Dmitry Peskov’s wife was fired from the civil service because she hid that she owned two businesses: she tried to intimidate management with her “huge connections. Peskov's ex-wife announced her dismissal from Rossotrudnichestvo Divorce in the family
Dmitry Sergeevich Peskov is a world-famous politician. It is clear that people are showing significant interest in him and his personal life. After the sensational scandal with the watch of the press secretary of the presidential administration and the magnificent wedding with Tatyana Navka, who wrested her fiancé from the mother of three children, interest in Peskov’s personality increased even more.
In the article we will introduce readers more closely to his very first wife Anastasia Budenna. After all, he didn’t live with her long. However, the couple managed to have a child together, who has recently begun to appear in the media more and more often.
Wife's choice
Dmitry Peskov does not come from an ordinary family. Since childhood, he studied in prestigious specialized schools, studied languages and traveled a lot to different countries of the world. Naturally, he was looking for a wife not among ordinary people, but with a big name. The granddaughter of Semyon Budyonny was quite suitable for this purpose. Let us remind young readers who Budyonny is and why he is so famous.
Semyon Mikhailovich was one of the most famous military leaders, commanded a cavalry army and became almost the first marshal of the country. He showed himself during the Civil War. Many films have been made about this glorious hero and his Budenovites. The wartime cap was also called budenovka. Semyon Mikhailovich was also advertised through propaganda programs on radio and television. He was truly a folk hero and had a pretty big name.
Of course, young Dmitry could not pass by such a prominent girl. Moreover, knowing his character and disposition, it is quite understandable why he paid attention to Anastasia Budennaya. They write on the Internet that she was still that “Budennaya”. The girl had a fighting character, matching her famous grandfather.
Anastasia's parents
Anastasia Budenna's father was the youngest son of the legendary commander. Mikhail Budyonny himself also held a good position in the country and worked as a high-ranking functionary of the Ministry of Foreign Trade. He was also the president of the Russian Equestrian Federation.
Nastya's mother Inesa Volkova married Mikhail in 1967. A year later they had a girl. They did not live together for long: after five years they quarreled and separated, since Mikhail liked to hang out on the side. In the end, he left for another woman forever. Inesa Sergeevna raised Nastya herself as best she could. Since childhood, the girl’s character was difficult: she always considered herself independent and did whatever she wanted. Although she received a good education and worked as a translator at Intourist. In Soviet times it was prestigious.
Life of the young
Soon Anastasia Budennaya met a young Foreign Ministry employee, Dmitry Peskov, and already in 1988 the couple got married. Two years later, the newlyweds had a son, who was named Nikolai. By that time, Dmitry Peskov graduated from the IISA Institute, where he specialized in Asian and African countries. Then he is sent to work at the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Naturally, the son’s high position in his father’s country helped him in the distribution. Everyone, of course, understands that it is difficult for a simple, even the most intelligent specialist, to get into the highest echelons of power. And our hero’s father was a famous diplomat who worked in the countries of the Middle East and North Africa.
In 1990, when Anastasia Budennaya and Dmitry Peskov have a son, a young Ministry employee receives a new position. He is appointed secretary to the attache and assistant. He then worked at the Turkish Embassy, as he was fluent in Turkish.
Divorce in the family
Disagreements in the family occurred constantly, since Anastasia Budennaya did not possess the qualities of a calm and submissive wife. She loved noisy parties with loud screams and singing drinking songs with a guitar. At first, Dmitry really liked such a cheerful wife, but the young man grew up in the family of a high official... In addition, he often had to visit eastern countries, where the role of women is rather modest.
Particularly acute was the question of the wife’s behavior while working at the embassy in Turkey, which, although considered a European country, traditionally women there behave modestly. Granddaughter Anastasia Budennaya has always had an independent and unbridled character. She was not created to be a quiet housewife in the kitchen and a calm keeper of the home. She couldn't understand why she needed to behave differently in Turkey.
Therefore, constant conflicts between spouses led to a break. Peskov was ashamed of his wife’s behavior. He wanted his couple to be an example of an ideal family. Judging by the stories of Nastya herself, they were constantly under surveillance. After all, her husband held a high position abroad, and she did not like being limited in some way. Therefore, already in 1994, the couple officially separated. Nastya took her son Nikolai with her.
Life in England
The stormy life of Peskov's first wife Anastasia Budenna continued further. After the divorce, the girl and the child move to England for permanent residence. She always dreamed of living abroad. And now, having received freedom, he decides to move.
