On September 28, 2010, the Russian president signed a decree that terminated Yuri Luzhkov's activities as the mayor of the capital ahead of schedule. From that day on, not only the ex-mayor ceased to be a public person; his wife Elena Baturina practically disappeared from the screens and pages. And with her their daughters Elena and Olga. Where they live after the resignation of their husband and father and what they are doing, not everyone knows.
European family
Not only Luzhkov's mayor's team, but also his family, who had to leave abroad, suffered from the short-lived decision of the head of the country and the subsequent not very pleasant events. The wife, having ceased overnight to be one of the richest ladies in the world and the head of a huge Russian holding, focused her main attention on helping her student daughters. And also on the management of a large network of hotels located, designed and proposed for construction in Austria, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Kazakhstan, the Baltic States, Russia (St. Petersburg) and the Czech Republic.
By the way, the first hotel in Baturina was the Grand Tirolia Hotel, built in 2009 in Kitzbühel, Austria, and costing about 40 million euros. It is in Kitzbühel that Elena Nikolaevna's headquarters are located. In total, by the end of 2015, she intends to own 14 hotels on the continent.
The traditional Laureus award ceremony is held at the Grand Tirolia Hotel every 12 months. She is often referred to as the "Oscar" in international sports journalism.
"Emigrant" Luzhkov
Yuri Mikhailovich himself, meeting with journalists, regularly complains that some kind of reclusive emigrant was blinded out of him: they say, he does not appear in Moscow or even in Russia. How he supports himself and his family is unknown. In fact, the recent head of the capital lives, works and fundamentally does not engage in any political activity in three countries at once - in England, where his daughters study, in Austria, where the Luzhkov-Baturina family has their main business, and in Russia. And not only in Moscow, but also in the Kaliningrad region.
There, the former mayor and his wife, who once headed the country's equestrian sports federation, created a real livestock complex on the basis of a collapsed German stud farm in the 90s and breed sports horses. They also raise the "Romanov" sheep, famous for their finest wool. In the Great Patriotic War, very warm and durable soldier's sheepskin coats were sewn from this wool.
That is, the wife of Yuri Mikhailovich is only investing in her husband's still far from profitable project. But Luzhkov himself not only organizes and controls a very complex agricultural process on five thousand hectares and with the participation of a hundred people, but also takes an active part in it - at the wheel of a German combine harvester. And he is very proud to have been included as a foreign member of the Union of English Sheep Breeders.
Daughters: from Moscow State University to UCL
In Russia, Elena and Olga Luzhkov studied at the most prestigious gymnasiums and language schools in the capital. So, after the disgrace of their father, they clearly did not have problems with the quick transfer from Moscow State University to UCL, University College London, and later entering the university.
Elena Luzhkova, in parallel with her studies, started her own business. In the Slovak capital Bratislava, she founded a company called Alener, which deals with perfumes and cosmetics.
However, according to Luzhkov Sr., he does not intend to control the life and study of his daughters. As well as he is sympathetic to the sad fact that his wife is often forced to visit and even live in London, and not next to him.
