Their relationship is ideally characterized by such a slightly outdated concept as “comradeship”, when between people there is not only love, not only attraction and passion, but also friendship and partnership. and not just a couple, they are a family. And very soon there will be a new addition to this family!

It’s early morning, it’s raining outside, but it doesn’t seem to concern you - your mood is high!

Rita: What are you talking about, we overslept! Yesterday we worked until four in the morning! We'll order breakfast now and start chatting right away, okay?

(Rita orders porridge, Vlad orders an omelette.)

R.: And I knew that this is exactly what you would choose.

How long ago did you start talking like that?

Vlad: It has always been like this.

R.: Yes, from the very beginning, this is not an acquired experience.

V.: We were constantly surprised by this, laughed, and then we just got used to it. We call this phenomenon a united biofield.

You've known each other for ten years, right?

Before the interview I studied your Instagram. You talk so openly about your relationships, about love, and easily and openly demonstrate your emotions to the world.

Q: Is that bad?

This is very good! It’s just that now only the lazy don’t say in interviews that happiness loves silence.

R.: Rather, envy loves silence. And silence destroys happiness. No matter how many great songs would happen if everyone thought that they should keep quiet about happiness! If Stevie Wonder, when his daughter was born, had not written the stunningly beautiful song Isn’t She Lovely...

Q: Bob Marley probably wouldn’t have written ninety-nine percent of his songs if he didn’t want to share his feelings with the world.

R.: And in general, if you listen to the public, followers on Instagram, you can go crazy, you can get bipolar disorder. At first they wrote to us: “Why are you hiding the fact that you are in a relationship? Are you ashamed?" When we announced that we were a couple, it began: “Why do you tell everyone about love, it’s secret!”

Do you often ban subscribers?

V.: Yes, often!

R.: Almost every day there are twenty people.

V.: It’s clear that among our one and a half million subscribers there are people with completely different opinions. There are people who tremble over their relationships - they are afraid of jinxing them. But this is a very dangerous game, in my opinion.

R.: The evil eye is a completely separate topic. I recently read a joke under a photo of a mother with two children. The eldest girl is five years old, the second child is a newborn. And the baby's face is covered with a smiley face. The comment was very funny: “That’s right, the eldest is already an adult, let her fight off the evil eye herself!”

Now you are talking about how you will soon become parents. Surely you will have something to say about this.

R.: Yes, you can imagine! All the same people who wrote “When is the baby coming? It’s time!”, they will start saying: “Why are you so early, we should take a walk again!” ( Laughs.)

Didn't you think it was too early? Did you plan for this development of events?

R.: We wanted children, but I don’t like the phrase “planned child”, it’s terrible. When two people have been married for two years, it is strange to consider a child unexpected. This may not be a surprise; this is a normal development in the relationship of any healthy couple.

Not all couples are ready for such a turn in life.

V.: Yes, there are some among our friends who openly say that they are child-free. This is their choice, their position. But when we had just started living together, we immediately discussed the “children’s” issue. I honestly said that I didn’t see the point in just dating - going to the cinema or drinking coffee in a cafe.

Why does a guy need a relationship at all if he wants to remain free? If you can hang out and change girls, why bother? And if you're ready for Serious relationships, if you are making plans for the future, thinking about a wedding, then you should be fully prepared for the appearance of children.

Judging by your accounts, you travel a lot - constantly on the move, always on the wave. But every time it’s not just a vacation - you shoot videos in different corners Peace, do you combine business with pleasure?

V.: Yes, that’s how it works. And since last year we have been working almost without rest. I released an album, then a single in September, Rita launched her solo project in the fall - the premiere of the “Half-Man” video, which blew up the Internet and music charts. We toured throughout December, planned to shoot my video in January, filmed it in Bali in February and released it. In March, we shot two videos for Rita in New York at once, when we found out that we were expecting a baby: one, so to speak, for future use, and another video for the song “I'm afraid so,” which is now breaking all viewing records. And recently we shot another video - for my new single “Come to Me,” which I dedicated to Rita. That's why we went on vacation in May. We just returned from the Maldives, where we didn’t work for a single minute. ( Laughs.) We did nothing - sunbathed, ate, enjoyed each other, read books...

R.: Exactly half of my suitcase was filled with books!

V.: The second half is swimsuits. ( Laughs.)

That is, are you able to press pause and turn off your inner motor?

