From Thursday to Friday, when it was the evening of April 11 in London, and Cosmonautics Day had already arrived in Moscow, Tatyana Yumasheva (in the recent past Dyachenko) gave birth to Boris Yeltsin another granddaughter. The newborn was named Masha - despite the fact that the Yeltsin family already has one Masha, the daughter of the eldest daughter of the first President of Russia Elena Okulova. This is Tatyana’s third child - her son Boris Yeltsin is 19 years old, and Gleb Dyachenko will go to school this year. Yeltsin himself became a grandfather for the 6th time. Tatyana had been in London since the beginning of March, so that on the eve of her birth she would be under constant medical supervision. She gave birth in one of the best clinics in London, where childbirth, according to some sources, costs up to $5 thousand, and a day of stay - $900. This place was loved by many representatives of the Russian elite - in October last year, the grandson of Valentin Yumashev was born here: the son of his eldest daughter Polina and aluminum magnate Oleg Deripaska - Peter. One of Berezovsky’s sons was also born here. During childbirth, the most modern technologies and the best medications available today are used here, so the process itself went without surprises and took less than 30 minutes. Masha Yumasheva was born healthy and strong: weight - 3600, height - 54 centimeters. Within half an hour, Tatyana called her father and personally informed him about the new addition to the family. Now mother and daughter are already preparing for discharge from the clinic. Valentin Yumashev and his daughter Polina are always next to them. The Yumashevs plan to fly to their homeland in two weeks. Here the newborn will be officially registered. And all birth documents will most likely show Moscow time. So Masha Yumasheva will celebrate her birthday on April 12. In Moscow political circles today there is an opinion that the birth of a daughter will be the end of Tatyana Dyachenko-Yumasheva’s political career and an excellent reason to leave the office that until recently was assigned to her in the Kremlin. Rumor has it that this opinion is shared by the current President of Russia. Olga VANDYSHEVA. Who is who in the Yeltsin family? 1. Boris Nikolaevich - ex-president of Russia. 2. Mikhail Nikolaevich - brother of the ex-president. Pensioner. Lives in Yekaterinburg. 3. Valentina Nikolaevna - sister of the ex-president. Pensioner. Until recently, she lived in the city of Berezniki, Perm region. According to some reports, she moved to Moscow several years ago. 4. Naina Iosifovna - wife of the ex-president. 5. Elena Okulova is the eldest daughter of the ex-president. Housewife. 6. Valery Okulov - son-in-law of the ex-president. General Director of Aeroflot - Russian International Airlines. 7. Katya Okulova - granddaughter of the ex-president. Student of the history department of Moscow State University. 8. Alexander Sorokin - Katya’s husband. Student, Faculty of Psychology, Moscow State University. 9. Masha Okulova is the granddaughter of the ex-president. Goes to school. 10. Vanya Okulov - grandson of the ex-president. 11. Tatyana Yumasheva (formerly Dyachenko) - the youngest daughter of the ex-president. Housewife. 12. Vilen Khairulin - the first ex-son-in-law of the ex-president, businessman. 13. Alexey Dyachenko is the second ex-son-in-law of the ex-president. According to some sources, he is the director of a woodworking company, according to others, he is the owner of a large block of shares in Inter-Ural, one of the main exporters of metallurgical products in the Ural region. 14. Boris Yeltsin Jr. - grandson of the ex-president. Studying in England. 15. Gleb Dyachenko - grandson of the ex-president. 16. Valentin Yumashev - the new son-in-law of the ex-president, husband of Tatyana (formerly Dyachenko). 17. Masha Yumasheva, granddaughter of the ex-president. Alexander GAMOV. AND AT THIS TIME IN KISLOVODSK Naina Yeltsina doesn’t want her granddaughter to be jinxed The news of the birth of their granddaughter found the Yeltsin couple in Kislovodsk. They have been relaxing at the resort for two weeks now: drinking Narzan, fishing for trout in mountain lakes and walking along healing paths. Yeltsin was told the news by telephone and called directly to the Sosnovy Bor residence. They say Yeltsin ran out into the corridor and joyfully told his wife: “Tanya has given birth to a girl!” To which Naina Iosifovna replied: “Well, thank God!” And she immediately forbade telling strangers about the newborn. So as not to jinx it. However, the grandfather could not resist. And the next day he went “to the people.” Meeting with the public in Essentuki, Yeltsin announced: “We have a new addition to our family! A granddaughter was born." Journalists immediately began to find out the details, but the wife of the first President of Russia waved her hands at them and besieged her husband: “Don’t say anything more!”... The Yeltsin couple celebrated the birth of Masha with champagne. But no one is allowed to congratulate high-ranking holidaymakers. Neither local administration officials nor journalists. Sergey TUMANOV. (“KP” - Stavropol”).
Information about members of a powerful clan gets into the printed media in such a filtered way and in such small portions that readers have even more questions
Six years have passed since the first President of Russia left the political shadow. Nevertheless, the life of Boris Nikolaevich and especially his prosperous family, enriched over the years of his presidency, is still of interest to millions of ordinary and difficult Russians. However, true information about members of a powerful clan gets into the print media so filtered and in such small portions that readers have even more questions.
Express Gazeta tried to get answers to some of them. And this is what the squiggle turned out to be.
