Putin's nobility and its Decembrist potential

Cellist Sergei Roldugin during the concert of the Symphony Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theater

Andrey Epikhin / ITAR-TASS

Only four years after the wedding, Petersburg journalists managed to find out the name of the wife of Alexei Poltavchenko, the son of the Governor of the city. The woman's name is Daria Neschadimova, and it is not clear what the sensation is and why this name should be classified. But the authorities of St. Petersburg really tried that no one would recognize the name of the governor's daughter -in -law. The fact that the guests of the wedding took subscriptions about non -disclosure was even reported by NTV. On the website of the charitable foundation headed by this woman, it was simply written - “Chairman of the Board - Daria Germanovna”, without a surname, and no one could write about this in local publications. The Snoba news specifies that St. Petersburg newspapers prepared investigations about the wife of the governor’s son, but the governor contacted the owners of publications, and journalistic materials were postponed in the portfolio.

A small private case, valuable, however, that gives a rare in today's Russia the opportunity to understand some principles of the structure of the ruling class in Russia, when some active secular life occurs in deep isolation from the rest of society. Such details, no matter how they hide them, still regularly fall into the field of view of a wide audience, the iron curtain between “us” and “them” sometimes gives tiny cracks, through which something can be seen: more recently, society learned about the connection between Vladimir Putin and cellist Sergei Roldugin, and now, when Putin rewards with the Order of Alexander Nevsky, this news is perceived at all. So, as it would be a year ago. Formally, the fact is that the president is awarded the outstanding musician, but in fact we understand that we have an episode of almost family (in fashionable fifteen years ago the meaning of the word “family”) relations in which awarded and rewarding, if not equal to each other, at least belong to the same group with common secrets and general business interests.

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