The key facts

  • Ekaterina Strizhenova published a declaration of love for her husband on their 39th wedding anniversary
  • The couple met on the set of the film «The Leader»; they have two daughters and grandchildren

39 years of marriage and a count in seconds

Actors and TV hosts Alexander and Ekaterina Strizhenova celebrated their 39th wedding anniversary. Ekaterina Strizhenova, who works at Channel One, published an Instagram post addressed to her husband (Instagram is owned by Meta, which has been designated extremist and banned in Russia), reports Gazeta.Ru. In the post, she gave a calculation which, according to her, was made by her husband: they have already been together for 468 months, 2,028 weeks, 14,235 days, 341,640 hours, 20,498,400 minutes and 1,229,904,000 seconds.

«There is no person on this earth closer to me»

«39 years — a whole lifetime! Once we decided that we would be together, and so far we still have enough love for each other. True, we don't always have enough patience — we know how to drive each other out of our minds and bring each other to the boiling point. But when I look at you, I see our wonderful youth, our first steps in our profession, our wonderful daughters, our lovely grandchildren, and I realize that there is no person on this earth closer to me,» Gazeta.Ru quotes the TV host as saying.

How the Strizhenov family came to be

The couple met while still schoolchildren on the set of the Soviet film «The Leader», where both played the leading roles, and have never parted since. In 1988 their daughter Anastasia was born, and in 2000 — Alexandra. According to Ekaterina Strizhenova, her husband's family has always treated her warmly, and being with one person for many years is not difficult — what matters more is not getting in each other's way as they live and grow. The elder daughter and her husband Pyotr Grishchenko are raising three sons; the younger one married Anton Churekov in 2023, whom she met at school. The daughters have said more than once in interviews that their parents' marriage is an example to them. The article ends with a reference to another publication by the outlet: earlier, Regina Todorenko explained why she persuaded Vlad Topalov to get married on his birthday — the details of that report are not disclosed in this news item.