Maria Vladimirovna Vorontsova (Russian:Мария Владимировна Воронцова,néePutina, Путина; born 28 April 1985), also referred to asMaria Faassen,[1][2] is a Russianpediatricendocrinologist.[3] She is the elder child of Russian presidentVladimir Putin.[1][4]
Vorontsova was born inLeningrad (now Saint Petersburg),[5] the elder daughter ofVladimir Putin andLyudmila Putina (née Shkrebneva).[1] She attended German school atDresden,East Germany, while her family lived there in the late 1980s. After her family returned to Leningrad in the spring of 1991, she attendedPeterschule (Russian:Петершуле), a German gymnasium in Saint Petersburg.[6] Later, during violent gang wars involving theTambov Gang while it was taking control of Saint Petersburg's energy trade, she and her sisterKaterina were sent by their father, who feared for their safety, to Germany where their legal guardian was formerStasi officerMatthias Warnig, who had worked with their father in Dresden as part of a KGB cell and established the Dresdner Bank branch in Saint Petersburg.[7]
She played the violin for a Russianconsulate general of Hamburg–sponsored diplomatic breakfast in 1995.[8][9][10] Later, after her family moved to Moscow, she attended theGerman School Moscow, a school closely associated with theGerman Embassy in Moscow for children of diplomats. She graduated after 11 years of school. Three years later, she began her university studies, enrolling together with Katerina as first year students.[5][6][11][12]
Between 2013 and 2015, Vorontsova co-authored five studies including "The status of blood antioxidant system in patients with active acromegaly". She also, in 2015, co-authored a book about idiopathic stunting in children.[1] Vorontsova is credited to be Putin's advisor ingenetic engineering, especially in the usage ofCRISPR to create genetically engineered babies.[15]
In November 2023, Vorontsova was appointed to the board of the Moscow Society of Medical Genetics (Russian:Московское общество медицинских генетиков).[16][17] According to Russian opposition leaderAleksei Navalny's team, she's earning millions of dollars per year as an employee of the New Medical Company (NOMEKO).[18]
Vorontsova married Dutch businessmanJorrit Faassen[1] in summer 2008 inWassenaar in theNetherlands.[25] They have a son, born August 2012.[25] In 2013, they were living in apenthouse atop the highest residential building inVoorschoten.[26][27] In 2014, Dutch residents called for Vorontsova to be expelled from the country afterMalaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot down bypro-Russian rebels in Ukraine.[28] In 2015, Vorontsova and Faassen were reported to be living in Moscow.[1] In 2022, it was reported that they are no longer married.[25]
Vorontsova is married to Yevgeny Nagorny,[29] who works at the Russian oil and gas companyNovatek.[25] They have a son, born April 2017.[30]
^Ролдугин, Олег (Roldugin, Oleg) (12 January 2011)."Дочки Путина. Полная версия" [Daughters of Putin. Full version].Собеседник.ру (Sobesenik) (in Russian). Archived fromthe original on 11 November 2012. Retrieved26 January 2021.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
^Herszenhorn, David M. (5 May 2012)."In the Spotlight of Power, Putin Keeps His Private Life Veiled in Shadows".The New York Times. Retrieved2 March 2020.Both daughters attended German-language schools and St. Petersburg State University, where Maria studied biology and Yekaterina majored in Asian Studies.
^abКанев, Сергей (Kanev, Sergey) (31 January 2016)."ПЕРВАЯ ДОЧЬ СТРАНЫ" [FIRST DAUGHTER OF THE COUNTRY].The New Times (in Russian). Archived fromthe original on 21 January 2021. Retrieved26 January 2021.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
^Petrequin, Samuel; Casert, Raf; Cook, Lorne (8 April 2022). Written at Brussels."EU imposes sanctions on Putin's daughters". New York City: Associated Press.Archived from the original on 9 April 2022. Retrieved9 April 2022.
Питч, Ирен (Pietsch, Irene) (2002).Пикантная дружба: Моя подруга Людмила Путина, ее семья и другие товарищи [Spicy friendship: my friend Lyudmila Putina, her family and other comrades] (in Russian).Захаров (Zakharov Books).ISBN5-8159-0181-4.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
.jpg)
.jpg)
