Mexican passions of Russian millionaires. Roman Rotenberg - Russian entrepreneur and hockey functionary Roman Rotenberg's son
Recently, quite often, divorces of the rich and famous turn into a battle of life and death between ex-spouses. However, this does not always happen. We remembered which of the stars, businessmen and officials managed to part ways peacefully.
Tigran Keosayan and Alena Khmelnitskaya
It seemed that director Tigran Keosayan and actress Alena Khmelnitskaya were one of the strongest creative unions in our country. Two daughters, 20 years of experience in family life - no joke. Even Fyodor Bondarchuk liked to tell in an interview how he left home with his then-future wife because of a conflict with his father (Sergei Fedorovich did not accept his daughter-in-law) and lived for a long time with the young Khmelnitskaya and Keosayan, who cordially sheltered them.
Knowledgeable people, of course, discussed the director's temperament in narrow circles, but his wife for many years had enough wisdom, tact and feminine instinct to save the marriage.
However, the inevitable still happened. The editor-in-chief of the Russia Today TV channel and the head of the Rossiya Segodnya news agency, as well as a columnist for the Russian Pioneer magazine, Margarita Simonyan first discovered literary talents in Tigran Keosayan, and then other positive qualities. And if just a month ago secular gossips were talking in low tones about the fact that the director is the father of Simonyan’s second child, now no one denies this fact.
True, Margarita Simonyan was still offended by journalist Bozhena Rynska and public figure Alfred Koch for publishing information about her novel.
As for the beautiful Alena Khmelnitskaya, she, according to rumors, quickly coped with the bitterness of parting. The husband left without taking anything extra with him. And soon Khmelnitskaya found a new knight - such a woman would not be left alone.
Perhaps there was no more influential couple on domestic television. It is Konstantin Ernst and Larisa Sinelshchikova who decide and continue to decide what millions of Russian (and not only - Channel One has a colossal audience abroad) television viewers will watch.
By the way, the relationship between Ernst and Sinelshchikova was never registered; the couple has no children together.
From his first marriage, Konstantin Lvovich has a 19-year-old daughter, and Larisa Vasilievna became a mother twice even before she met Konstantin Lvovich. For many years, the common-law wife of the main Russian media manager was also his reliable support in business. The company “Red Square”, which belongs to her, is the main supplier of content for Channel One.
The family life of this couple was hidden behind seven seals. However, Forbes magazine was the first to decide in July 2014 to announce their separation as a fait accompli:
“The breakdown of relations between Sinelshchikova and Ernst did not affect business. Moreover, last year the volume of production (“Red Square” - approx. Woman.ru) for the First increased.” So Konstantin Ernst and Larisa Sinelshchikova are not a couple, but a tandem. We parted with jewelery precision.
Erwin Schrott and Anna Netrebko
One of the brightest opera divas, Anna Netrebko, and her future common-law husband, Uruguayan tenor Erwin Schrott, met while working together on the opera Don Giovanni. The Latin American could not resist the incredible charisma and charm of the Russian star. The result is 6 years of marriage. During pregnancy, Anna, according to her father, even got ready to marry, but it didn’t work out. Now, it seems, this is only for the better - the formalities, without which the dissolution of a marriage cannot be done, do not distract two creative individuals from their immediate activities.
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It was difficult for opera singers to live with each other, and not only because the neighbors were unlikely to tolerate home concerts of such a loud couple, but also, first of all, because of the extremely busy schedule of both.
According to Netrebko, it was the impossibility of spending time together that was the main reason that he and Schrott moved away from each other and, in the end, decided to separate.
However, the ex-lovers will do everything possible to ensure that their common son Thiago feels the care of both his father and mother. In addition, they managed to maintain good relations.
The diva was not alone for long - it became known that she was already engaged to the Azerbaijani tenor Yusif Eyvazov. Apparently, Anna is much less worried about the schedule of his performances, unlike the schedule of her ex-lover.
Dmitry Peskov met his future wife Ekaterina even before she came of age. The romance between the daughter of diplomats and a 24-year-old graduate of the Institute of Asian and African Studies broke out unexpectedly, and the lovers arranged a wedding as soon as the bride turned 18 years old. As a result, the Peskovs lived together for 20 years, overcoming periods of desperate lack of money and other difficult moments.
