The newly minted director of the Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theater lives with an undivorced capital it girl

While avid theatergoers were discussing the prospects of the versatile passionary Vladimir Kekhman as director of the Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theater, the 47-year-old owner of the bankrupt company JFC himself managed to restore not only the walls of the temple of art, but also his personal life, which had fallen into disrepair. After six months of an undocumented break with his wife Tatyana, which crossed out 24 years of marriage, the head of two leading Russian theaters found solace in the arms of the radiant blonde Ida Lolo. The ubiquitous metropolitan it girl and carefree adventurer has been sharing both Siberian exile and the taste of the first victories of her new lover with Kekhman for several months now.

At the premiere show of the ballet “Spartacus,” which opened the 71st season of the renovated NOVAT theater on November 13, Ida and her mother Irina took pride of place in the front row. Just across the chair from his 37-year-old girlfriend, Kekhman himself sat down, not daring to appear in the numerous lenses of photo and television cameras next to his companion, who was as undivorced as himself.

The couple does not make an open secret of their tender friendship, but they are not in a hurry to show it off. “And here is the director: showing his retinue the renovated hall of the theater,” guests gossiped about the new head of the Siberian opera on the opening day. The graceful figure of Lolo was not noticed in this retinue. However, not finding his beloved in the hall after the third call, the outwardly smug Kekhman immediately grabbed the phone: “Where is Ida? Have you seen her? She’s not in the hall, where is Ida?”

“I haven’t gone on vacation for a long time, the car is official, the hotel costs five thousand rubles a day. San Sanych (Karelin - Ed.) feeds,” Kekhman recently lamented about the life of a bankrupt in an interview with Tatler magazine.

However, Ida, who has learned from the mistakes of past relationships and marriages, does not seem to be frightened by such revelations from her new boyfriend. In her lifestyle, as well as during her life with Mark Lolo, who was not stingy with her every whim, and although not so generous, but at least included in the best houses in the world, Alexei Kiselyov, nothing has changed. Is it just geographic latitude?

Carefree beauty shares two with Kekhman, a room at the Novosibirsk Marriott hotel overlooking the theater he owns. The officially married lady leaves her room only at noon for a walk in the cold with her pug Zach. After a light meal, a mandatory visit to the most expensive beauty salon in Novosibirsk - Aldo Coppola.

By the time they manage to curl her golden curls, a car is already waiting for Ida to take Kekhman’s chosen one to the service entrance of the theater. Life in Siberia for Lolo is no less eventful than in the capital: private dinners with ballet star Ivan Vasiliev, wrestler and statesman Alexander Karelin and several other friends of the new “family” are the minimum program in her schedule. After the premiere, the company arrived at the latter’s restaurant, Goodman, close to midnight, at closing time, occupying, to the chagrin of the waiters and cooks who had gone home, a large VIP room.

On the day of the premiere, Vladimir and Ida left separately. But already on Saturday, when the excitement in the press around the theater and its new director subsided, the couple calmly settled down in adjacent chairs in the same first row. The banana king's stories that Siberia is the only place where he gets enough sleep are readily believed when Kekhman falls asleep right in the middle of the first act. But after the end of the ballet, Vladimir energetically fluttered into the car in which his beloved was waiting for him. A farewell dinner was already served for them at the “Good Year” restaurant.

The next day, Lolo and Kekhman were packing their bags - having opened the theater season in Siberia, the couple went to St. Petersburg. It was from the banks of the Neva that a friend of an entrepreneur who suddenly lost weight to size 48 reports on social networks about the unbearable lightness of being.

The notorious director of the Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theater Vladimir Kekhman has once again returned to Novosibirsk (since he combines work here with the position of artistic director of the Mikhailovsky Theater and often flies from Siberia to St. Petersburg) with his fiancée, socialite Ida Lolo. The NGS.NOVOSTI correspondent was the first to talk to her among the Novosibirsk media (the interview will appear on our website in the near future), simultaneously finding out everything about the biography of Kekhman’s new darling.

On August 25 of this year, Tatler magazine announced the engagement of 48-year-old Kekhman to 38-year-old Ida Lolo, a well-known socialite and it girl in metropolitan circles. (it girl in Russian gloss refers to public figures who are knowledgeable about fashion and trends, but may not work anywhere).

