How old is Ekaterina Gamova and her husband. The famous volleyball player Gamova leaves the big sport

Katya Gamova started playing volleyball at the age of 8. Already at the age of 11, the girl had a height of 172 centimeters and was engaged in the basketball and handball sections. When I had to make the final choice in favor of one game, Katya settled on volleyball.

Gamow received her education in sports school Chelyabinsk. At the age of 14 she got into the team of masters of her hometown "Metar". And in 1997, Katya, as part of the Russian youth volleyball team, won the world title. The next year was significant for the second place in the European Championship and the transition to Uralochka.

Gamow signed a contract for 15 years. Her coach was Nikolai Karpol. Katya also played in the subsidiary team of Uralochka - Uraltransbank, in 1999 the athlete became silver medalist championship of Russia. In the same year, the Final Four was held in Naples, where Gamova also participated.

Katya was noticed and taken to the Russian team. She actively works at all competitions, both international and Russian. As part of the student team, Gamova won silver at the Universiade in Spain. Then she went to fight in China, already together with the main team of Russia. Supported by Katya and the youth team, went to the World Cup in Canada. There, the girl became the most successful player in the competition. Canadian audiences were impressed by Gamova's skill and gave her the nickname Game over.

The athlete's streak of victories continues at the European Championships and the World Cup. And in 2000, Ekaterina was recognized as the best blocker. In 2001, Gamova, as part of Uralochka, won first place in the Russian Volleyball Championship.

Championships, cups and Grand Prix change, and everywhere the athlete performs simply excellently, for which she is awarded various medals and awards. Her results are impressive, without the participation of Katya it is already impossible to imagine the Russian team.

The skill of Gammava was fully manifested on Olympic Games in Athens. Then she showed her most top scores– 204 points! The volleyball final for the Russian team was very tragic - it lost to the Chinese team. Katya could not restrain her emotions and burst into tears, because she gave all her strength to this game.

In 2004, Gamova parted ways with Uralochka and moved to Dynamo. In 2005, Katya went to study at the Faculty of Journalism. As part of Dynamo, the athlete became the champion of Russia three times.

The new coach of the Russian volleyball team, Italian Giovanni Caprare, did not let Katya sit on the bench, actively used her skills and talent. In 2006, Russia for the first time received the title of world champion in volleyball.

The Olympics in China for Ekaterina Gamova turned out to be not a medal one. The athlete even left the Russian national team for a while and returned in 2009. Katya played for Turkish club Fenerbahce in the 2009-2010 season.

The Russian volleyball player does not miss a single major competition and always gives 100% in the game. In 2010, the media recognized Ekaterina Gamova as the best athlete in Russia.

The famous volleyball player and the tallest girl in Russia Ekaterina Gamova arranged her personal life, on August 17 her wedding with Mikhail Mukasey took place. The wedding was modest, in the circle of relatives and friends. Katya was wearing a beautiful beige dress, and of the jewelry - only voluminous curly earrings. And everyone who saw her in such an outfit understood what the chosen one had long noticed, and now the husband of Ekaterina Gamova - she is a very beautiful woman!

The personal life of the famous athlete has always been a secret - especially since her wedding made such a splash! But no matter how hard they try to slander about the growth of Gamova, Mikhail is not at all lost against her background. By the way, the height of Ekaterina Gamova is 202 cm, weight is 81 kg. And about the size of Gamova's legs in Runet - just a mountain of gossip! There is a figure - 49! Have you ever seen such a size at all - those who claim it? Perhaps it was precisely because of such conversations that Katerina Gamova had a rather harsh character: especially when communicating with journalists! In general, it has become a good tradition to play weddings after the London 2012 Olympics, regardless of the results, whether the athlete lost or won, that's it.

She was always angular and edgy: except for the last few months. The Olympic women's volleyball team noticed changes not only in the athlete's game, but also in her character: Katya became much softer, more sensitive. The loss to the Brazilians at the London Olympics caused Gamova to cry in despair and many say that is why she decided to get married!