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The woman was ready to put up with even her husband’s difficult work schedule, which involved frequent flights and sleepless nights, but could not forgive him for his betrayal. As Catherine herself told Tatler magazine, having learned about her husband’s adultery, she suggested he break up.
Ekaterina and Dmitry approached the divorce like real diplomats - they divided their three children and jointly acquired property with an ease unusual for most powerful people, and they managed to maintain not only a positive public image of the family, but also good relationships. The ex-wife of Vladimir Putin's press secretary decided that it was best to start a new life in Paris.
Dmitry Peskov, unlike his leader Vladimir Putin, did not publicly announce changes in his marital status. His ex-wife did this for him, giving an interview directly from her new home in France.
According to rumors, the reason for the separation of Dmitry and Ekaterina Peskov was the Olympic figure skating champion Tatyana Navka, in whose company the high-ranking official increasingly appears in public. In addition, Dmitry Sergeevich is called the father of the star’s second child, whom she gave birth to on August 21.
Mark and Ida Lolo
Socialite beauty Ida Lolo and ex-president of the Central Partnership film company Mark Lolo have been married for 6 years. The couple's romance developed rapidly: they met a mutual friend at dinner.
And a month later, on his beloved’s birthday, he proposed marriage to her. And almost in an uncontested form: “I want you to become my wife.”
The athlete and social activist supported her husband at a difficult moment when he had to leave the Central Sports School. And who would have thought that Ida and Mark, who posted cute photos together on Instagram from an Austrian vacation in January 2013, would decide to divorce less than a month later?
“It all ended quickly, just as it began: one fine day something clicked. Yes, we are still family and close friends. But they ceased to exist as a man and a woman,” Lolo said in an interview with Tatler magazine. According to the girl, she and her ex-husband were just sitting in the kitchen in a shared apartment on Ostozhenka and realized that the moment had come, it was time to have a serious conversation.
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Divorce of Ida and Mark Lolodiscussed throughout secular Moscow. However, the couple gave few reasons - they separated as intelligent people, having managed to maintain a warm relationship.
They didn’t share anything, and of the common “children” the couple had only the pug Zach, who had no choice about who to stay with.
Fortunately, both did not suffer alone - a year later, Ida Lolo married her boyfriend Alexei Kiselev and was truly happy with him. Her ex-husband also found his happiness. Now they are family friends.
Maxim and Tatyana Liksutov
The capital's brides breathed a sigh of relief - the Deputy Mayor of Moscow for Transport, Maxim Liksutov, acquired the status of “free”. But the reason for the separation of the most attractive official from his wife was not some busty blonde, as one might assume, but Liksutov’s “special” position.
Before joining the metropolitan government, the future specialist in combating traffic jams and eliminating free parking made himself an impressive fortune (and at the same time secured a position in the Forbes magazine ranking) in coal and cargo transportation. Moreover, Maxim Liksutov, who, like his wife Tatyana, was born in Estonia, became a Russian citizen not so long ago.
So, after the adoption of a law banning officials from doing business abroad, the newly appointed deputy mayor had a hard time - he renounced both foreign citizenship and assets. The billionaire faced an acute question: to whom should he sell the shares? It would seem that there are many options. But his own wife, a beauty and former model, had no competitors in this difficult situation.
Less than a month (in fact, even a week) had passed since the settlement of financial issues, when the couple decided to separate. Peacefully, without unnecessary noise. Moreover, Tatyana has nothing to complain about - having returned to her native Estonia, she became the richest woman in the country.
However, according to Tatler magazine, Sergei Sobyanin’s associate completely denies any business motive for the divorce - the reasons are exclusively personal. Here, as in Zemfira’s song: “Everything might have been different if not for these terrible traffic jams.”
Ilya Zmievets and Maria Nevskaya
The head of the Parlan publishing house, Ilya Zmievets, saw the charming model from Tyumen, Maria Nevskaya, when she arrived to shoot the cover of LOfficiel magazine, headed by Evelina Khromchenko. This meeting was truly fateful for all three.
