On the Internet every now and then skips articles that another businessman married a young fashion model. So the legend has developed that the rich of this world choose only beauties who can advantageously emphasize the luxury of their life.
But only in an era of accessibility and a huge selection of oligarchs got bored and devalued the beauty. Now they are served intellectual and quick-witted women - and it’s not boring to talk, and will be able to help in their work. At the same time, Miss should be well-educated, independent and successful in her own field.
Today we are reviewing the enviable business gentlemen who chose to marry smart girls. Truly, it inspires you to gnaw hard at the granite of sciences and study smart books, not Cosmopolitan.
10. Alexander Dyukov and Olga Slutsker
Olga has already celebrated her anniversary, but everything also remains an enviable bride. She lived a difficult life and made her way through thorns to the stars, building a real fitness empire.
Her chosen one, the director of Gazprom Neft Dyukov, was extremely lucky with such an intelligent wife. As it turned out, the pair did not have problems about leadership. The couple did not officially legalize the relationship, but are happy in their common law marriage.
By the way, Dyukov is also the president of Zenit, therefore, not far from the topic of sport - here are your common interests with his wife.
9. Alexey Miller and Marina Entaltseva
Another Gazprom head decided to marry an educated and talented aged woman.
Marina is self-sufficient and experienced, made herself by becoming deputy head of the Russian government. Of course, the path was ordered in their relations with the paparazzi and journalists, so the poet could not 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 the director Anna Melikyan, an experienced, pretty and smart woman with a steel character. Anna, in turn, was also tempered by marriage with the General Partnership CEO, so she readily married another oligarch.
The woman is a successful screenwriter, director and producer. Her full-length films "The Mermaid" and "Mars" won prizes at world film festivals. The 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 Wiener
The director of USM Holdings was looking for a companion in life a worthy smart woman, who became the president of the rhythmic gymnastics federation. The wife met on the way of a man more than 40 years ago, becoming reliable support and a quiet haven.
The couple met not somewhere, but in the gym, where Alisher came to fencing, and Irina practiced rhythmic gymnastics. Future spouses met again in the capital when Wiener became a coach, and Usmanov was setting up lectures at MGIMO. True, by that time Ira managed to acquire the "baggage" of experience in the form of a divorce and a son. Alisher had to look after an independent girlfriend for a long time.
6. Leonid Kazinets and Julia Hasia
The BARKLI chairman does not belong to the typical oligarchs who sort out young models and eventually marry Miss Universe.
He married a smart, educated and educated girl, Julia, 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. Victor Khristenko and Tatyana Golikova
A wonderful love story, as the Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Government fell in love with the Deputy Minister of Finance. Yes, there are also romantic adventures in the political arena.
The official Khristenko met Golikov a long time ago, somewhere in the region of 1998, when he first got to the Ministry of Finance. Tatyana 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 was also the second (he made 3 children with his first wife in 20 years). Victor hasn’t made any heirs with Tanya yet, but who knows ...
4. Victor Vekselberg and Marina Dobrynina
Renova chairman Vekselberg does not regret choosing a life partner. The modest and clever 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, educates their 2 children and at the same time heads a charity fund to help people with mental disorders. Victor also found himself in the charity field, heading the Connection of Times Foundation.
3. Vladimir and Ekaterina Potanin
One of the richest oligarchs in Russia married not so long ago, his smart and not very young employee Katya. The couple spent their honeymoon on the Cote d'Azur, not giving a comment about 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 the most varied offers of local beauties. As a result, Sharonov drew attention to a woman with life experience, an established career and a child.
Actress Poverennova frankly told reporters that earlier she was unlucky in love because of a family curse. As it turned out, three generations of women were unhappy in marriage. Therefore, creating a Daria relationship was not easy - it is 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 Rusnano openly shocked the media when in 2012 he married the screenwriter Smirnova. A photo from their marriage in an apartment on the background of the carpet instantly flew around the Internet.
For Anatoly, this marriage was the third in a row, and for Dunya the second. To her, Chubais left another smart woman - the economist Vishnevskaya, but they had been married for 22 years. According to rumors, the man left all his joint property to his ex-wife.
And Duna was really not interested in Chubais’s money, because she herself was quite competent and smart.
Such stories are inspiring - there is still the opportunity to meet a soul mate. Girls, we take note that appearance is far from the main thing.