In our opinion, this is not true: the husband of Ekaterina Gamova is a fairly well-known and popular person! Mikhail Mukasey is the son of the most famous masters of Russian cinema: director Svetlana Druzhinina and cameraman Anatoly Mukasey. Having a legendary past (his grandparents were famous Soviet intelligence officers), Mikhail followed in his father's footsteps by taking up photography. Behind him are several well-known works of Russian cinema: "Down House", "Hunting for Manchurian Deer", "Montana", "On Treason". By the way, he also produced the last picture. In addition, Mikhail Mukasey is in high demand as a cameraman for filming clips of popular pop artists and singers.

Both of them are quite popular, wealthy and in demand. True, there is talk that Ekaterina Gamova - by the way, she did not change her last name - is going from next year, after the expiration of the contract with Dynamo Moscow, to leave big-time sports and take care of her family: that is, to be a wife and mother! And what? It is necessary to replenish the ranks of Russian beauties and heroes! Moreover, the external data of both spouses is very impressive!

World volleyball queen Ekaterina Gamova and cameraman Mikhail Mukasey secretly stamped their passports

The forward of the Russian national volleyball team, and now the player of the Dynamo-Kazan volleyball team, Katya GAMOVA, has had complexes since childhood because of her high growth. A native of Chelyabinsk, who was teased by everyone who was not lazy with a "dylda", it was difficult to find a life partner. Guys, dear to Katyusha's heart, breathed into her neck, and made friends with her more often on the Internet. By the age of 30, the volleyball queen met a gentleman who approached her both in height and intellect. Despite the difference in age, the feelings were mutual: on August 17, the venerable athlete married the famous cameraman Mikhail MUKASEY, the son of film director Svetlana DRUZHININA.

Caring, attentive 46-year-old Mikhail Mukasey is the son of the famous director Svetlana Druzhinina and the director of photography of the Mosfilm film studio Anatoly Mukasey (“Midshipmen”, “Beware of the Car”, “Circus Princess”, “Scarecrow”, a series of feature films on the history of Russia - series "Secrets of palace coups", etc.). The father-in-law of Katya Gamova is the son of the spouses - Soviet intelligence aces Mikhail and Elizaveta Mukaseev. They have incredible interesting fate. The famous illegal intelligence officer Elizaveta Ivanovna and her husband and colleague Mikhail Isaakovich lived abroad for a quarter of a century. Their children - Anatoly (father of the newly-made spouse of a volleyball player) and his sister - were brought up by intelligence officers. And did not see their parents for a total of twenty years. Working from 1939 to 1943 at the consulate in Los Angeles, Mikhail Mukasey, Sr., raised money for Soviet Union. Gamova got into such an amazing family.


Ekaterina's chosen one, like his parents, also became famous in Russian cinema. In particular, as a cinematographer for the films Manchurian Manhunt, Montana, Down House, The Day Before, The Arbiter, A Midsummer Morning's Dream, Tin, The Snow Doesn't Melt Forever, and how producer of the film "On Treason". In addition, Misha Mukasey Jr. has shot more than five hundred commercials. Stars of show business also like to work with him. Here are the top three music videos he worked on: Alla Pugacheva's Christmas Meetings, Alena Sviridova's Pink Flamingo, Sergey Mazaev's Goodbye, Mom.

On August 17, a talented athlete went down the aisle with Mikhail in a charming beige dress, only voluminous earrings from jewelry. On this day, Katyusha was surprisingly good. It should be noted that with the advent of an adult man Mikhail Mukasey Gamova in her life, she blossomed as a woman. Disappeared "thorns" in the character, angularity.


Perhaps, it was precisely because of the worries about the upcoming wedding that the two-time world champion, playing at the 2012 Games in London as part of the Russian team, could not concentrate on the game and showed far from her best result. Recall Russian team ended the fight in the 1/4 finals, losing to the Brazilian team. Despite Gamova's statement about her retirement from the Russian national team and her unwillingness to play for our country at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, the coaches and fans of the wonderful athlete believe that Katya will still please us with her technically bright and amazing performance at site.

