The fact that the legendary actress Marina Neelova has a child has never been particularly advertised. Maybe because the girl does not know her father, or maybe for a number of other reasons. But, nevertheless, Nika Neelova is dear daughter of Marina Neelova which the actress is incredibly proud of. Not much is known about Nick. She was born in 1987 and many believe that her father is the famous Garry Kasparov, with whom Marina had a stormy relationship, despite the sixteen-year age difference. The reason for the separation of the couple was Harry's mother, but Neelova ghostly hints that he is the father of the child. Kasparov completely denies this.

Nick replaced his father current spouse Neelovoy Kirill Goratsievich Gevorgyan, Russian diplomat, and today director of the legal department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Thanks to his line of work, Nika went to first grade in Paris. Later she studied at the courses of the chief artist of the Moscow Lenkom Theater Oleg Sheintsis, graduated from the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague, and after school of art at University College London in sculpture.

Nika is an incredibly talented girl, her work has often been exhibited at the most prestigious European exhibitions, and in 2010 she won the "New Sensations" competition held by the Saatchi Gallery in London with the installation "Principles of Obedience".

In addition to art, Nika studies foreign languages, they come to her very easily. Diligently avoids publicity and excitement around his person. She is a very attractive girl who builds herself own life and loves his parents very much. Many notice that in appearance she is practically a copy of Kasparov, who did not recognize her, but Nika does not even think about it. Like her mother, she cut his name out of her life.

Neelova Marina Mstislavovna has been an actress for the past 40 years, performing equally well in theatrical performances and on film set. The artist is incredibly in demand. She plays even in her advanced age in several productions. Soon there will be a new movie in which the woman played one of the main roles.

In the first place for the artist has always been a family. In the harsh 90s of the last century, for the sake of her husband and daughter, Marina quits theater and cinema. She becomes the keeper of the hearth, providing comfort to her relatives. After returning, it turns out that fans were waiting for her new roles. The artist rewarded admirers of her talent with various films and performances, allowing her to see her from different angles.

After the debut, they started talking about a young, promising artist. She had fans, the number of which grew relentlessly. They know all the data about the star, including height, weight, age, how old is Marina Neelova.

It is easy to find out the age of the actress. To do this, you can make simple arithmetic calculations in your mind, knowing the date the woman was born. Neelova Marina Mstislavovna was born in 1947, after calculations it becomes clear that she is 70 years old.

Marina Neelova, a photo in her youth and now which attracts the attention of her many fans, has a weight of 68 kg with a height of 165 cm. For her age, the artist is in excellent physical shape.

Biography of Marina Neelova

The girl was born in the city on the Neva one and a half years after the Great Patriotic War. My father disappeared all the time at work, and during his infrequent hours of rest, he painted pictures and hung them around the apartment. Mother - Valentina Nikolaevna developed the girl, encouraging all her desires. At the age of 4, Marina began to dance ballet. But still, the dramatic art outweighed. Without problems, yesterday's graduate of the school enters Theatre Institute in hometown. After receiving a certificate, the girl is removed in the "Old, old fairy tale”, which was appreciated by viewers and professionals.

The biography of Marina Neelova will soon continue in the capital Soviet Union. After working for only a few months in the theater of Yuri Zavadsky, the actress, at the invitation of Konstantin Raikin, moves to the famous Moscow theater Sovremennik. Since that time, she has been playing on his stage. There was no desire to leave the already native stage.

Filmography: films starring Marina Neelova

The filmography of the popular actress includes a large number of wide variety of film work. For example, the audience fell in love with her in the "Autumn Marathon", "Carousel", "Ladies invite gentlemen" and others.

In the 90s of the last century, the star of Soviet cinema is removed much less. At this time, she begins to devote all her time to her beloved people. The husband of Marina Neelova is a diplomat. With him, the artist lived in Paris for several years. In the late 2000s, the husband travels as an ambassador to the Netherlands. The artist went with him, only occasionally arriving and performing on the stage of her beloved Sovremennik.

Currently, Marina Neelova plays in several productions at the same time. She is currently filming a new movie.

Personal life Marina Neelova

The film actress got married twice, each time great love. The details of this have been of interest to journalists for a long time.

For the first time, Marina Neelova married a colleague in the artistic workshop. For 8 years, the popular actress and her husband were often on the set separately from each other. In the end, the actors decided to divorce so as not to burden each other.

