Alexander, now many fathers "give birth" with their wives, and you were present at birth?
I wanted to, but Aksinya did not let me! We were sitting under the door - me and Aksinya's mother. And then my wife called me on the phone, she said in a trembling voice: "Everything, I gave birth!" - and cried. Probably from great happiness. We immediately handed all kinds of gifts and flowers to nurses and quickly leaked into the ward. I was the camera, I filmed almost the first minutes of our son's life.
It is already clear, does Pryanikov, Jr. look like Prya- nikov the elder?
While he looks like me, only with a love of food. And outwardly, in principle, no. I am happy to note in his mother's features. He has a beautiful mother, and his profile is the same as that of Aksinya, stubborn-stubborn, uh! It is already clear that a person has a character. Grunting, grumbling, but only on business.
How did you manage to keep secret from friends and acquaintances that you are expecting a child?
It was very difficult, considering that the circle of our friends is incredibly wide. It came to ridiculous. Once Sasha and I saw a friend in the supermarket, and I with my big belly hid behind the counters until he went to the checkout. And then Sasha called me and said: "You can go out, he left the store!" Why did we do this? I believe in energy and I know that certainly there were people who, after learning about our joy, could have thought something bad. And since the expectation of the child was the most important moment of our life, I decided to do everything in order that the pregnancy ended well. In addition to us, only my mother knew about this. We did not even say something to Sasha's parents. And only when I gave birth, there, in the hospital, Sasha told them about our happiness. Then I was not afraid of anything. I already felt: the angels are beside me, and they guard me.
Sasha, do you like the fact that your wife is a writer?
Four years ago, when we first met, I was very skeptical about writing. And then I realized that it was for this skepticism that God sent me a writer wife. Aksinya always wrote something, she published some books. And now I realized that she does not write from idleness at all. She has a well-developed "brain-hand" connection. I like that my wife looks at the world with writer's eyes. She has everything to do with everything, she seems to be letting through ...
Do you read it yourself?
I would like to say that the first reader is me ... Actually, if she has an inner need to give me to read, she gives.
If there is no such need, it does not. But it's not easy with me as a reader either. I'm like the head teacher, who has a child at his school and who asks ten times more. Similarly, I begin to find fault with Aksinya ten times as much as a writer if I read a book of a stranger. I say: "Something's not right ..." And she starts stomping with her feet: "No, you do not understand anything, I invented something else!" ... But then something quietly settles in her head. Yes, I am a very fastidious reader: give me the quality to get me hooked. So that I believe and be imbued.
True, now Aksinya has much less time to work. But now she uses her talent in caring for her son - composes poetry to him.
Sasha, and what are your memories of your own childhood?
I grew up in a theatrical family, and every summer we went on tour. Therefore, I had so much brilliance! There was no such thing that I stayed all summer somewhere in the village with my grandmother. And in my childhood I was absolutely sure that all children go on tour. In autumn I met my friends and quite sincerely asked: "And where did you go on tour?" And I was very surprised when someone answered me that he had spent the summer in the city.
If you were given a task - very briefly, literally in three sentences, to write your autobiography, how would it look?
I would have written very, very briefly: I was born and was surprised. And if you take it seriously and look back, I once could not even imagine that I will be in Moscow and will work in show business. We did not have a single acquaintance in the capital! I arrived, completely without knowing how, where ... And then one day they called me and said: congratulations, you were casted on television. And then I met those whose photos hung in my house in Orenburg, whom I once looked at and thought I was living with them on different planets.
For example, now I'm playing in one play with Vladimir Menshov. And when we bow out with him, he knows perfectly well that I am Sasha Pryanikov. This dramatic performance, called "Kazakova: lessons of love." Casanova is played by Menchov, and I have the role of Earl. I sit on the stage - on one side Vladimir Menchov, on the other Alexander Pashutin, and in the middle I - and I think: here I got steep!
After the appearance of Sasha, do you even think of the children?
Of course! When I gave birth, and I was brought to the ward, literally half an hour later a doctor came to examine me. And he asks: "What do you feel?" And I answer her: "I want one more child." You can say that I have not yet touched my first child, as I immediately wanted the second. In our family everything is harmonious: I am a harmonious mother, and Sasha is a harmonious dad. And after all it is fine: remarkable parents, and around of many good children! And when people in the family do not develop something, but they still gave birth to a child, because it seems to have someone to give birth, it immediately catches your eye. In such families, children are transferred to grandparents and other relatives.
Who do you want to see your son in the future?
Now Sasha and I really want the child to become an athlete in the future. Maybe not a football player, but a basketball player. Because already in six months he had a growth of 77 centimeters. And we had to buy suits for one-year-olds or even two-year-olds.
The interview conducted by journalists with the popular showman Sasha Pryanikov was quite interesting.