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According to Forbes magazine, for every child of an oligarch, who is on the list of the 50 richest people in Russia, there is about $1 billion. But there are those among them who consider this amount not too impressive. We present the top 10 richest Russian heirs.
1. Yusuf Alekperov - $8.9 billion
Yusuf Alekperov with his wife Alice
The only child of the co-owner of the Lukoil empire, Vagit Alekperov, was born in 1990 and has long since passed childhood. However, for many years now he has not left the first place in the ranking of the richest heirs of our country. And this is not surprising - the father bequeathed to Yusuf a controlling stake in Lukoil, on the condition that he would not sell it and share it with other participants. Alekperov Jr. is married to a blonde Alice and, despite the status of his father, worked for several years as a petroleum engineer in the Siberian branch of Lukoil.
2. Tara Melnichenko - $8.2 billion
This year the daughter of Andrey Melnichenko, the owner of the Evrokhim and SUEK concerns, will be 5 years old. The girl does not go to school yet, and together with her father and mother, Serbian model and singer Sandra Nikolic, she travels around the world: Melnichenko has her own homes in Russia, the USA, Great Britain, France, Switzerland and Monaco. Spouses almost never post photos of their daughter on the Internet and in every possible way protect the child from the attention of journalists.
3. Victoria Mikhelson - $7 billion
Victoria Michelson
The third place in the ranking of the richest Russian heirs was taken by the children of the founder of Novatek and Sibur, Leonid Mikhelson. Actually, he has two children, but the son was born in 2015, and almost nothing is known about the boy. Michelson's daughter Victoria (1992) studied in New York and decided to pursue art. The father supported his daughter's aspirations and in 2009 opened the Victoria - the Art of Being Modern Foundation for her in Russia. The organization helps organize exhibitions of talented Russian artists abroad. Victoria is not interested in her father's business. Victoria does not give interviews to glossy magazines and does not advertise her personal life. It is only known that she is not married and has no children.
4. Alexis Kuzmichev - $6.7 billion
Svetlana Uspenskaya and Alexey Kuzmichev
It is impossible to find on the Web a photo of the son of Alexei Kuzmichev, the founder and main shareholder of Alfa Group, as well as the owner of a stake in VimpelCom, Alfa Bank and X5. But you can look at his parents. Alexey first married after 40 years to Svetlana Uspenskaya. Now he is engaged in his own charity project - Project Perpetua. Alexis was born when his father was 47 years old in 2009. Now the boy lives in Paris, where he studies at a specialized school.
5. Polina Galitskaya - $5.7 billion
Polina Galitskaya
The only daughter of the owner of the Magnit chain of stores, Sergei Galitsky, was born in 1995. The businessman's family lives in Krasnodar, where Polina is educated, she is a student at the Faculty of Economics of the Kuban University. Galitsky himself often said before that he would not want his daughter to do business, but it was he who dissuaded Polina from entering the faculty of foreign languages. The girl's classmates claim that she is very pleasant in communication and never boasts of the wealth of her family.
6. Alexander and Irina Vekselberg - $5.25 billion
Vekselberg family
The owner of Renova Group of Companies has two children. It is known about Irina that she lives in Moscow with her husband, entrepreneur Salavat Rezbaev, the founder of New Age Capital Partners (renamed Trilogy Capital Group in February 2017). The company specializes in Russian-Chinese transactions, Rezbaev is the chairman of the board of directors, Irina is his adviser. Alexander, at one time, was a participant in several scandals. For example, he said that his father spent $ 100 million on Faberge eggs, but he did not want to allocate three thousand to buy a racing car. Now he lives in the USA and works in a structure owned by his father.
7. Dzhangakhir Mahmudov - $4 billion
Dzhangakhir Mahmudov
The only son of the owner of the main shareholding of the Ural Mining and Metallurgical Company, Iskander Makhmudov, spent his childhood and youth in London, where he graduated from the School of Economics and International Business. Returning to Russia, he was appointed to the post of adviser CEO Aeroexpress, then decided to work in America. Dzhangakhir worked there for exactly two years and returned to Russia again, to Yekaterinburg, where he worked on the board of directors of the mining production of UMMC-Holding. After working for a year, he decided to move to Chelyabinsk, where he took the position of deputy director of the Chelyabinsk zinc plant, where he currently works.