The personal life of Marina Neelova for a number of years proceeded in parallel with the famous chess king Garry Kasparov. Lovers often came together to various events. After a short time, the artist became pregnant, but the chess player said that he had nothing to do with the child. Until now, Marina Neelova and Garry Kasparov do not reveal the secret of the girl's birth. Former lovers do not communicate to this day.

Currently, Marina Neelova is very happy. Her husband serves in embassies Russian Federation now in one or another European country.

Family of Marina Neelova

The family of Marina Neelova consists of her beloved husband and daughter Nika. A woman, despite being busy in theatrical productions, devotes a large amount of time to her relatives and close people. In the 90s, the actress leaves for several years with her husband to France, where the man works in a diplomatic mission.

Neelova's parents had nothing to do with theater and cinema. Who worked father, no one knows. AT free time he was painting. The mother was a housewife and raised her daughter.

Children of Marina Neelova

Marina Neelova became a mother only once, having given birth to her daughter Nika. Who is her father, no one knows to this day. According to rumors, the famous chess player Garry Kasparov became the girl's father. But the man himself denies it.

The children of Marina Neelova are also her two godsons, who are already quite old. They have their own families in which children were born. Godchildren often call up the actress, invite her to family holidays.

The actress considers her roles to be her children, each of which she loves. A woman cannot name her most important work, they are all equal for her.

Daughter Marina Neelova - Nika

In the mid-80s of the last century, a popular artist gave birth to her only daughter. She named her Nika. Who is her father, the actress herself hides.

Daughter Marina Neelova - Nika, together with her mother and stepfather, lived in France for several years. She is incredibly talented. Knows French, English, German, Italian, Spanish and Russian.

Currently, the girl is a famous artist. She has already received several awards at various specialized events.

Nick recently met young man who is going to marry in the near future. But his name is carefully hidden.

Former husband of Marina Neelova - Anatoly Vasiliev

The former spouse was born in the harsh pre-war years. From childhood he showed himself talented person. He read poetry well, played in school theater productions, which determined his fate. Also in student years played in several films, after which his name became known to every inhabitant of the Soviet Union.

Ex-husband Marina Neelova - Anatoly Vasiliev met a girl in the early 70s of the last century. After candy-bouquet period the lovers got married. A few years later, the couple decided to leave.

Vasiliev, after parting with his wife, began to live with another star of Soviet cinema - Iya Savvina. Actors officially registered just a few days before Ii's death. After the funeral, Anatoly lives with his wife's son, Sergei, who suffers from an incurable disease.

Marina Neelova's husband - Kirill Gevorgyan

In the mid-80s of the last century, a popular theater and film actress vacationed in Italy. There she met an imposing man who began to show signs of attention to her. Without noticing it themselves, Marina and Cyril talked until the morning. The second time they met in Neelova's native Sovremennik. After that, the lovers began to live together. After a year of living together, they got married. The husband of Marina Neelova, Kirill Gevorgyan, officially adopted the daughter of the actress. She considers him her real father.

In the mid-90s, the husband worked in France. The actress left everything and went with her husband.

Currently, the man works in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation. Despite being busy, Cyril still invites his wife to romantic dinner. She believes that she was very lucky in this life, because their paths could never cross.

Instagram and Wikipedia Marina Neelova

Nowadays it is difficult to find a person who does not use social networks. The actress is quite modern woman, which is registered in many social networks. Instagram and Wikipedia Marina Neelova allow you to find out the most detailed information about the life and work of a woman, her personal life.

Wikipedia tells in detail about the star of Soviet and Russian cinema. But the page on Instagram, according to the actress, leads for her best friend, which exhibits photos of Neelova taken at different moments of her life. Here you can see videos from films in which the actress participated.

About the romance of young Kasparov with a wonderful actress Marina Neelova gossiped all theatrical Moscow. When they met, Marina was 37 years old, and Garik was 21.

In 1984, Kasparov met actress Marina Neelova. He was 21 years old, and he was the youngest contender for the title of world champion in the history of chess.

“Our close communication with Marina Neelova lasted more than two years. She was 16 years older than me, like all my then girlfriends. Partly because I grew up so fast. But much more due to the fact that the same age, as a rule, sought to get married as soon as possible. Of course, I could not even think about this, as I was preparing for my first match for the world championship. Everything - my health, my training, my aspirations - was subordinated to this goal. On the other hand, I was a normal young man with normal needs and desires. Not a monk at all.

