The most famous Georgians in Russia. The most famous Georgians in Russia Famous Georgian actors

Many famous Georgian singers have been and remain popular in our country. They perform successfully on the Russian stage. Among them are opera singers, romance and pop singers, musical artists and representatives of pop culture.

Opera

Georgian opera performers have voices that are unique in their strength and beauty of timbre. Some of them managed, thanks to their talent, to become famous throughout the world. They sang and sing on the best stages in Europe. They conquered La Scala, Metropolitan Opera, Covent Garden and other world venues.

Georgian opera singers (list):

• Zurab Sotkilava.
• Paata Burchuladze.
• Makvala Kasrashvili.
• Tamar Iano.
• Gvazava Eteri.
• Natela Nikoli.
• Lado Ataneli.
• Petre Amiranishvili.
• Nino Surguladze.
• Eteri Chkonia.
• Iver Tamar.
• Tsisana Tatishvili.
• Nino Machaidze.
• Medea Amiranishvili.

And others.

Contemporary performers

Artists from Georgia successfully perform not only opera arias, but also jazz, rock, and pop. Many of them became famous thanks to the television projects “The Voice”, “Star Factory”, “Minute of Fame”.

Georgian contemporary singers (list):

• Gela Guralia.
• Sofia Nijaradze.
• Diana Gurtskaya.
• Katie Topuria.
• Dato.
• Valeriy Meladze.
• Katie Melua.
• Anri Jokhadze.
• Irakli Pirtskhalava.
• Tamta.
• David Khujadze.
• Grigory Leps.
• Datuna Mgeladze.
• Soso Pavliashvili.
• Oto Nemsadze.
• Nina Sublatti.
• Nodiko Tatishvili.
• Sopho Khalvashi.
• Mariko Ebralidze.
• Sophie Willey.

And others.

Zurab Sotkilava

The world famous opera singer Zurab Sotkilava was born in Sukhumi in 1937. Since childhood, the artist played football and at the age of 16 he joined the Georgian “Dynamo”. At the age of 22, due to severe injuries, he was forced to complete his sports career. In 1960, Zurab Lavrentievich graduated from the Polytechnic Institute. Five years later - the Tbilisi Conservatory, and in 1972 - graduate school. He completed an internship at the La Scala Theater for two years.

He began his career as a singer at the Z. Paliashvili Opera and Ballet Theater in Georgia. In 1974 he moved to Moscow and was accepted into the Bolshoi Theater troupe.

Z. Sotkilava in 1979 was awarded the title " National artist THE USSR".

Zurab Lavrentievich sang the roles of the main characters in the following operas:

• "Aida".
• "Nabucco".
• "Troubadour".
• "Rural honor".
• "Masquerade Ball"
• "Yearning".
• "Boris Godunov".
• "Iolanta."

And others.

Zurab Lavrentievich has been active since 1976 teaching activities. Since 1987 he has been a professor. Many young Georgian opera singers, as well as vocalists from other countries, study with him.

Eteri Beriashvili

Many Georgian singers shine brightly on Russian television. They take part in various competitive projects. One of the artists who was remembered by the Russian public thanks to her participation in the show “The Voice” is Eteri Beriashvili. The artist was born in a small Georgian mountain town. Started singing in early childhood. At first, at the insistence of her parents, Eteri graduated Medical Academy named after Sechenov. Immediately after this, she entered the Moscow School of Pop and Jazz Art in the vocal department. While still a student, she became a diploma winner of the “Stairway to Heaven” competition, where she was noticed and invited to join the group Cool & Jazzy. Then the artist created her own group - A’Cappella ExpreSSS.

Eteri is one of the leading jazz performers.

Tamara Gverdtsiteli

Some Georgian pop singers who became popular with our listeners back in Soviet era, remain beloved today. Such artists include Tamara Gverdtsiteli. The singer was born in Tbilisi in 1962. Tamara comes from an ancient noble family. T. Gverdtsiteli is not only a singer, but also an actress, composer and pianist. She began to study music thanks to her mother, an Odessa Jew. In the 70s Tamara became the soloist of the children's vocal ensemble "Mziuri". T. Gverdtsiteli graduated from the conservatory in two areas - composition and piano. Then she graduated from a music college with a degree in vocals. In 1991, she entered into a contract with M. Legrand and then her first concert took place in Paris.