8. Ekaterina and Anna Rybolovlev - $3.85 billion each
Ekaterina Rybolovleva
The eldest daughter of Dmitry Rybolovlev, the former owner of Uralkali, Ekaterina is known for her eccentricity: when she studied in America, her father bought the most expensive apartment for her. Katya, in turn, threw away exclusive furniture self made worth more than $50 million in the trash. Catherine recently married a Uruguayan businessman. The wedding took place on wide leg on the island of Skorpios, which her father gave her. The youngest daughter Anna lives with her mother in Geneva.
9. Ksenia, Ivan and Natalia Timchenko - $3.8 billion each
Ksenia Frank-Timchenko
The children of Volga Group owner Gennady Timchenko studied abroad. The elder Natalya studied English literature at Oxford. She recently returned to Russia, where she began working in the film industry. The second daughter of Gennady - Xenia (Frank) - graduated from the University of Edinburgh. There she studied French and philosophy. Now Ksenia works in the government of the Transoil company. Ksenia was awarded the State Order of Friendship for establishing contacts with Finland. Most youngest child Gennady Timchenko Ivan is currently studying international relationships at the University of Geneva. Of the three children, only Ksenia is public person and enjoys talking to journalists.
10. Laura, Katya, Alexander and Nika Friedman - $3.3 billion each
Mikhail Fridman (Alfa Group) has four children. Laura, eldest daughter Mikhaila, a year ago she graduated from Yale University, where she studied at the Faculty of Economics, and also danced in a ballet troupe educational institution. Ekaterina Friedman also decided to enter Yale, where she is currently studying history and plans to connect her future with it. The only son of Mikhail Fridman, Alexander Fridman, studies at the prestigious Kent School, which is located in the United States. The youngest daughter Nika still lives in Moscow with her mother and goes to school. True, in May 2016, Mikhail Fridman announced that he intended to bequeath all his fortune to charity. So the 10th position of our rating may change.
Even at school age, these children are well versed in expensive foreign cars, and in chic boutiques they feel like a fish in water. You will not meet them in a regular school, but in a nightclub - easily. Who are they? How do the children of the oligarchs live?
Where are the children of rich people in Russia educated?
For the most part, our oligarchs prefer to teach their children at home. Primarily for security reasons. The best teachers are invited for their children, often even from abroad.
For those who nevertheless decided to send their child to school, in Moscow, for example, there are special closed educational institutions.
According to stories, at the beginning of the school day, expensive cars bring rich heirs directly to the courtyard of such schools, bypassing numerous security guards. You can pick up a child from there only to trusted people upon presentation of a passport.
An example is the Lomonosov School in Moscow, where the children of Russian oligarchs study.
The Lomonosov school was graduated from Liza Mamiashvilli - the daughter of the Olympic champion and the niece of the wife of Fyodor Bondarchuk, Mikhail Semenduev - the son of the singer Jasmine, Artem Govyadin, Semyon Faifman - the son of the general producer of Channel One.
Receive higher education children usually go abroad - the best colleges and universities in the world kindly open their doors to them. There are, of course, exceptions, the famous Moscow State University also graduated from many children of rich people.
Let's talk about the most famous offspring of rich families in Russia.
Yusuf Alekperov
Most oligarchs live in Russia and Ukraine. There are not so many "real" rich people, in our country there are only a couple of hundred of them, their fortune is estimated in billions.
One of the richest and most enviable suitors in Russia. His father is the president of the Lukoil oil company, Vagit Alekperov. He keeps his only son in severity. According to the father, in order to eventually occupy a leadership position, the son must go through all the stages of a career in the company, starting from the very bottom. Immediately after graduating from the Faculty of Oil and Gas, Yusup began working in Siberia, on his father's oil rigs. So it does not happen at social events.
