Table of contents:
- Alisher Usmanov and Irina Viner
- Araz and Irina Agalarov
- Ruben Vardanyan and Veronica Zonabend
- Anatoly Chubais and Avdotya Smirnova
- Alexander and Svetlana Abramov
- Vladimir and Lyudmila Kogan
- Sergei Sarkisov and Rusudan Makhashvili
- Viktor Vekselberg and Marina Dobrynina
- Vladimir and Ekaterina Potanin
- Andrey Sharonov and Daria Poverennova
Video: How oligarchs chose their wives: 10 married couples in which husbands preferred a woman's mind to beauty
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
For a long time, there was a stereotype in society that rich people marry only beauties, and they have enough intelligence and their own. In practice, however, this is often not the case at all. Oligarchs appreciate beautiful women, but much more they like smart women who are able to maintain a conversation, and, if necessary, give advice. Very often, next to a wealthy man is not the first beauty, but a woman intellectually gifted and educated.
Alisher Usmanov and Irina Viner
He has repeatedly topped the list of the richest people in Russia, his fortune is estimated in billions of dollars. Alisher Usmanov has been happily married for more than a quarter of a century to the famous rhythmic gymnastics coach and doctor of pedagogical sciences Irina Winner. They always have common topics for a leisurely conversation and for the most heated debates. The only disagreement that exists in their family concerns only the work of the spouse, who categorically refuses to sit still and leave work.
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Araz and Irina Agalarov
Araz Agalarov and his wife met in kindergarten and, it seems, have not parted since then. She graduated from the Pedagogical Institute, he is a polytechnic. Araz Agalarov was engaged in business, his wife taught at school, was engaged in translations, and then moved to the real estate industry, and later began to develop other areas of her own business. As a result, it turned out that the spouses have many points of contact, and in addition to feelings and beloved children, there is a real commonality of goals and interests in their family.
Ruben Vardanyan and Veronica Zonabend
A social entrepreneur, whose fortune is approaching a billion dollars, he knew his wife only a week before proposing to her and getting married. But this time was enough for him to understand: this woman should become his wife and the mother of his children. Despite the difference in characters and habits, they have been living well together for a quarter of a century.
According to Ruben Vardanyan, his wife is a very smart woman, so she was able to become her own in a large Armenian family. Veronica Zonabend graduated from the Aviation Institute, and later retrained as a financier. After working at the bank, she opened her first restaurant on a partnership basis. Now Veronica helps her husband in the development of his social projects, and she also became one of the producers of the film about Igor Stravinsky and Coco Chanel.
Anatoly Chubais and Avdotya Smirnova
Anatoly Chubais is married for the third time. In 2012, 43-year-old Avdotya Smirnova, a screenwriter, presenter and director, became his wife. At one time, the girl studied first at Moscow State University at the philological faculty, then at GITIS, but she never received a diploma of higher education. But she wrote several scripts for documentaries, acted as a director and made a career in television.
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Alexander and Svetlana Abramov
A well-known Russian entrepreneur and candidate of physical and mathematical sciences chose a bride for himself at one time. His wife Svetlana, like Alexander Grigorievich, graduated from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and also has a PhD in Physics and Mathematics.
Vladimir and Lyudmila Kogan
The well-known banker and key shareholder of Uralsib Bank graduated from the Leningrad Civil Engineering Institute. His wife Lyudmila studied not only at LISS, but also received a second higher education at the university with a degree in jurisprudence. Lyudmila Valentinovna started her entrepreneurial activity in the fashion industry, but over time she completely moved into the construction business.
Sergei Sarkisov and Rusudan Makhashvili
Film director and billionaire Sergei Sarkisov chose Rusudan Makhashvili, a physician, as his wife, who has been with him for many years. Together they came to financial well-being, and over time, the oligarch's wife headed the Medilyuks-TM company, which owns large networks of medical centers and dental clinics.
Viktor Vekselberg and Marina Dobrynina
The size of the fortune of an entrepreneur and art collector is difficult to overestimate. However, next to him is invariably one woman, Marina Dobrynina. She prefers to lead a rather modest lifestyle, and devotes all her skills and abilities to helping people with mental disabilities.
Vladimir and Ekaterina Potanin
The owner of the Interros company divorced his first wife Natalia in 2014 and soon married Ekaterina, who worked for Vladimir Potanin's company for several years. About the second wife of a businessman, it is only known that she worked for a long time in Potanin's company under his direct supervision and managed to win the head of the head not so much with her beauty as with her ability to solve complex problems and find extraordinary solutions.
Andrey Sharonov and Daria Poverennova
The president of the Skolkovo School of Management is smart, wealthy and outwardly attractive. If desired, he could win the heart of almost any woman. However, Andrei Vladimirovich opted for the actress Daria Poverennova. According to the actress herself, next to this man she has an incentive to get better.
Mark Zuckerberg also chose not the first beauty of the planet as his wife. He is young, stunningly rich, and incredibly talented. She is a modest, unknown girl. The news of Mark Zuckerberg's marriage to Priscilla Chan became the most talked about news in 2012. He found the most important thing in this shy, inconspicuous girl: intelligence, generosity of soul and endless love, which cannot be compared with anything.
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