Zmievets laid siege to the beauty's heart for six months - he spared no energy, no imagination, no resources. In the end, the fortress fell. Alas, the love boat of Maria Nevskaya and Ilya Zmievets ran into reefs in 2013.
The couple decided to separate with minimal emotional loss, but their mutual friends assure that reconciliation is still possible. Maria, by the way, returned to her first lesson and has already starred in the lookbook of the new collection of designer Alexander Terekhov.
Arkady and Natalya Rotenberg
Arkady Rotenberg can be called, without exaggeration, one of the most influential people in Russia. And it’s not just about the notorious money - the future billionaire strengthened his body and spirit from the age of 13 on the tatami in sparring with the equally young Vladimir Putin. That's how we became friends.
The divorce of Arkady and Natalya Rotenberg would have passed silently if the ex-wife of the billionaire had not decided to reconsider the terms of the marriage contract, which she herself had once signed. But having critically assessed her husband’s condition (and this, for a minute, is over 3 billion dollars), the woman decided that she could claim much more serious compensation for the collapsed family.
All five children born in the marriage agreed with her. Negotiations on the division of assets and other property between the former spouses have been going on for almost a year and, they say, the light at the end of the tunnel is already visible. Unlike many ladies in a similar position, Rotenberg’s ex-wife does not flaunt his heirs and does not threaten in court and the media to declassify information that could harm the businessman’s business and personal reputation.
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Until the process is completed, Natalya lives in a rented house in London with funds raised from the rental of Moscow real estate, which she already inherited from her ex-husband.
By the way, this is not the only divorce in the Rotenberg family over the past few years. The billionaire's nephew, president of the SKA hockey club and dazzling handsome man Roman Rotenberg (one of the most notable womanizers of the two capitals), broke up with his wife, Latvian model Marta Berzkalna, six months after the wedding. The slender brunette chose to return the wedding ring to her husband, despite the fact that at that moment she was 5 months pregnant. The couple had nothing to share during the six months they lived together, but Roman did not abandon the child to the mercy of fate.
The name of Roman Rotenberg is widely known in business circles. We can say that his family already has a whole dynasty of businessmen who have managed to make a good fortune. If you look at the list of positions held by Romanov and his responsibilities, your head is simply spinning: how does the young man manage to do all this? In addition to his entrepreneurial activities, he is also a first-class manager, as well as a sports functionary. Roman Rotenberg's wife, Latvian top model Marta Berzkalna, tries in every possible way to support her husband.
Roman Borisovich was born in Leningrad in April 1981. His father was a judo coach and dreamed of his son continuing his career. However, the guy made a different decision: following his mother’s instructions, he decided to get an education in London. At that time, my mother already owned a large business related to the supply of gas condensate from Russia. As a result, the parents divorced and for some time tried to lure their son to their side. However, the guy did not want to use family connections and decided to build a career on his own, returning to Russia in 2005 for this.
For a long time, Roman was one of the most eligible bachelors in Russia. This is not surprising: a handsome young man with fabulous wealth was the dream of almost every girl. But not so long ago, the hopes of many of those who saw themselves in the image of this handsome man’s wife collapsed: the most eligible groom entered into a legal marriage.
Roman Rotenberg's wife, Marta, is a fairly famous model in Latvia. The couple met during a hockey match in the stands thanks to a mutual friend. Initially, the future husband seemed very arrogant to Martha and she did not even try to communicate with him. However, after some time, the young man finally got the phone number of the girl he liked and they began to communicate. As it turned out, the couple has a lot in common, they are just family to each other.
In the photo: Roman Rotenberg with his wife Marta
Marta and Roman did not delay the wedding for long; the decision was made literally within a few months. Now young people live in Moscow. Marta has not yet fully adapted to Moscow life. So far everything is going well in their family, although minor conflicts do occur. As the spouses themselves admit, a lot depends on their mood.
Roman Rotenberg has many positions, and very high ones - he is a manager, a director of a company, and a sports functionary. Whatever he undertakes, success accompanies him everywhere. But how did this fairy tale begin? Happy acquaintance. Or rather, the acquaintance of his father, a master of sports in judo, with another judoka.