Victoria Michelson
Victoria Mikhelson is a rich Russian bride. Her father Leonid Mikhelson heads NovaTEK. It is said that Victoria is famous for her reasonableness and modest lifestyle. She leads a charitable foundation, makes large investments herself and successfully attracts other wealthy investors.
Marat Safin
Marat Safin is not a tennis player, but the brother and son of the famous oligarch Ralif Safin. It has sugar factories and numerous sugar plantations. With this business, as well as his sister Alsou with a pop career, dad, an oil tycoon, helped a lot. True, while Marat, rather, spends more than earns.
Anastasia Potanina
The daughter, who, according to a popular magazine, is the third richest man in Russia, is successfully engaged in aquabike. She is the champion of Russia in this sport. Anastasia works in construction company father, known for the construction of Olympic facilities in Sochi.
Vladimir is said to have promised to bequeath his multi-million dollar fortune charitable foundations and not to their own children. But, apparently, Anastasia is not upset, she has something to do. As you can see, the children of Russian oligarchs are able to earn money themselves.
Anton Viner
The son of the famous gymnast Irina Viner and her stepson - in this moment the owner of a whole network of elite restaurants, beauty salons and solariums located throughout Russia. Naturally, Anton's adoptive father gave money for business development.
Kira Plastinina
The youngest Russian designer Kira Plastinina is now incredibly popular. Her clothes are sold not only in Russia, but also abroad, in the USA, Great Britain, Japan, China, etc.
Since childhood, Kira loved to draw and design clothes. The beginnings of his beloved daughter were supported by dad - known as the owner of the shares of Wim-Bill-Dann. He has invested more than $70 million in his daughter's career. We see the result: Kira is a successful and sought-after designer.
Arkady Abramovich
Most famous oligarch of our country, Roman Abramovich is also the father of seven children. The elder Arkady resembles his father in everything. From the age of 19 he began to work in his investment company. And, as they say, quite successfully. Every year his personal income is increasing. Roman and his son are also united by their love of football, they often attend Chelsea Football Club games together.
Anna Abramovich
The most eldest daughter Abramovich does nothing useful. But she can often be found at various social events, each time in the company of a new man.
As she herself claims, they are just friends. Time will tell.
Vyacheslav Mirilashvili
Sometimes the children of oligarchs can outdo their parents. So, Vyacheslav's father is an ordinary entrepreneur, but he himself became famous for the fact that in 2011, together with his friend Pavel Durov, they created the VKontakte social network, which is extremely popular in Russia.
Moreover, Vyacheslav Mirilashvili owns shares in a popular television channel. This allowed him to become the youngest rich man in our country.
Anna Anisimova
The daughter of Vasily Anisimov, the owner of the Gazmetall company, is popular not only in Russia, but also in the United States of America. She is married to a producer and is trying herself in the acting field with might and main.
She has already played the main roles several times. Before that, Anna was considered a socialite and tried herself in real estate transactions, but she did not achieve much success in this.
Evgeny Lebedev
The son from the first marriage of businessman Vasily Lebedev, Evgeny, actively helps his father in his business. Moreover, he owns a restaurant business in the UK, has his own hotel and sponsors the Moscow Art Theater.
Damir Akhmetov
The children of Ukrainian oligarchs are also not far behind. The son of one of Rinat Akhmetov has recently completed his studies in the UK. And he is already working at his father's mining and metallurgical enterprise Mitinvest. Akhmetov's fortune is estimated at $30 billion. How many of them will go to his sons, the youngest of whom is still at school in Switzerland, is still unknown, but they will certainly be ready to continue to increase it.
Marina Surkis
The daughter of the president of a football club from Kyiv, Igor Surkis, is known as an avid party girl and socialite. She graduated from a private higher education institution in London and now works for the Football Federation of Ukraine.
In general, both Russian and Ukrainian rich businessmen adhere to the same principle: send their children to study abroad and preferably leave them there.
The children of oligarchs, whose photos can often be found on the Instagram social network or on the covers of magazines, for the most part, burn their lives and their parents' money. But some still devote themselves to earning them. Someone continues the parental path, someone is trying to start their own business.
