VLADIMIR Putin’s secret daughter has allegedly ditched her tyrant dad’s surname and is living in the West.
New reports from a Ukrainian TV investigation suggest the 21-year-old uses an pseudonym indicating she is the daughter of Oleg Rudnov, a late close crony of the dictator.
East2WestElizaveta Krivonogikh, also known as Luiza Rozova, is said to be Putin’s hidden daughter[/caption]
InstagramThe 21-year-old allegedly ditched her tyrant dad’s surname and currently lives in the West[/caption]
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But previous investigations by respected Russian independent media outlets say that she is in fact Putin’s daughter – and bears a striking resemblance to the Kremlin despot.
Elizaveta Krivonogikh – also known as Luiza Rozova – vanished shortly before the start of the war in Ukraine, but earlier had a visible social media footprint in Russia.
Her mother is Vlad’s former long-term lover Svetlana Krivonogikh, a cleaner-turned-multimillionaire.
The 49-year-old, who holds shares in a top bank and owns a prominent St Petersburg striptease club, reportedly uses the same family name Rudnova, as does Luiza.
This is the female version of the surname Rudnov.
Luiza and her mother are known to occupy an elite £3.1 million residence in Monaco.
A new report from Ukrainian television outlet TSN says Luiza has a passport identifying her as Elizaveta Olegovna Rudnova, with her known date of birth as March 3, 2003.
This means she was born when Putin was Russian president and married to first lady Lyudmila Putina, who he later divorced.
Putin was on a trip to Bulgaria on the day she was born in St Petersburg.
According to TSN, Luiza has been a student at the Paris School of Management and Arts during the war in Ukraine – but may not be there any more.
It is near the Arc de Triomphe.
The Ukrainian outlet reported: “After extensive research, TSN found Luiza had changed her surname to Rudnova, allegedly taking the last name of Oleg Rudnov, a close Putin ally who once arranged luxury real estate deals.
“The change further highlights the alleged connection to Putin.”
She is seen as using the name Rudnova on flight bookings and for other purposes.
By calling herself Rudnova, she hids her patronymic middle name – Vladimirovna – which identifies her father’s name as Vladimir.
She has largely disappeared during Putin’s bloody war.
She had been seen at the Louvre in 2021 but there were reports she was studying in Paris.
Luiza previously had her own fashion brand and worked as a DJ in Russia.
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East2WestLuiza has been a student at the Paris School of Management and Arts during the war in Ukraine, reports say[/caption]
There were reports that Putin sought to block her public profile ahead of the war.
“And as far as I know, something happened in October 2021 because she deleted her Instagram account and she is no [longer] public,” said Russian journalist Andrei Zakharov, who revealed her existence.
“It looks like somebody told her: ‘Stop it’.”
In 2022, it was reported that Vlad’s hidden love child Luiza, lived a life of luxury in her father’s home city of St Petersburg.
Revealing pictures showed the property’s extravagant interior, almost fully adorned with gold foil.
The news came from Russian investigative publication Proekt, which was shut down by the government following the scoop.
Experts say the designers flattered the “vanity” of the owner.
It is called “one of the most private complexes in St. Petersburg,” according to an investigation by BBC Russia.
Many believe it was built by a company associated with Rossiya Bank, seen as the financial institution of the president’s inner circle.
“The complex on Berezovaya Alley, where the apartment is for rent, is surrounded by a moat and is distinguished by solid classical architecture,” said the report.
The first floor has a living room and terrace overlooking the River Neva while the second floor has a bedroom and a child’s room.
The third floor also includes a bar with a home cinema and a designer sun lounger “covered with gold foil”.
Who are Vladimir Putin’s daughters?
VLADIMIR Putin is known for keeping his personal and family life very private, but some details about the tyrant’s children have surfaced over the years.
Maria Vorontsova (née Putin, born April 28, 1985): His eldest, 39, leads government-funded programs personally overseen by Putin, which have received billions from the Kremlin for genetic research.
She is the first of two daughters of Putin and his ex-wife, Lyudmila Putina.
Maria is said to be an expert in rare genetic diseases in children, and also dwarfism, according to reports.
She was married to Dutch businessman Jorrit Faassen.
In 2013, the couple were living in a penthouse in Voorschoten, the Netherlands, but the following year, Dutch residents called for her to be expelled following the shooting down of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 by pro-Russian rebels in Ukraine.
The pair are believed to have moved the Moscow the following year.
In March 2022, it was reported that the couple had split after the war in Ukraine crushed Maria’s dreams of opening a money-spinning clinic for wealthy foreigners in Russia
Katerina Tikhonova (née Putin, born August 31, 1986): Also daughter of Putin and Lyudmila, 38-year-old Katerina is a tech boss whose work supports the Russian government and defence industry.
She started as a “rock’n’roll” dancer before moving into the world of artificial intelligence.
In 2013, his daughter Katerina married Kirill Shamalov, whose father, Nikolai, is a longtime friend of the president.
Nikolai Shamalov is a shareholder in Bank Rossiya, described by US officials as the Russian elite’s personal bank.
They were married in a secret ceremony at the Igor ski resort just north of St Petersburg.
It was reported at the time that the pair rode into the ceremony on a sleigh pulled by three white horses.
All the guests invited were sworn to secrecy, and the Kremlin has never confirmed that the wedding took place.
“I have a private life in which I do not permit interference,” Putin once said. “It must be respected.”
The couple had corporate holdings worth around $2 billion, according to Reuters, mainly from their large stake in Sibur Holding, a major gas and petrochemical company Kirill bought from another long-time friend of Putin, Gennady Timchenko.
Kirill also bought off Timchenko’s luxury villa in the seaside resort of Biarritz, southern France, estimated to be worth some $3.7m.
In March 2022, the house was taken over by pro-Ukraine activists, in response to Russia’s brutal invasion.
But Katerina and Kirill divorced in January 2018, with Putin’s former son in law rumoured to have been romantically involved with London-based Russian socialite Zhanna Volkova.
After the split, Kirill was said to be forced to give up his stocks in Sibur, and he lost almost half his wealth.
Their divorce settlement hasn’t been disclosed but likely runs into the millions.
Despite that, Kirill is still worth an estimated $800 million.
Putin was reported to be “quietly grooming” Katerina to be his successor.
Vlad is also rumoured to have “hidden” children, though he has never confirmed these reports.
Elizaveta Rozova (aka Luiza Rozova): Elizaveta, also known as Luiza Rozova, 21, is the rumoured love child from Putin’s alleged affair with a former cleaner.
The daughter of Svetlana Krivonogikh, who later became a millionaire, is now a fashion designer and DJ.
She often shared details from her lavish life on Instagram, until suddenly taking down the page in the wake of the Ukraine war.
Speculation also surrounds his supposed secret family with Alina Kabaeva, a former rhythmic gymnast once known as “the most flexible woman in Russia”.
Officials have denied that he has kids with Alina, but it is reported that she is in hiding in Switzerland, avoiding any possible sanctions in the wake of the Ukraine war.
A petition demanding she is thrown out by the Swiss authorities has garnered 75,000 signatures, demanding that “it’s time you reunite Eva Braun with her Führer”.
Alina retired from gymnastics and took a strange career turn to become a Russian MP.
The former athlete – dubbed “Russia’s First Mistress” – the Duma, the Russian parliament in 2007, representing her alleged lover’s United Russia party but left years later to pick up a lucrative job running a media company, despite having no previous experience.
In April, Alina’s name and picture was dramatically stripped from the website of the media empire she controlled.