Roman Borisovich Rotenberg: family and childhood
Rotenberg was born into the family of Boris Rotenberg in 1981. My father attended the judo section at the police academy, and it was at one of these training sessions that he met the future President of Russia Putin. In the early 90s, the country was falling apart, and Roman’s parents decided to emigrate to Finland. Therefore, the whole family began to study Finnish and English in advance. In Finland, Roman went to third grade. In his new place, Roman Rotenberg fought a lot: at that time Russians were not very liked in Finland. This is where Roman was helped by the fact that he and his father attended the judo section since childhood.
Then Roman developed a new hobby - hockey. He went to the local hockey school, where he spent time from morning to evening. Roman Borisovich Rotenberg always remembered this period with warmth. But the children's happiness did not last long - in 1999 the parents divorced. The mother insisted on her son moving to London, where he could study business and make many useful connections. Despite the fact that his father was against it, Roman still left for this metropolis.
Return to Russia
The studies were successful, and Roman Rotenberg defended his diploma, but he did not stay in London to implement his business plan, despite great prospects, and returned to Russia. In one of the interviews, when asked by a journalist why he did this, Roman replied that he was drawn to Russia “as a human being.”
Returning to Russia, Roman refused the offer of his father Boris and uncle Arkady to get a job in their already successful business. He didn’t want the employees of their company to say behind his back that he got a job through connections. Instead, he gets a job at Gazprom Export, although he still cannot do without his father. He arranged an interview for him, but an interview is not the same as getting him a job. He was hired by the head of the company, Alexander Medvedev.
Rotenberg and hockey
Roman did in his position something completely different from what he was trained in London. He prepared press conferences and organized meetings. Roman did not refuse any work, and fate rewarded him. Since at that moment Russian hockey needed reforms, the head of Gazprom Export, Alexander Medvedev, was tasked with developing a plan for the creation of the KHL (Continental Hockey League). This is where the talents of Roman Rotenberg came in handy. The KHL Marketing company was created to implement this business idea, and Roman was appointed deputy general director.
In 2009, an economic forum was held in St. Petersburg, which was attended by many successful businessmen. Representatives of Gazprombank were also there, with whom Roman met. Deciding to change his life after talking with them, he decided to go to work in this bank, but difficulties arose. Firstly, he did not have the necessary citizenship, and secondly, he did not have a Russian financial education. The process of obtaining citizenship took three years, during which Roman Rotenberg managed to obtain the necessary financier diploma.
Hockey is not a thing of the past either. Gennady Timchenko, president of the SKA hockey club, invited the young specialist to become vice president of marketing. Roman happily agreed and began working in his new position to attract new viewers, sell rights and club paraphernalia, and organize broadcasts of matches.
Rotenberg and personal business
Everything Roman did was work for someone, but not for himself. Since he loves sports with all his heart, his personal business should be related to sports. In 2011, the younger Rotenberg founded the Doctor Sport company, which produces sports nutrition.
After some time, it becomes clear that Roman Rotenberg is a good businessman, because the company began to make a profit. Due to his success, he decides to start producing special magnets that give strength and accelerate the healing of injuries.
Roman Borisovich Rotenberg: personal life
Roman met his wife, Latvian top model Marta Bezkalna, in March 2011, and five months later the wedding took place. They live in Moscow and are quite happy. According to Martha, they are not planning to have children yet.
The most important thing about the Rotenbergs.
It all started in the 60s, when Arkady Rotenberg and Boris Rotenberg signed up for the same Leningrad sambo section with Vladimir Putin. The children became friends and spent a lot of time together. When they grew up, Putin went to work in the authorities and left Russia, Arkady got a job as a coach, and Boris got a job in the police.
In the 2000s, when Putin became president of Russia, the Rotenbergs rose to the very top. They founded the Northern Sea Route bank and established work with Gazprom, and also began to receive large government contracts. In February 2016, Forbes ranked Arkady Rotenberg first in the “Kings of Government Contracts” ranking. Now, even despite foreign sanctions, Arkady and Boris remain in the Forbes top 100. Each person's fortune is estimated at $1 billion.
Having become one of the richest families in Russia, the Rotenbergs maintained an interest in Russian sports. Moreover, their influence is only growing.
