Gaft and Ostroumova: A Love Story

This book is about how a famous, universally loved actor found his family happiness. About what it means to love. About loyalty, patience, and the hope that sometimes people who have passed the middle of earthly life need so badly. Feelings of awe, delight, admiration—and a desire to speak softly when you watch this incomparable couple.
God gave them everything—beauty, talent, luck. Valentin Gaft adores his wife. He himself says that he always looks at her as if he sees her for the first time in life. They looked for each other for a long time—too long and hard to treat lightly those precious minutes when they are together. He is People’s Artist of the RSFSR, a theater director, poet, and writer. She is People’s Artist of the Russian Federation, a laureate of the USSR State Prize. Two bright stars, from whom anyone can learn how to love and be loved, how to become happy.

“…Valentin Gaft is different. He can be warm, gentle, trembling—and he can be злой, prickly, uncompromising. I think it’s a great happiness that in the second half of his life he met Olga Ostroumova and now has finally found the long-awaited family happiness.”