Singing songs in German: Putin’s sons are being raised by foreign governesses, – investigation

Kabaeva gave birth to two sons from Putin – Ivan, born in 2015, and Vladimir, born in 2019.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Alina Kabaeva are hiring dozens of foreign governesses to raise their sons, according to an investigation by the Sistema project , which obtained access to correspondence about hiring staff from a source.

Putin has never spoken publicly about these children, their existence became known through journalistic investigations. According to them, Kabaeva gave birth to two sons from Putin – Ivan, born in 2015, and Vladimir, born in 2019.

Sources say that over the past eight years, the family has employed 20 foreign tutors and governesses from the UK, South Africa, New Zealand, Germany, Austria, and Ireland. They began hiring them in 2017, when Ivan was not even two years old.

Already in 2018, he was studying English, German, and music. The governesses not only taught, but also took care of the child. In particular, they made sure that he followed all hygiene procedures.

It is noted that, as a rule, about 4-6 people worked with the child at one time. They were tasked with creating a language environment and immersing the child in activities in a playful way. The governesses were explained that Ivan’s speech in other languages had to be coherent, like “the speech of a literate European.” At Christmas, Ivan sang songs in German, and in December he read children’s books about the reindeer Rudolph and made a sleigh for Santa Claus. The publication writes:

“It is unclear whether the same attention was paid to learning the Russian language. Among all of Ivan’s governesses, there was only one Russian teacher. She taught music, introducing the boy to the works of Sergei Prokofiev and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov.”

In 2019, staff began to be set up to prepare the boy for school, but there is still no evidence that any of Putin’s children went to a comprehensive school with other children. Recently, governesses have been hired for Vladimir.

The hiring of foreign specialists for Putin and Kabaeva’s children is being done by gymnast cousins Olesya Fedina and Kateryna Golovacheva. Most of the letters in the array are addressed to them. Fedina acts as a representative of the family and conveys wishes regarding the educational process, while Golovacheva oversees financial and organizational issues. The names of the boys’ parents are not disclosed to the governesses.

The interview with the candidates is conducted by 78-year-old Iryna Tarasova, a former employee of the State Foreign Property Agency, who at one time received a salary in a military unit belonging to the Academy of the Foreign Intelligence Service.

Employers paid special attention to the health of employees; they must undergo regular examinations, and if diseases are detected, they are sent for treatment or may be refused work.

It is important that employers guarantee a separate room for each employee and a separate toilet with a shower, pay for the telephone, gas, electricity and internet. Apparently, the teachers live near the presidential residence in Valdai. They are forbidden to leave the “family complex” on their own. When the family moves to the residence in Sochi, governesses accompany them.

The teachers’ salaries cost the family hundreds of thousands of dollars a year. They sign two contracts with the governesses.

Putin seeks immortality

The Wall Street Journal reported that Putin is spending billions of dollars on research into various anti-aging techniques , including organ printing, the use of mini-pigs, and exposure to ultra-low temperatures. His quest for eternal life is now a state priority.

Last month, the Russian government announced that scientists were developing gene therapy aimed at slowing cellular aging as part of “New Technologies for Health Preservation,” Putin’s $26 billion life-extension initiative.

(C)UNIAN 2026