Arkady Rotenberg, 64 years old
In the 90s, Putin had just returned from the GDR, Boris Rotenberg went to Finland, and Arkady never left. In St. Petersburg, he was involved in the affairs of the School of Higher Sports Excellence on Kamenny Island. Putin sometimes came to that school, and Arkady Rotenberg was often his sparring partner.
In 1998, Rotenberg, together with Gennady Timchenko, created the Yavara-Neva judo sports club in St. Petersburg. At the end of the 2000s, when the Rotenbergs’ business turnover was already billions of dollars, many still called the club, which did not bring in serious money, Arkady’s main asset. Its honorary president is Putin, and it is believed that this helped Rotenberg establish many necessary connections. Now Rotenberg is the first vice-president of the Russian Judo Federation.
People whom Rotenberg met through sports still occupy high positions in his non-sports companies. Example: having created the Pipe Metal Rolling company in 2007, Rotenberg put an old acquaintance in charge of it - a former wrestler and coach, president of the Greco-Roman Wrestling Federation, Yuri Bukin. They say that in the structures of Arkady Rotenberg, the corporate culture is built on the idea of loyalty - to the company and to Rotenberg personally. Control is everywhere: the security service reads mail and taps employee phones. At the same time, the businessman himself trusts his top managers; employees of many of his companies almost never see Rotenberg.
Figure: in 2013, Bloomberg considered that Arkady Rotenberg’s companies received projects for $7.4 billion. Rotenberg’s most current construction project is the Kerch Bridge.
Since October, Arkady Rotenberg has been the chairman of the board of the FHR. The FHR has a president - Vladislav Tretyak, but in fact, the main person in Russian hockey is Rotenberg. Before taking up his post at the FHR, Rotenberg was the president of the hockey team Dynamo (Moscow). A few months before his departure, the club began to delay wages. Vedomosti wrote: Rotenberg could have left due to the fact that he could not agree with VTB on who would give money to Dynamo.
Now Arkady Rotenberg is associated with an ambitious project for the hockey team Dynamo St. Petersburg. The head of the club is Natalya Skarlygina, in the media she is called a close friend of Arkady. Back in 2013, the club was SDYUSSHOR, now the team already plays in the VHL (the second league in Russia after the KHL). According to Fontanka, the club’s goal is to enter the KHL and compete with SKA.
Words:“There are few differences in the management of sports and business: in both cases, strength of spirit, determination, focus on winning and the team are important.”
Boris Rotenberg Sr., 59 years old
Like Arkady, Boris worked as a martial arts coach in the early 90s, only not in Russia, but in Finland. There, Boris started his own business - he founded a company that supplied Finnish goods to Urengoygazprom.
Now Boris Rotenberg is vice-president of the Russian Judo Federation, but his main sports history is still football. In July 2013, he began building a new Russian top club in Dynamo Moscow. Then, very opportunely, the Anzhi project collapsed; all its stars moved to Moscow (Kokorin, Denisov, Zhirkov, Samba, Gabulov and Ionov). The following summer, Dynamo bought Alexander Büttner from Manchester United, and then made a splash throughout Europe by signing Mathieu Valbuena from Marseille, who immediately became the best player in the Premier League. The Frenchman wanted to take number 28 to Dynamo, but it was occupied by Boris Rotenberg Jr., the son of the club president.
VTB Bank paid for everything - Dynamo's annual budget ($210 million), was second in the country after Zenit. The party ended in 2014, when the crisis erupted in Russia and financial fair play began to rage in Europe. It was not possible to reach an agreement with UEFA - Dynamo became the first club to be eliminated from European competition due to losses. Valbuena returned home, and the players of the Russian national team fled. Dynamo announced that it would now win with young Russian football players, and immediately flew into the FNL. Boris Rotenberg left the club in the summer, and a few months later, Dynamo now owes him 75 million euros.
But Buettner is the same Dutchman from Manchester United.
Dynamo is not the only football club with which Boris Rotenberg has been associated. That's what happened when Rostov bought Ecuadorian midfielder Christian Noboa in the summer of 2015. This is the favorite player of coach Kurban Berdyev, but Rostov did not have money for him at that time.