Today Tamara performs on stage and sings in opera, acts in films, plays in musicals, tours with solo concerts and takes part in dramatic productions. The artist performs songs in different languages.

In 2004 she was awarded the title " People's Artist Russia".

Sofia Nizharadze

Georgian singers often perform parts in our Russian musical productions. One of the most famous artists of this genre - Sofia Nizharadze. She was born in Tbilisi in 1986. Started singing with three years. At the age of 7 she voiced a film. She graduated from a music school with a degree in piano. Sofia is a graduate of GITIS, faculty of musical theater artists. She gained fame by singing the part of the main character in the Russian version of the French musical "Romeo and Juliet".

In 2005, the singer took part in the New Wave competition. In 2010 she presented her home country at Eurovision.

In addition to the musical "Romeo and Juliet", she performed roles in the following musical productions:

• "Keto and Kote".
• "Wedding of the Jays."
• "Melodies of the Verian Quarter".
• Hello, Dolly.

Special films have always been made in Georgia - deep, touching and very sensual. the site remembered the amazing Georgian actresses who are especially loved in Russia

Special films have always been made in Georgia - deep, touching and very sensual. the site remembered the amazing Georgian actresses who are especially loved in Russia.

Sofiko Chiaureli

Actress Chiaureli - during her life she played more than a hundred roles in theater and cinema. Sofiko was born into the family of director Mikhail Chiaureli, whose films Stalin was very fond of. Her mother was the great Georgian theater actress Veriko Andzhaparidze. While studying at VGIK, Sofiko married film director Georgy Shengelaya. The actress's acting talent was so multifaceted that friends and colleagues called her Rainbow. Together with her second husband Kote Makharadze, a famous Georgian actor and sports commentator, Chiaureli organized a theater in Tbilisi, which was named after her mother “Veriko”. In the early 2000s, she became the artistic director of this theater. In 2007, the actress received a terrible fatal diagnosis. She struggled with a serious illness for a year. Chiaureli passed away in 2008. Sofiko has said more than once that Russia and Georgia are united by something more than friendship and neighborhood, namely a great feeling called love.

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The star of Leonid Kvinikhidze's musical comedy “Sky Swallows” was born in Tbilisi in 1960. Young actress She made her debut in Georgy Danelia’s film “Don’t Cry” in 1968. Ninidze got married for the first time at the age of 17. Her chosen one was the son of the famous Georgian actress Sofiko Chiaureli and director Shengelaya - Niko. Then there were two more marriages. One day Iya fell in love with married man named Lado. He was a fan of her talent. Lado struggled with a serious illness and passed away surrounded by his family. Iya, for obvious reasons, could not be there. The news about the death of her lover crippled the actress. She even thought about throwing herself out of the window. Her children kept her from doing this. For their sake, Ninidze moved to Moscow, where she lives to this day.

Leila Abashidze

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Abashidze is a versatile actress. She shone on the screen in both comedic and dramatic roles. The actress played her first film role when she was still a schoolgirl. Her parents became victims of Stalin's repressions. After graduating from the Rustaveli Tbilisi Theater Institute, Leila got a job at the Georgia Film studio. Abashidze’s work in Siko Dolidze’s film “Dragonfly” brought him all-Union fame. The film was released in 1954. The role of the carefree girl Marine, who meets great love, has become business card actresses. Now Leila Mikhailovna is 86 years old. Abashidze is also known as a screenwriter and director.

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The actress Kavjaradze was born in the capital of Georgia in 1959. TO at this moment Lika starred in almost 30 films. The most famous film with her participation is the work of director Tengiz Abuladze “The Tree of Desire”. The film was filmed in 1977. The director himself calls his film a work about people who are illuminated by a dream. The director managed to bring very specific details of the life of a pre-revolutionary Georgian village into the metaphorical style of this parable film. Kavjaradze surprisingly accurately and talentedly performed the role of the main character Marita. Many fans of Lika Kavjaradze’s work call her the most beautiful Georgian film actress. The audience fell in love with Lika for her incredible charm and amazing smile. It is known that the actress is now working on Georgian television.

About famous Georgians in Russia and the most interesting facts their biographies, tells.

