A tight touring schedule cancelled the tripDobrynin saved the actor's life. "I played 80 performances in 80 days," Nikolai admitted to Woman's Day. "There are 84 more to go. I am physically very tired. Just imagine: I have been to Kamchatka four times this month." Dobrynin also wanted to visit Syria last year. "I look with tears at the place where I prayed for my beloved daughter Ninka," the actor still finds it difficult to speak calmly. "This is the monastery of St. Thekla in Syria. Now it is completely destroyed, and Mother Pelageya, who helped my wife and I become parents, was taken prisoner. Thank God, they were released." The Dobrynins had been unable to have a child for 12 years. "Doctors could not explain the reason for childlessness," Nikolai shrugs. "Our family began to fall apart. It was very fortunate that I became the host of a series of programs about the shrines of Orthodoxy. That's how I met mother Pelageya." Today, Nikolai Dobrynin's daughter is his pride and greatest asset. "I'm just so happy," the actor smiles. "Nina has been attending courses at the Stroganov Academy for the second year. She's so good at drawing. The main thing is that she likes it. If she doesn't quit before she's 16, she'll automatically become a student at the Academy of Arts. I've always dreamed of being an artist myself." Nikolai Dobrynin also shared his plans for the acting profession. It turns out that the script for the seventh "Matchmakers" has already been written. Filming has been stopped due to the events in Ukraine. "We're looking for a compromise," the actor says. "We might move the action to Belarus. True, it won't be a cheap project: we'll have to rebuild the sets."
