For a long time, wealthy families have tried to combine their assets, and the easiest and most reliable way to do this was to marry their children. The Russian business (and not only business) elite follows the same principle.
Over the past few years, there has been a wave of lavish weddings. This is understandable - the “fat” 2000s bore fruit, and the grown-up children of Russian rich people opened a new type of competition - whose wedding is cooler. The location, quantity and, so to speak, “quality” of guests, the cost of the wedding dress and the “stars” performing at the celebration are important.
In June 2015, a wedding ceremony according to Jewish custom was held at the capital's Skolkovo golf club, presided over by the Chief Rabbi of Russia Berel Lazar. On that day, Maria Chigirinskaya, the daughter of major investor Alexander Chigirinsky and the niece of construction magnate Shalva Chigirinsky, was marrying Semyon Krutir, the son of Moscow businessman Arkady Krutir.
The cost of the bride's dress from fashion designer Zuhair Murad, according to some estimates, reached 15 million rubles. More than 800 guests were invited to the wedding, among whom were billionaire Roman Abramovich and his son Arkady, Telman Ismailov, businessman Umar Dzhabrailov, head of the Alliance group of companies Musa Bazhaev, financier Alexander Mamut, owner of a network of fitness clubs Olga Slutsker, head of Forward Media Group Polina Deripaska, Valentin and Marina Yudashkin, polar explorer Artur Chilingarov, former governor of the Krasnodar Territory Alexander Tkachev, Igor Krutoy, Nikolai Tsiskaridze, jeweler Jacob Arabo and restaurateur Arkady Novikov.
The audience was entertained by Philip Kirkorov, Leonid Agutin, Anzhelika Varum, Tamara Gverdtsiteli and American rapper Busta Rhymes. The evening was hosted by Maxim Galkin and Victoria Lopyreva. About 20 million rubles were spent on the fees of the “stars” alone.
This ceremony not only strengthened the feelings of the young descendants of influential families, but also was a confirmation of the common economic interests of the families, a kind of financial transaction.
Simple check through the Kontur system. Focus" shows that Alexander Chigirinsky's Snegiri Development CJSC is connected through a number of companies with ZakazPromInvest LLC, the founder of which is Arkady Krutir. Both companies operate in the commercial real estate rental industry.
The general director of Snegiri Development CJSC is Alexander Chigirinsky. In the past, the company was headed by Gennady Melkumyan, who is now the founder and chairman of the board of the Four Winds HOA. In addition, he and Chigirinsky previously also owned Premium LLC.
Another co-founder of the Four Winds HOA is Konstantin Naydenov. He was also the founder of ProektRazvitie-M CJSC, whose director was Gulnara Bukharaeva. Which, by the way, is in one way or another (as a director or founder) related to more than 200 companies. Together with a certain Georgiy Badzhaksuzyan, she created Pridiz LLC. And this same Badzhaksuzyan, through the company “Rikelis”, is connected with Semyon Kazhiloti, Krutir’s partner in ZakazPromInvest LLC.
Krutir also has financial ties with the bride’s uncle, Shalva Chigirinsky, whose Shadows of Faberge LLC, ST Crystal Island LLC and the Energy Resources Fund, through a number of other companies and people, interact with the same ZakazPromInvest.
In addition, a year after the wedding, bypassing many intermediaries, in October 2016, Alexander Chigirinsky and Semyon Krutir organized a joint motor transport enterprise, T-Premium LLC.
By the way, in 2016, Chigirinsky’s son, Mikhail, also celebrated the wedding. His chosen one was the daughter of the “authoritative” businessman Vakhtang Pkhakadze - Nata.
The celebration was hosted by Maxim Galkin and Vera Brezhneva. And that evening Ani Lorak, Philip Kirkorov, Keti Topuria, Ilya Lagutenko and the British group Blue sang.
And again, a triple alliance - the Chigirinsky and Pkhakadze brothers, whose Harfiazh LLC and the SLAVICH Crafts Center ANO were once connected through various contacts with the ST Crystal Island LLC of Shalva Chigirinsky. At the same time, Nonius LLC Pkhakadze interacted with Snegiri Development CJSC Alexander Chigirinsky.
In April 2016, the head of the Chechen regional branch of Rosselkhozbank, Usman Yerikhanov, favorably married his son Magomed. His chosen one was the daughter of the president of the Alliance Group, Musa Bazhaev, Mariam.