Having settled in the small town of Crawley in the south-eastern part of England, she soon marries an English businessman, who gives his surname to her son Nicholas. But the peaceful life of the Choles family did not last long. Soon the couple also separated. It is not known exactly how many times Nastya met and separated from her husbands.
Officially, she was once again married to Christopher Drake, to whom she bore children. In total, Nastya, besides Nikolai, gave birth to five children from English spouses. The woman also had a difficult relationship with Christopher. It is known that they often quarreled. There is even information that Nastya wrote a statement to the police department against her husband about beating during scandals: he often kicked his wife out of the apartment, throwing her things out the window.
Loss of housing
It is also known that in 2011, the personal life of Anastasia Budenna finally cracked, and the woman left with her younger children for Turkey to live with her father. After staying there for some time, she returns to Crawley, but Christopher Drake does not let her home. As a result, she is forced to temporarily live with compassionate neighbors. Anastasia repeatedly contacted the police and municipal service with a request to provide her with housing, complaining about her husband.
However, the authorities did not find Christopher guilty; on the contrary, they accused Nastya of inappropriate behavior. The woman refused the proposed social housing, deciding to return to Moscow to her apartment on But it was not to be... Let's continue the story about Nastya a little later. Now we will tell the reader about Peskov’s son Nikolai Choles.
Hooliganism in England
Numerous children of Anastasia Budenna lived with her in England. The eldest son Nikolai was not distinguished by good behavior. There is information that the guy did not receive any education and sometimes lived in banditry, taking money and phones from passers-by. For this, he was detained by the police several times. As a result, he was convicted.
After serving several months in an English prison, the young man decided not to play with fate any longer, but to return to his famous and rich father in Russia. After arriving home in 2010, the guy moved in with his grandmother.
In 2012, after serving in the missile forces, Nikolai, with the participation of his father, began his career, working as a sports correspondent for Russia Today. Nikolai got an expensive car and money for a vacation abroad. Dmitry Peskov never offended his many children from different wives, helping them financially.
Relationship with grandmother
Living with his grandmother in a social four-room apartment, issued by the state for the use of an outstanding commander, Nikolai forces his grandmother to privatize it. Together, they file a lawsuit, completely limiting access to housing for the unlucky mother. Since Anastasia Budennaya, whose biography we describe in the article, still had a USSR passport (she did not exchange it for a new Russian one), she was not able to start decorating the apartment in time. The grandson (along with his grandmother) proved in court that he had not seen his mother since he was 16 years old, she had never come from England to Russia, and had not paid rent for all these years.
Therefore, the court decided to discharge her. Thus, Nastya was left without housing in Moscow. And grandma, apparently, really likes to drink alcoholic beverages. Once she even wrote a statement against Nikolai about the beatings to the police. But the grandson explained that the conflict was caused by the alcoholic intoxication of an old woman who likes to go wild when she drinks.
Relationship with father
Dmitry Peskov treats all children well and, based on their capabilities and efforts, gives them a start to a good life. Since Nikolai’s mother during the last years of her life did not show any interest in the life of one of her many offspring (she led a very active personal life), her son’s desire to live near his father is completely justified. Moreover, the father is not just anyone, but Peskov himself.
It is also known from various sources that Nikolai, the son of Dmitry Sergeevich’s first wife, is on friendly terms with his brothers and sisters. Thus, you can often find photographs of a father spending time together with his children in various publications.
In the photo, Nikolai and his father are relaxing on the river with his younger sister, the daughter of Peskov’s second wife, Lisa. Her mother gave birth to Dmitry Sergeevich three children and now, after a divorce, lives in Paris.
Few people know what Anastasia Budennaya is doing now. Unfortunately, she died. The causes of death are unknown. But knowing a woman’s lifestyle, one can only guess about them.
Illustration copyright DOMINIQUE BOUTIN/TASS Image caption The Center for Science and Culture in Paris did not have a new director for long
The former wife of Presidential Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov, Ekaterina Solotsinskaya, is leaving her post as head of the Russian Center for Science and Culture in Paris. The reason was Rossotrudnichestvo’s dissatisfaction with Solotsinskaya’s business interests, sources from the BBC Russian Service say.
Solotsinskaya wrote about her departure on her Instagram. "Eleanor Valentinovna! I ask you to dismiss me from the position of director of the Russian Center for Science and Culture in Paris at my own request as of February 28, 2018!" - written in the statement that Solotsinskaya published on social networks.
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Ekaterina Solotsinskaya is the former wife of Vladimir Putin’s press secretary Dmitry Peskov. They have three children together with the official - daughter Elizabeth, as well as sons Mika and Denis. Solonitskaya headed the Russian Center for Science and Culture in Paris in June 2017 - a decision was made during Putin’s visit to Paris a month earlier, as reported in The New Times magazine.
