Nato Vachnadze

Biography

Real name Nato Andronikashvili. Mother was Polish. Her father came from an old noble family which has roots from last Byzantine Emperors. She was the megastar of the Soviet screen in the twenties and thirties. Studio Sakhkinmretsvi gave her almost Hollywood splendor and glamour. Her name was on the top of billboards and magazines, and her photos were on the first pages of papers. Red producers created a legend which broke box-offices. It helped studio Sakhkinmretsvi to become the biggest for those days in the Soviet Union. First marriage with aristocrat Merab Vachnadze. Second marriage with director Nikoloz Shengelaya, with whom she formed the first film family of former USSR before Andjaparidze - Chiaureli, Orlova - Aleksandrov and Makarova - Gerasimov appeared. Later, her two sons marriages (They are both directors and were married to actresses, Eldar Shengelaia to Ariadna Shengelaia and Giorgi Shengelaia to Sofiko Chiaureli) made the family one of the most powerful in the film industry of USSR. Older son Tengiz Vachnadze was an architect;