REFERENCE

Mikhail Mukasey

Graduated from VGIK camera department (workshop of Vadim Yusov). - From 1986 to 1987 - bass guitarist of the rock band Obermaneken. Producer and cinematographer working mostly in game cinematography. The owner of the company for renting camera equipment "RentaCam".

Ekaterina Gamova

Height 204 centimeters. She started playing volleyball at the age of nine in her native Chelyabinsk, under the guidance of her aunt. At the age of 17 he was a player of the Uralochka team. Since 2003 - the leader of the Moscow Dynamo .- In 2009, she signed a two-year contract with the Turkish Fenerbahce. As part of the Istanbul club in 2010, she reached the decisive match of the Final Four and was recognized as the best athlete in Russia.- Double champion world - 2006, 2010. - Since 1998, he has been playing for the Russian national team. In 2001, she was awarded the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, 2nd class, and in 2006, the medal of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, 1st class. - Until mid-2013, she was a player in the Dynamo Kazan volleyball team. In the rating of "100 most influential women in Russia" published in January 2012 by the Ekho Moskvy radio station, she took 92nd place.

The most famous volleyball player in the country Ekaterina Gamova For the first time I decided to speak frankly about my personal life and career. In September, Eksmo publishing house publishes her book Game Over. Volleyball continues. "AiF" got the opportunity to acquaint its readers with the stories of Catherine before others.

About the nineties

Nikolay Karpol- the head coach of the national team and the famous "Uralochka" - Gamova noticed in 1998. So Ekaterina ended up in Yekaterinburg.

— For me, the 90s was a nervous, uncomfortable, scary time. I remember my mother came to Yekaterinburg to see how I play children's tournament. We traveled by trolleybus from one relative to another. We got to the end. Nine in the evening, it's dark, the lights are off, it's deserted, there is only one person on the street - a passenger of the same trolley bus. Actually, after 21.00, public transport stopped running altogether. And all of a sudden, automatic bursts nearby. One, two, three, four. But it was the very center of the city ... Years later, I was shown the famous local cemetery with a whole alley of gloomy black obelisks. Brotherhood graves. The row is very long, they were constantly killed. So I personally did not see anything good in these 90s. Actually, in Yekaterinburg, a person at that time could easily say when meeting: “I am from such and such a group.” It was considered absolutely normal, in the order of things, as if now someone said: "I work in such and such a company." When Svetlana Sergeevna begins to tell me about that time, about rampant banditry, Misha she interrupts with the words: “Yes, she herself is from Yekaterinburg - the most criminal city. It all happened before her eyes.”

About the "divorce" with Karpol

Gamova's departure from Uralochka, where she played for 6 years, to Dynamo Moscow was accompanied by a scandal. The club refused to let go of its main star, and then the volleyball player filed a lawsuit.

- The first thoughts about leaving Uralochka appeared at the moment when they began to force us to rewrite contracts. We were registered as individual entrepreneurs. Thank you, there were knowledgeable people who suggested: if we sign these agreements, we will never be able to break them in our lives. The employer has complete power over you...

A little later, I found out that two Uralochka players were already independently studying options for how to leave the club - Tanya Gorshkova And Natalya Safronova. After that, I Nastya Belikova also decided to work in a similar direction. To begin with, we made a fundamental decision for ourselves - in any case, these contracts should not be re-signed.

For Karpol, this came as a surprise. He gave us the relevant papers to sign in Japan when we were at the location of the national team. I remember I went to the coach's room and burst into tears... Naturally, I didn't sign anything. He, of course, was a little dumbfounded by the whole situation, got excited. What did it look like from his side? A player enters the room, sees a contract on the table and starts crying sobbing...

After this incident, we were left alone with these contracts for some time. But it was already clear that it was necessary to find people who could help us. Because there is power behind Karpol, he rules the federation. And we are, in fact, alone. Defenseless and no one really needs.