The Russian Center for Science and Culture in Paris is a budget organization that reports to Rossotrudnichestvo and is engaged in building cooperation with French cultural and scientific circles.
Loss of trust?
A BBC source in diplomatic circles says that Ekaterina Solotsinskaya was not the initiator of the resignation: they tried to fire her with the wording “due to loss of trust,” as claims from the inspection authorities arose against her.
According to the source, as a result of the check it turned out that she is the founder of two companies. One of them is called "Mincom" and is registered in Russia, the second is "Sirius" and is registered in Paris.
According to the state register of legal entities, Solotsinskaya’s full namesake owns a 30 percent stake in the Minkom company. “She is no longer a co-owner. She was, but she filed an application to quit on Monday. The application was notarized. The company is unprofitable,” Ekaterina Mosyagina, general director of the Minkom company, told the BBC.
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Also, as of January 15, 2018, Ekaterina Solotsinskaya is listed as a co-owner of the KALE company, which manages beauty salons. There its share is 50%.
In December 2017, opposition Russian politician Alexei Navalny, citing an extract from the French cadastral chamber, wrote that Solotsinskaya owns 75% of the Sirius company. It was in the name of this company that the apartment purchased by Solotsinskaya in Paris was registered. The politician pointed out that the price of the apartment was much higher than the official income of the official, and Solotsinskaya did not have her own income.
According to Russian law, a civil servant is subject to dismissal due to loss of confidence if he participates on a paid basis in the management of a commercial organization.
Family and connections
According to a source of the BBC Russian Service close to diplomatic circles, the decision to dismiss Solotsinskaya was made by the head of Rossotrudnichestvo, Eleonora Mitrofanova. The BBC's interlocutor claims that Solotsinskaya tried to the last to challenge the claims of the management of Rossotrudnichestvo and retain her position.
So, she turned to Mitrofanova and said that she “comes from a family of diplomats of the highest level,” has good connections in government agencies and can count on the support of her friend, “one of the presidential candidates” (the only female candidate in the Russian presidential elections is TV presenter Ksenia Sobchak).
In addition, in her address, Solotsinskaya indicated that she has personal agreements with the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, to promote Russian culture abroad.
"There are civil service rules. She provided inaccurate information about her property affairs. I don’t think this was done out of malice, but perhaps she didn’t take it as seriously as possible, because she had no experience in the civil service," he told the BBC representative of Rossotrudnichestvo.
Mitrofanova herself was unavailable for comment. Solotsinskaya, in response to a call from the BBC, said that she “may leave her post” and refused further comments, citing the fact that she was at the airport.
Socialite Date of birth June 10 (Gemini) 1976 (43) Place of birth Moscow Instagram @@peskova_katerina
Ekaterina Peskova, better known as the wife of Dmitry Peskov, lived for a long time in the shadow of her famous husband. She helped him build a diplomatic career and was mainly concerned with the children and the house. A new life, full of pleasures and interesting activities, began for her after 40. After separating from her husband, Katerina learns to live for herself. She enjoys the free atmosphere of Paris, communicates with representatives of the French and Russian aristocracy, artists, writers, and public figures.
Biography of Ekaterina Peskova
Ekaterina Solotsinskaya was born on June 10, 1976. Growing up in the family of a hereditary diplomat, from an early age she knew what frequent moving and living in different countries meant. The girl received her secondary education in Ankara. After school, she entered Moscow State University at the Faculty of Philology. In the 90s, money was tight even for employees of the Russian Foreign Ministry. Student Katya and her husband, an aspiring diplomat, had to earn extra money at night as a private driver.
Personal life of Ekaterina Peskova
After graduating from university, she returned to Turkey, where she taught Russian at a school at the diplomatic mission for four years. In June 2000, the Peskovs returned to Moscow and bought a mansion on Rublyovka. her husband was rapidly moving up the career ladder, wealth in the house was growing, but she herself felt deprived. She lacked her husband’s attention and self-realization. As a result, the woman, taking a friend as a companion, opened her own business - the Katya and Lena beauty salon.
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After the divorce, Ekaterina Peskova began to live in two houses. She maintained a good relationship with her husband, but she became uncomfortable in Russia. The woman spent most of her time in Moscow with her children, and went to Paris on weekends. In recent years, Catherine has lived mainly in France. There she is involved in charity and marketing, and heads the Franco-Russian Dialogue Foundation.
Solotsinskaya enjoys attending receptions organized by people from noble families who emigrated to France at the beginning of the last century.