Last summer, for example, news agencies suddenly unanimously announced that the ex-president had arrived with his wife in Mineralnye Vody, “having chosen the Kisnovy Bor sanatorium from all the recreational complexes of the resort region as its permanent place of preventive treatment.” The long ears of an advertisement for a Caucasian hospital stuck out from this widely circulated message. And in October, the same sources, within minutes of each other, broadcast throughout the country: “Boris Yeltsin broke his femur on the island of Sardinia in Italy, a favorite vacation spot of Russian oligarchs.” And for a whole week all the newspapers vigorously discussed this news.
Soon, having apparently realized that the information vacuum needed to be somehow deflated, the chief of protocol of the ex-president spoke in one of the publications Vladimir Shevchenko. He told what dishes Boris Yeltsin now he eats, what books he reads, when he goes to bed, what he watches on TV and how many people are guarding him. And at the same time, inadvertently, he denied rumors that the beloved daughter of the ex-president Tatyana is in England and in France, where she and her husband Valentin Yumashev flies regularly, has luxurious real estate. In addition, Shevchenko named the address of the dacha where the ex-president permanently resides and where the whole family, including children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, come to visit him on weekends: 5th kilometer of Rublevo-Uspenskoe Highway, Barvikha-4. Alexander Korzhakov in his bestseller “Boris Yeltsin: From Dawn to Dusk” he reported that the Yeltsin family, including his sons-in-law, settled in a house on Osennyaya Street near Rublevskoye Highway. However, the book was published in 2001, and since then much has changed in the house on Osennaya Street.
Native blood
We were very interested in Vladimir Shevchenko’s statement that on Sundays “all grandchildren and great-grandchildren” come to Yeltsin. Previously, only Alexander, the grandson of Elena Okulova, the eldest daughter of the ex-president, was called a great-grandson. While wondering who else could be considered his great-grandson, I remembered how eight years ago, during an interview with Yeltsin’s younger brother Mikhail (“EG” No. 41, 1997), his wife Natalya told me that all family ties rest on Naina Iosifovna . Without her, they say, Boris Nikolaevich would have already forgotten about his relatives. And Mikhail, who had shielded his brother throughout the conversation, here involuntarily agreed with her: “Yes, Naya knows all our relatives, even the little ones whom she has never seen, knows their names, is interested in everyone, remembers their birthdays. In general, she thinks so: blood relatives or external relatives - everything is the same. She grew up in the house of Old Believers. Family is a sacred thing for her.”
The roads of family ties and Alexandra Nikolaevna Yumasheva, who raised her son Valya without a husband or anyone’s help and, as the employees of the Korney Chukovsky House-Museum said, had a lot of hard times. During the life of the famous children's writer, Valentin Yumashev's mother served as Chukovsky's housekeeper. She worked from morning to night for meager wages, rejoicing at the opportunity to introduce her son to books, art and the people who create them. And I always dreamed of a big and friendly family.
And if so, I thought, then among Yeltsin’s grandchildren there might be not only the children of his daughters, but also Polina Deripaska- wife of the aluminum king Oleg Deripaska, she is the daughter of Valentin Yumashev from his first marriage to a journalist Irina Vedeneeva. And, what the hell, even Irina’s illegitimate son. After all, whatever one may say, he is Polina’s half-brother. All that is known about this baby is that he was born in the Moscow Family Planning Center, and not in London, where he was born Maria- “Yeltsin’s” daughter Yumashev and his “Deripaskovsky” grandchildren - Peter And Marusya. And, if you believe that Naina Iosifovna considers relatives who live on the side to be close, these kids can safely consider Boris Nikolaevich their great-grandfather! By the way, the child of Irina Vedeneeva, who, according to the nurses, was not visited by anyone in the maternity ward except her 30-year-old lover, is just over two years old. Not a single journalist knows the name of the baby, or his father.
There were rumors that 44-year-old Irina, married to Yumashev, decided to get pregnant when Tatyana Dyachenko married Valentin and gave birth. For this reason, she even performed artificial insemination - just to annoy her ex-husband, who twice exchanged her for younger and more influential women. To the first Svetlana Vavra, a journalist from the then fashionable Ogonyok, Yumashev left like a Jesuit. He said that he was going on a long business trip and asked him to pack his things. And then, putting them in the car, he said: “Ira, I’m leaving you.”
But Yumashev never abandoned his daughter. Polina studied at the elite English college in Millfield, and her father paid for her education, shelling out over $20 thousand per semester. And Polina, in turn, never abandoned her mother, Irina Yumasheva. It was rumored that it was the unemployed Polina who paid over $3 thousand for the “luxury” ward, the birth of her mother and the care of her premature brother, who was born weighing 920 grams. But who gave her the money: her husband Oleg Deripaska or her father is already a mystery. By the way, the birth of Polina herself and her stepmother Tatyana in a London clinic was more expensive - $5 thousand each.
Unclassified base
Deciding to get the coordinates of Boris Nikolaevich and his family members through official means, I contacted the Moscow City Spravka. To my great surprise, despite the big names - Boris Yeltsin, Tatyana Dyachenko, Valentin Yumashev and a number of others, at the information kiosk near the Sokol metro station they accepted my request, warning: “We do not issue telephones.” After 20 minutes, I received several addresses, paying 100 rubles for each. But the “09” service reported that they could not name the corresponding telephone numbers. They say this is the will of the subscribers.
