Putin’s daughter in love with a Zelensky. The Russian president, already frustrated by the progress of a war that he imagined quite different, now also has to endure this gossip fed to world public opinion. His Katerina has a kept secret relationship with a former dancer who, ironically, is named after the Tsar’s enemy number one, Kiev leader Volodymyr Zelensky.
But Igor, 52, director until 4 April of the Bayerisches Staatsballett in Munich, from which he resigned “for family reasons” after the Russian attack on Ukraine, has only his surname in common with the Ukrainian president. After having walked the most prestigious stages in the world, dancing for the Royal Ballet in London, La Scala in Milan and the New York City Ballet, he met the second child of the Tsar, Katerina Tikhonova Putina, born in ’86. And for some time a sentimental story would have been born between the two, kept hidden from most people.
This was revealed by the Russian independent news site Vashnie Istorii, associated with the German weekly Der Spiegel. According to well-informed sources, the spark between Igor Zelensky and Katerina Putina would have struck between 2017 and 2019, when the daughter that the Russian president had with his ex-wife Ljudmila Aleksandrovna was noticed commuting with great frequency between Moscow and Munich. of Bavaria. Right where her Igor worked.
At the end of 2019, the well-informed always say, Katerina would have tired of going back and forth from Germany and would have settled in the capital of Bavaria.
She who was born in Germany, in Dresden, unlike her sister Maria Vorontsova who was born a year earlier in St. Petersburg. Both daughters ended up in the crosshairs of Western sanctions, not spared by the measures with which Europe and the United States decided to hit the entire magic circle of President Putin, including family affections.
Not much is known about Katerina: graduated in mathematics and neuroscience, but also acrobatic rock’n’roll dancer, before moving to Germany she would have directed some research funds linked to large Russian state companies, from the gas giant Gazprom to that of Rosneft oil.