R: We call it grounding. We have an nth period during the great rest when at first we do nothing at all. For example, when we were in Bali, it took us a week to ground ourselves. During this time we could not even go to the beach or leave the house, we just “sealed”, woke up at what time we wanted, did what we wanted...

V.: They came to their senses. If you imagine a tired person as a ball, then we seemed to be unwinding ourselves. You unwind yourself, unwind yourself, don’t look at the time, don’t think that you need to go somewhere, drive, hurry... And after about a week you are so renewed, fresh, relaxed...

R.: And you think: “Okay, let’s go!”

And again shooting videos and recording songs?

V.: Not only. Here I am learning, let’s say, a new profession for myself. Over the past six months I have starred in two films. Unfortunately, we cannot talk about one project yet, but it is a very popular series on a very popular channel. I play the role of a young correspondent there. And the second film is a historical film for the Rossiya channel about the noblewoman Saltykova, played by Yulia Snigir. And I have one of the key roles there. It so happened that this is my first big dramatic story.

Did you decide to audition yourself, or were you called?

Over the past year, I've been auditioning for very different projects. In some places they didn’t take it, in others they took it, and due to the crisis situation, many projects were curtailed. But the ice broke, and everything went on and on.

Aren't you afraid that they will say: “Another singer has decided to become an actor”?

I don’t really care what they say. I listen only to those whom I consider authoritative on a particular issue. Everyone else can keep their opinions to themselves. In this sense, we both have developed a very good indifference...

R.: In the sense that we have no illusions, we try to remain honest and adequate. We don’t have such a thing that we want to be on time everywhere. Vlad is a real artist. I can’t call my husband just a musician, he is an artist. But I am a pure musician. Before my first solo work, “Half a Man,” thundered, suddenly breaking all records for downloads and reposts and giving me a kind of kick in the ass to continue singing, I sat in my closet for almost seven years and wrote hits for top artists, known throughout the country. The country knows and loves the songs of Loboda, Yolka, Ani Lorak, Anita Tsoi, but no one knew that their author was Rita Dakota. I really can’t call myself an artist, and when, for example, from the same company where Vlad went to audition, they call and offer me to come too, I refuse. I'm not an actress...

V.: You’re just skeptical about this...

R.: No, I’m not skeptical about this, I deeply respect the acting craft, I just can’t do it, and I don’t do what I can’t do. I don’t fry meat, for example. I can't do it as cool as you...

V.: But you didn’t even try to fry it!

R.: I tried a thousand times, but it doesn’t work.

V.: You just didn’t try to fry it with me! You put a cool piece on the frying pan - and three and a half minutes on one side, three and a half minutes on the other, cut it, looked - that's it, medium, let's move on. ( Laughs.) In fact, I myself didn’t believe in this acting story for a long time. There were so many different proposals, they say, you try it, these were filmed and those were filmed. But this is not my profession. I am a ballet dancer, singer, composer, sound producer - anyone, but not an actor, I couldn’t dare call myself that.

R.: Here it is, my favorite type of people - when a talented person does not know that he is talented. Adore you!

V.: Plus, what did they offer? Play yourself, of course. But I didn’t want to play myself, it’s terrible at all! Sorry, of course, I don’t want to offend anyone, but I think that if you play yourself in a film, then it’s complete garbage, you can’t watch it without tears, it’s just some kind of failure... But then there was a project on Channel One “Theater Variety", where I agreed to take part. I became interested because there are many genres, many different images, and that's very cool. I won there in the audience vote, and Stas Kostyushkin, with a small margin, won in the jury vote. And somehow I had a blast there. ( Smiles.) I got an agent, we went through auditions for a year, at first it didn’t work out, but at some point, hop and click. It’s not clear how, maybe because at first I didn’t take it seriously, but, in general, it worked.

Vlad, you said that you only listen to the opinions of people who are authoritative for you. Did you mean your parents?

V.: I meant respected people- rare professionals in my field in my circle, as well as parents, family and closest friends.

Do you think parents should tell their children the truth, just as it is? Or should they still pat him on the head?

R.: You know, it’s difficult for us to give any examples based on our family. Our case with my parents is generally unique... We have a family chat where Vlad’s parents, mine, we and, in general, the whole family. We discuss everything there. That's just everything that happens in life. Frankly, without embellishment. They will praise us there, and they may send us away too, if there is something for it. It seems to me that if anyone had read this chat, our parents could have been deprived of their parental rights for certain passages. ( Laughs.) It’s just that our relationship with our parents cannot be called an ordinary example of a “fathers and sons” relationship. Of course, we love and respect them, we listen to their opinions and ask for advice. But they are more our friends, our company. Maybe this is how a family should be?