Catherine belongs to the old noble family of Schlegel. Her father, Vladimir Solotsinsky, is a famous Soviet and Russian diplomat who headed the Asia Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In the 90s he served as ambassador to Turkey. It was there, in Ankara, that 14-year-old Katya met Dmitry Peskov.
At that time, the newly arrived embassy employee was 23. But neither the serious age difference nor Peskov’s marital status (Dmitry was already married to Anastasia Budennaya and was expecting his first child) could stop the young people. The whirlwind romance lasted four years. In 1994, Ekaterina and Dmitry got married. The couple have three children together: Elizaveta, Miku, Denis. In 2012, the Peskovs’ marriage broke up. The divorce was initiated by Katya, who learned about her husband’s infidelities.
In the spring of 2017, Ekaterina began going out in public, accompanied by a mysterious brown-haired man. She was seen with her new boyfriend at the Theater of Nations at the play “Audience”, at the Crystal Room Baccarat restaurant. It is known that Peskova’s companion’s name is Andrei Grigoriev.
19 January 2017, 18:07Ekaterina Solotsinskaya, the ex-wife of Dmitry Peskov, press secretary of Vladimir Putin, was born in 1976, in the family of a diplomat.
This woman belongs to the category of those who were lucky from birth. Since childhood, Ekaterina Solotsinskaya never had to think about fighting for status and earning a reputation through bitter tears and hard work. She was born into the family of a diplomat, and the roots of her family go back centuries to the noble family of Schlegel. The daughter of the Turkish ambassador had a high status from the first days of her life, which she repeatedly mentioned in interviews. However, Ekaterina Solotsinskaya does not boast of this status, but rather uses it as one of the reasons for her position in life.
From girl to wife
It is worth noting that Catherine was brought up not just in the family of a diplomat, but in an intelligent family of a diplomat. Ekaterina Solotsinskaya claims that all her relatives were educated at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations. In addition, a representative of a noble family was not isolated from society, which means she received comprehensive development.
It is also worth noting that Ekaterina Solotsinskaya managed to meet her husband Dmitry at a fairly early age precisely because her father worked for the good of the country at the embassy.
When Katya turned 14, Dmitry Peskov, a graduate of the Institute of Asian and African Countries, arrived at the embassy to work.
By recognition Solotsinskaya, love overtook her immediately at 14 - Peskov was 23, his first wife was then giving birth. The husband deprived Catherine of her virginity, after which he declared: “No matter what happens, let’s swear to each other to be honest.”
Solotsinsky Sr. then worked as the head of the 4th and 3rd Asian Departments of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In the year of the wedding, Peskov Jr. was transferred to the 3rd Department of Asia, where he took the position of first and then second secretary.
Catherine’s husband, press secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov, comes from a secret family. The official life path of his late father is set out in documents of the Russian Foreign Ministry extremely succinctly. Sergei Peskov was born in 1948, graduated from the Institute of Asian and African Studies at Moscow State University in 1972, and in 1987 he wanted to enter the diplomatic service. Despite his age, he found himself in high positions in the central apparatus of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and was ambassador to Pakistan and the Sultanate of Oman.
In what institutions Peskov Sr. served the Motherland until he was 39 years old remains a mystery. A similar style is typical for most biographies of KGB foreign intelligence officers who worked under diplomatic cover.
Dmitry Peskov joined the press service of the Presidential Administration almost simultaneously with Vladimir Putin’s move to the Kremlin. Before that, the son of Sergei Peskov was also listed as a diplomat, but colleagues, acquaintances and members of the presidential journalist pool persistently suspected the young man to be from the state security agencies.
Dmitry Peskov's first marriage was to Anastasia Budyonny, the granddaughter of Marshal Semyon Budyonny and the daughter of a high-ranking official of the Ministry of Foreign Trade, Mikhail Budyonny, and also the president of the Russian Equestrian Federation.
Anastasia
His wife was the same age as Peskov; in 1990, their son Nikolai was born.
Nikolay
And at this time, Dmitry just had a fateful meeting with Catherine.
After the wedding with young Katenka, for some reason, difficult times suddenly came for the newlyweds.
Ekaterina Solotsinskaya, without any embarrassment, says that while the friends of the newlyweds were building their own businesses, Peskov and his student wife were forced to work at night as private cab drivers, depriving themselves of the pleasure of having any kind of entertainment. Dmitry and Ekaterina earned 35 rubles per night in order to be able to somehow stay afloat during this difficult time.
