Singer and composer Alexander Gradsky (Fradkin) was born on November 3, 1949 in Kopeisk, Chelyabinsk region. Since 1957 he and his family lived in Moscow. After the death of Tamara Gradskaya’s mother in 1963, her son took her surname. In the same year, he made his debut as a soloist and performed several songs as part of the vocal and instrumental ensemble “Cockroaches”.
In 1966 Gradsky founded the amateur rock band “Skomorokhi”, of which he was the lead singer and guitarist until 1976. He gained great fame after performing the song “How Young We Were”, with lyrics by Nikolai Dobronravov and music by Alexandra Pakhmutova. In the late 1970s, the singer began giving solo concerts, accompanying herself with a 12-string guitar.
During his career, he recorded several dozen albums, composed the music for more than 40 feature films and became one of the founders of Russian rock. For many years, Gradsky was a mentor in the popular show “The Voice” on Channel One, and from 2014 to 2021 he was the artistic director of the Gradsky Hall Theater.
Alexander Gradsky on the set of the program “The Voice”, 2015
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The musician was married four times. He described his first short marriage to Natalya Gradskaya as “an act of youth.” Gradsky’s next wife was actress Anastasia Vertinskaya – they lived together for four years. In his third marriage with Olga Gradskaya (Fartysheva), the artist had two children: Daniil (businessman and musician) and Maria (TV presenter and arts administrator).
Alexander Gradsky with his ex-wife Olga and children Daniil and Maria
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Gradsky was in a relationship with Marina Gradskaya (Kotashenko) for the last 17 years of his life. In 2014, their son Alexander was born, and in 2018 Ivan. The couple managed to legalize their relationship literally two weeks before Gradsky’s death. He died on November 28, 2021, at the age of 72, leaving behind a legacy estimated to be worth over 1 billion rubles. The musician did not have time to write a will.
What legacy did Gradsky leave?
It is stated that at the time of his death, Gradsky personally owned real estate worth approximately 780 million rubles. Super. Specifically, a commercial building with an area of 401.5 m2. m on the ground and first floors of a building on Kozitsky Lane. The value of the building, which once housed the musician’s theater and concert association, was about 200 million rubles.
The artist also had an apartment of 189 square meters since 1999. m on the ground floor of a house worth about 170 million rubles on Nikitsky Boulevard – can be rented for 500 thousand rubles per month. Another small room of Gradsky (15.1 m2) is located near the Kutuzovskaya metro station.
As for country real estate, the musician had two houses in the Naro-Fominsk region. The cost of the three-storey mansion together with the land is estimated at approximately 250 million rubles. Another house with an area of 1172 m2. Worth about 140 million rubles, Gradsky built it a few years before his death. In addition, the artist had land plots in the Moscow region, several cars and personal savings.
Throughout his life, he provided elite housing for his older children – he left Maria an apartment on Tverskaya Street with an area of 172.1 square meters. m (70 million rubles), and Daniil – an apartment with an area of 96.9 square meters. Elite residential complex “House on Mosfilmovskaya” (70 million rubles) on m. The heir also owns part of the apartment in a house on Malaya Dmitrovka (60 million rubles). The other part of the house belongs to the singer’s ex-wife Olga.
Who inherited Gradsky’s legacy?
Most of Gradsky’s assets were transferred to his widow Marina, who raised the two young children born to the artist. He bought several apartments in Moscow, one of which was a house of 1200 square meters. m on Kievskoe Highway, four plots of land in the Moscow region with a total area of about 4,700 m2. m, a house in the village of Mishutkino and financial savings. At the beginning of 2022, Gradskaya was robbed – 100 million rubles were stolen from her. This was reported in the program “Malakhov” on the TV channel “Russia 1”.
Alexander Gradsky with his wife Marina Kotashenko
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In contrast, Gradsky’s children, Daniil and Maria, inherited “just an old, dilapidated house” in the Moscow region and were not happy with this situation. At the same time, the press describes the estate as “a huge winter house with a swimming pool, a summer house, a servant’s house and a large park with ship pine trees, each with its own number”, built according to Gradsky. personal design. According to the children, they want to sue Marina for at least one apartment in Kozitsky Lane, where their father lived in recent years.
The singer’s ex-wife, Olga Fartysheva, who was not included in the inheritance, told Malakhov that she was worried about the children.
“The children were left with a destroyed house and the remaining property worth a billion was left to the widow. We’re trying to make this room a cultural center so people can come here and enjoy this atmosphere. So he continues to live. If we lose this place, everything here will disappear,” Fartysheva said.
In 2022, she also tried to claim her inheritance rights because she wanted to be given a share of some of the property she acquired during her marriage to the musician. In October 2023, Olga’s claim was rejected. His appeal in 2024 was also rejected. In the Gossip Chronicle program on Channel Five, Daniil stood up for his mother:
“Imagine: you married a man and started living with him in a two-room (26 meters) apartment on Mosfilmovskaya Street. Over the course of your 21 years of joint relationship, you have somehow built a good business: some real estate, money, etc. You have children together. You get divorced but you don’t share anything.
However, since Olga is an ex-wife, she cannot claim an inheritance as all bureaucratic issues are resolved during the divorce.
In July 2024, a court decision was reportedly made to divide the cars among his heirs. “News”Marina Gradskaya bought one car, and Maria and Daniil will share three cars among themselves.
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Source: Gazeta
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