How the children of the oligarchs relax
About how and where free time children of the oligarchs, there are legends. Moreover, these often juvenile heroes do not hesitate to photograph their every step and put them on public display in in social networks.
Mikhail Semenduev - the son of the singer Jasmine, and his beloved Diana Chervichenko celebrated Mikhail's birthday in Monaco, on the Cote d'Azur.
The daughter of a tennis player takes a break from school and fashion shows in southern Italy.
The favorite place of the Strizhenov family is the Aegean Sea, where their daughter is preparing for famous ball debutantes.
The daughter of multimillionaire Ziyad Manasir Diana has already changed several places in a month, starting with her own villa in Sardinia and ending with the Cote d'Azur. And Diana is still a schoolgirl, or she will be.
As you can see, the life of the children of the oligarchs is rich and fun. But, as practice shows, closer to adulthood, even rich kids have to take up their minds.
A crisis? What crisis?! See how the children of our millionaires live, and you will doubt whether he really exists. Even if your own refrigerator has been empty for a long time. In this world of sports cars, small dogs, and hundreds of dollar bottles of champagne, a "crisis" is when one of your platinum credit cards doesn't go through in a boutique on a tropical island.
On the Instagram social network, unknown enthusiasts created the Rich Russian Kids profile, where they collected photos of the “golden” offspring. A year ago, an English-language blog dedicated to the children of the elite from around the world gained great popularity - from the heirs of Arab sheikhs to the offspring of the US financial sharks. So our dear page has justified itself - it already has 171 thousand subscribers.
On the way from London to the morning lecture at MGIMO, you can sleep comfortably on the plane.
The effect was so strong that the pictures were reprinted by the British newspaper Daily Mail. Most of the photographs are anonymous, and rare names the general public is not told. Serious business people, not only on Instagram, they prefer not to shine in Forbes magazine in our difficult time. But the children of the rich do not want to understand this - they prefer to live not only beautifully, but also for show.
Here is Anna Fursova - the daughter of a money bag from Rostov-on-Don, where the average salary does not exceed 30 thousand. She is in the pictures either against the backdrop of a casino in Monte Carlo, or next to palm trees in Saint-Tropez.
And this is already Russia - a certain boy tied an ice rink to an expensive sports car and rides along a high stone fence, behind which, obviously, his parents' mansion.
A certain young skinny under the pseudonym Danila Alexandrovich uploads selfies with famous politicians to the Web. On his personal page, he welcomes the crisis. “The rules written on paper are even easier to change if you have enough money,” he explains.
Daughter of billionaire Ziyad MANASIR Diana CHERVICHENKO with her boyfriend Mikhail SEMENDUEV (left), son of singer JASMINE. Together with their friend Yura, the offspring of the head of the Federation Foundation Vladimir KISELEV, they drink champagne on the Cote d'Azur in the elite Twiga Monte Carlo club. Photo: Instagram.com
And here is the entourage in which another rich child is found. On the hood of a Mercedes-SUV sits a "be-be-bear" dachshund, and next to it is a bottle of expensive Crystal champagne. The picture was taken in Miami. Bloggers signed the photo: “Is it possible to walk the dog differently?”
The author of the anonymous page does not feel hatred for the objects of his research.
“Although I am trying to ridicule social injustice, I have nothing against the rich and beautiful descendants of Russian oligarchs,” the author wrote in the profile.
Well, those whom we see in the pictures are not some thugs from the “golden youth”, like four scoundrels from Russia - Oleg Ivanov, 22 years old, Norayr Davtyan, 22 years old, Armen Simonyan, 19 years old, and Grigory Melnikov , 23 years old. These bastards in August 2011 raped a girl in London, filming it all on mobile phone. They received a total of 36 years in prison for the crime. And not even the 22-year-old dunce Ziya Babaev at that time, the son of a construction magnate who in 2009 knocked down a German pensioner in his Lamborghini in Switzerland. The guy was then expelled from the Russian university, he received a suspended sentence. The current "social exhibitionists" are quite law-abiding guys. Well, they like to show off, you think! Youth plays in the ass. But the vast majority of people in Russia perceive such behavior as a spit in the face.