Zurab Tsereteli

The famous 82-year-old Russian sculptor, painter and teacher. His sculptures decorate many countries and cities around the world. He is the president Russian Academy arts, as well as a laureate of various awards and titles. Notable works— a monument to Peter the Great, John Paul II, the monuments “Friendship Forever” and “Good Conquers Evil.”

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The author of more than five thousand works of painting, graphics, sculpture and monumental decorative art grew up in Tbilisi, in a family where the spirit of artistic art was in the air. He studied in France, where he communicated with Pablo Picasso and Marc Chagall. Since the late 1960s and still active in the field of monumental art.

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Tsereteli is the author of the largest statue of Jesus Christ in the world (80 meters), which may be placed in St. Petersburg. The master plans to build a museum named after him in China and create a monument to singer Zhanna Friske. Despite Tsereteli's outstanding achievements, the sculptor is criticized for his gigantomania and accused of "monopolizing" monumental projects in Moscow.

Interesting fact - Tsereteli appears as a tireless, cheerful artist-sculptor Zviad Tsurindeli in the novel by writer Sergei Sokolkin “Russian Chock”.

Nikolai Tsiskaridze

Nikolai Tsiskaridze is undoubtedly one of the most famous and talented ballet dancers of our time. A native of Tbilisi, he was a prodigy from childhood, and his long legs and crazy love for ballet led him to the Moscow Bolshoi Theater, where he dreamed of serving from an early age.

photo: courtesy of Nikolay Tsiskaridze

Today Tsiskaridze is a twice laureate of the State Prize of Russia, three times a laureate of the Golden Mask theater award, a member of the Presidential Council for Culture and Art, as well as the rector of the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet in St. Petersburg.

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Ballet dancer Nikolai Tsiskaridze in a scene from the ballet "The Queen of Spades" staged by Roland Petit

Nikolay is a fan of the works of Leonid Parfenov, Vitaly Vulf and Edward Radzinsky. His favorite fairy tale is Andersen's The Little Mermaid. The forty-two-year-old artist is famous for his complex character and boundless willpower, and also avoids talking about his personal life and says that he is in no hurry to get married.

Cult film director, actor, screenwriter, publicist, author of such popularly beloved films that entire generations have grown up with: “I’m Walking Through Moscow,” “Don’t Cry!”, “Afonya,” “Mimino,” “Autumn Marathon,” “Passport” , "Kin-Dza-Dza!" and many more etc.

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George spent his childhood in Moscow, where the family moved from Tbilisi in 1931. Here he graduated from the Moscow Architectural Institute in 1954, and two years later he entered the Higher Directing Courses at the Mosfilm film studio. Danelia is the cousin of the Georgian actress Sofiko Chiaureli, whom he filmed only once - in the film “Don’t Cry.” For almost half of Danelia’s films, the music was written by the Georgian composer Gia Kancheli, who also composed a composition for string orchestra"Little Daneliada"

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Frunzik Mkrtchyan and Vakhtang Kikabidze at the Rossiya Hotel in Moscow during the filming of the film Mimino.

In Danelia's films, among the actors involved in the episodes, there is always a certain Rene Hobois, who is not in any of the films. In reality, Rene Khobua is a Georgian builder who once met Danelia and Rezo Gabriadze. Unfortunately, in recent years Georgy Danelia has been suffering from emphysema and therefore hardly leaves the house.

Leo Boqueria

Leading cardiac surgeon of Russia and famous scientist. For outstanding services in medicine, he repeatedly became the person and legend of the year. Throughout his career, Boqueria actively and fruitfully used the experimental method. He was one of the first in the world to perform simultaneous operations to correct congenital and acquired heart defects.

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A special merit of Leo Antonovich is the performance of the first operations in the USSR on fully implanted artificial heart ventricles. Boqueria is the initiator and pioneer of minimally invasive heart surgery, including the use of three-dimensional imaging of the surgical field to improve the safety of the operation itself. Doctor from God - Leo Bockeria - 76 years old.

Outstanding opera singer (lyric-dramatic tenor) and teacher. Since childhood, he played football: at the age of 16 he joined the Sukhumi Dynamo, then became the captain of the Georgian national team at the age of 20, and two years later he joined the main team of the Tbilisi Dynamo. But serious injuries led to the end of his sports career.