Karpol had a long conversation with me, but I didn’t tell him anything about my desire to leave Uralochka. And he tried to "put pressure on the psyche." Basically, conscience. He told me that I was brought up in Uralochka, they invested a lot of effort, time and money in this training. He said that everything would be fine with me, that the amount of the contract would be significantly increased. I listened, nodded, but I myself understood that there was no turning back. The legal machine was launched, the bridges were burned. And the next day I just came to the club's office and wrote a letter of resignation of my own free will ...

Then, of course, all sorts of unpleasant moments were also enough. For example, when I came to Uralochka to pick up my work book, they scared me and drew not the most rosy prospects. As a result, they said something like this: “We will give the work book only in exchange for the keys to the apartment.” There, the meaning is that in one of the clauses of the contract it was written: "Gamova has been a tenant of an apartment for three years, and then this property becomes her property." And these three years at the time of the conflict had not yet expired. Velikanov threatened, promised that he would throw my mother's things out into the street ... Mom - well done, she was not at a loss, she said: “Please go ahead, come, throw it away. I will immediately call all the newspapers and TV channels to come too. And they showed the whole country how Uralochka treats the Honored Master of Sports.”

With Karpol Gamova parted through the court. Photo: RIA Novosti / Pavel Lisitsyn

About the wedding

Gamova always carefully concealed her personal life. About her romance with cinematographer and producer Mikhail Mukasey(son of director Svetlana Druzhinina and cameraman Anatoly Mukasey) only the closest people knew. They met on the set of a commercial for a Moscow shopping center.

- The owners of this center at some point said: "We want Gamova to be filmed with us." Accordingly, Mikhail began to look for my contacts. He then told me: “Finding some kind of artist or singer is not difficult for me. But your phone number got out through the seventh hand ”... This video was then played on TV for a year.

I returned to Kazan, and Mikhail began to write text messages to me. Corresponded, corresponded, and then he came to Tatarstan for work - his company participated in the filming of a video for the Kazan Universiade. Moreover, as he later admitted to me, there was no special need for his presence, but he invented this business trip for himself in order to see me.

From that moment they began to meet. Frankly, I did not build any plans for our relationship. Today I am happy - and thank God, we must live in the present and enjoy good times. It’s great for me, but how long it will all last - a month, three, a year - I didn’t want to guess at all. Therefore, the proposal to marry was a complete surprise ...

There was a funny moment. We signed at the Khamovnichesky registry office, and on the same day the Khamovnichesky court pronounced a verdict on Pussi Riot. There was a huge crowd of journalists. And we didn’t want the press to know about our wedding at all. Therefore, when I saw all these people in front of the building, I was very confused. I asked Inessa for a tippet, wrapped it around my head ... But they still recognized me. It was funny when the young guys standing nearby chanted in turn: “Sorry! A shame!" and “Woe! Bitterly!"

We did not advertise our wedding, but the journalists got wind of it anyway. And when I turned on the TV in the morning, I fell into a real shock. There, on all channels, some terrible footage was played, which someone filmed on a mobile phone from under the floor. The picture looked just awful. The feeling is very disgusting. They climbed into you there, into that corner of your life into which you did not invite anyone and did not want to let anyone in.

I had a good relationship with my husband's parents. Now it is part of my family. People with whom to experience both joys and sorrows. Of course, sometimes there are frictions. Friends often ask: “How do you get along all together? Director. Operators. Honored Master of Sports. Everyone has a leadership character, everyone is used to being an indisputable authority in his field. But this is only when viewed from the side. In fact, we are an ordinary family. Mom, dad, their son and his wife. And we meet often, and we celebrate holidays, and we go to rest together. On our honeymoon - well, more precisely, not a month, there was only a week there - four of us flew. And for the competition Svetlana Sergeevna And Anatoly Mikhailovich often went to support me.

