how did nastya and alex meet?
“What, just because I have subscriptions to like a dozen Russian gossip magazines you think I’d know—“ I said, and then had to give you that one.
The magazines weren’t needed, actually, because Nastya and Ovi met while they were both working in the US.
I’m answering this one because 1. once again a hunch lead me to an obnoxiously cute story 2. Nastya Shubskaya is a public figure.
@ anyone who thinks they know what the inside of this relationship is like:
Nastya was already a millionaire before she met Ovi.
It matters that she’s a financially independent woman. We shouldn’t really throw words at women we think are dependent “trophy wives” either, but factually, even if you measure people’s relationships that way, she’s not one.
Her father Kirill Shubsky is a shipping magnate (her mother Vera Glagoleva was a popular Russian actress.)
She attended VGIK film school in Moscow (the oldest film school in the world, fun fact) and graduated in 2014. It’s possible she would have bumped into Ovi in Moscow—that photo is from a restaurant Ovi also likes, but they didn’t, because Ovi’s a romantic goof. After that she moved to New York City, as much as she seems to live anywhere that isn’t an airport, since she continued to commute back to Russia for modeling work.
Note: we were trading dire predictions about the idea of flying back and forth from Moscow to DC while pregnant/post baby but the woman is a fuckin professional flyer
In 2014-15 Ovi was in New York for New Year’s, which is a big Russian deal.
It seems like he spent at least one of those nights with the Russian ex-pat circle in NYC for their New Year’s, gazed deeply into Nastya’s eyes, may or may not have managed to speak, knowing Ovi, but definitely hung on every word, and it was exactly as magical as that New Year’s card.
In February he posted this very small glamour shot, which I assume he cropped out of a group holiday photo someone had just sent him because otherwise…whatcha doin, Ovi:
Yeah, three heart-eyes emojis.
Nastya’s love of travel saved the relationship: she came down to DC to put the moves on Ovi, and he posted this picture from his kitchen, which I recognize by the feeling of beige despair it evokes in me and also from every relationship milestone photo they have taken in there:
Моя девочка,спасибо что ты появилась в моей жизни !!!очень дорожу тобой <3
My girl, thank you for walking into my life!!! I really cherish you <3
And so began a love story between the sides of their faces and those chicken-wire cabinets:
Anyway, right, in August 2016 Ovi missed a schedule appearance and Nastya posted this selfie of them wearing white, with no caption expect three heart emojis.
Russian gossips’ hearts all skipped a beat, and everyone decided they had gotten secret-married.
RMNB scoffed a fair bit: “Because she wore white she must therefore be married. Not a strong case, but there is some evidence from other sometimes credible Russian sources suggesting that this news is – at the least – plausible.”
They had gotten secret-married.
Ovi wore jeans for the occasion, which, you know, success, honestly.
He later posted that picture and a picture of the rings with the caption, “This is happiness.”
[via @aleksandrovechkinofficial]
Then they got married again last summer, and then this summer they got pregnant and Ovi brought her the traditional anniversary gifts of ‘silver’ and ‘encouraging all his best friends to strip for her entertainment’
as…I understand it, anyway
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