Gymnast, model, former cleaner/ All the secret stories of the "in love" Tsar - bota.al

2025-12-23 15:21:37 / BOTA ALFA PRESS
Gymnast, model, former cleaner/ All the secret stories of the "in

"I believe in love at first sight." Said by Vladimir Putin, this sentence sounds like an unexpected crack in the granite of power. A few words, uttered during the "Direct Line" at the end of the year, are enough to open the most enigmatic chapter of the Kremlin leader: his sentimental life.

"I'm in love," he adds, without names, without details. And it is precisely this silence, cultivated for years as a doctrine, that revives the question that has accompanied him since the moment he ascended to the pinnacle of power: who are, in fact, the women in Putin's life?

Putin has always protected his privacy as a strategic frontier. No intimate confessions, no exposure, no family narrative. However, over time, a feminine map has been built around his figure, made up of official marriages, persistent rumors, journalistic investigations and shadows that have never been dispersed. A mosaic that speaks volumes about the nature of Russian power and the way it conceives of the world.

Official marriage and the end of the public family

The only officially recognized marriage is to Lyudmila Skrebneva, a former flight attendant, whom Putin married on July 28, 1983. They spent their formative years and service in the KGB together, including a period in Dresden, East Germany. From this marriage two daughters were born: Maria (1985) and Ekaterina (1986).

When Putin became president in 2000, Lyudmila was formally the First Lady, but their life together had long since disintegrated. The divorce was announced in 2013, in a cold, bureaucratic television broadcast. End of marriage, end of official family. From that moment on, the president's private life disappeared almost completely from the public scene.

Alina Kabaeva, the silent "queen"

The name most closely associated with Putin is that of Alina Kabaeva, former Olympic rhythmic gymnastics champion, symbol of discipline and elegance, then a political and media figure. According to many sources and unofficial investigations, Kabaeva is the current partner, and possibly the secret wife, of the Russian president, with whom she is said to have two children.

Nothing has ever been confirmed. But the trail leads far from Moscow: Switzerland, Lugano, luxury clinics, protected residences. It is there that Alina is thought to live with the Tsar's children. Her name has also been the subject of international sanctions, while a public petition was promoted in Switzerland for her removal from the country.

From cleaning lady to millionaire

Another story sounds like it came from a novel about post-Soviet Russian capitalism. Svetlana Krivonogikh, a former cleaner in St. Petersburg, has been mentioned by several investigations as a possible former partner of Putin. Today she is a very powerful businesswoman: real estate magnate, board member of Bank Rossiya and shareholder in the luxury ski resort Igora.

According to journalistic reconstructions, this relationship is thought to have given birth to Elizaveta Krivonogikh, also known as Luiza. Mother and daughter lived for years in a luxury property worth over $4 million in Monte Carlo, purchased through an offshore company revealed in the Pandora Papers.

In 2020, after an investigation by the Russian media Proekt, Luiza suddenly became a very popular figure on social media, with over 100,000 followers. Luxury photos, travels, jet-set life. Then came the war in Ukraine: comments against the occupation and against her “alleged war criminal father” flooded her profiles. The accounts were deleted. Silence returned.

Among the names that have been circulating for years is Victoria Lopyreva, Miss Russia 2003, television personality and ambassador of the 2018 World Cup. Today she is linked to Russian businessman Igor Bulatov, but her name remains part of that chorus of rumors and speculation that have long accompanied the president's private life.

Absolute power, absolute privacy

In the end, the stories of Putin's wives are not just gossip chronicles. They are a mirror of a power that controls everything, even personal narrative. In Russia, as in the imperial courts of the past, love, family and intimacy are not private matters, but part of the architecture of power. And perhaps for this very reason, the Tsar of the Kremlin is allowed to say only this: "I am in love". No names. No proof. No answers. / il giornale – bota.al

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