Part I #Vladimirovich (Part I of X)

Childhood and youth

Ekaterina Tikhonova is not a public person, practically does not give interviews and does not have an official dossier and profiles on social networks, so journalists collected her biography little by little, based on known facts from the life of the first family, the state and other media.

Thus, the journalists of the Sobesednik publication managed to find out that Catherine was born on August 31, 1986 in Dresden (GDR). Father – Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, the current president of the Russian Federation, at the time of the birth of his daughter served in the territorial intelligence of Germany (until 1990). Mother – Lyudmila Aleksandrovna Putina (nee Shkrebneva), philologist, teacher. Catherine has an older sister, Maria, who was born in 1985 in Leningrad.

The newlyweds named both daughters in honor of their mother: the eldest – in honor of the paternal grandmother Maria Ivanovna, the youngest – in honor of the mother’s mother Ekaterina Tikhonovna. It is believed that the girl’s current surname came from her grandmother’s patronymic. The official biography of the president includes the words of the ex-wife Lyudmila that Putin is a loving father.

“He always spoiled his daughters, but I had to raise them,” the woman says.

Returning to their homeland in St. Petersburg, Masha and Katya studied at a private gymnasium with in-depth study of the German language “Peterschule”, which has a long and glorious history. In 1996, after the father was transferred to serve in Moscow (Putin took over as Deputy General Director of the President of the Russian Federation), the girls began to attend the capital’s school named after Dr. Haas at the German Embassy School in the Russian Federation.

Since 2000, with the accession of Vladimir Putin to the post of President of the Russian Federation, Maria and Ekaterina switched to home schooling. All sources close to the presidential family note the extraordinary closeness of the sisters, their warm relationship with each other.