There was only one thing left to do - go to the famous Gorbushka market. As I have seen, database merchants track their clients from afar. It’s enough to wander around the market for about 15 minutes, asking all the sellers about them. Soon a young man approached me and, for 500 rubles, promised to bring me a floppy disk with all the commercially available information on five people of interest to me. “The databases are the latest,” he boasted. True, he said that the information in them always lags behind reality by at least six months to a year. “Money in advance, you will pick up the floppy disk in two hours in the third row from the fourth seller on the right. Two, three, four - do you remember?
Imagine, I didn’t deceive you. The data I received stunned me. If you believe them, a year ago Valentin Yumashev was registered in the apartment together with his first wife Irina Vedeneeva, and his current wife Tatyana under the name Dyachenko was still registered in the same building, in the apartment next door! All three had a BMW: Valentin had a black one, Irina had a brown one, Tatyana had a dark gray one. At the same time, Tatyana, who has headed the Yeltsin Foundation for three years and receives a purely symbolic salary from it, has changed only one foreign car in 10 years. And her current husband Valentin is five and the same number is his first wife, Irina, who does not work anywhere. However, like Yumashev’s second ex-wife, Svetlana Vavra. But unlike Irina, Svetlana worked, and in the same “office” where her former common-law husband also worked part-time - at the Video International Group of Companies CJSC. This company distributes advertising to central television channels.
If we assume that everything in the databases sold to me is the pure truth, then two well-known banks threw several million rubles at Yumashev for some services. It turned out that Yumashev’s annual earnings were commensurate with the income of Yeltsin’s other son-in-law, Aeroflot CEO Valery Okulov. Yumashev’s “white” earnings, from which taxes were paid, stopped at the level of 10 million rubles. You can't buy real estate in London with that kind of money. And, by the way, back in March 1997, Profile magazine reported on a scandal related to Valentin Yumashev’s purchase of a house in London worth £260,000. And Valentin did not deny the rumor then.
Unavailable subscribers
So, having written out the necessary telephone numbers, I began to call. But some numbers did not answer either during the day or in the evening, while others, as it turned out, had belonged to other subscribers for six months or a year. It's not hard to guess why. Firstly, last summer newspapers reported on the appearance of “fresh” telephone databases on the market, and the new Russian bourgeoisie immediately began to change numbers. Secondly, the processes closed to journalists on the division of property between Yumashev and Vedeneeva could be completed. According to rumors, the first wife applied for an apartment on Osennyaya and one of her husband’s dachas. Thirdly, people of this rank, who most of the time live in country mansions, buy more comfortable apartments for themselves in Moscow, and often leave “family nests” for their children. Of course, in this case, the addresses and telephone numbers of the parents also change.
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I wanted to ask the members of the presidential family the simplest questions that concern our readers. For example, did Valentin Yumashev adopt Tatyana's children from previous marriages - Boris and Gleb? Are Yeltsin’s grandchildren and great-grandchildren baptized and who are their godparents? Who do the children stay with when the adults leave, say, for Courchevel - with their grandparents or simply under the supervision of governesses? What was the fate of Yeltsin’s granddaughter Katya Okulova, who at the age of 19 married fellow university student Sasha Sorokin and gave birth to Yeltsin’s first great-grandson, whom Boris Nikolaevich named Alexander? And, of course, I really wanted to ask for “fresh” photographs.
It appeared that it would be impossible to do without intermediaries. But the chief of protocol, Vladimir Shevchenko, left somewhere. And the Kremlin press service reported that I was contacting the wrong address and advised me to contact the Yeltsin Foundation.
Name fund
Almost nothing is known about the Yeltsin Foundation, which has existed for three years. From the press I only found out that he helped finance the Nika Award ceremony, the Kremlin Cup in tennis, and “often gives money to certain children’s institutions”, sponsoring cultural events and individual programs of the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Health. That is, secrecy is done even out of charity. However Alexander Drozdov, Tatyana Yumasheva’s deputy, unexpectedly responded to my request for a meeting. But he only said that in the near future the fund will acquire a website. In an effort to prepare as best as possible for the conversation, I tried to find out from the above-mentioned ministries what projects the fund financed. In vain. Only one person, who did not want to give his name, hinted that the project was somehow connected with Alexander Muzykantsky, prefect of the Central District of Moscow, and is aimed at creating new methods for treating Down syndrome and autism and teaching children suffering from these ailments. An increasing number of Russian families have faced this misfortune over the past decade.
What kind of false modesty is this? Why is not even a word reported to the press about such a noble and necessary cause? And then I remembered Raisa Maksimovna Gorbacheva, who actively helped children with leukemia. She also asked Express Newspaper not to publish a story about how she helped the children of two of our readers from remote villages, whose letters we gave her. “I have my reasons,” she said firmly then. Four months later, the wife of the first President of the USSR died from this disease. “What a rock! - I thought at her funeral and wondered: “Or maybe Raisa Maksimovna already knew about her illness and tried to save at least a few children?” Perhaps the Yeltsin family also has good reasons to keep their current charity a secret?
Having looked through the archive of published family photographs of the ex-president, taken after 1995, I discovered that in none of them was Gleb, the second son of Tatyana Dyachenko, among the grandchildren. It turned out to be difficult even to calculate the exact date of his birth. Flashed information that this boy has "health problems", partly confirmed the guess.
Perhaps it was these problems that caused the cooling in the relationship between Tatyana and Alexey Dyachenko? Isn’t it all the hype around Alexei’s company Belka Trading, which was at the center of the Bank of New York scandal, where Russian mafia money was laundered?