Ekaterina Solotsinskaya. Everyday life of a diplomat's wife
Upon completion of her studies at the Department of Philology of Moscow State University, Ekaterina returns to Turkey. However, she returns as the wife of a diplomat, and not as the daughter of an ambassador. This event became the starting point in the harsh everyday life of our heroine, which was not as joyful as it might seem to an ordinary person. It is worth noting that Ekaterina Solotsinskaya was not flattered to spend her days and evenings languidly waiting for her husband, who, due to his busy work schedule, could not often be at home. 
The young wife missed warmth, joint evenings when the whole family got together, and children's parties. As Ekaterina says, she did not get married in order to gain status, but in order to enjoy watching her children grow up with her husband in a cozy family atmosphere.
Return to Moscow
Ekaterina Solotsinskaya managed to return to Moscow. This happened after the diplomat’s wife worked in Ankara for 10 years, teaching Russian. Upon their return, the family purchases a house on Rublyovka, striking in its luxury, as well as a business and an expensive car, but as an addition to wealth and its indicators. At that time, the Peskovs were raising three children - daughter Elizaveta and two sons - Mick and Denis.
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Ekaterina Solotsinskaya did not sit idle in the capital. Together with her friend Lena, the woman opens a beauty salon called “Kale”.
Rublevsky everyday life
Ekaterina Solotsinskaya was not too happy living on Rublyovka. Firstly, there is an urgent need to attend a huge number of parties and similar events. The diplomat's ex-wife says that invitations to the Ruble training camp came in batches. It was inconvenient to refuse, but I also didn’t want to leave the children with my mother. In addition, life on Rublyovka also affected Catherine’s character. 
The woman has become a lady without empathy, unapologetic, domineering and difficult. At some point, the woman’s mother could not stand it and reproached her daughter for the fact that after the move it became almost impossible to communicate with her normally. However, this didn't last too long.
The marriage of Catherine and Dmitry lasted 18 years, until 2012.
The media note that Ekaterina Solotsinskaya herself initiated the divorce from her husband. The reason for the divorce was the diplomat's betrayal. The woman learned that her action - to devote her life to her husband entirely and completely - was not accepted and appreciated by her husband. Unable to bear this, Catherine could not forgive her husband and insisted on a divorce.
Rebirth from the Ashes
After the divorce, Catherine did not forget that she had to live, no matter what. That is why the woman continues to be famous and purposeful. Today, she is known not because of her husband’s fame, but because of her own achievements.
Catherine decided to do charity work. In addition, her energy is enough to live in two houses, one of which is in France. The main reason for this is the children - Elizaveta, Catherine’s eldest daughter, is educated at MGIMO, continuing the family tradition of her mother’s family, the sons are also in Moscow. Ekaterina spends most of the week in the capital of Russia in order not to lose the thread of communication with the children and not to disappear from their lives.
She spends her weekends in Paris in the company of her new, and this time real, friends.
Therapy with France
After Ekaterina moved to the “ex” category for Dmitry Peskov, she moved to France. Today she lives in a luxurious apartment, the windows of which allow you to see the Bois de Boulogne and the famous Champs Elysees. In this country, Catherine unexpectedly became close to the fourth generation of Russian emigrants, among whom are descendants of such famous families as the Obolenskys, Uvarovs and Trubetskoys. 
Communication with the intelligent and noble descendants of Russian nobles awakened in Solotsinskaya a desire to restore her title - Countess Schlegel. The woman herself repeatedly joked about the sound of the noble title, declaring that it was not bad. Catherine found the strength and desire to become a member of the Franco-Russian Dialogue. The French side in it is supervised by Prince Trubetskoy, and the Russian side is supervised by Vladimir Yakunin.
Learning from your own mistakes
Life as the wife of a famous diplomat and rotation in the hell of Rublyovka among the same famous wives and their idols allowed Catherine to learn several useful lessons for herself. Thanks to Rublev etiquette, when you are interesting only when you have status, the woman firmly decided to start life in France from scratch. And, having moved to Paris, she introduced herself to everyone she met quite simply and ordinaryly - “Katya from Moscow, I don’t do anything”. Despite this, Catherine’s entourage very quickly began to consist of poets, descendants of Russian nobles, who, unlike Rublev’s “friends,” were not interested in her status, but in the rich inner world and intellect that Solotsinskaya was endowed with. In today's interviews, the woman boldly declares that France is the place where you can regenerate your soul in the best possible way and breathe deeply again. As Ekaterina says, France is a country where people start living after forty. And if a woman from Russia was run over by the asphalt paver of fate, then Paris will become the most valuable and most effective medicine for mental wounds.