Really high relations: 202 cm of Catherine, and Mikhail's growth is all right. Svetlana Druzhinina, Mikhail Mukasey and Ekaterina Gamova. Photo: RIA Novosti / Ekaterina Chesnokova

About the tragedy of the coach

Russian women's volleyball team led by 43-year-old Sergei Ovchinnikov lost to Brazil in the ¼ finals of the 2012 London Olympics. The Olympics ended on August 12, and on August 29 Ovchinnikov was found hanged in a hotel room in Croatia. Croatian came to the conclusion that the deceased committed suicide. Head coach Russian men's volleyball team Vladimir Alekno then he said that Ovchinnikov was very upset by the defeat of his team. “He missed this Olympics through himself. I saw how he was worried, did not find a place for himself after this loss. He is not very talkative, even after the victories he was in some kind of thought, he smoked a lot.

- Of course, we went to the Olympics to win. In principle, we are never going to a tournament with thoughts: well, well, we will lose with this, and we will beat these - in general, our place is second or third. Of course not. Always tuned in to fight for gold.

If we had passed this ill-fated Brazil, there would be no such strong opponents in the tournament. I am absolutely sure of this. But as it happened, so it happened. I didn't get along well with the Olympics...

Soon after the Olympics, a tragedy happened to Ovchinnikov. I was at home at that moment, came back from training, turned on the news, and they were just showing the relevant story. At first I didn't believe it. Actually, this reaction was not only mine. Not only volleyball players fell into a state of shock then, but everyone who had something to do with sports. Suddenly. Unclear. Scary. We were canceled in Kazan on that day of training. There was a general feeling of horror and nightmare... Of course, there were many rumors and conjectures. Someone even hastened to blame the Russian team for everything - it seems like we are to blame. If we had won against Brazil, this would not have happened ... Some kind of nonsense.

Head coach of the Russian national volleyball team Sergei Ovchinnikov and Yekaterina Gamova (2nd from right) at the Olympic Games in London. Photo: RIA Novosti / Vladimir Pesnya

About a career point

“I didn’t get along with the Olympics,” says Ekaterina. In Sydney 2000 and Athens 2004 there were "silver". In Beijing 2008 and London 2012, the Russian team did not make it into the top three. But Gamova herself did not get into Rio 2016.

- When I was not taken to the Olympics in Rio, of course, I was very upset. I confess it came as a surprise. Yes, I did not expect that I would immediately be put in the starting six, because I understood that after the injury I was not in the best condition. But I was ready for any role, to help the team in any way I could. However, Marichev called and said that he would not call me. He explained his decision as follows: both for me and for the club as a whole, the season did not work out. What does all this have to do with the national team, to be honest, it was not very clear. I was not even called to the training camp to give me the opportunity to get in shape and compete for a place in the squad. In fact, in my condition there was a clear positive dynamics, and I could well come to the Olympics in good condition.

I was sincerely glad that my health was improving, that I could help the national team. And then such a phone call ... They didn’t even want to see me, they didn’t give me a chance to try. And it was said in several strange shape: we are not taking you now, but such a situation may arise that we will urgently call and take you, if necessary.

No thanks. Why should I cover someone's, pardon the expression, ass? On the same day I called my husband and said that I was ending my career. Completely and definitively. And the next day she publicly announced her decision.

After the end of my playing career, I was not drawn back to the site. At all. I know that many athletes have difficulty with this. And I definitely didn't.

I did not see myself in a coaching role. I have seen enough over the years how the bread of mentors is sometimes bitter. Well, and most importantly, those nervous loads that people of this profession experience, you absolutely don’t want to let through yourself. Of course, I am not only ready, but also want to share my experience. But not seven days a week.

At some point, I began to look for a permanent job. And one of the proposals came from the All-Russian Volleyball Federation - to help girls' youth teams ... We thought for a long time in what form this very help to the younger generation should be carried out. As a result, I became the curator of the women's youth teams of Russia.

The editors express their gratitude for the help in preparing the material to the Eksmo publishing house.