According to official data, Gleb is studying “in Moscow in a regular school”. Her number is not given for security reasons. It's clear. But why isn't the class called? Due to age inappropriateness? But in any case, since the child is studying in a normal school, the version of Down syndrome disappears. So does that mean autism? Readers who have watched the films “Rain Man” with Dustin Hoffman and “Mercury in Danger” starring Bruce Willis will understand what kind of disease we are talking about. Autistic people may have perfectly developed intellect, but at the same time, from childhood they suffer from detachment from the world, self-absorption... It would be better if I was wrong. But if my guesses are correct, I would like to say one thing. Sincerely wishing success to Gleb and the scientists to whom the Yeltsin Foundation allocated money, many of our readers now probably think: this grief for such a high-ranking and highly wealthy family was sent down from above to help people about whom society essentially does not care.
Reference
* June 12, 1991 - Boris Yeltsin was elected President of the RSFSR. * December 31, 1999 - after apologizing to “dear Russians,” Boris Nikolaevich resigns early. The text of Yeltsin’s farewell address to the people was prepared by his current son-in-law and co-author of the book “Confession on a Given Topic” Valentin Yumashev.
Six years have passed since the first President of Russia left the political shadow. Nevertheless, the life of Boris Nikolayevich and especially his prosperous family, enriched over the years of his presidency, is still of interest to millions of ordinary and difficult Russians. However, true information about members of a powerful clan gets into the print media so filtered and in such small portions that readers have even more questions.
President's family: 1 - Boris Yeltsin; 2 - Naina Yeltsina; 3 - Valery Okulov; 4 - Alexey Dyachenko, Gleb’s father; 5 - Katya Okulova; 6 - Elena Okulova; 7 - Boris Yeltsin Jr.; 8 - Maria Okulova; 9 - Tatyana Dyachenko (1996)
Express Gazeta tried to get answers to some of them. And this is what the squiggle turned out to be.
Last summer, for example, news agencies suddenly unanimously announced that the ex-president arrived with his wife in Mineralnye Vody, “choosing the Kisnovy Bor sanatorium from all the recreational complexes of the resort region as his permanent place of preventive treatment.” The long ears of an advertisement for a Caucasian hospital stuck out from this widely circulated message. And in October, the same sources, within minutes of each other, broadcast throughout the country: “ Boris Yeltsin on the island of Sardinia in Italy, a favorite vacation spot of Russian oligarchs, he broke his femur.” And for a whole week all the newspapers vigorously discussed this news.
Soon, apparently realizing that the information vacuum needed to be somehow deflated, the chief of protocol of the ex-president, Vladimir Shevchenko, spoke in one of the publications. He told us what kind of dishes Boris Yeltsin eats now, what books he reads, when he goes to bed, what he watches on TV and how many people are guarding him. And at the same time, inadvertently, he refuted rumors that the beloved daughter of the ex-president Tatyana has luxurious real estate in England and France, where she and her husband Valentin Yumashev regularly fly. In addition, Shevchenko named the address of the dacha where the ex-president permanently resides and where the whole family, including children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, come to visit him on weekends: 5th kilometer of Rublevo-Uspenskoe Highway, Barvikha-4.
Alexander Korzhakov, in his bestseller “Boris Yeltsin: From Dawn to Dusk,” reported that the Yeltsin family, including his sons-in-law, settled in a house on Osennyaya Street near Rublevskoye Highway. However, the book was published in 2001, and since then much has changed in the house on Osennaya Street.
Native blood
We were very interested in Vladimir Shevchenko’s statement that on Sundays “all grandchildren and great-grandchildren” come to Yeltsin. Previously, only Alexander, the grandson of Elena Okulova, the eldest daughter of the ex-president, was called a great-grandson.
Figuring out who else could be considered his great-grandson, I remembered how eight years ago, during an interview with Yeltsin’s younger brother Mikhail (“EG” No. 41, 1997), his wife Natalya told me that all family ties are based on Naina Iosifovna. Without her, they say, Boris Nikolaevich would have already forgotten about his relatives. And Mikhail, who had shielded his brother throughout the conversation, here involuntarily agreed with her: “Yes, Naya knows all our relatives, even the little ones whom she has never seen, knows their names, is interested in everyone, remembers their birthdays. In general, she thinks so: blood relatives or external relatives - everything is the same. She grew up in the house of Old Believers. Family is a sacred thing for her.”
(photo 2).
Mikhail Yeltsin: brother of Boris Nikolaevich with his wife Natasha at the portrait of mother Claudia Vasilievna (photo 1). Alexandra Nikolaevna Yumasheva: with her son Valentin and granddaughter Polinochka (photo 2).
Family ties are also dear to Alexandra Nikolaevna Yumasheva, who raised her son Valya without a husband or anyone’s help and, as the employees of the Korney Chukovsky House-Museum said, experienced a lot of hard times. During the life of the famous children's writer, Valentin Yumashev's mother served as Chukovsky's housekeeper. She worked from morning to night for meager wages, rejoicing at the opportunity to introduce her son to books, art and the people who create them. And I always dreamed of a big and friendly family.
And if so, I thought, then among Yeltsin’s grandchildren there might be not only the children of his daughters, but also Polina Deripaska- wife of the aluminum king Oleg Deripaska, she is the daughter of Valentin Yumashev from her first marriage to journalist Irina Vedeneeva. And, what the hell, even Irina’s illegitimate son. After all, whatever one may say, he is Polina’s half-brother.
