Biography
Anatoly Safronov - Brother of the famous Russian artist who wrote portraits George Bush Jr. David Bowie, Vladimir Putin and many others. Relatives since childhood has retained a mental relationship, although sometimes quarreled, but Nikas first called apologize.Childhood and youth
Anatoly Stepanovich Safronov was born in 1949 in Ulyanovsk. Father Stepan Grigorievich, Erianian by nationality, was a military retired, originated from the kind of hereditary Orthodox priests. The man was well cut on the tree, played on the accordion and accordion. He graduated from the Tank School to the Great Patriotic War, in 1945 he fought on Sakhalin with the Japanese. Uncle on the maternal line served in the Belarusian SSR, in 1942 he received the Order, who saved him his life: when the soldier came out of the dugout, the reward took on a shock bullet.
Anna Fedorovna's mother came from Lithuania, half was Finnish. The woman sang perfectly, she was even invited to the State Academic Russian People's Choir named after M. E. Pyatnitsky, but she refused. For the new year, the lady was preparing a goose in apples and large Finnish dumplings from the need, surprisingly delicious and juicy.
The family lived modestly, despite this, in the house they took beggars, wanderers, other people's children, and the younger son of Nicholas (in the future Nikas) it annoyed. Only many years later, the famous brother Anatoly realized that so parents were brought up in children of mercy.
In addition to Nikas, Safronov had a twin brother Vladimir, Alexander grew in the family, who died many years later, and Alexey, who became a photographer and a musician. Tatiana's sister worked as secretary at the institute, married did not come out, instead, started 15 cats. Nicholas Stepanovich even had to buy neighboring apartments in her house, because people complained about the smell of feline food and noise.
Career
Anatoly Stepanovich was engaged in an art school, he drew a little and helped Nikas in a workshop with workshops. But he did not make a great creative biography, because thanks to the patronage of the younger brother could not work at all. The famous portraitist worked and contained not only relatives and friends, but also unfamiliar people who fell into trouble, bought apartments, furniture and household appliances, helped with money.Personal life
In the 1970s, Anatoly Stepanovich had a civilian wife, a son was born from this connection. More about his personal life is not known anything.
In 2015, Alexey brother announced that he was treated from alcoholism, and lay down in the clinic. Nikas called him a "broken person," comparing with Mikhail Bulgakov and Fedor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky.
In 2018, the twin Anatoly Stepanovich Vladimir went to a cruise along the Volga together with Anatoly Trucchin and actor Gennady Saifulin, the journey paid for Nikas. Upon returning the Safronov settled his brother in the guest apartment and went on a business trip. After that, for several days, Vladimir did not answer calls and knock on the door. The press appeared in the press that the man was missing, but it turned out that he simply blossomed his back and he spent a few days in bed, and the calls did not hear because of hearing problems.
Anatoly Safronov Now
In May 2021, a woman who called himself a civil wife Anatoly Stepanovich, accused Nikas that he forcibly holding his brother in a psychiatric hospital to assign his apartment. Allegedly, the artist broke out there with an accomplicer and drove the relative of the power, changed the castles and broke the doorbell.
According to the ladies, in 2009 the brothers have concluded a contract of exchange, so housing belonged to the senior Safronov. But after the real estate price has grown, the portraitist wanted to return the property back.
The woman stated that in 2018, Anatoly Stepanovich wrote a power of attorney to Nikas's assistant, so that he could represent him in the Department of Cultural Heritage of the city of Moscow, since the apartment was considered an architectural monument. Then allegedly went to the Presnensky District Court of Moscow and secretly terminated a contract of exchange. This, according to her, the owner accidentally found out on January 18, and from April stopped responding to calls.
Assistant Nikas Ivan Inin gave a comment, calling the lady a fraud. The artist himself said that all his brothers and sister live without a couple, they had no civilian spouses. The son of Safronova Luke Pozavkin said that in the family, everyone is in good relations and no conflicts between the father and Uncle he does not remember.