She and I had many common friends among writers and artists. She is very extraordinary woman. It is quite possible that our union was also based on a sense of our exclusivity. (From Garry Kasparov's book "Child of Change"

He then lived in Baku and visited Moscow only on short visits. Neelova received a young lover in her apartment on Chistye Prudy. But in the light they have repeatedly appeared together. When in 1984 Kasparov first met in a world title match with Anatoly Karpov, Neelova was sitting in the hall next to the mother of the chess player.

The actress supported Kasparov at a difficult time for him. In the match for the world title with Anatoly Karpov, he first lost. Yes, even with a score of 0:5! Harry was even nicknamed the long-playing player. At matches, Neelova sat next to Klara Shagenovna. “Two mothers,” they said about them.

“At the end of January 1985, with the score 5:2, Karpov and I were even driven out of the Hall of Columns in the House of the Unions. Because Karpov, despite his assurances that he was about to press me, could not win, and here the members of the Politburo were dying one by one, and for the farewell ceremonies it was necessary to vacate the territory. Then Karpov handed over the third game, and the question was not even that he was physically exhausted and could not continue to play ... He became psychologically uncomfortable - he was just scared, and most importantly, those who were behind him frightened.

But it was Klara Shagenovna who separated them.

First she told her son:
“You need to focus on chess. And if you want to marry an actress, it's better to marry an entire factory hostel at once. She will infect you with a bad disease!
When Neelova became pregnant, Klara Shagenovna inspired her son that bastard can negatively affect his sports career. Ambitious Harry, who had already won the world title, did not object. His mother told the press: "This is not our child." As if hinting at the fact that Neelova was dating another man in parallel. The proud actress did not utter a word then. But the daughter Nika, whom she gave birth to, turned out to be like two drops of water similar to Kasparov. Neelova's colleagues at the Sovremennik Theater were outraged by the act of the grandmaster, and Valentin Gaft publicly stated:
– Kasparov is not worthy to be received in a decent house.

“I almost stopped seeing Marina. Parting became inevitable. Therefore, I was completely sure that the child she was carrying could not be mine. Each of us already had a separate personal life. I tried to put it all out of my head and focused on chess."(From Garry Kasparov's book "Child of Change")

In 1987, Marina Neelova's daughter, Nika, was born, like two peas in a pod, similar to Garry Kasparov.

Now Nick is 28 years old. She went to first grade in Paris. Her father was replaced by Neelova's current husband, a Russian diplomat Kirill Gevorgyan. It is thanks to Nika's stepfather that school age visited different countries and learned a few foreign languages. Neelova's daughter, a burning brunette, looks very attractive, although she says that she never considered herself a beauty.

Nika studied at the courses of the chief artist of the Moscow Lenkom Theater Oleg Sheintsis. In 2008 she graduated from the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague. She studied abroad, or rather in the Netherlands, where her father, Kirill Gevorkyan, was appointed ambassador of the Russian Federation several years ago.

It is known that she is not a fan of public life and has incredible abilities in learning foreign languages. In the Netherlands, she graduated from the academy, her second education, artistic, was already in London, at the design school.

In 2010 she graduated from art school in university college London. Participated in several collective exhibitions, mainly in the Netherlands. In 2010, Nika, with her installation Principles of Obedience, became the winner of the New Sensations competition held by London's Saatchi Gallery. According to the conditions of this prestigious competition, all graduates of the country's art universities are allowed to participate. But from the numerous applicants at its first stage, 20 of the best are selected, whose works are exhibited at the art fair in London. And only four winners receive a grant to create new projects. After the victory, she received many interesting offers, she had a solo exhibition in London.

Nika, your art education began in Russia, where you studied at the courses of the chief artist of Lenkom, Oleg Sheintsis. Then she entered the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague (2008). What was the reason for your choice, how did you study at the academy?

In the first introductory course at the academy, we studied all types of art - painting, graphics, sculpture, and then each chose a direction for himself, got a studio and worked for four years, consulting with teachers. True, many students did not reach the finish line. In fact, it is very difficult to work on your own. From the very beginning, teachers warned that, as a rule, only 6% of graduates of such academies of arts subsequently pursue their profession - the rest cannot stand it! Of course, we did not believe the teachers, we were full of enthusiasm and ambition, but now I am really convinced that very few of those with whom I studied in The Hague continue to make art.

