He and his first wife, director Anna Alekseevna Nekrasova, had one son, concertmaster Aleksandr Pokrovskiy, and one daughter, actress
Alla Pokrovskaya. Alla, in turn, is the mother of his grandson, actor
Mikhail Efremov. He was survived at his death in 2009 by grandson Mikhail and five great-grandchildren, Mikhail's children, actors
Nikita Efremov and
Nikolay Efremov, and daughters Anna-Mariya, Vera, and Nadezhda.