All that is known about this baby is that he was born in the Moscow Family Planning Center, and not in London, where Maria, Yumashev’s “Yeltsin” daughter, and his “Deripaskovsky” grandchildren, Peter and Marusya, were born. And, if you believe that Naina Iosifovna considers relatives who live on the side to be close, these kids can safely consider Boris Nikolaevich their great-grandfather!
By the way, the child of Irina Vedeneeva, who, according to the nurses, was not visited by anyone in the maternity ward except her 30-year-old lover, is just over two years old. Not a single journalist knows the name of the baby, or his father.
Polina Deripaska and Maria Okulova: adopted and natural granddaughters of Boris Yeltsin
There were rumors that 44-year-old Irina, married to Yumashev, decided to get pregnant when Tatyana Dyachenko married Valentin and gave birth. For this reason, she even performed artificial insemination - just to annoy her ex-husband, who twice exchanged her for younger and more influential women. To the first, Svetlana Vavra, a journalist of the then fashionable Ogonyok, Yumashev left like a Jesuit. He said that he was going on a long business trip and asked him to pack his things. And then, putting them in the car, he said: “Ira, I’m leaving you.”
But Yumashev never abandoned his daughter. Polina studied at the elite English college in Millfield, and her father paid for her education, shelling out over $20 thousand per semester. And Polina, in turn, never abandoned her mother, Irina Yumasheva. It was rumored that it was the unemployed Polina who paid over $3 thousand for the “luxury” ward, the birth of her mother and the care of her premature brother, who was born weighing 920 grams. But who gave her the money: her husband Oleg Deripaska or her father is already a mystery. By the way, the birth of Polina herself and her stepmother Tatyana in a London clinic was more expensive - $5 thousand each.
Unclassified base
Deciding to get the coordinates of Boris Nikolaevich and his family members through official means, I contacted the Moscow City Spravka. To my great surprise, despite the big names - Boris Yeltsin, Tatyana Dyachenko, Valentin Yumashev and a number of others, at the information kiosk near the Sokol metro station they accepted my request, warning: “We do not issue telephones.” After 20 minutes, I received several addresses, paying 100 rubles for each. But the “09” service reported that they could not name the corresponding telephone numbers. They say this is the will of the subscribers.
Wedding photo from the Express Newspaper archive: 1 - Andrey Vavra, 2 - Svetlana Vavra, 3 - their son Nikita Vavra, 4 - mother of the groom, 5 - security guard, 6 - groom Oleg Deripaska, 7 - bride Polina Yumasheva, 8 - granddaughter Yeltsin Katya Okulova, 9 - father of the bride Valentin Yumashev, 10 - Yeltsin's granddaughter Maria Okulova, 11 - Tatyana Dyachenko - fiancée of the bride's father, 12 - security guard (2000)
There was only one thing left to do - go to the famous Gorbushka market. As I have seen, database merchants track their clients from afar. It’s enough to wander around the market for about 15 minutes, asking all the sellers about them.
Soon a young man approached me and, for 500 rubles, promised to bring me a floppy disk with all the commercially available information on five people of interest to me. “The databases are the latest,” he boasted. True, he said that the information in them always lags behind reality by at least six months to a year. “Money in advance, you will pick up the floppy disk in two hours in the third row from the fourth seller on the right. Two, three, four - do you remember?
Imagine, I didn’t deceive you. The data I received stunned me. If you believe them, a year ago Valentin Yumashev was registered in the apartment together with his first wife Irina Vedeneeva, and his current wife Tatyana under the name Dyachenko was still registered in the same building, in the apartment next door! All three had a BMW: Valentin had a black one, Irina had a brown one, Tatyana had a dark gray one. At the same time, Tatyana, who has headed the Yeltsin Foundation for three years and receives a purely symbolic salary from it, has changed only one foreign car in 10 years. And her current husband Valentin is five and the same number is his first wife, Irina, who does not work anywhere. However, like Yumashev’s second ex-wife, Svetlana Vavra. But unlike Irina, Svetlana worked, and in the same “office” where her former common-law husband also worked part-time - at the Video International Group of Companies CJSC. This company distributes advertising to central television channels.
If we assume that everything in the databases sold to me is the pure truth, then two well-known banks threw several million rubles at Yumashev for some services. It turned out that Yumashev’s annual earnings were commensurate with the income of Yeltsin’s other son-in-law, Aeroflot CEO Valery Okulov. Yumashev’s “white” earnings, from which taxes were paid, stopped at the level of 10 million rubles. You can't buy real estate in London with that kind of money. And, by the way, back in March 1997, Profile magazine reported on a scandal related to Valentin Yumashev’s purchase of a house in London worth £260,000. And Valentin did not deny the rumor then.
Unavailable subscribers
So, having written out the necessary telephone numbers, I began to call. But some numbers did not answer either during the day or in the evening, while others, as it turned out, had belonged to other subscribers for six months or a year.
It's not hard to guess why.
Firstly, last summer newspapers reported on the appearance of “fresh” telephone databases on the market, and the new Russian bourgeoisie immediately began to change numbers.
Secondly, the processes closed to journalists on the division of property between Yumashev and Vedeneeva could be completed. According to rumors, the first wife applied for an apartment on Osennyaya and one of her husband’s dachas.