Ida was born in the summer of 1978 in the family of professional hockey player Marat Valeev. The girl spent her childhood in Novosibirsk. At the age of 20, having fallen in love, she left for her lover in Belarus. She worked there in one of the fitness clubs in Minsk, says FB.ru, and then moved to Moscow.

Photo by Ekaterina Chesnokova (left), Ramil Sitdikov (right) (RIA Novosti)

Ida was married twice. From her first husband Mark (pictured left) - the founder of the film company DreamTeam Media - she still has the exotic surname Lolo. Ida was 10 years younger than Mark, and their marriage lasted 6 years. We separated by mutual agreement and remained on good terms. Some publications wrote that it was Mark who left. The second husband is the son of the famous former NTV TV presenter Evgeniy Kiselyov, designer Alexey, who owns the Kisa bar establishment. Ida was married to him for 1.5 years and broke up in 2015. The girl described the reasons for the separation vaguely: she talked about the different speeds of her and Alexei.

In November 2015, the tabloids reported - without references or evidence, however - about the affair between Vladimir Kekhman and Ida Lolo. Before this, the opera director had been married to his wife Tatyana for 24 years.

Ida and her mother Irina appeared in public in Novosibirsk at the premiere show of the ballet “Spartacus” on November 13, 2015. The woman and her daughter took pride of place in the front row. Vladimir Kekhman himself was sitting across the chair from his companion. Photos from the premiere of “Spartak” immediately appeared on the socialite’s Instagram.

9 months after Ida’s first appearance in public in Novosibirsk, Kommersant published an article in August 2016 about a party in honor of the 25th anniversary of the creative activity of Gayane and Sergei Danilyan (one of the most influential ballet impresarios) in New York, where Ida Lolo is already called the bride of Vladimir Kekhman.

On Instagram and Facebook, Ida has many photos from different parts of the world, where she goes kitesurfing with friends. She has quite a lot of joint photos on social networks with her last husband, Alexey Kiselev. But the NGS.NOVOSTI correspondent was unable to find photographs with Vladimir Kekhman there.

The newly minted director of the Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theater lives with an undivorced capital it girl

While avid theatergoers were discussing the prospects of the versatile passionary Vladimir Kekhman as director of the Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theater, the 47-year-old owner of the bankrupt company JFC himself managed to restore not only the walls of the temple of art, but also his personal life, which had fallen into disrepair. After six months of an undocumented break with his wife Tatyana, which crossed out 24 years of marriage, the head of two leading Russian theaters found solace in the arms of the radiant blonde Ida Lolo. The ubiquitous metropolitan it girl and carefree adventurer has been sharing both Siberian exile and the taste of the first victories of her new lover with Kekhman for several months now.

At the premiere show of the ballet “Spartacus,” which opened the 71st season of the renovated NOVAT theater on November 13, Ida and her mother Irina took pride of place in the front row. Just across the chair from his 37-year-old girlfriend, Kekhman himself sat down, not daring to appear in the numerous lenses of photo and television cameras next to his companion, who was as undivorced as himself.

The couple does not make an open secret of their tender friendship, but they are not in a hurry to show it off. “And here is the director: showing his retinue the renovated hall of the theater,” guests gossiped about the new head of the Siberian opera on the opening day. The graceful figure of Lolo was not noticed in this retinue. However, not finding his beloved in the hall after the third call, the outwardly smug Kekhman immediately grabbed the phone: “Where is Ida? Have you seen her? She’s not in the hall, where is Ida?”

I haven’t gone on vacation for a long time, the car is official, the hotel costs five thousand rubles a day. San Sanych (Karelin - Ed.) feeds,” Kekhman recently complained about the life of the bankrupt in an interview with Tatler magazine.

However, Ida, who has learned from the mistakes of past relationships and marriages, does not seem to be frightened by such revelations from her new boyfriend. In her lifestyle, as well as during her life with Mark Lolo, who was not stingy with her every whim, and although not so generous, but at least included in the best houses in the world, Alexei Kiselyov, nothing has changed. Is it just geographic latitude?