What motivated you? You were the youngest on the course when you entered the university.

Probably, this was one of the motives: to prove to myself that I can work on a par with others and preferably even better!

Of all the arts, why did you choose installation and sculpture?

For me, this choice was unequivocal from the very beginning. I somehow immediately fell in love with space, it was interesting to see and create things in space, in three dimensions. This process intrigued me, forced me to look for new structures, materials, shapes, sizes.

The installations you showed in the Netherlands are huge, require a lot of materials and, consequently, a lot of money. For example, 360 kilograms of burnt sugar went to one of the installations. Who financed its implementation - the college?

No. (Sighs) I'm on my own. I was always working in some other job, in galleries, doing translations, writing articles - and this brought income, which I used to create my installations.

How are the ideas for your work born?

This is a rather lengthy process of accumulating everything seen, heard, read over months, and sometimes over years. I very often work with my own history, childhood memories.

Please tell us about the installation “There is always a time for departure…”.

It was my last examination paper at the Royal Academy of Arts, a month before moving to London. A long six-year period in my life was coming to an end, something new, unknown was ahead. I wanted to capture this past stage and the uncertainty of the future. Stepping on a sticky “sensitive” floor, you feel its texture, interact with it, leave traces. For me, this feeling was unusually exposed and intensified at that transitional moment in my life. The spiral in the installation is like a staircase that, resting against the ceiling, leads either up or down, or nowhere. The work has many associations with Holland, its history, the painting of the 188th centuries: the dark brown tiles found on the canvases of Vermeer, their burnt ocher shades - as a symbol of the experience.

How did the idea for burnt sugar come about?

As children, we always burned sugar on a spoon. This smell for me is the smell of childhood, and some kind of painful memories, something burned, changing its consistency in a short moment.

Many of your installations have a philosophical and pessimistic tone: stairs leading to nowhere, bells that will never sound...

Basically, they respond to a sense of loss - childhood, history, time. Many of my works are based on personal experience.

It so happened that I moved a lot - every five years, and childhood memories of loss are associated with this. I lost one city - gained another, lost one life -

got another. It was a constant cycle of impermanence - I always knew that I was coming on time. This temporality and fragility somehow took root in me, it is interesting for me to reflect on this in my works. After moving to London, this theme has changed, I focus more on the idea of ​​ruins and the restoration of history from memory, with its attendant distortions of the past.

And how was the “Swing” (“Attitudes to a Miss?”) installation created?

- I showed "Swing" in The Hague, in a rather strange cathedral with ten-meter ceilings. I went back there for a very a short time, after moving to London, just to do this installation. It was some kind of moment of return to the past, and I wanted to convey a quick reaction both to this room and to my feeling of an anachronism between the past and the present. A swing for me is, first of all, a childhood memory, and it is a very specific, real swing, a kind of iconic picture in my memory. I decided to reproduce the swing in a large size in the cathedral. The material was old boards from a destroyed house, and I attached new chains to the swings - as a connection between the past and the present.

How was your life in London? Why did you choose Slade School of Fine Art?

This is one of top universities in the arts in the UK. While still living in the Netherlands, I sent my documents to Slade - not really hoping for anything, to be honest. Thousands submit documents, and 40 people are selected for interviews. And when I suddenly received an invitation for an interview, I realized that something was going on. This admission was for me, probably, the most unexpected and great achievement in my life.

After graduating from university, you took part in the New Sensations competition held by the Saatchi Gallery among graduates of art universities in the country, and became the winner ...

I entered the competition out of desperation. After graduating from university, I had no job, no studio, besides, my British visa was ending. When I applied for the competition, I didn’t really expect anything, and only when I entered the top twenty out of a thousand, and then got into the top four, I had hope, and I began to work like crazy. The installation with bells (“Principles of Obedience”, 2010) is by far one of the most complex and interesting for me. As in my work with upside-down tree roots (The Grove, 2010), I wanted to show what is hidden from view, but has great importance in the life of the subject. I cast the tongues of bells from wax mixed with ash - they lost all their acoustic properties, they could no longer fulfill their main function. The obedience of the removed bells, which will never ring again, but only remind of something that could be. I'm interested in ripping things out of them natural environment and placed in a completely different context in which they create a rather unusual strange impression.

Your mother, Marina Neelova, is one of the most beloved actresses in Russia. Have you ever had aspirations to become an actress?

