Anastasia Kamenskaya

According to the novel "Personal Motives", was born on June 16, 1960 ^[1] .

Kamenskaya’s age in the books of Alexandra Marinina and on the screen varies slightly, since the actions described in the book sometimes occur much earlier than in the film. The first series and the first case in the television series "Kamenskaya" "Coincidence" dates from 1997-1998, while events in the book unfold in 1992. Thus, in the movie, the year of birth of Anastasia Kamenskaya can be determined 1966-67.

The exact year of birth of Anastasia (1960) can be determined by multiple links linking the year of current events with her age and years of her acquaintance with her husband, starting from the 9th grade of high school. Birthday - June 16 - is mentioned in the book "Stylist" ("exactly on the day of presidential elections", that is, June 16, 1996).

He has been working in the police since 1992 - initially she worked in the area, until the future boss Viktor Gordeev (Kolobok) transferred her to Petrovka . In the latest books about Kamenskaya, Nastya changes her boss. Instead of the clever and dedicated Kolobok, a careerist and former classmate of Nastya - Afanasyev, nicknamed Afonya, come. The relationship with him does not develop so much that when Athos at his post “as an experiment” is replaced by Konstantin Bolshakov, who wants to recreate the former glory of Kolobok’s department with all his might, Nastya simply does not believe in it and is looking for a catch everywhere. In 2010, Nastya herself leaves the service and enters the detective agency Vladislav Stasov, her longtime friend.

He lives in Moscow at the address Shchelkovskoe highway , 42, apt. 51 (the address is indicated in the text “Game on a foreign field”, in an interview with the correspondent of the newspaper “ Vostochny okrug ” Alexandra Marinina said that she had settled her heroine in Northern Izmailovo in memory of the fact that it was Northern Izmailovo that became Marinina’s first place in Moscow after of how her family moved to the capital from Leningrad; Marinina chose a concrete house on the Shchelkovsky highway on the map) ^[2] .

Character and abilities

Nastya is a tall, thin woman, ashen blonde. Prefers clothes simple, discreet and cheap, comfortable shoes without heels. She doesn’t paint her face, does not attach any importance to her own appearance, although for the sake of the interests of the case she’s ready to “pretend to be beautiful” - to completely change her style, which sometimes, although not very willingly, she does. Until recently, she always wore a ponytail ; in one of the last books she did a haircut for the first time in many years.

According to the sign of the zodiac Nastya - Gemini , date of birth - June 16, 1960 . He prefers analytical work, although he is in an operational position. Usually, the bosses allow her to “throw off” tasks requiring traveling to other employees, instead of doing purely analytical work - developing schemes for catching criminals and other conclusions. Kamenskaya smokes a lot and drinks coffee; Martini Bianco prefers vermouth from alcohol . She has poor health: a back injury from time to time makes itself felt; In addition, Nastia has poor blood vessels, she suffered a hypotonic crisis several times. Nastya is not involved in physical education and is generally “pathologically lazy in everything that does not concern work,” for example, she is usually too lazy to cook a full meal and chokes on a dry gun. Lunches are usually prepared for her by Aleksey Chistyakov, a professor of mathematics, “civilian” , and from the events of the book “ Death and a little love ” - a legitimate husband. Nastya is a typical “owl”, it is very difficult for her to wake up in the morning, and in order to recover, she, taking a shower, sets herself various tasks, logical or to train her memory.

Emotionally cold, prudent, cautious, and prone to reflection . She considers herself a coward and an absolute loner, and the latter seems to her moral ugliness. She has no friends, with the exception of work colleagues and relatives, and she is quite happy with this situation.

Nastya is a polyglot , knows five foreign languages ​​and works as a translator of fiction. Well versed in art. At the same time, he loves his detective work and cannot imagine life without it.

Family

Relatives: mother, father, stepfather, stepbrother. She is affectionately attached to her mother and stepfather, hardly communicates with her father, she meets her brother only at the beginning of the novel “ Involuntary Assassin ”, then penetrates family feelings towards him. After a long relationship, he finally marries a childhood friend, mathematician Chistyakov. Have no children.

He maintains friendly relations with his colleague Yuri Korotkov, somewhat less with Nikolai Seluyanov (the character appears only in books and is not in the series), Mikhail Dotsenko. A rather strange relationship is connected with the general from the head office, Zatochny Kamenskaya, something like friendship, something like cooperation, something like easy romantic affection. Nastya herself can’t classify these feelings in any way over the course of many books, the opinion of Zatochny is unknown, the son of Zatochny believes that her father is caring for “Aunt Nastya”. Nastya also has a deep affection for her boss (at the end of the cycle - the former), Gordeev, nicknamed Kolobok, his mentor in the detective craft. Friendships connect her with Tatyana Obraztsova (in the series - Tatyana Tomilina), a St. Petersburg investigator, part-time writer and detective story (her prototype, almost certainly, can be considered Marinin herself).

In her youth, she was madly in love with a certain Solovyov, who did not share her feelings, but maintained relations only out of fear of her mother Nastya. Having managed to overcome her feeling, Anastasia returned to Chistyakov, who had loved her since school years, and, although she had romantic adventures before her marriage, she no longer fell in love so much. And, even when she came across Soloviev at work (events of the book “The Stylist”), she realized that she was already experiencing nothing.

Irina Savkina compares Kamenskaya with the character of the detectives of the Finnish writer Leena Lehtolainen - Maria Kallio, finding similarities even in the names of Kallio (Skala) and Kamen (sky) ^[3] .

Literary critic Lev Danilkin considers Kamenskaya undoubtedly a successful character

• Irina Savkina. The story of Asya Kamenskaya, who wanted but couldn’t ... (national features of Russian feminism in the detectives by A. Marinina) // Gender Studies. - Kharkov, 2005. - No. 13 . Archived June 1, 2011. ( alternative link )
• Leontiev A. About the Norwegian colleagues Alexandra Marinina and Nastya Kamenskaya // Ed. EI Trofimova The work of Alexandra Marinina as a reflection of modern Russian mentality .: Collection of articles. -., 2002. - S. 36-53 .
• Peter Weil , Anatoly Vishevsky , Elena Yakovleva , Elena Plakhova . Heroes of the time: Nastya Kamenskaya (neopr.) . Radio Liberty . Date of treatment July 5, 2015.
• Irina Aktuganova Alexandra Marinina as a mirror of Russian feminism. - SPb. newspaper “At the bottom”, No. 33, 1996