Thirdly, people of this rank, who most of the time live in country mansions, buy more comfortable apartments for themselves in Moscow, and often leave “family nests” for their children. Of course, in this case, the addresses and telephone numbers of the parents also change.
I wanted to ask the members of the presidential family the simplest questions that concern our readers. For example, did Valentin Yumashev adopt Tatyana's children from previous marriages - Boris and Gleb? Are Yeltsin’s grandchildren and great-grandchildren baptized and who are their godparents? Who do the children stay with when the adults leave, say, for Courchevel - with their grandparents or simply under the supervision of governesses? What was the fate of Yeltsin’s granddaughter Katya Okulova, who at the age of 19 married fellow university student Sasha Sorokin and gave birth to Yeltsin’s first great-grandson, whom Boris Nikolaevich named Alexander? And, of course, I really wanted to ask for “fresh” photographs.
It appeared that it would be impossible to do without intermediaries. But the chief of protocol, Vladimir Shevchenko, left somewhere. And the Kremlin press service reported that I was contacting the wrong address and advised me to contact the Yeltsin Foundation.
Name fund
Almost nothing is known about the Yeltsin Foundation, which has existed for three years. From the press, I only found out that he helped finance the Nika Award ceremony, the Kremlin Cup in tennis, and “often gives money to certain children’s institutions,” sponsoring cultural events and individual programs of the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Health.
That is, secrecy is done even out of charity. However, Alexander Drozdov, Tatyana Yumasheva’s deputy, unexpectedly responded to my request for a meeting.
But he only said that in the near future the fund will acquire a website.
In an effort to prepare as best as possible for the conversation, I tried to find out from the above-mentioned ministries what projects the fund financed. In vain. Only one person, who did not want to give his name, hinted that the project was somehow connected with Alexander Muzykantsky, prefect of the Central District of Moscow, and was aimed at creating new methods for treating Down syndrome and autism and teaching children suffering from these ailments. An increasing number of Russian families have faced this misfortune over the past decade.
What kind of false modesty is this? Why is not even a word reported to the press about such a noble and necessary cause?
And then I remembered Raisa Maksimovna Gorbacheva, who actively helped children with leukemia. She also asked Express Newspaper not to publish a story about how she helped the children of two of our readers from remote villages, whose letters we gave her. “I have my reasons,” she said firmly then. Four months later, the wife of the first President of the USSR died from this disease.
“What a rock! - I thought at her funeral and wondered: “Or maybe Raisa Maksimovna already knew about her illness and tried to save at least a few children?”
Perhaps the Yeltsin family also has good reasons to keep their current charity a secret?
Having looked through the archive of published family photographs of the ex-president, taken after 1995, I discovered that in none of them was Gleb (pictured), his second son, among the grandchildren Tatiana Dyachenko. It turned out to be difficult even to calculate the exact date of his birth. The flashing information that this boy had “health problems” partly confirmed the guess.
Perhaps it was these problems that caused the cooling in the relationship between Tatyana and Alexey Dyachenko? Isn’t it all the hype around Alexei’s company Belka Trading, which was at the center of the Bank of New York scandal, where Russian mafia money was laundered?
According to official data, Gleb studies “in Moscow at a regular school.” Her number is not given for security reasons. It's clear. But why isn't the class called? Due to age inappropriateness?
But in any case, since the child is studying in a normal school, the version of Down syndrome disappears. So does that mean autism?
Readers who have watched the films “Rain Man” with Dustin Hoffman and “Mercury in Danger” starring Bruce Willis will understand what kind of disease we are talking about. Autistic people may have a well-developed intellect, but at the same time, from childhood they suffer from detachment from the world, self-absorption...
I wish I was wrong. But if my guesses are correct, I would like to say one thing. Sincerely wishing success to Gleb and the scientists to whom the Yeltsin Foundation allocated money, many of our readers now probably think: this grief for such a high-ranking and highly wealthy family was sent down from above to help people about whom society essentially does not care.
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* December 31, 1999 - after apologizing to “dear Russians,” Boris Nikolaevich resigns early. The text of Yeltsin’s farewell address to the people was prepared by his current son-in-law and co-author of the book “Confession on a Given Topic” Valentin Yumashev.
Elena Krementsova
Who: Boris Yeltsin Jr. is the main Russian enfant terrible, a typical representative of the capital's golden youth, a lover and favorite of girls, the grandson of the first Russian President Boris Yeltsin and one of the most discussed representatives of the eminent dynasty.
However, now Boris Yeltsin is increasingly associated with an enterprising businessman rather than with a reveler and a waster of life. 
Boris Yeltsin Jr.
What's remarkable: To get on the front pages of newspapers, Boris Yeltsin Jr. only had to turn 15 and appear in society with his first lover. After the death of an influential grandfather in 2007, the heir to a famous family and an equally noble fortune begins to systematically squander not only family wealth, but also valuables. Completely giving himself over to fun, voluptuousness and nightlife, the adored grandson soon falls out of favor with the widow of the first president. Raised in strictness, Naina Yeltsin categorically does not accept Boris’s extravagance and wild lifestyle and stops all communication with him. By the age of 29, Yeltsin Jr. had not glorified his name with anything other than loud scandals - the man changed his girls like gloves, occasionally reassuring the public with statements like “please meet me, this is my bride.” Today, Boris is 33 years old - despite the ardent desire and instructions of his family to connect his life with politics, the heir to a historical family is trying to establish himself as an enterprising businessman. Yeltsin recently opened an unusual kindergarten for the children of oligarchs on Bolshoy Trekhgorny Lane in the capital, giving it the name “Interesting.” In his free time from business negotiations, the politician’s grandson plays music and plays hockey. 
