Putin has 2 secret sons who live in isolation and extreme luxury, report alleges

“Their dates of birth are known only to their closest relatives.”

They lead isolated lives on Putin’s luxury estate in Valdai, northwest of Moscow, where they are surrounded by tutors, nannies, sports coaches, and security agents, the Dossier Center said.

According to a 2021 report by associates of Alexander Navalny, the Russian dissident who died in suspicious circumstances in January, Valdai is Putin’s “personal favorite” of his properties.

The report says that those visiting the Valdai estate, including children, must isolate for two weeks. Putin himself is reported to have insisted on this measure at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic for those coming into contact with him.

According to the report, the children spend their winters skiing in Sochi, on the Black Sea, where Putin has another vast palace. Their summers are spent on yachts, confined to Russian waters in the wake of the Ukraine war, it said.

“They have to play mostly alone or with adults… They only see their parents late at night, and their peers — mainly during big celebrations,” the Dossier Center wrote.

They are said to have private jets, armored trains, helicopters, or yachts at their disposal.

As with their father, security around them is tight, the Dossier Center reported.

“Like Vladimir Putin, his sons have their own mugs and drink only from them,” it says, while security officials “are always close to the children.”

The investigation claimed to have uncovered posts on a website that offers tutoring services for elite Russians advertising positions teaching the boys.

The ad requests tutors who can teach English and accept that they will be unable to leave the isolated estate where the children live.

The pay would be $8,540 a month, the report said.

South African tutors are preferred because they are seen as less negative toward Russia in the wake of the Ukraine war, the report said.

The report says that the children rarely see Putin, but that he “treats his sons even more reverently than he once did his daughters.”

It said that Putin is “the only one who can speak sternly to them.”

“None of them risk arguing with the children, so the boys are growing up believing they are exceptional. Any whim is fulfilled, and they view all the residences where they live as their personal property,” the report says.

It says that Ivan is a Disney enthusiast and likes to dress up as Disney characters. The Russian president, it says, disapproves and prefers Soviet-era cartoons.

Occasionally, Putin and his elder son play ice hockey together on a special private ice hockey rink on the Valdai estate, the report says.

Putin has been the commanding figure in Russia politics since 2000, and analysts have long speculated about who he may choose to empower as his successor.