10 oligarchs who chose to marry smart people

On the Internet, articles now and then slip through that another businessman married a young fashion model. So there was a legend that the rich of this world choose only beauties as their wives, who can favorably emphasize the luxury of their life.

But in the era of accessibility and a huge choice, the oligarchs got bored and devalued beauty. Now they are served with intelligent and quick-witted women – and it’s not boring to talk, and they can help in their work. At the same time, the miss must be well educated, independent and successful in her own field.

Today we are reviewing enviable businessmen who chose to marry smart girls. Truly, it inspires to gnaw hard at the granite of sciences and study smart books, and not Cosmopolitan.

10 Alexander Dyukov and Olga Slutsker

Olga has already celebrated her anniversary, but she still remains an enviable bride. She lived a difficult life and independently made her way through the thorns to the stars, building a real fitness empire.

Her chosen one, the director of Gazprom Neft Dyukov, was extremely lucky with such a smart wife. As it turned out, there are no problems in the couple about the dominance. The couple did not legalize the relationship officially, but are happy in their civil marriage.

By the way, Dyukov is additionally the president of Zenit, so he is not far from the topic of sports – here you have common interests with your wife.

9. Alexey Miller and Marina Entaltseva

Another head of Gazprom decided to marry an educated and talented woman of age.

Marina is self-sufficient and experienced, she made herself, becoming the deputy head of the Russian government. Of course, in their relationship, paparazzi and journalists are barred, the poet did not manage to find out about the ups and downs of family life. But still, insiders claim that Marina and Alexei tied the knot of true love.

8. Danil Khachaturov and Anna Melikyan

Initially, Danil was married to a talented designer Ulyana Sergienko, but decided to take the bar higher.

He left his wife for director Anna Melikyan, an experienced, pretty and intelligent woman with a steely character. Anna, in turn, was also tempered by her marriage to the CEO of Central Partnership, so she readily married another oligarch.

The woman is a successful screenwriter, director and producer. Her feature films “Mermaid” and “Mars” won prizes at world film festivals. “Mermaid” was even nominated for an Oscar – and this is already an indicator of the quality of Melikyan’s work.

7. Alisher Usmanov and Irina Viner

The director of USM Holdings was looking for a worthy smart woman as a life partner, who became the president of the rhythmic gymnastics federation. The wife met on the way of a man more than 40 years ago, becoming a reliable support and a safe haven.

The couple met not just anywhere, but in the gym, where Alisher came to fencing, and Irina to practice rhythmic gymnastics. Once again, the future spouses met in the capital, when Viner became a coach, and Usmanov sat through lectures at MGIMO. True, by that time Ira had managed to acquire the “baggage” of experience in the form of a divorce and a son. Alisher had to take care of an independent girlfriend for a long time.

6. Leonid Kazinets and Yulia Khasia

The chairman of BARKLI is not your typical oligarch who picks up young models and ends up marrying Miss Universe.

As his wife, he took a smart, well-mannered and educated girl Yulia, who works in the Department of Cultural Heritage of Moscow. Khasia received a red diploma from Moscow State University, knows two foreign languages ​​and is going to persistently move up the career ladder.

5. Viktor Khristenko and Tatyana Golikova

A wonderful love story, how the Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation fell in love with the Deputy Minister of Finance. Yes, yes, there are also romantic adventures in the political arena.

The official Khristenko met Golikova a long time ago, somewhere around 1998, when he first got to the Ministry of Finance. Tatyana by that time had already broken up with her husband, with whom she had lived only 5 years.

Colleagues got married and got married, and for Victor this marriage also became the second (with his first wife he made 20 children in 3 years). With Tanya, Victor has not yet produced heirs, but who knows …

4. Viktor Vekselberg and Marina Dobrynina

The chairman of Renova, Vekselberg, does not regret choosing a life partner. Modest and smart Marina found her happiness not in rivalry with her husband, but in motherhood.

The couple met during a student trip, when they studied at MIIT, after which they got married.

Marina supports her husband in everything, brings up their 2 children and at the same time heads a charitable foundation to help people with mental disorders. Victor also found himself in the charitable field, heading the Link of Times Foundation.

3. Vladimir and Ekaterina Potanin

One of the richest oligarchs in Russia recently married his smart and not quite young employee Katya. The couple spent their honeymoon on the Cote d’Azur, without commenting on personal relationships and withholding information about the wedding.

Journalists managed to learn little about Potanin’s new wife: she had worked with a billionaire for a long time and always impressed him.

2. Andrey Sharonov and Daria Poverennova

After the death of his wife, the rector of Skolkovo did not dare to enter into a new relationship, rejecting a variety of proposals from local beauties. As a result, Sharonov drew attention to a woman with life experience, an established career and a child.

Actress Poverennova confessed to reporters that she used to be unlucky in love because of a birth curse. As it turned out, three generations of women were unhappy in marriage. Therefore, it was not easy for Daria to create relationships – this is both a new joy and a new pain of loss. In the case of Andrei, two tormented lonely souls found each other, God forbid, forever.

1. Anatoly Chubais and Avdotya Smirnova

The chairman of the board of Rosnano frankly shocked the media when he married screenwriter Smirnova in 2012. A photo from their wedding in the apartment against the backdrop of the carpet instantly flew around the Internet.

For Anatoly, this marriage was the third in a row, and for Dunya the second. Chubais left another smart woman, the economist Vishnevskaya, for her, and they had been married for 22 years. According to rumors, the man left all the joint property to his ex-wife.

And Duna was really not interested in Chubais’s money, because she herself is quite competent and smart.

Such stories inspire – there is still an opportunity to meet a kindred spirit. Girls, we take note that appearance is far from the main thing.