According to the recently established Caucasian tradition, the designer of her wedding dress was Zuhair Murad. The dowry was in several chests from Louis Vuitton. And the entertainment program was provided by singers from Chechnya and Dagestan, the group “A’Studio”, as well as Grigory Leps.
True, in this case the “economic” connection is not so obvious - rather, national traditions played the main role, and yet - the Depository Clearing Company (DCC), which at one time collaborated with Rosselkhozbank, together with Alliance Group JSC, became a co-founder JSC NNK-Khabarovsknefteproduct.
Soon (in September 2016), Bazhaev also married off his youngest daughter, Elina. Her wedding with the heir of the owner of the investment companies Dorchester Finance and Alima Cosmetics, Bekhan Mamakaev, took place in Monte Carlo.
In February 2015, the daughter of the vice-president of the Sistema financial corporation, Leonid Monosov, Alina, and the son of the owner of the Professional and Vending Machines company, Vladimir Kalturin, Pavel, decided to tie the knot.
The 4-story banquet hall was decorated in a space theme, and the decorations were supplemented with live acrobats and ballet dancers. Alina, like other brides in her circle, chose a dress from Zuhair Murad, Pavel chose a dark blue Tom Ford suit, costing from 100 thousand rubles.
200 guests were entertained by Dominic Joker, Polina Gagarina and the Leningrad group. As a result, the wedding cost more than 60 million rubles.
And in this case, the lovers’ parents had the same areas of business interests.
AFK Sistema, which specializes in investments in communication systems, interacted through a number of companies with Ru-Pex LLC (whose founder and CEO was Kalturin), working in the field of computer technology. Now “Ru-Pex” is headed by Yulia Shinkaruk, who simultaneously manages another hundred companies and is listed as the founder of another 62. She was replaced in the leadership position at Delta Plus LLC by Ilya Khanzhin, who also has unprecedented organizational skills - for example, he is the founder of 143 companies and the director of 407.
At K.K. LLC “United Communications” was replaced by Gulnara Khasyanova - now she heads PJSC Mikron, established by CJSC DCC and ING Bank (Eurasia). These same companies once acted as the founders of PJSFC Sistema itself.
In June 2016, a major metropolitan developer Samvel Karapetyan, who owns the Tashir group of companies, laid the foundation for the personal happiness of his eldest son, Sarkis. The billionaire threw a magnificent wedding celebration for his 23-year-old heir and his 25-year-old bride Salome, the daughter of businessman Teimuraz Kintsurashvili.
The young people and guests (among whom, by the way, was the President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan) were entertained by the presenters Andrei Malakhov and Tanya Gevorkyan, Alla Pugacheva, Vera Brezhneva and the overseas group Maroon 5, who had played a concert at the Olimpiysky Sports Complex the day before, sang.
These families have long had financial ties. In addition to the business connections of the fathers of the bride and groom, the activities of Karapetyan's Progress Trading House LLC, which carries out the wholesale sale of alcohol, went well with Kintsurashvili's gambling business (Salome 21st Century LLC).
Kintsurashvili is also a co-founder of RusBusiness-XXI Century LLC together with Levan Koridze, who, in turn, worked at Boom LLC together with a certain Natalia Bulatetskaya, she was also the general director of Logokomfort LLC, through its founder Leonid Rochev - the chain leads to the former president of the Russian Bowling Federation (FBI) Alexander Gogolev, who is now, together with Karapetyan, a co-founder of Progress Company LLC, which is ultimately associated with the Progress Trading House.
It is worth noting that children can also build business relationships on their own. A graduate of the Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation, Sarkis Karapetyan, being the vice president of his father’s company, is responsible for commercial real estate from the moment of purchasing land to operational management. And Salome Kintsurashvili, together with her friends from Moscow State University Yana Demidovich and Victoria Kalinovskaya, runs an online store of designer items - Buy By Me. Karapetyan Jr.’s “Tashir Management” is associated with the same “Salome 21st Century”.
And Promstroygroup LLC, established by Salome, interacts with Karapetyan Sr.’s Progress Company LLC.
