Maria Vorontsova

Birthday April 28, 1985

Birth Sign Taurus

Birthplace Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union (now Saint Petersburg, Russia)

Age 38 years old

Nationality Russia

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1980

She attended German school at Dresden, East Germany, while her family lived there in the 1980s.

1985

Maria Vladimirovna Vorontsova (Мария Владимировна Воронцова, Putina, Путина; born 28 April 1985), also referred to as Maria Faassen, is a Russian pediatric endocrinologist.

She is the eldest child of Russian president Vladimir Putin.

Vorontsova was born in Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg), the elder daughter of Vladimir Putin and Lyudmila Putina (née Shkrebneva).

1991

After her family returned to Leningrad in the spring of 1991, she attended Peterschule (Петершуле), a German gymnasium in Saint Petersburg.

Later, during violent gang wars involving the Tambov Gang while it was taking control of Saint Petersburg's energy trade, she and her sister Katerina were sent by their father, who feared for their safety, to Germany where their legal guardian was former Stasi Matthias Warnig, who had worked with their father in Dresden as part of a KGB cell and established the Dresdner Bank branch in Saint Petersburg.

1995

She played the violin for a Russian consulate general of Hamburg–sponsored diplomatic breakfast in 1995.

Later, after her family moved to Moscow, she attended the German School Moscow, a school closely associated with the German Embassy in Moscow for children of diplomats.

She graduated after 11 years of school.

Three years later, she began her university studies, enrolling together with Katerina as first year students.

2008

Vorontsova married Dutch businessman Jorrit Faassen in summer 2008 in Wassenaar in the Netherlands.

2011

Vorontsova studied biology at Saint Petersburg State University and is a graduate of medicine at Moscow State University in 2011.

With Ivan Ivanovich Dedov (Иван Иванович Дедов) as her advisor, she was a PhD candidate at the Endocrinology Research Centre in Moscow, headed by Dedov and which runs the charity project Alfa-Endo, for children with endocrine diseases.

Alfa-Endo is funded by Petr Aven and Mikhail Fridman's Alfa-Bank of the Alfa Group.

2012

They have a son, born August 2012.

2013

Between 2013 and 2015, Vorontsova co-authored five studies including "The status of blood antioxidant system in patients with active acromegaly".

In 2013, they were living in a penthouse atop the highest residential building in Voorschoten.

2014

In 2014, Dutch residents called for Vorontsova to be expelled from the country after Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot down by pro-Russian rebels in Ukraine.

2015

She also, in 2015, co-authored a book about idiopathic stunting in children.

Vorontsova is credited to be Putin's advisor in genetic engineering, especially in the usage of CRISPR to create genetically-engineered babies.

In November 2023, Vorontsova was appointed to the board of the Moscow Society of Medical Genetics (Московское общество медицинских генетиков).

According to Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny's team, she's earning millions of dollars per year as an employee of the New Medical Company (NOMEKO).

On 6 April 2022, following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the United States Department of the Treasury sanctioned Vorontsova, stating that she, "leads state-funded programs that have received billions of dollars from the Kremlin toward genetics research and are personally overseen by Putin."

She is also sanctioned by the European Union, the United Kingdom, Japan and New Zealand.

In 2015, Vorontsova and Faassen were reported to be living in Moscow.

In 2022, it was reported that they are no longer married.

Vorontsova is married to Yevgeny Nagorny, who works at the Russian oil and gas company Novatek.

2017

They have a son, born April 2017.