Pawan Kalyan marries Russian-born Anna Lezhneva in Hyderabad in 2013

Telugu film star Pawan Kalyan married Anna Lezhneva, a Russian-born woman, on 30 September 2013 in a low-key private ceremony in Hyderabad. Only close family and a few friends were reported to have attended, and the couple did not hold a large public celebration.

It was the actor's third marriage. He had earlier been married to Nandini and then to actress Renu Desai, with whom he has two children. His marriage to Desai ended in divorce in 2012, about a year before the wedding to Lezhneva. The two are reported to have met while working on a Telugu film, Teen Maar, around 2011.

The marriage drew wide attention in the Telugu-speaking states because Kalyan is one of the region's most popular actors, with a huge fan following. After the wedding, Lezhneva took the name Anna Konidala, using the family surname of Kalyan's well-known film family. The couple later had children and kept their family life largely out of the public eye, even as Kalyan moved from cinema into politics. That history is the background to the recent announcement of their separation after 13 years.