In his free time from business meetings, Yeltsin plays music 
Boris Yeltsin Jr. during hockey training 
Boris spends his holidays at the best resorts in the world 
Now Boris Yeltsin devotes all his energy to business
Personal life: Over the past decade, quite a number of metropolitan beauties, among whom one could find both models and representatives of the thinking intelligentsia, have managed to become the potential bride of Boris Yeltsin Jr. But neither the dizzying gait of top model Margarita Annaberdieva, nor the touching declarations of love from Rasul Gamzatov’s granddaughter Shahri Amirkhanova won the playboy’s flighty heart. Zhanna Aggidasheva suffered the most for the temperamental Boris, who spent 10 years picking up the keys to the heart of her obstinate lover, completely forgetting about the disapproval of his pretentious mother Tatyana Yumasheva. The only unconditionally beloved representative of the fair half of humanity for Yeltsin Jr. always remained his half-sister Masha Yumasheva. Boris never tires of confessing his love for this precociously beautiful girl from the pages of his Instagram, in interviews and by any other means. However, Marfusha, as her older brother affectionately calls her, fully approves of the enviable bachelor’s new sweetheart - Serbian top model Tamara Lazic became the next victim of the charming heartthrob. The beloved of one of the most eligible bachelors in the country is distinguished by a chiseled figure, curvy shape and endless legs. You can appreciate the girl’s outstanding data in advertising campaigns for the brand’s underwear, the face of which is Tamara along with Irina Shayk. 
Boris Yeltsin Jr. with his grandfather and his first lover 
Boris Yeltsin and top model Margarita Annaberdieva 
Boris Yeltsin and his ex-fiancee Elena 
The affair with Shahri Amirkhanova was hot and long - the couple dated for several years 
The next victim of the charming heartthrob was Serbian top model Tamara Lazic 
Yeltsin spends all his free time with Tamara
Style: The heir to a huge fortune adheres to a fairly democratic style when it comes to clothing. Youth jumpers, T-shirts and shirts can be seen on him much more often than three-piece suits and velvet tuxedos. However, occasionally Yeltsin Jr. makes an exception even for an impeccably tailored tailcoat and bow tie, for example, to show off on the red carpet of the Cannes Film Festival on the arm of his mother. Boris's all-time favorite accessory is also aviator glasses, under the tinted glasses of which he hides the mischievous sparkle of his brown eyes.
The grandson of the first Russian president prefers sportswear 
Boris with his mother Tatyana Yumasheva at the famous staircase of the Cannes Palais des Festivals
Surroundings: Most often, Yeltsin can be seen in the company of his sister Masha and his beloved Tamara. During periods of separation from both, Boris does business or spends time with a narrow circle of non-public friends, often foreigners. 
Boris Yeltsin Jr. dotes on his half-sister Marfa 
With beloved Tamara and sister Marfusha 
Elena Okulova is the eldest daughter of the ex-president of the Russian Federation, Boris Yeltsin, a Soviet party and Russian political and statesman. Boris Yeltsin served as president 2 times, from July 10, 1991 to December 31, 1999.
Elena Okulova (Yeltsin): biography
Elena was born in 1957 into the family of Boris Nikolaevich and Naina Iosifovna. Elena Borisovna Okulova has a younger sister, Tatyana, born in 1960. Elena and Tatyana graduated from school No. 9 with a physics and mathematics focus in Yekaterinburg.
Elena Okulova, unlike her sister, has always put home and family at the forefront; she is a housewife. Her husband, Valery Okulov, has been at the head of the Board of Directors of Aeroflot - Russian International Lines OJSC since the late 90s. Currently he holds the position of deputy by order of Vladimir Putin. The family lives in a country house on the Ruble-Uspenskaya highway.
Elena's property consists of a Range Rover Evoque car, 2 plots of land in the Russian Federation with an area of 1500 m² each, 2 villas with an area of 76.8 and 76.7 m², as well as 1/4 of an apartment, which occupies an area of 193.8 m².
Elena's family
In her marriage to Valery, Elena Okulova had three children. Daughters Ekaterina, Maria and son Ivan. The eldest daughter of Elena Borisovna Okulova (Yeltsina) married Alexander Sorokin and has a son, Sasha Sorokin. The youngest, Maria, is for Mikhail Zhilenkov, from whose union two sons were born - Mikhail and Fedor.
Having been involved in housekeeping all her life, Elena Borisovna Okulova (Yeltsina) was a non-public person. Even during her father’s tenure as president, it was difficult to see mention of this woman in the media. Therefore, the details of Elena Okulova’s biography remain secret.
Biography of the first president of Russia
Boris Nikolaevich Yeltsin was born in February 1931 in a village called Butka, Taltsky district, Sverdlovsk region. The first president lived his childhood in the city of Berezniki, in the Perm region, where he received his secondary education. At school, for personal reasons, he held the post of headman, but he received admonitions about his behavior and liked to take part in fights. They say that after finishing the 7th grade, Boris was expelled. He was left with the “wolf ticket” in his hands. But having achieved a meeting with a representative of the city party committee and explaining the situation to him, Yeltsin was reinstated to the 8th grade, but in a different school.
