Two sons of Russian dictator Vladimir Putin and former gymnast Alina Kabaeva are registered under cover surnames, officially listed in documents as Ivan and Vladimir Spiridonov. This information is revealed in the book by journalists Roman Badanin and Mikhail Rubin, Tsar in Person, reports Baltimore Chronicle with a link to Agency.News.
According to the authors, the fictitious surname may be connected to the name of Putin’s paternal grandfather, Vladimir Spiridonovich Putin. The book also notes that Putin’s daughters from his first marriage — Ekaterina Tikhonova and Maria Vorontsova — live under pseudonyms. The surname Tikhonova is likely derived from Ekaterina Shkrebneva, their maternal grandmother.
Journalists emphasize that Ivan and Vladimir occasionally appear in public, which has allowed for their photographs to be captured. These images are published for the first time in Badanin and Rubin’s book.
In September 2024, investigations confirmed that besides his daughters from Lyudmila Putina — Maria Vorontsova and Ekaterina Tikhonova — and an extramarital child from Svetlana Krivonogikh, the Russian dictator has two sons with Alina Kabaeva.
Their existence is further supported by a family tree compiled by Kabaeva’s cousin, Ekaterina Golovacheva, on MyHeritage.
According to Swiss newspaper SonntagsZeitung, Putin’s first son was born in spring 2015 at the Sant’Anna clinic in Lugano, Switzerland, while the second was born in 2019 in Moscow.
Investigators found that the children live in isolation in presidential residences — mostly in Valdai, where they spend the majority of the year, or in Sochi, and they have very limited interaction with peers.
Earlier we wrote that Putin threatens response to Europe’s militarization and blames the West for Ukraine conflict.