No, it was not. Mom beat them off (laughs) when I was still three years old. I didn’t know how to speak yet, but I knew that I wouldn’t become an actress!

Didn't you want to try yourself in your father's footsteps, in a diplomatic career?

I have always enjoyed playing the role of a diplomat's daughter... and over the years I have seen and learned a lot. But, as it seems to me now, I knew from the very beginning that I wanted to do some kind of art. Over time, the realization came that it would be a sculpture.

What happens to your installations after exhibitions?

My work is basically the embodiment of the moment of presence. Usually they are captured at the moment of a protracted collapse or just before the collapse - on the verge of disappearing in the presence of the viewer. Of course, they have a short life. But this is precisely their essence - to convey the temporality of life, the fear of disappearance, death. So far, installations have been successfully bought, but what will happen next ...

And who are the buyers?

The Principles of Obedience installation was purchased by Saatchi for the gallery's collection and is now in his warehouse. Coal chandelier bought in private collection in London, mirrors ("Prophecies for the Past") from "The Future Can Wait" are now being acquired by a collector, and upside-down trees ("The Grove") were commissioned for a park in the Netherlands. So far, all the work is going somewhere, but I'm already starting to think about what I need to do something more permanent.

What are your plans for the future?

I'm lucky that recent times I received three art awards in a row, and also sold three installations. This year I will have two solo exhibitions: in April - at the Charlie Smith Gallery in London, and also in Berlin. This is my first experience of solo exhibitions, so I feel great tension and responsibility.

Your installations tend to be large in size, which in turn requires large studio spaces to implement them. Where are you currently working?

I rent a small workshop. It's too small to do more than two jobs at the same time, so I'm currently looking for another space.

Perhaps the fact that you speak several foreign languages ​​helps to live in a cosmopolitan city like London? What languages ​​do you speak?

French, Dutch, Russian, English. I am currently studying Italian.

What is your perception of London as an artist?

Since my first visit to London in 2006, I have dreamed of living in this city. London shocked me, struck me with its extremely close coexistence of history and modernity, its dynamics. This city makes me want to create something, to respond to what I see, feel, and experience here.

The daughter of the chess king and Marina Neyolova charmed the director of the London Gallery

The 13th world chess champion Garry Kasparov recently had a son. It is probably not by chance that the boy was named in the American manner - Nicholas. Three years ago, Harry Kimovich, finally disillusioned with Putin's rule, left Russia and settled in the United States.

Kasparov bought a three-bedroom apartment in Manhattan in New York with an area of ​​160 sq. m. For this family nest, where his young wife Daria Tarasova, their 9-year-old daughter Aida and the chess player himself live, he laid out $ 3.4 million. Now we have to make room a little - there are four of them.
The 52-year-old ex-world champion knows a lot about female beauty. Daria is 20 years younger than him, and some Americans, seeing them together, mistakenly think that she is his daughter. When the romance between Kasparov and Tarasova, a student of St. humanitarian university trade unions was in full swing, Dasha was once asked who she was to the great chess player. The spectacular brunette, without batting an eyelid, replied: "I am his wife." Although Kasparov at that moment was married to a completely different young lady - Yulia Vovk! But Tarasova achieved her goal. In 2006, she really married a chess genius.
As a student, Daria practiced in Washington DC under a program supported by the US government. She opened her own store in St. Petersburg, and Valery Leontiev even dedicated one of his songs to her. In general, this lady also knew her worth.