The father of the famous volleyball player left her pregnant mother and never saw her daughter

In March 2011, the best volleyball player in Russia was invited to advertise a furniture salon, and it was there, on the set of a video, that she met her fate - cameraman Mikhail MUKASEYA - son of the masters of Russian cinema "mother of midshipmen" director Svetlana DRUZHININA and her husband - cameraman Anatoly MUKASEYA .

On August 17, the young people played a wedding, renting the River Lounge yacht club in Strogino for this, where the cost of a banquet for 100 guests is 500 thousand rubles. Plus the services of florists, stylists, musicians, toastmasters, transport and more - another 500 thousand. In total, the wedding cost a tidy sum.

Among the relatives and close friends of the family, the aunt was also present at the wedding. Ekaterina Gamova- Lyubov Borisovna, sister dead mother sportswomen, and, by the way, her first volleyball coach. It was she who shared her joy with the readers of Express Newspaper and told us the details of the happiest moment in the life of her famous niece.

I learned about the wedding in the winter. In the spring of last year, the niece met Mikhail Mukasey on the set of a commercial for a furniture store. Before the anniversary of their acquaintance, they announced that after the Olympics in London they would sign. The date of the wedding was chosen in advance. When the Russian team fought with competitors from different countries I was also in London. She supported my girl as much as she could. But I didn’t make it to the match where we lost to the Brazilians. Katya failed to get me a ticket.

White dress

- Was the wedding according to Russian traditions - with the ransom of the bride?

Misha had a hard time. Katyusha has an apartment on Shabolovka on the 18th floor. The bridesmaids came up with various funny obstacles for the groom. Imagine how much sweat, effort and effort he put in to get to the apartment of his beloved woman! - For Gamova's height of 202 centimeters, it was probably difficult to find a dress in wedding salons?- With a dress such background. Katya had a favorite white dress with spaghetti straps, but very short. In the registry office, you understand, you won’t go to this. She decided that it was necessary to come up with a long skirt to the top. She was made to order. It turned out to be a great outfit.

The newlyweds refused wedding photography to many publications. But at the celebration, judging by the pictures you took, there are cameras. - These are specially hired professionals. Photo and video recording for family history. At the entrance to the registry office on the street there was a slight commotion. The bride, groom and guests were waiting for an invitation to register, and literally a hundred meters from us, someone staged a picket in support of the members of the Pussy Riot group, who were sentenced to two years in a penal colony for hooliganism in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior. Journalists ran to the picketers. Noticing them, Katya became nervous. There was nowhere to hide. Then she took a pink cape from her friend and covered her head.


- Now it is not fashionable to walk at a wedding for two days. How were the guys?

On Friday, they signed, then they accepted gifts at a restaurant in Strogino. On Saturday, August 18, we walked at the wedding of Katya's volleyball player friend Olesya Makhno. And on Sunday, the newlyweds gave their guests a continuation of the banquet on the yacht. They gathered everyone in Serebryany Bor. Organized an incendiary volleyball match. Boys against girls. All were dressed in T-shirts and shorts. Even Michael's parents - Svetlana Druzhinina And Anatoly Mukasey. Mishin's dad, by the way, was rooting for the girls, and Svetlana Sergeevna for her son's team. Mikhail, by the way, is also very athletic, pumped up, he also studied at the youth sports school. The men's team was forbidden to jump, put up defense. Therefore, the girls won with a score of 2:1. Svetlana Druzhinina organized an excellent support group. And she was the brightest and most active participant in it.

On Sunday, by the way, her other friend, a volleyball player, also got married. Goncharova Katya. But she, however, officially signed in the winter, they just arranged a celebration in the summer. - Gifts, probably chic gave?- Sending wedding invitations to the guests, Misha and Katya made an addition, they say, we ask you to give something that is no larger than a dollar and a euro. Such a hint ... Therefore, most friends and relatives presented them with envelopes with money as a gift. And me too. After the wedding, the newlyweds went on their honeymoon to Nice. Some of the money will be spent there. The most unusual of the presents was a painting measuring 3 by 2.5 meters. Mishina's friends gave her. The canvas depicts Katya in full height with a volleyball net and Mikhail sitting next to him. The gift touched the newlyweds to tears. - Katya makes good money. You have been her mentor in volleyball since childhood. Does your niece help you? - Of course. We are in regular contact. On my 50th birthday, Katyusha gave me a trip to Paris. And recently I had a wonderful vacation in Crete with her friends. Swimming, playing volleyball, sunbathing. Katya was preparing for the Olympics, she could not go with us. My dream is to visit Spain. It's my birthday in a few months.