V.: Yes, we have been around for a long time, back early stage relationship, it was said that “guys, no matter how things work out for you, we are now one family.” Our parents go on trips together, both with us and without us. And mothers can go shopping via Skype - one in Moscow, the other in Minsk.

R.: Yes, our mothers have already divided our children, they say, when “these” go on tour, I will sit, but in December they already have concerts, which means I’ll take me to Minsk for a month... I say : “We haven’t even given birth to anyone yet!” ( Laughs.) And I think that's wonderful. There is an opinion that a child needs a mother 24/7, like it’s wrong when the mother works as someone else besides the mother, it’s bad and wrong if grandmothers sometimes take care of the child. Vlad and I once decided to discuss this dogma and unanimously came to the conclusion that, on the contrary, it is very cool when a newborn baby already has an awesome real big family- with grandparents, uncles, aunts who are waiting for him, love him and want to take part in his life as much as possible.

V.: A child, of course, must have an understanding that there are two main people in his life - dad and mom. But how can you deprive him of the rest of his love?

R.: I can judge by the way we were raised. I remember my childhood quite well, but I can tell about my husband because I see him in society, I see him in the family, in his relation to me, in his relation to people. And for me, Vlad is an example of what a person should be.

IN.: ( Ironic.) Oh, you just don’t know me well yet...

R.: It’s like that joke: “Husband, we don’t know each other so well yet that I should weigh myself in front of you!” ( Laughs.) So, I can say that Vlad is a free person in every sense of the word “freedom”. I know very well how he was raised, how his parents took him on tour with the X-Mission group (Vlad’s father Andrei Sokolovsky was the leader of the group. - Note OK!): a suitcase in one hand, little Vlad in the other. And I think that's cool. So I was very domestic, I was my mother’s child. I didn’t go to nursery, didn’t go to kindergarten, so I had a painful attachment to my mother.

V.: Was it?! ( Laughs.)

R.: It still exists, yes. Maybe it’s only now that I’m starting to learn to exist without her. I remember when my mother was late at work for twenty minutes, I would run out into the street to look for her, shaking, wondering if something terrible had happened. If I’m flying to another country now, and Vlad and I haven’t turned on roaming yet and I can’t write an SMS that everything is fine, then I start to panic and go crazy. Sometimes I take such good care of my mother that I bother her. I sit on the shore and closely watch how she swims, so that she doesn’t start to drown. God forbid. ( Laughs.) Mom sometimes says: “I’m fifty years old, you can leave me alone, I’m an adult. I want to go to the store alone, leave me alone!” ( Laughs.) In short, I understand that this hysterical overprotection of my mother, which sometimes annoys not only her, but also myself, is an excellent example of how I should not treat future children. I will try to control myself in relation to the child, I will raise him to be socially adapted. I’m already preparing myself for the fact that I gave birth, sat with him for a couple of weeks, then calmly gave it to my mother, if I need to go on business for a couple of hours, and it’s okay, I don’t have to call every five minutes...

V.: We'll wait and see.

R.: Yes, yes. Sometimes you are sure that you know everything about yourself, but life shows that you know nothing about yourself at all.

What are you talking about now?

It happened when I was offered to head the “Creativity” direction at the Federal Agency for Youth Affairs, where I had to manage a large team. At first I was a little afraid. I thought that a tattooed singer would not be perceived as a leader and specialist. In the end, I unexpectedly turned out to be a monster! That is, with Vlad at home I’m like “mi-mi-mi”, just a girl-girl: “If Vlad said that it should be like this, then fine, so be it, it’s a man who said it.” And then she just turned into a tyrant! ( Laughs.) My boss even called me and asked me to be gentler with people, like they were crying, saying that you are very demanding, you won’t let me sit down for two seconds. I never expected this from myself; I thought I would be a creative slob.

So, of the two of you, Rita will be the “evil cop”? Vigilant, caring, but how terribly strict?

R.: Well, no.

It seems to me that you just need to love a child very much. Many people think that a child is such a responsibility, it is hard work and almost heroism. In fact, I think it's all too exaggerated. If there is love, everything else will follow.