Garry Kimovich and Daria have been together for more than 10 years, and I must say, this is a great achievement for the wife. After all, the winner of all kinds of chess tournaments has always had a weakness for the fair sex.
The whole theatrical Moscow was gossiping about the romance of young Kasparov with the wonderful actress Marina Neelova. When they met, Marina was 37 years old, and Garik was 21. He then lived in Baku and visited Moscow only on short visits. Neelova received a young lover in her apartment on Chistye Prudy. But in the light they have repeatedly appeared together. When in 1984 Kasparov first met Anatoly Karpov in a world title match, Neelova was sitting in the hall next to the chess player's mother. But it was Klara Shagenovna who separated them. First she told her son:
- You need to focus on chess. And if you want to marry an actress, it's better to marry an entire factory hostel at once. She will infect you with a bad disease!
When Neelova became pregnant, Klara Shagenovna inspired her son that an illegitimate child could negatively affect his sports career. Ambitious Harry, who had already won the world title, did not object. His mother told the press: "This is not our child." As if hinting at the fact that Neelova was dating another man in parallel. The proud actress did not utter a word then. But the daughter Nika, whom she gave birth to, turned out to be like two drops of water similar to Kasparov. Neelova's colleagues at the Sovremennik Theater were outraged by the act of the grandmaster, and Valentin Gaft publicly declared:
- Kasparov is not worthy to be received in a decent house.
Now Nick is 28 years old. She went to first grade in Paris. When she grew up, she became a sculptor, graduating from the Royal Academy of Arts in the Netherlands. Later, Nika continued her studies in England, and in 2010 she became the winner of the New Sensations competition, which was held by the Saatchi Gallery in London. Her father was replaced by Neelova's current husband, Russian diplomat Kirill Gevorgyan. It was thanks to her stepfather that Nika visited different countries at school age and learned several foreign languages. Neelova's daughter, a burning brunette, looks very attractive, although she says that she never considered herself a beauty.

I have a young man, we live together in London, - Nika admitted several years ago. - He's Italian, he also works here. Not an artist or a sculptor. Maybe it's for the best - the two of us are not bored.

However, Nika did not dare to introduce the same Italian to the public. Later, he left for his homeland, and the couple broke up. Meanwhile, Neelova Jr. literally charmed the director of the London gallery "Charlie Smith" Xavier Ellis. At first, using wide connections, he helped Nika to show his work in the capital of England, then in Berlin, Amsterdam and other European cities. Outwardly, everything looked quite ordinary: the patron of art helps the young talent pave the way to success. But when the exhibition at London's Somerset House, where the works of leading British artists and sculptors were shown, suddenly turned out to be the creations of Nika Neelova, the only foreigner, many had a question: why would it? Undoubtedly, she has talent, but without high patronage you will not get into the cohort of the elite so quickly. This vernissage, by the way, was supervised by Xavier.

Ellis' former favorite, Tessa Farmer, understood everything. The woman gave the ex-boyfriend a scandal:
- What is it about this Russian? Her work is completely ordinary. You are driven by personal sympathy.
Tessa insistently asked Xavier to forget about the Russian sculptor for the good of the cause. But he did not listen and began to lose his head more and more from the new favorite. Now Nika is seen with the gallery director not only at exhibitions and museums. Ellis takes her on trips, they dine together in restaurants, walk around the city.
According to our information, Nika Neelova was once offered a job in Moscow - she did not want to. Mom called her daughter to Paris, where she lives in last years and received a polite refusal. And when Nika asks Ellis for something (or vice versa), there are no refusals.
Nika prefers not to talk about Kasparov. She, like her mother, deleted him from her life.

Took the girl away from Short

In 1986, friends introduced Harry to the pretty blonde Maria Arapova. A graduate of the Faculty of Philology of Moscow State University, she worked as a translator at Intourist. It is curious that her dad was well acquainted with Karpov - the 12th world champion and Kasparov's sworn rival, but Klara Shagenovna found out about this too late. Otherwise, perhaps she would not have given her blessing for the marriage. Three years after the wedding, Maria gave her husband a daughter, who was named Polina. Arapova decided to give birth in Finland, where her parents lived at that time. But Kasparov stayed in Moscow with his mother. They say that Klara Shagenovna was seriously offended by her daughter-in-law. When Harry was about to buy a new home for the family in the center of Moscow, Masha cautiously offered to resettle her mother-in-law - to buy her an apartment in the house next door. The imperious Klara Shagenovna, accustomed to living with her son under the same roof, could not endure such deceit.

Kasparov's wife and her daughter spent several months in Finland, but Harry rarely visited them. And then he went to London for a match for the chess crown with the Englishman Nigel Short. The duel lasted for two whole months, but Maria did not appear in London. It became clear that the couple cooled off towards each other. And it soon became clear that Kasparov dealt a double blow to Short: he won the match against him and stole the girl, chess player Virginia More, from Nigel. The relationship with this young Frenchwoman lasted two years.
Maria Arapova did not remain silent. In one of the interviews she said:
“Maybe something has changed with Harry personally. Returning from London, he declared that he was ripe for a divorce. I tried to talk to him, but he doesn't want to come back... They put pressure on me. If I do not agree to his terms, then I will be deprived of credit card. He fights with us as with his chess players or political opponents. But we are talking just about a woman with your own child. I'm disappointed in Harry. God be his judge.