Children will wait

For Misha, this is the second marriage. I really liked it! Very courteous, charming, apparently very reliable, a real man, and hohmach. And how he loves Katya! Of course, he looked after him very nicely. Just imagine, Katya and I vacationed in Turkey last year. And he is also on the Mediterranean Sea, but in a different place. So every day he came for Katya to us on a specially rented liner, sailed for two and a half hours for her sake, took her to ride on the sea, and returned her safe and sound in the evening! Such romance... And at the wedding, he also arranged a surprise for everyone: he quietly left and changed into a Scottish skirt and let's dance on stage - he specially prepared a number, no one expected this! He danced and sang, and did not take off his skirt until the end of the wedding. By the way, the bride and groom performed a very beautiful joint dance - tango. Among the guests were the stars: Dmitry Kharatyan with his wife Alexander Domogarov. Very warm words-wishes were said to the newlyweds. But, of course, Svetlana Sergeevna and her husband Anatoly Mikhailovich spoke best of all - they have a gift! It is immediately clear that the directors - I do not know how to speak fluently. They said that they liked Katya as soon as they saw her on the screen. Svetlana Sergeevna and Anatoly Mikhailovich also played volleyball in their youth and were captains of the teams at VGIK, so they followed volleyball. So they fell in love with Katya long before they met her.

- Lyubov Borisovna, Katya and Mikhail are planning to have children?

Not in the near future for sure. Katya has a contract with Dynamo Kazan - she still has a year to play for them, plus she still remains in the Russian team. And after the honeymoon, she already has a busy training schedule. - But Mikhail has two children from his first marriages - Maxim and Lisa. Does Katya know them?- Of course, Maxim was at the wedding, he and Katya have been communicating well for a long time. But Katya has not met Lizonka yet. - Of the Ural relatives, were you the only one at the wedding?- Yes. Katya's mother, my older sister Irina, passed away when her niece was 25 years old. Ira died of cancer. And the cousins ​​could not come. - Was Catherine's father at the wedding?- Father? Katya doesn't have a father! He left her mother as soon as he found out that she became pregnant and did not appear in their lives again. He did not help either with money or with a kind word. When we registered Katenka, we even wanted to write a different middle name on the birth certificate, but then we thought, okay, let it be Alexandrovna. Even when Katya became famous all over the world, he didn’t call, apparently, he was ashamed. This Alexander now lives in Chelyabinsk, he has a different family. On their honeymoon, the young people went to Nice together with Svetlana Sergeevna and Anatoly Mikhailovich. Lyubov Borisovna would also go, but she did not have a Schengen visa. We got through to Anatoly Mukasey, the operator of such famous films as "Secrets of Palace Coups", "Scarecrow", "For Family Circumstances", etc.

By the way, he is the son of the famous Soviet intelligence officers Mikhail and Elizaveta Mukaseev. It was thanks to both the complex and romantic profession of his parents that Mikhail Mukasey, as a child, sat on the lap of Uncle Theodore (American writer Theodore Dreiser) and Uncle Charlie (actor and director Charlie Chaplin) - then his parents worked in Los Angeles at the consulate Soviet Union and were friends with many Hollywood celebrities.

