Gaft and Ostroumova: A Love Story

This book is about how a famous, beloved by the whole country actor found his family happiness. It’s about what it means to love: about faithfulness, patience, and the hope that sometimes people who’ve passed the middle of their earthly life still need. The feelings of reverence, delight, admiration—and the desire to speak softly when you watch this incomparable couple. God gave them everything—beauty, talent, luck. Валентин Гафт worships his wife. He himself admits that he always looks at her as if he sees her for the first time in his life. They looked for each other for a long time—too long and too hard to treat those precious minutes when they’re together lightly. He is People’s Artist of the RSFSR, a theatre director, a poet and a writer. She is People’s Artist of the Russian Federation, a laureate of the USSR State Prize. Two bright stars—each of us can learn from them how to love and be loved, how to become happy. “...Valentin Gaft is different. He can be warm, tender, trembling—and he can also be злым, prickly, uncompromising. I think it’s a huge happiness that in the second half of his life he met Ольга Остроумова and finally found the long-awaited family happiness.”