It got to the point that the spouses began to communicate only through lawyers. The divorce and division of property dragged on for a year and a half. As a result, Maria and her daughter left for permanent place residence in the United States - Kasparov bought them an apartment in New Jersey. By court decision, he received the right to annually take the child to him for two months. But ex-wife never let Polina go to her father. However, when the passions subsided and the girl grew up, normal communication improved. Polina did not inherit a love for chess from her father, but she did gymnastics for several years. Now that Harry Kimovich lives in New York, he is able to see his daughter much more often.
Kasparov and Arapova had family secret which they kept hidden for a long time. The fact is that first Mary gave birth to her husband's son. But the boy was barely saved, and a few days later he still died. Harry took it as bad sign. Even then, he slowly began to move away from Mary.

In 1995, at the Mikhail Tal Memorial in Riga, Kasparov drew attention to the slender and sexy beauty Yulia Vovk. A classmate invited her to a banquet on the occasion of the closing of the tournament, and, as it turned out, the girl did not come there in vain. An affair immediately broke out between the 32-year-old "king of chess" and the 18-year-old student. Many of Kasparov's colleagues believed that this relationship would last five or six months. well in last resort year. And they were wrong. Julia managed to please not only Harry, but, most importantly, his mother. Klara Shagenovna gave the green light to the wedding.

When Julia was in her seventh month of pregnancy, a very unpleasant incident occurred. Harry and his young wife were kayaking in the Adriatic Sea. Suddenly the wind blew, a lot of water got into the kayak, and it turned over. All this happened not far from a small island - the stunned spouses managed to swim to it. Fortunately, Boris Yeltsin's chief pilot and commander of the 235th government detachment, Alexander Larin, turned out to be not far from the disaster site. He brought the married couple from that island.
Despite the shock, Julia gave birth to a healthy child. Note that Klara Shagenovna was present at the birth, but Harry was not there. But his son Vadim Kasparov, of course, loves. For example, when the boy was five years old, dad, as promised, took him to Paris, to Eurodisneyland. Vadik was in seventh heaven with happiness. In 2004, after becoming the champion of Russia, Kasparov removed gold medal and hung it around the neck of his eight-year-old son. It was very important for the famous chess player that his son was proud of him.


Alas, a year later, Kasparov's second marriage fell apart. His ex-wife Julia still lives in Riga, and Vadim has already grown to be two meters tall and now weighs 120 kilograms. To the disappointment of his father, the son is absolutely indifferent to chess, but he plays iron with pleasure. Vadim became a weightlifter and participated in the Latvian Deadlift Championship. When in 2007 his father was arrested in Moscow (Kasparov participated in an unauthorized march for free elections), the guy was in shock. And Harry Kimovich himself did not believe that he would be sent to prison.
- They gave me five days, although they could have rolled 15, - the chess player, who became an enemy of Putin's power, later said. - Decided to study. I was placed in a cell for three: three beds screwed to the floor, the passage between them was literally a meter. But there were also concessions. For example, I could walk as much as I wanted, but only in a cage about three meters by five, top floor. Lights were not turned on at six in the morning. I managed to take a bar of chocolate and a bottle of water with me (they let me into the cell with this!). I figured out how long such a supply would last for me - I refused the prison gruel. However, five days without food can be sustained.
Apparently, after this incident, Kasparov decided to flee to the West. He tried to obtain Latvian citizenship, but was refused. But the Croats went forward. But Harry Kimovich prefers to live in the USA. He once admitted that he sometimes plays chess on the Internet under a pseudonym. And he feels great pleasure when virtual rivals are amazed at the quality of his game. In general, the rogue likes America much more than Russia, and work for the benefit of the United States is paid very generously. In his own words, Kasparov is now publishing books, giving lectures in various cities of America and abroad, earning quite decently - almost the same as it was in the days of sports career. But he does not serve the country that raised him and glorified him throughout the world. With Russia, Kasparov was not on the way.

And there was another case
* Garry Kasparov really liked the famous German figure skater Katarina Witt. Once he managed to meet her in Germany, and mutual sympathy had already arisen between the young people. However, the mother of the Olympic champion, seeing a guy with a Caucasian appearance, categorically told her daughter: “We don’t need such people!” Harry was hurt and offended.