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From 1965 to 1974, Zurab Sotkilava was a soloist at the Georgian Opera and Ballet Theater named after Z. Paliashvili. Trained at La Scala Theater in Milan. At the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow he made his debut as Jose in 1973 (Carmen by Georges Bizet), and in 1974 he joined the theater's opera troupe. He taught at the Moscow Conservatory.

In July 2015, information about an oncological diagnosis spread in the media. opera singer. Soon Sotkilava told reporters that he had defeated cancer after a successful course of chemotherapy. His first concert after recovery took place on October 25, 2015 in Sergiev Posad, near Moscow.

Oleg Basilashvili

His film characters - Samokhvalov, Buzykin, Count Merzlyaev, pianist Ryabinin, Woland - are the most charming and beloved characters Soviet cinema. Basilashvili, who has acted in more than 75 films, is known for his opposition views.

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Oleg Basilashvili (Prince K.) during the play "Uncle's Dream" based on F.M. Dostoevsky, staged by the artistic director of the Bolshoi Drama Theater named after G.A. Tovstonogov (BDT) Timur Chkheidze.

Oleg Basilashvili could not get along with his actress wife Tatyana Doronina, but he is happy with journalist Galina Mshanskaya, with whom the artist has been together for more than 50 years. The couple raised two daughters who became journalists, like their mother. But longer than his wife, Oleg Basilashvili remains faithful only to the Bolshoi Drama Theater.

During the Soviet era, Oleg toured the world a lot. Once on tour in Japan, Basilashvili received a huge by the standards Soviet man fee, which he spent entirely on six pairs of shoes for his wife.

Sergei Chonishvili

Russian theater and film actor, official voice of the STS TV channel since 1998. At the age of 16 he came from Tula to Moscow, where he graduated from the Shchukin School. He played in Lenkom and the Oleg Tabakov Theater, and starred in more than 60 films.

The voice of Sergei Chonishvili has been voiced and voiced in many Russian commercials, documentaries, audiobooks and announcements on various TV channels. His voice is to some extent as recognizable on modern television as Levitan’s voice was once. In 2000, Chonishvili successfully made his debut in literature.

Grigory Chkhartishvili

Grigory Chkhartishvili - aka Boris Akunin, an outstanding writer, publicist, orientalist, translator and winner of numerous professional awards. Born in 1956 in Zestafoni (Imereti region), in the family of artillery officer Shalva Chkhartishvili and teacher of Russian language and literature Berta Brazinskaya. In 1958, the family moved to Moscow.

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In 1979, Grigory Chkhartishvili graduated from the historical and philological department of the Institute of Asian Studies, Moscow state university named after M.V. Lomonosov, receiving a diploma in Japanese history. Translated Japanese, American and English literature. And in 1998 he began writing fiction under the pseudonym Boris Akunin. Chkhartishvili-Akunin became popular in the early 2000s thanks to a series of detective novels about Erast Fandorin (Azazel, The Turkish Gambit, The Death of Achilles, State Councilor, Special Assignments, Leviathan, Coronation) ). The works of the Fandorin series have been translated into more than 30 languages ​​and have been filmed several times.

The writer is married. The first wife is Japanese, with whom Akunin lived for several years. The second wife, Erika Ernestovna, is a proofreader, translator and agent of the writer. Have no children. Since 2014, Gregory has been working and living in France, Brittany region. In October 2016 they arrived on their historical homeland, to Georgia, where he met with Georgian readers and said that he was looking for a plot in the country for a new book about Fandorin in Georgia.

Valery and Konstantin Meladze

Stars of modern Russian pop music and real engines of show business. Natives of Batumi (Adjarian Autonomous Republic), they began to study music in their youth. Now Valery is a successful pop singer, while Kontantin is one of the best composers in the country. Not long ago, both brothers left their first families and married their wards from the VIA Gra group: Valery - Albina Dzhanabaeva, and Konstantin - Vera Brezhneva.

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Otar Kushanashvili

The controversial Russian music journalist and TV presenter comes from Kutaisi (Imereti region). His parents had nine children. Kushanashvili decided to become a journalist back in hometown, starting to publish in the Kutaisskaya Pravda newspaper. Later he entered the Faculty of Journalism at Tbilisi State University, from where, according to him, he was expelled.

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And soon Otar left for Moscow, where he first worked as a night watchman at a school and washed floors at a train station. Then I sent out my resume to 35 editors, but received only one offer, and at the beginning of 1993 I became a correspondent for the newspaper." A New Look", created by Evgeny Dodolev, and then, on the latter’s recommendation, moved to television under the tutelage of Ivan Demidov.