This connection can be traced through common people associated with Hostel Novoslobodskaya, 36 LLC, established by Salome, Promtekhsnab LLC, Louisiana CJSC, Opttorg JSC and Manezh Bowling LLC, and again leads to the Russian Bowling Federation ”, and then to Karapetyan’s “Progress”.
David Berkovich and Victoria Krutaya
Show business has its own characteristics. Music always accompanies catering establishments.
Therefore, the composer and owner of numerous companies, including radio stations, advertising agencies, production centers, recording studios and much more, Igor Krutoy married his daughter Victoria to the hereditary restaurateur David Berkovich (his mother Tatyana Berkovich has such famous restaurants as Gostinaya, “Veranda at the Dacha” and “Semiramis”).
In the summer of 2014, the young couple got married in the New York Hamptons, and in Monte Carlo they threw a grand celebration according to Jewish custom. Among the guests were Andrei Malakhov and Natalya Shkuleva, Svetlana Bondarchuk, Lev Leshchenko, the Agalarov family, Yana Rudkovskaya, designer Katya Dobryakova, Igor Nikolaev, singer Keti Topuria, Anastasia Vinokur, Alsou and many others.
The bride appeared before the public in a dazzling white Vera Wang dress and a diamond tiara.
And this couple was no exception in an attempt to increase family wealth - Gostinaya LLC, Tantal-Ex LLC and Ventana LLC, co-owned by Tatyana Berkovich, are associated with a number of Igor Krutoy’s companies - NAAP LLC, Art City LLC ", LLC "UK KMG", CJSC "Creative Workshop "ARS", LLC "ARS-Records", LLC "Igor Krutoy Academy of Popular Music" and others.
In particular, NAAP LLC, through director Pavel Milyushin, is connected with Alexey Kasyanov, the former head of Prizma LLC and InvestStroyKom LLC, the founder of which is Dmitry Safonov. He also founded the company Granit LLC, whose director was Svetlana Zaitseva. She, together with Nina Gomiashvili, opened the Porto Maltese restaurant chain. And Gomiashvili herself, the daughter of the famous actor and restaurateur Archil Gomiashvili, owns the Gostinaya restaurant together with Berkovich.
His newly-made son-in-law also conducts common business with the famous master - RED LLC and Berkovich's Shavarma LLC are partially owned by Felix Berman and Grigory Levit. The latter also owns Efko Invest Group LLC, to which Mikhail Sagiryan was related. He knows Oksana Egorova through the La Défense HOA - both are its founders. And she, in turn, also manages real estate in the HOA “On Deputatskaya” with another cultural figure - Lev Leshchenko, who, together with Krutoy, owns the company “Fink Electric”, specializing (unexpectedly) in the production of aircraft.
Perhaps the most expensive wedding of the past year was the celebration that took place in March on the occasion of the marriage of the son of the owner of the RussNeft company, Mikhail Gutseriev, Said. True, the main thing for the oligarch’s family was not the bride’s “dowry”, but her impeccable reputation.
They were looking for a girl who would be beautiful, modest, innocent and would not show herself in any way at social events for 4 years. As a result, the choice of one of the richest families in the country fell on a simple student of the capital’s medical university, originally from Ingushetia, Khadija Uzhakhova.
The ceremony dress, covered with jewels, was made in France. Its weight was 25 kilograms, and the cost, according to some sources, could reach 25 million rubles. Each visiting family (there were about 600 people in total) was given a malachite box in a frame made of pure gold.
There were more invited foreign stars at this wedding than at any other: Alla Pugacheva, Jennifer Lopez, Enrique Iglesias, Patricia Kaas and Sting delighted the guests.
The prima donna cost the least - 300 thousand euros for a couple of songs. Iglesias received 500 thousand euros, J. Lo - 1 million, Sting - 1.5 million.
Among the latest luxurious celebrations, one can highlight the wedding of the granddaughter of Russian billionaire Valery Kogan, Irina, which took place in mid-January of this year in London. Although this case is rather an exception to the rule - the chosen one of the bride, Daniel Kenway, is an Englishman of Jewish origin, but nowhere is it said that he is the son of wealthy parents or that one of his relatives has a knighthood.