Sometimes, when I call my mother in tears and say, “Ma, what kind of mother am I, I can never be like you!”, She tells me: “Rita, at first I didn’t know what to do with you either, when you screamed at night. She rocked you in her arms, and thought to herself: “Well, please, my love, shut up already, shut up, shut up!” ( Laughs.) But it came somehow, it’s okay, and it will come to you.”

V.: She never shut up... ( Laughs.)

R.: There is such a thing. Therefore, nothing definite can be said yet... It would be good if I were like my mother. She was perfect in every way. She is still perfect in every sense. Vlad loves it when she comes: “Mother-in-law is coming, hurray, it will be delicious, fun, clean, cool!”

V.: That’s it, mamsik will read this material and then every time he will come and clean our hut. ( They laugh.) Mom, relax, we have people who get money for this!

R.: By the way, I wanted to add one more thing to the conversation about subscribers. Now some people are writing us angry comments that our colorful life will end with the birth of a child. Like, enjoy, enjoy while the kids are away. They simply project their complexes and their fears onto others. But I think you shouldn’t pay attention to those who present motherhood as heroism, who say: “Forget about yourself for a whole year, because first hormones, then colic, then teeth...” I like Vlad’s position: “U we will be like ours.”

V.: There is a wonderful phrase that our whole family loves. She is very funny, but she has a lot of morality and depth: “Everything is as you want.”

Guys, judging by your mobility, you will fly somewhere to the islands or to the States to give birth...

V.: No, we will do it in Russia. Our entire active phase of pregnancy is summer...

R.: Fruits, cherries...

V.: That is, we can go out of town, to visit our parents. If pregnancy had happened during the cold, gray time of the year, we would never have given birth here.

R.: We had two options: to go to give birth in Bali and not to go to give birth to Bali. ( Laughs.) After weighing some temporary delays regarding movements and so on, we decided that we would probably give birth to our first child at home. My friends recommended to me a wonderful doctor from the perinatal medical center “Mother and Child” in Sevastopolsky, Tatyana Olegovna Normantovich (she is the chief doctor there), and I fell madly in love with her from the very first meeting. It’s funny, at some point at the center they told me not to worry, that they have a separate entrance for public couples, a comfortable suite, but, honestly, I don’t care at all, with Tatyana Olegovna I’m ready to give birth even in a field! This is very important - a doctor who guides you during pregnancy. It would be nice to have the same worldview as an ordinary doctor, but here is such a responsible task! I called her the other day: “Tatyana Olegovna, I want coffee so bad, I’ll just die now as I want!” And she replies: “Well, have a drink.” I say: “You can’t have coffee, they say that caffeine has a bad effect on the fetus, that the child will be small and thin...” And she told me: “Rita, please don’t read the Internet, only romance novels!” Order yourself a latte, if you want a double portion from me. Bye". Or I also had questions: “Tatyana Olegovna, all pregnant girls take vitamins, there are millions of vitamins for pregnant women, which ones should I buy?” And she says: “You don’t need any vitamins, breathe out, please, your tests are perfect. If you suddenly need anything, I’ll tell you what vitamins to take.” And everything like that. That is, I’m not a crazy “pregnant woman” at all, I’m super relaxed and calm. And my doctor is the same.

After giving birth, you will probably still fly to Bali for the winter?

R.: Yes, we give birth, we hang out outside the city for two months with our parents, with our crazy family...

V.: ...And with her we go to Bali for two whole months.

R.: I already anticipate the comments of particularly sensitive subscribers: “He’s small, how will he fly? There are malaria mosquitoes, tarantulas there, stray dogs everywhere!”

V.: And here are the exhaust gases...

R.: By the way, the baby will need to make a card in order to accumulate miles. So that by the age of twenty he will have saved up for a trip around the world...

V.: ...And an account with a million subscribers.

R.: Yes, by the way, we don’t want to cover the child’s face in photographs on the Internet. Because, firstly, we think that this is very natural and very cool, and secondly, we hope that we will convince someone not to be afraid to get married and have children. We also recently decided that we will create our own blog - a family channel on YouTube. We will show there that life after childbirth exists. ( They laugh.)

V.: We are already planning a huge number of trips, work, we are buying an apartment. This will, in fact, be a blog designed for a very different audience - from mothers with recommendations on what to choose for a child, to those who now need advice on choosing building materials.

Well, I wish you every success!

R: Is that all? And you don’t want to listen to the story of how it all happened, where?

V.: Rita... ( Smiles.)