Soon Otar Kushanashvili does interviews with figures Russian show business and becomes a prominent figure in the Moscow elite. He was noticed in numerous scandals: for example, after the 2002 story on Channel One, when during the broadcast of the Eurovision Song Contest Kushanashvili swore obscenely at live in Andrei Malakhov’s program, was deprived of the opportunity to appear on television for a long time.

Tamara Gverdtsiteli

In the past, she was a soloist of the legendary VIA "Mziuri", in the present she is one of the most talented Georgian singers on the Russian stage. Tamara Mikhailovna’s father is from the ancient Georgian noble family of Gverdtsiteli, her mother is Jewish, the granddaughter of an Odessa rabbi. Gverdtsiteli performed with Michel Legrand, who, introducing the singer to the audience of three thousand, said: “Paris! Remember this name.” And Tamara conquered Paris.

She performs songs in more than ten languages: Georgian, Russian, French, Italian, Spanish, English, Hebrew, Ukrainian, Armenian, German, etc. Tamara Mikhailovna’s talent is limitless - the artist sings in operas and musicals, acts in films, and also participates in various music and entertainment projects on television.

Rezo Gigineishvili

Popular Russian film director, producer and screenwriter of Georgian origin. Born in 1982 in Tbilisi in the family of musician Irina Tsikoridze and doctor David Gigineishvili, in Soviet time who ran one of the health resorts in Borjomi. In 1991 he moved to Moscow, where he soon began working on television.

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He graduated from the directing department of VGIK (course of Marlen Khutsiev), was the second director in Fyodor Bondarchuk’s film “9th Company”. Gigineishvili's most sensational films are “Heat,” 2Love with an Accent,” “Without Men” and the television series “The Last of the Magikians.” He is known for his high-profile marriages with singer Anastasia Kochetkova and Nikita Mikhalkov’s daughter, actress Nadezhda Mikhalkova.

Soso Pavliashvili

One of the most charismatic Georgians and singers in Russian show business. Father Ramin Iosifovich Pavliashvili is an architect, mother Aza Aleksandrovna Pavliashvili (nee Kustova) is a housewife. He became involved with the stage when he served in the army. And after the service, at the age of 24, he began to sing.

Pavliashvili was a member of the Iveria ensemble. In 1988, during the Winter Olympics in Calgary, Soso played the violin in the Iveria ensemble, and once sang “Suliko” in front of an audience of 50,000 people in the city center, the performance of which shocked the audience. In 1989, he performed at a competition in Jurmala, where he received the Grand Prix.

Soso is famous for his greater love of love: the singer’s first wife was Nino Uchaneishvili, who bore him a son, Levan. After Soso's first marriage for a long time lived with famous singer Irina Ponarovskaya, but the couple never legalized the relationship. Since 1997, the Georgian singer has been married to former backing vocalist of the Mironi group Irina Patlakh, with whom Pavliashvili has two daughters, Lisa and Sandra.

Evgeniy Papunaishvili

Famous Russian dancer and choreographer, native Muscovite. Several years ago, Papunaishvili opened his own “Evgeniy Papunaishvili School of Dance”. Now he is one of the most expensive choreographers and dance teachers in Russia.

The choreographer became more famous and recognizable after his participation and repeated victories in the project “Dancing with the Stars”, where Evgeniy danced with Natasha Koroleva, Irina Saltykova, Yulia Savicheva, Ksenia Sobchak, Albina Dzhanabaeva, Alena Vodonaeva, Tatyana Bulanova, Glyuk'oZa and others .

The Georgian heartthrob was credited with many affairs, with almost every one of his star partners. But the choreographer himself confirms only one romance - with Ksenia Sobchak. But the romance ended and today the dancer’s personal life is again under the radar of cameras. The man is still single, rich and famous.

Grigory Leps (Lepsveridze)

Sochi Georgian and a real phenomenon on the Russian stage recent years. At school I was a poor student, but was seriously involved in football and music. In the early 1990s, Leps performed romances in the restaurant of one of the Sochi hotels, and spent the fees on casinos, slot machines, booze and women. At the age of 30 he went to Moscow for fame and he succeeded.