The total budget of the celebration is difficult to imagine, given that the celebration was attended by pop star Elton John, Hollywood actor Antonio Banderas, singer Mariah Carey, Philip Kirkorov, Anna Netrebko, Igor Nikolaev, Stas Mikhailov, Lev Leshchenko, Alexander Serov, Nikita Mikhalkov, Vladimir Vinokur, as well as TV presenters Yana Churikova and Valdis Pelsh.
According to Life, the performance of famous guests at private events is usually estimated as follows: Stas Mikhailov and Philip Kirkorov could receive 150 thousand euros each, Antonio Banderas - from 500 thousand to 1 million euros, Mariah Carey - up to 2 million and Elton John − up to 3 million euros.
Valery Kogan himself is one of the hundred richest people in Russia. He is one of the founders of the Russian-American joint venture ZS Industries International, Communication Systems in Industry LLC, Transit+M Company LLC, MOKK LLC, O.S.D. LLC, as well as a number foreign companies. The head of Varriat LLC was one of the founders of Komtorgbank (license revoked), as well as Free Capital LLC.
However, his main asset, of course, is Domodedovo Airport, which he owns together with Dmitry Kamenshchik. At the same time, he appears rarely in Russia - his interests are concentrated in the USA and Israel, where he has recently acquired a lot of real estate - both for himself and for business. This, apparently, is connected with the desire to expand one’s family at the expense of foreigners.
If marriage gave marriage
An additional advantage of such unions is that in the event of a divorce (and no one is immune from this), problems are unlikely to arise, because no one wants to repeat someone else’s negative experience. For example, Vladimir Potanin, who in 2013, after 30 years of marriage, decided to divorce his wife Natalya, was unlucky. After the start of litigation, Natalya managed to get almost 400 million rubles and three plots of land with buildings, but she does not intend to stop there - now Natalya demands half of the business of her former billionaire husband.
Billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev also had to help. Having started divorce proceedings with his wife Elena back in 2008, he got out of it only in 2015, having lost more than 600 million dollars during this time. And this despite the fact that initially the ex-wife demanded 4.5 billion in compensation. The former owner of Uralkali and Silvinit went to great lengths to reduce his losses - just before the divorce, he began frantically transferring money into real estate. In Hawaii, he bought the villa of Hollywood actor Will Smith for $20 million, a mansion in American Palm Beach for $95 million, a La Belle Époque penthouse in Monaco for $300 million, and a penthouse in the center of New York for $88 million. It is noteworthy that all the businessman’s new purchases were registered in the name of his daughters or offshore companies. Thus, the oligarch’s official accounts were reduced, and he had relatively little left to share with his ex-wife.
I received a little after 7 years of marriage from the president of Rosgosstrakh, Danil Khachaturov and Ulyana Sergeenko. Despite the fact that in 2015 the court ordered him to transfer a quarter of his income to his ex-wife and 9-year-old daughter Vasilisa, according to official data, the member of the Forbes list turned out to be very modest - only 400 thousand rubles. By the way, he also filed the previous divorce with the greatest benefit for himself. In 2007, Khachaturov bought off his first wife Anna and 14-year-old son with a one-time payment of 1.7 million rubles.
At one time, the already mentioned Shalva Chigirinsky also had to cover his tracks. His divorce in 2009 from Tatyana Panchenkova came at the height of his persecution for debts to Russian Land. As a result, he made the only correct decision, in his opinion, - he ran away from both creditors and his wife, who received only part of their real estate and his own debt obligations. Moreover, later Chigirinsky also accused his ex-wife of selling off a collection of antiques, art objects and jewelry that did not belong to her during his absence.
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Before the public had time to move away from the luxurious wedding of the oligarch Gutsariev, who married his son in March, spending 76 billion rubles on the celebration, mere mortals will have to endure another “cultural” shock - the scale of the wedding ceremony of the son of billionaire Samvel Karapetyan (founder of the Tashir group, which includes about 200 companies in the fields of construction, trade and finance).
First, let's talk about the heroes of the occasion: 23-year-old Sarkis Karapetyan married 25-year-old Salome Kintsurashvili. Friends of the couple shared pictures from the celebration on Instagram under the hashtag #sarkissalome, and the newlyweds themselves were touchingly signed as Sa&Sa.
The banquet took place in the capital's Safisa, where the Gutsarievs celebrated their triumph. The number of invited guests exceeded 500. Among them, the frontman of Maroon 5, Adam Levine, personally congratulated the newlyweds. Naturally, he was not the only star of the evening.