B. Yeltsin was released from military service due to the fact that he lost two fingers on his left hand during a grenade explosion.
At the age of 19, Yeltsin began his studies at the Polytechnic Institute of Uralsk, which he graduated after 5 years and received a degree in civil engineering. In his youth, he was fond of volleyball, participating in the city team. Yeltsin is a master of sports.
In the last days of his reign, the president apologized and asked for forgiveness from the Russian people.
Death of a politician
B. Yeltsin died in April 2007 on the territory of the Central Clinical Hospital due to cardiac arrest, which was caused by an illness associated with the cardiovascular system. The President was hospitalized 2 weeks before his death; he suffered from an acute catarrhal-viral cold, which dealt a serious blow to vital organs.
Okulova's mother, Naina Iosifovna
Elena's mother, Naina Iosifovna Yeltsina, also rarely appeared in public, embarrassed by her status as the “first lady of the country.” Naina tried to be in the shadow of her husband and always emphasized that she was first and foremost a mother, wife, and grandmother.
Naina Iosifovna was born in March 1932. in the village Titovka, Orenburg region. In the family, besides Naina Iosifovna, there were 5 more children. At birth she was named Anastasia, but her family and friends called her Naya or Naina. After graduation, B. Yeltsin’s wife officially changed her name to Naina.
Together with her future husband, Naina Iosifovna studied at the Polytechnic Institute of Uralsk with a degree in civil engineering. When school ended, the lovers sealed their union.
Naina Yeltsina recalls that when Elena was born, her husband cried with anger, because he really wanted to have an heir. Already during the conception of their second child, the couple hid an ax with a cap under their pillow. But when a girl was born again, Boris Nikolaevich was upset for a long time, and ordered his wife not to give birth again.
The wife of the first president of the Russian Federation, after graduating from the institute, worked in Orenburg for about a year in her specialty, after which she held the position of chief engineer and led the group of the Vodokanalproekt Institute in Yekaterinburg. At the age of 55, she retired and moved permanently to the capital.
Elena Okulova's parents have been married for more than half a century, enduring both anxious and joyful moments together.
Elena's sister
Tatyana is the younger sister of Elena Okulova (a photo of the sisters is presented in the article). In the late 90s, she served under the president and worked as an image advisor. However, numerous disagreements constantly arose among government officials regarding the position held by the politician’s daughter, since this was contrary to the current legislation.
Now Tatyana holds the post of director of the Boris Yeltsin Foundation. Tatyana's first husband was classmate Vilen Khairulin. At the moment he is the manager of a company that trades real estate. From his marriage with Khairulin, a son, Boris, was born.
Leonid Dyachenko, Tatyana's second husband, is a billionaire. According to some sources, he was the director of a woodworking company; according to others, he owned a large stake in Inter-Ural. This organization was one of the main exporters in the metallurgy industry in the Ural region. In union with Leonid, Tatyana gave birth to a son, Gleb.
For the third time, the youngest daughter of Boris Nikolaevich married him, who in the late 90s served as head of the presidential administration of the Russian Federation.
At the moment, the husband of Boris Nikolaevich’s youngest daughter is the owner of a construction company and luxury real estate. He owns 50% of the luxurious Imperia Tower skyscraper in the prestigious Moscow City business center. Valentin also owns real estate and a controlling stake in the construction organization OJSC CITY.
In the early 2000s, Tatyana and Valentin had a daughter, Maria.
Nephew Boris
Tatiana's eldest son, Boris, neglected the paternity of Vilen Khairulin in favor of L. Dyachenko. During his grandfather’s time in power, he graduated from a prestigious university in Milford (England) and MGIMO. Then he moved to Then he studied for about a year in (United States of America), but dropped out without completing his studies.
Not long ago, he served as director of marketing for an auto racing team called Formula 1. According to some sources, Boris’s activities are currently related to the development of social networks on the Internet.
Memoirs of Boris Nikolaevich's eldest daughter
In the mid-2000s, on the eve of the anniversary of the first President of the Russian Federation, journalists managed to have a conversation with Yeltsin’s daughter, Elena Okulova.
She said that she remembers her father as a cheerful and cheerful person who always joked and amused all family members. Elena claims that all family celebrations, as a rule, took place in the circle of family and friends. Gifts and surprises for birthday people were laid out long before the celebration began. Yeltsin's daughter, Elena Okulova, shared her memories and said that her father loved giving gifts and during holidays he was even happier than the hero of the occasion.
What kind of politician was there within the walls of the house?
The eldest daughter of the first president said that dad loved and cooked dumplings very well. After moving to the capital, it was B. Yeltsin’s signature dish that guests flocked to; during a conversation at the table, my father taught acquaintances and friends how to properly prepare Ural dumplings. The difference was that Muscovites rolled out the dough into a huge flat cake and cut it into circles, putting minced meat inside. And in Yekaterinburg it was customary to make a sausage out of dough, then cut it and roll out the resulting pieces separately.
The eldest daughter said that the happiest moments in Boris Yeltsin’s life were communicating with his grandchildren. It was after retirement and resignation that the politician had a lot of time to communicate with his family and friends.
The biography of Elena Okulova, Yeltsin’s daughter, is not replete with events and exciting episodes from life. Elena herself claims that she is grateful to her father for the fact that he did not promote her in politics or in local government. Family, children, home have always been the main interests of the eldest daughter of a politician.