The carefree beauty shares with Kekhman a room in the Novosibirsk Marriott hotel overlooking the theater that belongs to him. The officially married lady leaves her room only at noon for a walk in the cold with her pug Zach. After a light meal, a mandatory visit to the most expensive beauty salon in Novosibirsk - Aldo Coppola.

By the time they manage to curl her golden curls, a car is already waiting for Ida to take Kekhman’s chosen one to the service entrance of the theater. Life in Siberia for Lolo is no less eventful than in the capital: private dinners with ballet star Ivan Vasilyev, wrestler and statesman Alexander Karelin and several other friends of the new “family” are the minimum program in her schedule. After the premiere, the company arrived at the latter’s restaurant, Goodman, close to midnight, at closing time, occupying, to the chagrin of the waiters and cooks who had gone home, a large VIP room.

On the day of the premiere, Vladimir and Ida left separately. But already on Saturday, when the excitement in the press around the theater and its new director subsided, the couple calmly settled down in adjacent chairs in the same first row. The banana king's stories that Siberia is the only place where he gets enough sleep are readily believed when Kekhman falls asleep right in the middle of the first act. But after the end of the ballet, Vladimir energetically fluttered into the car in which his beloved was waiting for him. A farewell dinner was already served for them at the “Good Year” restaurant.

The next day, Lolo and Kekhman were packing their bags - having opened the theater season in Siberia, the couple went to St. Petersburg. It is from the banks of the Neva that a friend of an entrepreneur who suddenly lost weight to size 48 reports on social networks about the unbearable lightness of life.

Ida Valeeva, known among the Russian elite as Ida Lolo, was born in Novosibirsk in the family of hockey player Marat Valeev. Since childhood, Ida was distinguished by mischief and recklessness, which, however, did not prevent her from becoming one of the most talked about Moscow socialites.

Early life and first hobbies

Ida’s first serious hobby was a simple guy from Belarus. From Novosibirsk she moved to Minsk, where she easily found work in one of the first fitness centers in the country. Broadcasts from her morning workouts were wildly popular. But soon Ida’s romance with the Belarusian ended, and she immediately left the country, heading towards the Russian capital.

In Moscow, another lover and a sea of ​​new opportunities awaited the girl. Ida was still enrolled in the correspondence department of the Novosibirsk Institute, so she had to grab any job. She started as a secretary at an oil company, where she spent a year on the phone while working on her banking degree. After defending her diploma, the flighty Ida changed her mind about working in her specialty and found a job as a sales manager for Czech kitchen appliances.

Marriage to Mark Lolo and personal life after divorce

Soon, the energetic Ida managed to get a job with the famous director Pavel Sanaev, known for the film “Kilometer Zero”. One day, while having dinner in the company of a fellow producer, Ida met Mark Lolo. The cheerful company laughed for several hours in a row, and Mark was simply captivated by Ida’s spontaneity, charm and charming smile. After that evening they exchanged numbers. Some time later, Mark proposed marriage, and Ida immediately accepted. They lived together for 6 years, but one day they realized that their union was more friendly than love, and they mutually decided to remain friends.

At that time, Ida was already known in social circles and, despite the divorce, continued to shine in society as Ida Lolo. Her personal life was still rich and eventful. And a few months later, the amorous Ida began to appear in the company of a new gentleman, and after some time she married the famous businessman Alexei Kiselev. However, this union did not last long. But Ida did not lose her optimism and love of life. And soon she was noticed by theater figure and businessman Vladimir Kekhman, whose name was shrouded in many rumors and speculation.

In 2016, Kekhman and Ida Lolo, who is 10 years younger than him, officially became husband and wife. A little later it became known that the couple got married in the temple of Northern Palmyra.

Over the past year, Ida Lolo managed to divorce her film producer husband, who gave the girl from Novosibirsk a sonorous surname, got engaged to the founder of The Kisa, Alexei Kiselev, and made her pug Zack famous. Maria Lobanova found out how she got to such a life.

ELLE At what point did you feel that you became interesting to everyone?

IDA LOLO I am not a theater or film actress to wake up famous one day. It’s just that at some point a chain reaction took place: one magazine did an interview and another immediately got involved. Many people know me now, but this is all within the Garden Ring.

ELLE Nevertheless, you have become a public figure. And there will always be people who will say: who is this Ida Lolo? What is she famous for? The one who poses beautifully at social events?