Needless to say, the hall was simply strewn with fresh flowers, and the 6-meter cake amazed with its magnificence no less than the bride herself!
We look and admire the photos and videos of the celebration on Instagram.
Judging by the photos, the stars enjoyed the evening as much as the newlyweds themselves!
The hosts of the evening, Vera Brezhneva and Andrei Malakhov, probably saw events of different scales, but at this wedding even they were impressed;)
Last evening, the influential Moscow developer Samvel Karapetyan, who owns the Tashir group of companies, laid the foundation for the personal happiness of his eldest son, Sarkis.
The billionaire threw a magnificent wedding celebration for his 23-year-old heir and his 25-year-old bride Salome Kintsurashvili, co-owner of the online project Buy By Me, reports tatler.ru.
The noisy celebration died down in the capital's wedding "cosmodrome" - the Safisa restaurant, which turned into a magical forest from the Disney fairy tale "Maleficent".
All night, in the midst of thickets of multi-colored hydrangeas and black and white portraits of young people, the guests were entertained by hosts Andrei Malakhov and Tanya Gevorkyan, Russian pop prima donna Alla Borisovna Pugacheva, Vera Brezhneva and the overseas group Maroon 5, which the day before gave their only concert at the Olimpiysky Sports Complex.
However, Sarkis and Salome also did their best: the newlyweds prepared a video greeting card, where they appeared in images from the film “Sin City”. And finally we danced a traditional Armenian dance to the admiring glances of the guests.
However, the highlight of the program was the eight-tiered wedding cake, which for several minutes overshadowed the bride's outfit: an Elie Saab dress and the Savoy diamond tiara from Tiffany & Co., worn by Carey Mulligan on the set of “The Great Gatsby.”
By the way, newlyweds are used to not only relaxing in grand style, but also working hard. Thus, a graduate of the Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation, Sarkis Karapetyan, being the vice president of his father’s company, is responsible for commercial real estate from the moment of purchasing land to operational management. And Salome Kintsurashvili, together with her friends from Moscow State University Yana Demidovich and Victoria Kalinovskaya, manages a resale store of designer items.
The townsfolk barely had time to cool down from discussions of the high-profile wedding of the heir to one of the richest businessmen in Russia, Mikhail Gutseriev, 28-year-old Said Gutseriev, which died down at the end of March this year in the Safisa restaurant.
And in the same restaurant on June 4, a fantastic-fairy-tale celebration took place again. This time, the billionaire, president of the Tashir group of companies, Samvel Karapetyan, married his eldest son. The wedding of the 23-year-old heir to the empire Sarkis Karapetyan and his chosen one, a Georgian woman named Salome, amazes with its splendor. Five hundred guests, including many famous people in the country, tables laden with treats, a hall decorated with fresh flowers, a huge cake...
Those invited to this incredible celebration literally from the first minutes of the celebration began to share photographs on their microblogs, thanks to which one can appreciate the unique beauty and splendor of the celebration. During the wedding, the Safisa hall turned into a snow-white garden - bouquets of gorgeous white roses were placed everywhere. The area in front of the restaurant was also decorated with lush white flowers, which turned it into a magical forest, so there was no end to the delight of the guests.
Separately, it is worth mentioning the wedding show program. In addition to the national creative groups that entertained the bride and groom and their many friends, show business stars from the top echelon also performed at the wedding. Alla Pugacheva, Vera Brezhneva, Grigory Leps and world-class celebrity, Maroon 5 frontman Adam Levine, congratulated the newlyweds with their songs. His performance, by the way, was very reminiscent of this performer’s popular video, which takes place at a wedding.
As expected at a wedding, the tables of the Safisa restaurant were simply bursting with treats. The wedding cake, more than twice human height, decorated with roses, deserves special attention; it can easily claim the title of a masterpiece of confectionery art.
Until recently, Sarkis Karapetyan was on the list of the most eligible bachelors in Russia. He left him thanks to his chosen one, Salome. In his father's business empire, Sarkis holds the post of vice president. Since 2013, he has been responsible for the management of commercial real estate of the Tashir group of companies. Samvel Karapetyan ranks 26th in the ranking of the richest people in Russia according to Forbes magazine. His fortune is estimated at $4.6 billion.
