburg, in the Summer Palace. There were two hundred people.

A .: When I first saw the guest list of eight hundred people, I said unequivocally "no, this is too much." I was already in position. And in general, I wanted a more modest wedding, but Vitya could not be persuaded.

I listen to you and see how different you are in character. Vitya is emotional, fire, and you, Anya, are more subject to reason ...

A .: In general, the one who knows us better says exactly the opposite! Vitya is very calm, he is a Capricorn. But I need to do everything, sometimes I can take some rash steps, and Vitya always somehow brings me down, slows me down a bit.

V .: She never sits still, I'll tell you honestly. In all the time that we have been together, we have never watched a single movie to the end.

A: There is always a lot to do. Either shooting, then you have to go somewhere with your daughter. Although in recent times I have a list of pictures that I must see. On the film set we became friends with the actor Seryozha Yushkevich, he knows a lot of good films, he can advise.

V: About the movie. I look, for example, some new works by Anya and think: oh, wow! To be honest, I have always wanted to visit this world.

Do you have an education in economics?

V .: Yes, but already in the first year they told me that I did not go there. I just started playing KVN then. But in 1991-1992, it is not clear what is happening in the country.

Did you grow up in St. Petersburg?

W.: Yes. In the same place, he began to play in KVN. I always wanted to go on stage, I wanted applause, I liked it all. They approached me, they said, they say, Victor, you have such a voice, you didn’t work on the radio, by chance, would you like to try. But I was very afraid, I thought that if I quit my economic university now, I would be left with nothing. And I continued to study and at the same time play in KVN, and then I decided to go to Moscow.

Why did you go to the economics, if you have always been creative person?

V .: I think this is a tribute to fashion. My parents had little money, we lived very modestly, wearing clothes with our brothers one after another. And of course I wanted to be financially independent.

A .: Thus, Russian cinema lost its Jude Law. ( Smiling.)

Exactly, you look like him!

V .: Even in Finland, in a hotel, they wanted to take an autograph from me: “Jude, Jude!” I turned around and said, "No."

Anya, what is your story? I mean the path to the profession.

A .: From the age of seven I wanted to act in films, but my parents had no time to deal with me in this sense. Dad lost his job, astronautics fell apart, he and mom were forced to sell things on the market. We survived at that time, I would say so. I sat with my little sister and, when it worked out, I went to classes in a theater group between workouts. In case I don’t enter the theater, I applied to the Russian state institute physical education. As a result, she entered both there and there, but, of course, she went to the theater. Sports are good for me too. Unfortunately, the picture "Barbara" has not yet been released. That's where I did all my own stunts! The most difficult fights, with swords, with acrobatics. True, after the birth of Veronica, she became afraid of everything: I'm afraid to fly on airplanes, to drive fast.

As a rule, future actors dream of the Moscow Art Theater School, GITIS, Pike, and you studied at VGIK. Such was strong love to the cinema?

A .: No offense to VGIK, but later I regretted that on September 1 I went there, and not to the Moscow Art Theater School, where they also took me and from where they called me for two months later. But then no one prompted me, advised me what choice to make. And my logic was as follows: VGIK is about cinema, the Moscow Art Theater School is about theater. I began to study with Anatoly Vladimirovich Romashin, and after his death a new master came to us - Vitaly Methodievich Solomin. He let me film. Despite a serious quarrel with his brother Yuri Solomin, he even allowed me to star in the Moscow Saga, where I played the granddaughter of the hero Yuri Methodievich. Then came the "Plot", and so on.

It's clear. Vitya, and you, one might say, stood at the origins of the Comedy Club. Why did you leave this project?

V .: Because at some point I get bored with monotony. Or maybe it just coincided. At that moment, I was invited to host a program on Channel One. And something clicked in my head: on the First I was alone, and on TNT - one of ... In addition, Mitka Khrustalev went to comedy woman and I kinda lost my partner.

Now you don't seem to have yours television project?

V .: I have no contracts, agreements with anyone. I'm in free flight.

A .: But Vitya began to act in films.

V .: Yes, now he starred in the second film with Dmitry Astrakhan. True, to be honest, I got burned on our first joint film “Love Without Rules”, which was released last year. Understand when they call and say that Astrakhan wants to see you in leading role, his picture “You are my only one” immediately appears before your eyes, and it suddenly seems to you that you can become the second Alexander Zbruev. But the film turned out ... strange. I watched it, and I was horrified, because I realized that tomorrow it was going to be released...

A .: With my own, albeit small, experience, I will say this: if you shoot in a full meter, this does not mean that you automatically become a star. Even if you are filming with the master. You will never understand where you will find, where you will lose. And for Vitya, this is something new, and he had too many hopes for that project.

But were there any fears to act again in Astrakhan after such an experience?