I. L. Coco Chanel said: “I don’t care what you think of me. I don't think about you at all." Of course, it is important to me what you think about me or other people with whom I communicate. But I don’t care what people I haven’t seen and, most likely, will never see, will think about me.

PHOTO Inho Ko

ELLE Would you be offended if some well-known and interesting person refers to you as a slacker who either rides a horse or takes pictures with a dog?

I. L. I live my life for myself. And I know a lot of amazing people who have a different position in life than mine. And, perhaps, my life is completely incomprehensible to them. Well, good. I will still live for myself and for my pleasure.

ELLE What is your position in life?

I. L. I want to live in moral standards, I don’t like that today they are so biased. The same family values ​​have lost their strength.

ELLE Is this a recently divorced woman telling me?

I. L. We didn't harm anyone with our divorce. And therefore they had the right to do it. On the contrary, we would have harmed many if we had not done this. I think you need to be sure that you will live with this person for at least twenty years so that the children grow up in a full-fledged family. Maybe that’s why I subconsciously didn’t have a child.

ELLE Were you not so confident in your husband, film producer Mark Lolo?

I. L. I don't know. May be. But if there were children, I would not allow myself a divorce.

ELLE Could you have imagined that such an unhappy event would suddenly make you famous?

I. L. I was getting divorced for the first time in my life and, hopefully, the last. And for the first time, it happened to me that my personal life began to be discussed by everyone. At first everyone condoled with me. But here it happened in such a way that it was most likely not a tragedy.

ELLE Is it really a comedy?

I. L. It was a positive emotion for both of us - not death, but rebirth: of our friendships, of our relationships as partners. We exchanged family for friendship and business, let's put it this way.

ELLE How did you cope with the fact that your personal life became public property?

I. L. For me, this also happened for the first time, like divorce. But, apparently, it was impossible in any other way: it affected too many people.

I generally don’t like discussing personal life - neither my own nor that of others. But here there was an exception: it was necessary to express one’s position so that gossip and speculation would not arise.

ELLE What's that beautiful ring on your finger?

I. L. This is the ring that Alexey gave me for my engagement.

ELLE Now you are engaged to designer and restaurateur Alexey Kiselev, the son of famous TV presenter Evgeny Kiselev. Are all these traditions and rituals important to you - if a proposal, then with a ring in a blue box, if a marriage, then registered?

I. L. The relationship is more important to me than the ring. And I believe that marriage should be formalized: for a woman it is confidence.

ELLE Would you change your last name a second time?

I. L. Yes, if Alexey asks.

ELLE Will Mark be a guest at your next wedding?

I. L. Well, I'll invite him, that's for sure.

ELLE In Woody Allen's Roman Adventure, one character suddenly becomes famous, and then just as abruptly loses this fame. Aren't you afraid to be in his place?

I. L. Yes, at first fame bothered him, but then he began to miss it. This is why I keep a balance. I refuse some filming and events. I don’t want to be everywhere and a lot. Accordingly, when it all goes away, it will be without sudden jumps.

ELLE What are you doing now?

I. L. I now know a lot about the restaurant business and am now helping Alexey Kiselev, because he is my fiancé.

ELLE What exactly do you help with?

I. L. I don’t work for them, I don’t have a position there - I help with advice, Lesha is interested in my opinion on all issues. For example, we had a party at The Kisa with Philipp Plein, whom I met and invited him to do something fun with us.

ELLE If you meet people at a dinner party and they ask what you do, what do you answer?

I. L. I would prefer to say that nothing.

ELLE Housewife?

I. L. Well it is more like Yes. I already had positions and careers in my life. And I don't want to do this anymore. I want to take care of my man, now he is Alexey Kiselev, and I am taking care of him.

I have a lot of masculine qualities, so I try to preserve what is feminine. And I’m trying to do some women’s things: housekeeping, for example.

ELLE And what are your responsibilities as a woman?

I. L. I believe that I should watch a man, his appearance, his wardrobe.

ELLE Who has better taste in clothes - you or Lesha?

I. L. In men's clothing? Exactly Lesha’s, I don’t have it at all.

Lesha has her own style, and I just try to keep things ready at all times.

ELLE Do you know how to iron men's shirts yourself?