This summer there were reports that Boris Rotenberg was buying shares in Lokomotiv. No one has officially confirmed this yet, but his son has already moved to Lokomotiv. Unofficially: key decisions at Lokomotiv are made by the Rotenberg family. When Lokomotiv was looking for a new coach in August, Kurban Berdyev and a team of his assistants went to an interview not in Cherkizovo, but in St. Petersburg - with Roman Rotenberg.
Recently it turned out that Boris Rotenberg is the founder and owner of a full stake in FC Dynamo St. Petersburg LLC (has no relation to the old Dynamo St. Petersburg). You can read what they are going to make from it.
The Rotenbergs could also buy the Italian “Bari”. The Rotenbergs communicated with the owner of a controlling stake in the club through a very interesting person named Konstantin Goloshchapov. According to Novaya Gazeta, in the 90s Goloshchapov was Vladimir Putin's personal massage therapist. In 2000, the president personally transferred him to Moscow and appointed him general director of the federal enterprise Roscentrproekt. Around the same time, Goloshchapov became a partner of the Rotenberg brothers in the Northern Sea Route bank.
Boris Rotenberg does not hide that he would like create a new Formula 1 team in Russia. The businessman has a racing team, SMP Racing, and sometimes competes in races himself. The team’s main base is Sochi Autodrom, which Boris Rotenberg is also said to be involved in managing. The team's most powerful car was designed to participate in the 24 Hours of Le Mans race; the car is called BR01 - it's easy to guess in honor of whom.
Words:“We strive to make Dynamo Moscow profitable. For me, examples are Barcelona, Chelsea and SKA.”
Roman Rotenberg, 35 years old
Boris Rotenberg's son played hockey as a child, but his mother convinced him to go to study in a city where this game is not very popular - London. In 2006, Roman came to work at Gazprom Export. When the head of the company, Alexander Medvedev, began creating the KHL, Roman was involved in the work. Now he says that in those years he achieved nothing: “I was not allowed to realize myself. I was the same with the same last name in the KHL. What did I achieve there? Zero, one might say.”
Soon after Gennady Timchenko became president of SKA, Roman Rotenberg also found himself there - he began to engage in marketing. Now Everyone praises SKA marketing: in recent years, the team’s popularity in St. Petersburg has jumped, SKA is the second most visited KHL team (the average audience for home matches is 11,300 people). At the same time, it is common knowledge that the club spends the most in the KHL.
In the Russian national hockey team, Roman is the main speaker: he makes uplifting speeches after every great success or failure. He also runs the analytical department and is involved in marketing: it was he who approved the retro slogan “Red car, made in Russia”, with which the team went to the last World Cup.
In addition to SKA, Roman Rotenberg also has influence on other KHL clubs: at least Jokerit (where he is a shareholder), Spartak (the club was revived in the summer of 2015 with the participation of structures close to the Rotenberg family; from SKA to the Moscow club then 24 hockey players moved at once) and the Chinese “Kunlun” (as they say, Roman is its main curator).
In Russia, Rotenberg has several sports-related businesses. In particular, the Sportconcept holding is a distributor of brands such as CCM and a supplier of Under Armour, Adidas, Nike, as well as paraphernalia of KHL hockey clubs and the Russian national team. In the nearest plans of "Sportconcept" - creating your own brand of sports equipment.
Roman Rotenberg is also the founder of the company for the production and distribution of sports nutrition “Doctor Sport”. According to legend, it appeared when Putin saw at a hockey training that KHL President Alexander Medvedev was drinking an energy drink from the United States. Medvedev explained to the president that in Russia they are of poor quality. Putin asked to sort it out - and that’s where the Doctor Sport company began.
Roman Rotenberg has sporting interests abroad. In 2014, he bought the share of Boris Rotenberg Sr. and Arkady Rotenberg in the management company Långvik Capital. So he got a hotel, a development company, 49% of the Finnish club Jokerit and a share in the Hartwall Arena. Roman bought all this after his father and uncle came under sanctions (he himself says that he took out a loan of a couple of tens of millions of dollars for this). True, a year later Roman also came under sanctions - for this reason he had problems traveling to the World Cup of Hockey in North America. According to a representative of the US Embassy in the Russian Federation, Roman was included in the list because helped Boris Rotenberg circumvent sanctions.