“I am 56 years old,” Svetlana Kuzicheva from Volgograd writes at one of the thematic forums. - All my life I worked as an engineer at a chemical plant, undermined my health. Abroad was only twice - in Egypt and Turkey. And God knows, never envied the nouveau riche. But it pains me that the brainless kids of the elite boast about spending hundreds of dollars on alcohol for an evening when the drug I needed at the pharmacy doubled in price.
Olga Kryshtanovskaya, head of the Elite Research Sector at the Institute of Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences (as we can see, in our country there is an urgent need to study those who suckle at the feeder), states that the children of the elite “sink to the bottom much faster than their ordinary peers.” “They have more access to drugs, expensive cars that can be broken without regret, because dad will buy a new one. Wise Bill Gates does not give his children a lot of money, ”the scientist believes.
But not long ago, sociologists predicted the dawn of a new century: they say that the children of the crooks of the 90s will receive an excellent education, become true patriots, return the capital stolen by their parents to Russia, and it will become comfortable for the life of all sectors of society. No matter how! By their behavior, the offspring of the rich only emphasize how far they are from the problems of the country and how little they care about the life of the “rabble”.
- Is not " sweet life”, - wrote one of the residents of Russia, having familiarized himself with the content of Rich Russian Kids. - This is already "sweet tin"!
It is always interesting how the life of the heirs of the richest people in our country develops.
Arkady Abramovich
Roman Abramovich is perhaps the most famous Russian oligarch and also a father of many children. He has seven children: 26-year-old Anna, 24-year-old Arkady, 23-year-old Sophia, 17-year-old Arina and 15-year-old Ilya from ex-wife Irina, as well as 8-year-old Aaron Alexander and 4-year-old Leya from ex-girlfriend (broke up in August 2017) gallery owner Daria Zhukova.
It is too early to talk about the minor children of the ex-governor of Chukotka, but there is some information about the older ones.
The main heir to the oligarch's fortune, Arkady, began to manage his father's assets at a fairly young age. Since the age of 19, he has been the owner of the investment company ARACapitalLimited, ZoltavResourcesInc., named after the initials of Roman Abramovich. Eyewitnesses say that Arkady does business no worse than his mentor. He is known to make big deals, and his income level is growing every year. According to Forbes magazine, in April 2015, Arkady owned a 39.62% stake in Zoltav, the company's capitalization at that time was more than $98 million.
By the way, Arkady, like his father, is a football fan. He, along with Roman Arkadyevich, often appears at Chelsea matches.
Anna Abramovich
The oldest of the children of Roman Abramovich did not follow in the footsteps of his father. She is better known as a socialite. She can be found at the most pathetic parties, and surrounded by different men(she herself says that they are just friends). The girl does not have a permanent boyfriend. Perhaps that is why she was recognized as the most enviable bride Russia.
Sofia Abramovich
The third oldest child of Roman Abramovich is 23-year-old Sofia. Previously, she was an active user of the Instagram social network, and it was from there that one could learn something about her, however, now the account of the oligarch's heiress is closed. Judging by the photographs that Sophia has published before, her main passion is horses. She is engaged in equestrian sports and even participates in competitions. She records her successes on video and, of course, uploads them to the network. No parties luxurious life with yachts and mansions in her photographs is not observed. But there were touching rare photographs of the young Roman Arkadyevich.
Vyacheslav Mirilashvili
Russian-Israeli billionaire businessman Mikhail Mirilashvili has a daughter and a son. Little is known about the first. Her name is Tamara, she studied in St. Petersburg, then moved to Israel to study as a fashion designer, and in 2000 she got married. But the second child of Mirilashvili - 30-year-old Vyacheslav - became famous throughout the country.
