Putin’s daughter falls in love with a Zelenskyy. The Russian President, already frustrated by the course of a war that he had imagined to be very different, now has to endure this gossip from the world public. His Katerina has a secret relationship with a former dancer ironically named after the Tsar’s number one enemy, Kyiv leader Volodymyr Zelensky.
But Igor, 52, until April 4, director of the Bavarian State Ballet in Munich, which he resigned after the Russian invasion of Ukraine “for family reasons”, only has the surname in common with the Ukrainian president. After entering the world’s most prestigious stages, dancing for the Royal Ballet in London, La Scala in Milan and the New York City Ballet, he met the Tsar’s second child, Katerina Tikhonova Putina, born in 1986. And for some time, a sentimental history would have developed between the two that remained hidden from most people. This was revealed by Russian independent news site Vashnie Istorii, which is linked to German weekly Der Spiegel.
According to well-informed sources, the spark between Igor Zelenskyy and Katerina Putina is said to have ignited between 2017 and 2019, when the daughter the Russian president had with his ex-wife Lyudmila Aleksandrovna commuted frequently between Moscow and Bavaria. Exactly where his Igor worked. By the end of 2019, the well-informed always say, Katerina would have had enough of traveling back and forth from Germany and settled in the Bavarian capital. She was born in Germany, in Dresden, unlike her sister Maria Vorontsova, who was born in St. Petersburg a year earlier. Both daughters ended up in the crosshairs of Western sanctions, not spared the measures Europe and the United States decided to take to hit President Putin’s entire magic circle, including family affections.
Not much is known about Katerina: a math and neuroscience graduate but also an acrobatic rock ‘n’ roll dancer, before moving to Germany she would have channeled some research funds linked to major Russian state companies, including Rosneft oil gas giant Gazprom .
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