- Anatoly Mikhailovich, are you in Nice now? Perhaps you ride a yacht or a jet ski?- Why all these jet skis? Why are they? We are fine without these motorcycles. We just relax, swim, sunbathe, everything is quiet and calm. Do you still want grandchildren?- Why not? This is a normal life process. - Maybe Katya is already expecting a baby?- Well, what are you! Katya works, works hard, she is not up to it yet. - Do you like Katya as a daughter-in-law?- She's just a wonderful girl, beautiful. We love her very much. - Does she have something in common with your wife Svetlana Sergeevna?- I haven't figured it out yet.

Secrets of family coups

Svetlana Druzhinina and Anatoly Mukasey now have three grandchildren from two sons: Daniil - from the eldest Anatoly and Maxim and Lisa - from the younger Mikhail. Anatoly, unfortunately, became a drug addict, and once jumped out of the window of a high-rise building, leaving his wife with 4-year-old son Daniel in her arms.

Somehow in the morning, at a special "black hour", he slammed the cologne and jumped out of the 12th floor, - says a friend Mukasey Ivan. - He left a note that he did not want to be a mentally ill father for his son. The wife tore the note in her heart.

But Daniel's mother Irina Muravieva not much survived her husband. She was also a drug addict, and died in a domestic fight with her roommate, from whom she gave birth to a girl, Ksyusha, Danila's half-sister. Since then, Danila has been brought up by her grandparents on her father's side - Svetlana Druzhinina and Mikhail Mukasey - and his half-sister Ksyusha - maternal grandmother. Danila is now 25 years old, he works as a sound engineer at his grandmother's studio. - I would not say that Danila has a great relationship with his grandmother and his uncle Mikhail. There were a lot of scandals, discontent, - said Danila's neighbor on the porch. - Svetlana Sergeevna is a very domineering woman, and Danila did not like it when they point him out and climb into his personal life. Danila is not yet married. At one time he met with a girl-artist, but then they broke up.

Having overlooked the eldest son, Svetlana and Anatoly took up the youngest with all severity, and therefore the youngest son pleased them with perseverance and diligence. He never touched drugs - on the contrary, he was actively involved in sports and led exclusively healthy lifestyle life.

I am very happy for Mikhail, - director Alexander Atanesyan wished happiness to his colleague and co-producer in the comedy "On Treason". - I wish them and Katya only happiness and children. I know that Mikhail already has two children, in my opinion from different women. God forbid, they still have children together! Mikhail, like his father, is a cameraman. He worked on such films as "Hunting for wapiti", "Down House". He also directed over 600 video clips and commercials. He is the owner of the Rentacam company, which offers filming equipment for rent, as well as a full range of film production, advertising, clips and special effects!

The Wedding Planner

On the same day as Katya and Mikhail, volleyball players played a wedding: the diagonal of the Moscow Dynamo and the player of the national team Natalia Goncharova and libero Kazan "Zenith" and the national team Alexey Obmochaev. True, it was just a celebration, because they signed at the registry office in March. And the day after Katya's wedding, her friend from the Russian national volleyball team also went down the aisle Lesya Makhno, having become engaged to the Chekhov Bears handball player Egor Evdokimov.


MONUMENT DURING LIFE

At the entrance to the London Sports Palace "Earls Court", where the Olympic volleyball tournament was held, the fans stopped in surprise and began to peer into the unusual sculpture. It turned out that this is a monument two-time champion peace to Ekaterina GAMOVOY. None of the volleyball players - neither men nor women - received such an honor.

Andrey KLINKOV

Katya has the 49th shoe size, and her height is 202 cm. She sews shoes and clothes to order, and sometimes she manages to buy something abroad. Because of your growth Gamow in her school years she was very worried and always sat in the classroom at the last desk. The boys called her a telegraph pole, and it seemed to Katya that she would never marry.

Gamow carefully hides his personal life. It is known that for about 10 years she lived in a civil marriage with a guy from Yekaterinburg, whom she met when she played for Uralochka. Alexey is twenty centimeters lower than Katya. In 2009, they broke up - and Gamova left for Turkey, signing a contract with Fenerbahce. Later, reconciliation took place, but the former feelings faded. Katya made a choice in favor of Mukasey Jr.