After graduating from Tufts University in the United States, he, along with his classmate Pavel Durov, founded the most popular Russian social network, VKontakte, in 2006. And for this, he borrowed 30 thousand dollars from his father and did not lose - in 2013 Vyacheslav sold his 40% stake in the social network for $ 700 million. Mirilashvili Jr. also owns the assets of the First Popular Television company and is a co-owner of the Selectel hosting provider. In 2013, he was recognized as the youngest dollar billionaire in Russia.
Anastasia Potanina
Vladimir and Anastasia Potanin
Vladimir Potanin, president of the investment company Interros, has four children: 34-year-old Anastasia, 29-year-old Ivan and 18-year-old Vasily from his first wife, and 5-year-old Varvara from his second. But they are not all heirs to his fortune. In 2010, he announced that he would transfer his capital to charity. By the way, this is exactly the principle followed by Bill Gates.
The eldest daughter of a businessman Anastasia is currently a development manager ski resort in Sochi Rosa Khutor, whose assets are owned by Interros. But many people know her as a four-time champion of Russia among women in aquabike. She won her first gold medal at the age of 23, however, she left the sport in 2007, according to rumors, due to an injury.
Ivan Potanin
Photo: Ekaterina Chesnokova / RIA Novosti
Ivan Potanin, after studying at MGIMO, first worked in his father's company, but then took up own business: became the founder of the men's Internet portal Forceful.ru. True, the site did not become popular. But Ivan, like his sister, everything has grown together with jet skis. He is a repeated champion of our country in this sport.
Kira Plastinina
Anna Anisimova
Vasily Anisimov, owner of Coalco and co-owner of Gazmetall, has five children. The most famous (and not only in Russia) among them was his third daughter from his first marriage, 32-year-old Anna. Since 1991, she has been living in New York and, being married to American producer Peter Schafer, tries her hand at acting career. So far, there are not many roles on her account - having given birth to a daughter in the spring of 2014, Anna left her film career for several years, devoting all her time to the baby. But in 2017 she returned to work - she played leading role in the drama "The Sadness of Elizabeth", and this year two more films with her participation will be released. Also, Anisimova (by the way, in America, the emphasis on her last name is put on the penultimate syllable and is called “Russian Paris Hilton”) is known as a former top model and socialite.
By the way, recently Anna was included in the list of beauties of the TrendChaser entertainment portal: in addition to youth and beauty, the young ladies who got into the rating had to have one more criterion - a billion dollars in their accounts. Anna came up in all respects - the portal estimated her personal fortune at 2 billion.
Evgeny Lebedev
Evgeny Lebedev with Alena Doletskaya and Igor Chapurin
At the moment, entrepreneur Alexander Lebedev is married to the famous model Elena Perminova, with whom he has three children: 8-year-old Nikita, 6-year-old Egor and 4-year-old Arina. However, from his first wife Natalia, the daughter of the Soviet academician Vladimir Solovyov, he has an eldest son, 38-year-old Evgeny.
Evgeny spent most of his life abroad - he was 8 when his father got a job at the Soviet embassy in London and the family moved to England. Now he helps his father in managing his companies: the British newspapers Independent and Evening Standard, the latter under his leadership became the first free distributed large-circulation newspaper in Britain. Evgeny also has his own business projects: he is engaged in restaurant business in London, owns the Palazzo Terra Nova boutique hotel in Umbria and is a co-sponsor of the Moscow Art Theatre. In addition, Lebedev Jr. is actively involved in charity: in 2006 he founded the Raisa Gorbacheva Foundation, which helps children with oncological diseases. Not married. Dated actress Geri Halliwell, there were rumors about his romance with Gillian Anderson.
What is the life of the offspring of businessmen, can you envy them or not? Children of wealthy parents do not deny themselves anything: they relax in elite clubs and the best resorts, acquire luxury clothes and vehicles, have huge mansions and apartments. What are the features of such life support or what it is fraught with - will be discussed in this article.
A responsibility
Children of wealthy parents do not just spend their lives being the most enviable, "golden" brides and grooms. Over time, they bear all the hardships and troubles and responsibility for the business that their ancestors developed. They have to work hard, continuing the work of their fathers and mothers, because even with every effort, you can easily get into trouble, and then all the works of previous generations will be buried.