R: What? This also happened in Bali... Exactly in the same place where Vlad proposed to me two and a half years ago, just think! Right in the same place!

V.: Yes, in our first Bali I proposed, in the second Bali we were already husband and wife, in the third we had a baby, and in next year, it turns out that we will be with a sling...

R.: Bali is our magical place! Just a couple of days before conception, I quit smoking! I was such an avid smoker, everyone knew about it. “Dakota promotes smoking in the “Gloves” video. True, I had several attempts to quit, but something always stopped me. And then in Bali I received several signs in a row, and ones that were simply amazing! The last one finally finished me off. I broke the pack, stuffed it under a rock and told the Universe: “That’s it, I understand everything!” And then, three weeks later, I found out that I was pregnant. Can you imagine? ( Laughs.)

Text: Evgenia Beletskaya. Photo: Yaroslav Kloos

Style: Alesya Matyashchuk. Makeup and hairstyles: Yulia Yakovleva

Russian stars and are waiting for the birth of their first child, the Life.ru portal reports. Celebrities have not yet confirmed the information about the upcoming replenishment, but they have not denied it either.

Judging by the pictures in in social networks, future parents continue to engage in creativity and try not to advertise their personal life too much. However, today Rita was a little more open than usual. The girl once again confessed her love to her husband and remembered how their relationship began.

“I remember when Vlad and I first chose each other, we were not at all like we are now. I was a plump punk with a dull brown bob and wearing torn sneakers, Vlad was a young pop musician with a temporary crisis in creativity, the two of us had nothing to offer each other except that very real and all-consuming LOVE in spite of. We made each other ourselves over the years, just as we made ourselves for each other, if you know what I mean,” the singer noted.

Let us remember that Rita and Vlad got married in 2015. For both artists, the child will be the first-born. It is interesting that several years before this, celebrities participated together in the “Star Factory” project, but then their relationship did not go beyond friendship.

Rita Dakota and Vlad Sokolovsky seemed like an ideal couple. Tender photographs were replaced by romantic posts and funny vlogs. Fans from all over Russia watched their family idyll and set this relationship as an example. However, the fairy tale suddenly collapsed. Rita announced on her Instagram that she found out about Vlad’s infidelities and was divorcing him. It turns out that her husband cheated on her throughout the entire history of their relationship, including when they got married, got married, when Rita was pregnant and in the first months of their daughter’s life. Moreover, Vlad’s friends and even some of his relatives, including his father, were aware and “covered” for him. Rita decided to make this message in order to avoid rumors and speculation.

These were dozens of “girls”, many of them I know personally, many of them were my “friends” who entered my house. Almost all of our mutual friends who met me from the maternity hospital knew about this and covered for him; many of them had his infidelities right at home, with their consent. Some members of his family, including his father, also knew, Dakota wrote.

To the surprise of many, after his betrayal, Vlad did not leave his wife and daughter a house (as other cheaters did). As the artist reported, they share their jointly acquired property through the court.

Read the heartbreaking post below.

Editor-in-Chief of OK! Vadim Vernik has been friends with Vlad and Rita for many years, and he is shocked by this news: “Our magazine is OK! and I personally have long-standing friendly relations with Vlad Sokolovsky and Rita Dakota. When there was not a hint in the press about their relationship, Vlad told me in a personal conversation how happy he was in his union with Rita. It was in our magazine that they first officially announced their romance, their daughter Mia, and at the OK! last year they became "Couple of the Year"..."

Just a few days ago at the ZHARA festival in Baku we spent an evening together. Vlad and Rita communicated very tenderly and warmly, they talked about joint creative plans. I didn't see any hint of show in this. Everything was, as always, beautiful and sincere. I am, of course, shocked by the news of their divorce. Who is right and who is wrong in this situation - life will put everything in its place

Colleagues on stage did not believe the reality of the message. Irina Dubtsova decided that Rita Dakota’s account was hacked. Yulia Parshuta, Sati Casanova and many others left her comments with words of support. Agata Muceniece, with whom the artist had slight disagreements, also took Dakota’s side. In the comments below the post, the actress wrote:

Rita, even though we don’t know each other! All the same, after such actions I want to support. Don't be discouraged, you know Mia is the most beautiful daughters in the world, I think you need to be happy just for her!

Let us remember that Rita Dakota and she met on the “Star Factory” project, but only saw each other years after graduation. They got married on June 8, 2015, and in May 2017, they were expecting their first child.