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In 1995, the debut album “God Bless You” was released, the song from which “Natalie” quickly gained popularity. Already in 1998, Grigory received an invitation from Alla Pugacheva to sing at the Olimpiysky in “Christmas Meetings”. Leps is known for his special, “growling” voice timbre. He defines his style as “pop song with rock elements.”

Leps is a businessman, restaurateur, and produces a line of glasses called “Leps Optics.” In 2013, the US Treasury Department accused Leps of involvement in the “post-Soviet mafia” and blacklisted him. According to US official services, Leps had the nickname “Grisha” in the criminal environment, officially lived in Thailand and transported mafia money. The musician treated this with irony and even called new record"Gangster No. 1" He was married twice and has four children.

One of the most charming, fashionable and talented singers of Georgian origin in Russia. Rapidly rushing into Russian stage from Tbilisi as the new soloist of "A" Studio "Keti Topuria immediately attracted attention not only with her incredibly beautiful voice, but also with her exotic appearance. Today, thirty-year-old Keti is not only a successful singer, but also a promising designer of clothes for adults and children, and also happy mother of daughter Olivia, who was born to Katie in marriage to businessman Lev Geykhman.

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Sputnik Georgia talks about famous Georgians in Russia and the most interesting facts of their biography.

The famous 82-year-old Russian sculptor, painter and teacher. His sculptures decorate many countries and cities around the world. He is the president of the Russian Academy of Arts, as well as a laureate of various awards and titles. Famous works are the monument to Peter the Great, John Paul II, the monuments “Friendship Forever” and “Good Conquers Evil.”

Master class by the President of the Russian Academy of Arts Z. K. Tsereteli. The author of more than five thousand works of painting, graphics, sculpture and monumental and decorative art grew up in Tbilisi, in a family where the spirit of artistic art was in the air. He studied in France, where he communicated with Pablo Picasso and Marc Chagall. Since the late 1960s and still active in the field of monumental art.

Monument to St. George by Zurab Tsereteli on Freedom Square in the center of the capital of Georgia. Tsereteli is the author of the largest statue of Jesus Christ in the world (80 meters), which may be placed in St. Petersburg. The master plans to build a museum named after him in China and create a monument to singer Zhanna Friske. Despite Tsereteli’s outstanding achievements, the sculptor is criticized for his gigantomania and accused of “monopolizing” monumental projects in Moscow.

Interesting fact - Tsereteli appears as a tireless, cheerful artist-sculptor Zviad Tsurindeli in the novel by writer Sergei Sokolkin “Russian Chock”.

Nikolai Tsiskaridze is undoubtedly one of the most famous and talented ballet dancers of our time. A native of Tbilisi, he was a prodigy from childhood, and his long legs and crazy love for ballet led him to the Moscow Bolshoi Theater, where he dreamed of serving from an early age.

Nikolai Tsiskaridze in the capital of Georgia Today Tsiskaridze is a twice laureate of the State Prize of Russia, three times a laureate of the Golden Mask theater award, a member of the Presidential Council of the Russian Federation for Culture and Art, as well as the rector of the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet in St. Petersburg.

Ballet dancer Nikolai Tsiskaridze in a scene from the ballet "The Queen of Spades" staged by Roland PetitNikolai is a fan of the works of Leonid Parfenov, Vitaly Wulf and Edward Radzinsky. His favorite fairy tale is Andersen's The Little Mermaid. The forty-two-year-old artist is famous for his complex character and boundless willpower, and also avoids talking about his personal life and says that he is in no hurry to get married.

Cult film director, actor, screenwriter, publicist, author of such popularly beloved films that entire generations have grown up with: “I’m Walking Through Moscow”, “Don’t Cry!”, “Afonya”, “Mimino”, “Autumn Marathon”, “Passport” , "Kin-Dza-Dza!" and many more etc.

Georgiy Danelia Georgiy spent his childhood in Moscow, where the family moved from Tbilisi in 1931. Here he graduated from the Moscow Architectural Institute in 1954, and two years later he entered the Higher Directing Courses at the Mosfilm film studio. Danelia is the cousin of the Georgian actress Sofiko Chiaureli, whom he filmed only once - in the film “Don’t Cry.” Almost half of Danelia’s films were written by Georgian composer Gia Kancheli, who also composed a composition for string orchestra “Little Daneliada” as a gift to the director.