V: Just not. This time, Dmitry Khananovich offered a serious dramatic role, and for me it was a definite challenge. I easily come up with jokes on any topic, humor is, of course, mine, but here ... My hero at the age of forty finds out that all his entourage has been bought - his wife, friends. It's something between The Truman Show and The Game. I don’t know how the audience will accept my “transformation” and with whom I will now be associated with them. After all, they still call me “the dude from Comedy”, someone else remembers from KVN, and someone just says “Snatkina’s husband”.

"Snatkina's husband" - does not offend?

V .: Yes, it’s okay, you see, I kissed Anechka. ( smiling.)

Anya, now, as far as I know, you are filming a lot.

A .: I had a break for two years, I didn’t act at all, I was with my daughter, fed. Then I shot in one picture, but it has not yet come out. And then again she settled at home, because she did not see good stuff agreed to practically nothing. I had a choice: either agree to something that I don’t really want to, or devote myself to my daughter. And I chose the second. But if I didn't have a family, I would, of course, work.

Did you consult with Vitya about such borderline situations? There is a role, there is real money, and you refuse it because you do not like the material.

A .: I could afford it, to be honest, because Vitya provided for his family. So I didn't give much advice. And now again interesting job and that's great.

Listen, have you ever filmed together?

A .: Wait, we were once invited to audition for STS together. We're driving, we're worried...

V .: ... we repeat the text. I told her: "You're reading something wrong." Anya answered: “You will still teach me.” And then it started! She no longer hears me, starts up, says, are you, they say, what, the director ?! And I really want to try myself in this capacity.

As a result, the tests took place?

A .: We barely got there! ( Laughs.)

V .: They took me into the picture, but she was not there!

A .: To be honest, I was generally surprised that I was invited to these tests. Usually directors do not see me in the comedy genre, although I love it very much.

Of course, you are polar figures. How did you meet, by the way?

V .: In my program Yesterday Live on Channel One. Anya came to my shooting as a guest. So thanks to the channel! So now, when Channel One takes over new project another host, and not me, then I am not offended only because fate brought me together with Anya there. ( laughing.)

Your daughter is four years old. Is there a character already?

A .: She has some kind of creative charisma, she is engaged in rhythmic gymnastics Irina Viner, and also music. For a four-year-old daughter, she sings quite well and, by the way, speaks excellent English.

V .: And yesterday I realized that she is a very good parody. She showed me her friends. Look, he says how Dominosha does! And shows one to one. Where it comes from is not clear, although, perhaps, it is understandable.

A .: Veronica also loves to turn on cartoons for herself and sing along with the characters, dress up in dresses.

V .: She does not just sing, she feels the heroes: if the hero sings and lowers her eyes, she also lowers her eyes at that moment.

Here they are, acting genes. Anya is removed a lot, Vitya has a pause. All the attention of the father is devoted to the daughter?

And they best friends.

V .: My daughter Anya and I have hardly seen lately. She leaves while we are still sleeping, and comes when we are already sleeping. Thank God I'm not busy with work right now. I either compose something on the computer (cook new program for television), or spend time with Veronica. I grow up with her, we work with her, play, it’s easy for me with her. Right now we are talking with you, and I think: rather to Veronica!

Don't worry, I'll let you go soon.

V .: I didn’t think that I would turn my head like that, I’m just a crazy dad. Everything is easy for me and my daughter, and, as they say, mother, step aside! Come on, I say to Anya, give birth to the second, third.

And what is Anya in response?

V .: She says: "No, let's not." And Veronica has such an age that she is already bored alone. In addition, our house is being built three-

storey. Why is it so big for three of us? Anya said: "Let's buy a house first." Bought a house. "Now let's do some repairs!" And in the summer the renovation is completed.

A .: That's it, they've pinned it to the wall! ( Laughs.) In fact, I myself want a second child, I understand that Veronica is growing up, but these little tiny legs that run around the house and make you happy - this, of course, will be missed.

By the way, why did they name their daughter Veronica?

A .: Firstly, because our first joint publication was at the Nika Prize. In fact, I wanted to name my daughter Alexandra. I really like this name, I dreamed of my daughter Alexandra. But Vitya was against it. I had to somehow get out of the situation. And now I have already given birth to her, I am lying in the ward, Vitya is with me, then he comes to the window and sees that below, on the pavement, someone wrote in large letters “Veronica”. And he says: "Listen, let's call our daughter Veronica." And here we have Veronika Viktorovna Vasilyeva.

Sounds nice. Have you already thought about how you will celebrate your fifth wedding anniversary?

A .: And we, to be honest, have never noted, somehow it didn’t work out. Congratulated each other on the phone mostly. Last year I was on the set, Vitya came to me outside the city. I said that I would finish at 11 pm, but in the end they let me go well after midnight. Vitya, poor, was sitting in the car, waiting. As a result, we drove home with a large bouquet and went to bed. Well, by the way, it should be noted at least once.

Q: Is it our fifth anniversary this year?

V .: Then we will definitely note.

A .: Thank you, Vadim, for reminding me. ( smiling.)

• Photo: Grigory Galantny.
• Style: Polina Shabelnikova
• Makeup and hair: Katya Bobkova