Usually the children of wealthy parents from the very early age are preparing to continue the family business with dignity: they study in good schools and universities that correspond to their future occupations, practice, get into business in advance. The magazine "SEO" has identified the richest heirs of millionaires. I had to calculate the capital and divide it by the number of children in each such family.
Rating
In place of the leader of this rating, the children of wealthy parents change quite often. Victoria Mikhelson, the most desirable bride in Russia, and quite possibly the world (Novatek, Leonid Mikhelson, chairman of the board), or the heir to Lukoil, are at the first step.
Those who are ready to take risks become richer from time to time, and Mikhelson invests in various and numerous areas - development, petrochemical companies, and Alekperov's son clearly follows in the footsteps of his father: he graduated from an oil and gas university, worked in the fields from worker to technologist and engineer. So he knows exactly how oil is produced.
Third and beyond
Not all children of wealthy parents in Russia are ready to engage in family business. And closes the top three "golden" heirs Polina Galitskaya - the daughter of Sergei Galitsky, the owner of the "Magnit" network and the volume of revenue and the number of stores of this distribution network are significantly ahead of its main competitors. Polina, according to forecasts, is going to be an economist, that is, she will be able to continue her business if she has such a desire.
Roman Abramovich is also preparing his replacement in the person of his eldest son. However, there are many children in the Abramovich family, and their number is growing, so they cannot take high places in the ranking of heirs. Nevertheless, Leah's daughter is not in vain called the golden child of the planet: her father's expenses for her birth were not limited to several hundred million dollars.
Secrets
Personal life and information about the family are most often kept secret by businessmen; it is almost impossible to find out about many and perhaps the richest heirs. But there are also "golden" children of rich parents who do not shy away from publicity. It is no secret that the owner of Chelsea transferred to his son Arkady before he was of age up to forty percent of the shares of Zoltav Resources Inc, and most recently he acquired shares in CenGeo, an oil company in Western Siberia. And everyone knows that Anastasia and Ivan Potanin, the children of the president of Interros, became famous thanks to sports.
The richest Russian - but his children - legal heirs - do not fall into the rating of the richest, since journalists divide the parents' capital by the number of children. AT this case Anton Viner is the stepson of a billionaire, and Babur Usmanov is a nephew, but both of them claim the status of Metalloinvest. The list of the richest heirs, like all ratings, is very conditional, if only because the number of children in the families of millionaires is steadily increasing, therefore, they all receive an ever smaller share of the inheritance with each replenishment. The fact that parents can write a will in favor of one of the children and not even leave anything to anyone is not excluded.
Heirs
Judging by the information on social networks, including visually confirming the facts of Instagram, the life of the children of wealthy parents is pure pleasure. They travel a lot, most often use private jets, fly to have a rest in fashionable resorts, buy all kinds of brands in bulk - in short, they do not deny themselves anything.
Moreover, they want the world to know about this way of life in all details. One hundred thousand subscribers of Rich Kids of Instagram are closely watching the appearance of new photos, which show not their gray everyday life, but the triumph of golden youth - the heirs of multi-million and multi-billion dollar fortunes who live all over the world. How do the children of wealthy parents dress? Peers cannot lose interest in savoring the details of the unattainable.
Life for show
While their fathers do not have time to demonstrate the external paraphernalia of their own wealth, the young shoots are throwing dust in their eyes with might and main, and the dust, of course, is “golden”: these are private helicopters on the roofs, luxury cars, swimming pools in inhabited high-rise buildings, luxury resorts, closed clubs. Handmade shoes and designer clothes are how the children of wealthy parents dress. Everything related to the differences between their lifestyle and the average one cannot be listed.