Words:“We strive for KHL clubs to be independent of government funding. To do this, you need to make the product attractive. So that young people want to go to hockey, and not to the cinema or to a concert.”
Karina Rotenberg, 37 years old
Boris Rotenberg's wife. Heads the Moscow Equestrian Federation. Karina met her future husband in Monaco after the Zenit-Manchester United match for the European Super Cup. They have three children.
Karina Rotenberg is involved in show jumping (a type of equestrian sport that involves overcoming obstacles) and travels all over the world to competitions. One of the Rotenbergs’ dachas, not far from Monaco, was built specifically for Karina’s classes. In an interview with Tatler, Karina recalls how Boris, after meeting her, tried to impress her and invited her to his stable: “Bora thought these were super horses, but in fact... He didn’t understand anything about them at all then.”
Words:“Boris works a lot. And at the same time he is interested in everyone and everything. One of his sons plays football, the other plays hockey. My husband also supports Russian motorsport. Even in karting he knows all the boy racers by name. They constantly send him some photos and videos. Actively works with judokas and football players.
Sometimes I think: how much is possible? Not because I feel sorry for Boris - he lives by it. Selfishly, I wish there was enough for us too. But my mother periodically reminds me: “Kindness is one of the qualities for which you fell in love with him.” It’s just a shame that people take advantage of it, and I can’t do anything.”
Boris Rotenberg Jr., 30 years old
Son of Boris Rotenberg from his first marriage. Now he plays for Lokomotiv, played one match for the Finnish national team.
From 2006 to 2010 he was in the Zenit system, but did not play for the adult team. In 2011 he ended up in Dynamo Moscow, and in 2015 he began to appear in the team. Last spring, Igor Denisov was removed from the Dynamo team - allegedly for calling head coach Stanislav Cherchesov a clown.
Moreover, when Rotenberg was on the field, Dynamo did not lose for a long time.
The evolution of attitudes towards football player Rotenberg - in a survey on the site for 2015.
The footballer spent last season on loan in Rostov, where Berdyev replaced him in the middle of the second half in almost every match. A player was once asked what he thought about salary delays at the club. “There are professionals in Rostov, we go to work every day,” answered the son of one of the richest men in Russia.
This summer, Boris signed a three-year contract with Lokomotiv. The management promised that Rotenberg (although the club has Shishkin, Yanbaev and Logashov in his right-back position), but Boris has not yet appeared in the lineup this season. That same summer there was talk that his father had acquired shares in the club.
The joke about Rotenberg being the only football player in the world who does not play for money will haunt him for the rest of his career. Nevertheless, the defender’s agent Dmitry Selyuk (the same one who does not want to apologize to Guardiola) and many former teammates always stand up for Rotenberg and call him the person who works the hardest in training. “Dynamo didn’t count on Boris,” says agent Selyuk. – And where is this team now? She slipped into the FNL.”
Words:“Wearing a Dynamo jersey, I fight not only for the club, but also for my family. My father raised me to be a man. He knows I won't break."
Pavel Rotenberg
The 16-year-old son of Arkady Rotenberg is a hockey player and plays as a forward. In the winter of this year, he took bronze with the Russian team born in 2000 at the Youth Olympic Games. He won another bronze by traveling with the Russian U-17 team to the World Challenge Cup. Pavel made an assist in the last match with the second Canadian team.
Rotenberg's club is Dynamo St. Petersburg (what his father supports). The club plays in the VHL; Pavel has not yet played for the adult team. He played 10 matches for the St. Petersburg youth team in the MHL, making two assists.
Words:“I don’t feel any difference in how I treat myself. I'm part of the team and try to be a good son to my father. I, like anyone else, am proud to wear the Russian national team jersey. I have a normal daily routine. I wake up, go to school, then I have off-ice training, then on-ice training, and then I have dinner and go to bed. Sometimes I go for a walk with friends.”
Infographics – Artem Shmelev
Photo: instagram.com/rotenberg_karina; RIA Novosti /Alexey Filippov, Evgeny Biyatov, Grigory Sysoev;