I. L. Yes, although I don't have to do it.

ELLE Are you a good cook?

I. L. Nobody complained. I love being at home and prefer to chat with friends at the home table.

ELLE You say there is a lot of masculinity in you, but how does this manifest itself?

I. L. Displays of female character irritate me. The fact that we are all such bitches, for example.

ELLE How exactly does your bitch manifest itself?

I. L. It happens that you do something stupid and everyone says: oh, how feminine that is. I really don't like this. And I like to communicate more with men.

On Ida: dress - Louis Vuitton

ELLE Do you have any friends?

I. L. Yes, but I am surrounded mostly by men. Even my manicurist is a man. And I communicate with people like me, for example, with Irina Khakamada. She also always surrounds herself with men. But the bachelorette party format is just death for me.

ELLE How do you feel about feminism?

I. L. I do not understand him.

ELLE Should men and women have equal rights?

I. L. It seems to me that they should be unequal. I believe that a man should work, and a woman should support him. And work only for your own pleasure. A man must earn money in any case - whether he enjoys it or not.

ELLE What if a girl is left alone and has to support herself?

I. L. For a woman to remain a woman, it is important to do something she likes. If she is forced to work like a man, everything feminine will go away.

ELLE You say that you have little feminine energy and a lot of masculine energy, but at the same time your philosophy of life is absolutely feminine.

I. L. Apparently, I’m trying to somehow preserve it, to cultivate it in some way.

ELLE Would you like to work, but force yourself to stay at home?

I. L. No, no, I'm lazy.

So you are a man at heart, but lazy?

I. L. I have 15 years of experience, and I am very glad that it turned out so well in my life that I worked in a foreign company, and after college for 3 years in my profession: I am an economist - a manager of a trading enterprise.

Until the age of 30, I think a girl definitely needs to work.

What is your goal in life now?

I. L. We need to continue the family line: I’m 35 years old, I don’t have children, and I think I need to have them. I am very calm about children, but I want my own. I'm worried that suddenly a moment will come when it will no longer be possible to have them, and I will miss something.

ELLE Are you afraid of old age?

I. L. No, I don't even know why. Maybe the time is not right.

ELLE Have you ever hidden your age?

I. L. No.

ELLE What do you like and dislike about your appearance?

I. L. Well, I would like my hair to be lighter, although this is my natural color, and I don’t want to dye it. I would like to be more tall, another five centimeters.

ELLE Have you ever dreamed of big breasts?

I. L. No. I am such an optimistic person, if there is such a thing, we are happy with it. If it were big, I would be happy too. And this makes me look younger and more fashionable.

ELLE Do you tease your lips?

I. L. No no. I have had my own big lips since childhood. And, by the way, until I was 15 years old, until it became fashionable, I suffered greatly from them. I was never called a name like that when I was a child.

Hairstyle: Alexander Zavodilkin

ELLE How addicted are you to the fashion world?

I. L. I can’t be surprised by fashion, but stylish people who find their own things in every trend amaze me. I can’t do this myself, I use the services of a stylist.

ELLE If you didn't lead an active social life, would you be so interested in fashion?

I. L. Even now I’m not particularly interested in her, I just understand that if I’m in this society, I have to somehow fit in.

ELLE At one time you had some pretty bad exits. How did you manage to find your style?

I. L. I managed to find the stylist Igor Garanin. I saw myself and I didn’t like myself. I don’t know how to dress, and no amount of money will help. First, I turned to Igor about Mark, I wanted to consult, and then I myself began to use his recommendations.

Maria's makeup is by Pavel Natsevich, hairstyle is by Natalya Semionenko (“White Garden”). Dress - LUBLU Kira Plastinina

ELLE How dependent are you on money?

I. L. I come from a poor family. I have no ambitions to have big money. It is clear that my man needs them to be sufficient for a normal existence. I prefer calm stability.

ELLE Does other people's financial well-being bother you? Can you go on vacation with a company where everyone is first class and you are economy?

I. L. I can do it absolutely calmly. I am not dependent on any status. Sometimes you fly economy, sometimes you fly on a private jet.

the site thanks the health and beauty center “White Garden” and the restaurant “Entrecote” for their help in organizing the shooting.