Alcohol can be taken out in a separate topic. When champagne flows like water at the cost of many thousands of euros per bottle, these are clearly not ordinary teenagers. On Instagram, on each still life, you can see the characteristic yellow labels on the bottles. The captions for the pictures are appropriate, sometimes even almost without grammatical errors: "This is not a boyfriend, this is my butler (butler)", "I miss St. Tropez" and "Bentley" on a snowy road.
habit of jealousy
The negative, of course, pours into such ostentatious demarches as from But the heirs of large capitals are not only accustomed to this state of affairs - it even flatters them. Girls and boys rocking private parties, celebrating birthdays with multimillion-dollar investments in pop and rock stars on distant islands with favorable climate, also have some views on another, different from today's future.
Someone dreams of launching a reality show, someone - a line of designer clothes. In the meantime, there are pictures from gourmet restaurants, and they are made as cheerfully as selfies with friends at McDonald's, and black caviar does not make them closer to art. The envy of others is the engine Have a good mood. Some of the same age as window dressing are indignant, others would like to live the same way, but they are unlikely to succeed without a daddy with billions. And there are only twenty "daddies" in Russia. And a "beautiful" life is expected only in forty-seven of their offspring.
According to teachers
Most often, as the children of wealthy parents are called, they study at MGIMO, like their parents. The profession of the most chosen is management. Methodologists from the Ministry of Education collected contextual information to assess the cultural capital of first-graders.
One of the main criteria is the number of books in the family library. It turns out that schools with a higher status are attended by children who use the richest book collections. The children of wealthy parents in Moscow, if they do not prefer institutions in London and Paris, study in Moscow gymnasiums and lyceums. The rest - in ordinary comprehensive schools.
Education
The second criterion is the education of the parents. In such schools, the mothers of students have more than seventy percent higher education. Fathers are much more likely to work in more prestigious jobs and leadership positions. In ordinary schools, the situation is completely different. But for some reason, it turns out that about seventy percent of wealthy families almost completely lose their fortune when their children start running the business.
And grandchildren squander the fortune of their grandfathers, if their parents did not completely do it. And it's not even about knowledge. The younger generation, who grew up with everything ready, is not able to feel the responsibility that their parents felt when developing their business. They are brought up most often as party people. Rich children - poor parents, it already sounds almost an axiom.
Why is that
These children have everything, and therefore they don’t want anything, they don’t need to strain to achieve certain benefits. They had governesses and nannies, not kindergartens and nurseries. They rode in hot countries and did not hear about pioneer or sports camps. By the time of adolescence, they speak better English than Russian, but they do both badly, because vocabulary is small, and there is no experience of wide communication.
They are sick of the colossal prospects of Cambridge and Harvard, they are bored. Their adapted to modern world parents - rich, successful, correct, ambitious and educated people, in every way try to reveal the inclinations and abilities of their children, not sparing the money invested in education and upbringing, as well as attention, strength and parental love.
Life lessons
Excessive manifestations of care meet on their way most often a complete lack of goals, desires, and ability to work. Children are mostly sociable and quite intellectually developed, but passive in all manifestations. They do not have a value system, and therefore it is difficult to find motivation and direct the child towards one goal or another.
They know exactly what they don't want - to make an effort. Such children need difficulties in childhood to overcome them, to develop independence. A person acquires his best qualities along with victories over difficult life circumstances, and the “golden” children of rich parents in Russia and abroad are deprived of this. The positive lessons of life, unfortunately, are much worse absorbed than the negative ones. And too much comfort will definitely slow down development.
Problem of choice
Knowledge and skills cannot be bought; it is not a ready-made computer program. Efforts are needed to perform routine work in huge volumes. There are, say, in England expensive boarding houses for the elite, which even in domestic attitude lives there very ascetically, with a hard disciplinary procedure and the most comprehensive curriculum. There, the crown princes wash toilets and cook their own porridge, which does not interfere with academic success at all, it even helps. And it is very in vain that not all rich Russians take this experience into account.
Them own world almost completely closed, children leave it for a short time and under supervision - to visit a music or art school, theater, and so on. Otherwise, the life of the heirs of capital is extremely structured, despite the desire to satisfy the needs of the child, down to the most miserable. They are entitled to the best: personal and the best tennis and swimming instructors, foreign languages and other activities, everything is planned out to the minute. And some children fall into this routine, becoming adults ahead of time, knowing exactly what they want.