Otar Kushanashvili

The controversial Russian music journalist and TV presenter comes from Kutaisi (Imereti region). His parents had nine children. Kushanashvili decided to become a journalist in his hometown, starting to publish in the Kutaisskaya Pravda newspaper. Later he entered the Faculty of Journalism at Tbilisi State University, from where, according to him, he was expelled.

Journalist Otar Kushanashvili

And soon Otar left for Moscow, where he first worked as a night watchman at a school and washed floors at a train station. Then he sent out his resume to 35 editors, but received only one offer and at the beginning of 1993 he became a correspondent for the newspaper “New Look”, created by Evgeny Dodolev, and then, on the latter’s recommendation, he switched to television under the tutelage of Ivan Demidov.

Soon Otar Kushanashvili interviews with figures from Russian show business and becomes a prominent figure in the Moscow elite. He was noticed in numerous scandals: for example, after the 2002 story on Channel One, when during the broadcast of the Eurovision Song Contest, Kushanashvili swore obscenely live on Andrei Malakhov’s program, he was deprived of the opportunity to appear on television for a long time.

In the past, she was a soloist of the legendary VIA "Mziuri", in the present she is one of the most talented Georgian singers on the Russian stage. Tamara Mikhailovna's father is from the ancient Georgian noble family of Gverdtsiteli, her mother is Jewish, the granddaughter of an Odessa rabbi. Gverdtsiteli performed with Michel Legrand, who, introducing the singer to the audience of three thousand, said: “Paris! Remember this name." And Tamara conquered Paris.

Tamara Gverdtsiteli at a charity concert Performs songs in more than ten languages: Georgian, Russian, French, Italian, Spanish, English, Hebrew, Ukrainian, Armenian, German, etc. Tamara Mikhailovna’s talent is limitless - the artist sings in operas and musicals, acts in films, and also participates in various music and entertainment projects on television.

12. Rezo Gigineishvili is a popular Russian film director, producer and screenwriter of Georgian origin. Born in 1982 in Tbilisi in the family of musician Irina Tsikoridze and doctor David Gigineishvili, who in Soviet times led one of the Borjomi health resorts. In 1991 he moved to Moscow, where he soon began working on television.

He graduated from the directing department of VGIK (course of Marlen Khutsiev), was the second director in Fyodor Bondarchuk’s film “9th Company”. Gigineishvili’s most sensational films are “Heat”, 2Love with an Accent”, “Without Men” and the television series “The Last of the Magikyans”. Known for his high-profile marriages with the singer

Soso is famous for his greater love of love: the singer’s first wife was Nino Uchaneishvili, who bore him a son, Levan. After his first marriage, Soso lived for a long time with the famous singer Irina Ponarovskaya, but the couple never legalized the relationship. Since 1997, the Georgian singer has been married to former backing vocalist of the Mironi group Irina Patlakh, with whom Pavliashvili has two daughters, Lisa and Sandra.

Famous Russian dancer and choreographer, native Muscovite. Several years ago, Papunaishvili opened his own “Evgeni Papunaishvili School of Dance.” Now he is one of the most expensive choreographers and dance teachers in Russia.

Evgeniy Papunaishvili

The Georgian heartthrob was credited with many affairs, with almost every one of his star partners. But the choreographer himself confirms only one romance - with Ksenia Sobchak. But the romance ended and today the dancer’s personal life is again under the radar of cameras. The man is still single, rich and famous.

The US Treasury Department accused Leps of involvement in the “post-Soviet mafia” and blacklisted him. According to US official services, in the criminal environment Leps had the nickname “Grisha”, officially lived in Thailand and transported mafia money. The musician treated this with irony and even called the new record “Gangster No. 1.” He was married twice and has four children.

Keti Topuria

One of the most charming, fashionable and talented singers of Georgian origin in Russia. Having quickly burst onto the Russian stage from Tbilisi as the new soloist of "A" Studio, Keti Topuria immediately attracted attention not only with her incredibly beautiful voice, but also with her exotic appearance. Today, thirty-year-old Keti is not only a successful singer, but also a promising adult clothing designer and children, and also a happy mother of daughter Olivia, who was born to Katie in her marriage to businessman Lev Geykhman.

Concert of the A-Studio group in the Georgian capital, in the Tbilisi Concert Hall.