In biographical articles on the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation, one can find a photograph that allegedly depicts his ex-wife. We checked whether it is really Anastasia Budyonny.

The personal life of Dmitry Peskov, a press secretary of the Russian President Vladimir Putin, has many publications in the Russian-language segment of the Internet. A considerable place in them is devoted to the first wife of the state official and the mother of his eldest son Nikolai - Anastasia. It is reported that she is the native granddaughter of the famous commander of the time of the Civil War of Semyon Budyonny. Often such sections are accompanied by a photograph of a brunette with a tail, mysteriously looking away from the camera. This picture can be found on resources such as Brestnote, SPLETNIK.ru, Tvcenter.ru, "Zen" OBOZREVATEL, Irma Stream, Freesmi.by, "Superstar","Patrioti Ukrainian" And "Seas and oceans".

Although on Official website The Kremlin shows only the professional part of the biography of Dmitry Peskov, the State Information Agency TASS In his certificate, gives a little more information. Indeed, the current marriage with the skater Tatyana Navka for Peskov is the third, and before that he was married first to Anastasia Budyonny, and then to Ekaterina Solocinskaya. TASS indicates that Anastasia is the granddaughter of the Soviet Marshal Semyon Budyonny. The son of Dmitry Peskov from his first marriage, Nikolai, did not deny his belonging to the famous surname, in a recent interview “Komsomolskaya Pravda".

Investigation The Insider in 2016 revealed other details about the first wife of a Russian official. In 1968, Her mother of Hive married Mikhail, the youngest son of Budyonny. A year later, their daughter Anastasia was born. Anastasia created a family in 1988 with Dmitry Peskov, then still a student at the Institute of Asia and Africa of Moscow State University. After the divorce, she married the Englishman and left for London with her son, who has long Wore The surname of the stepfather is Chowles. The last husband of the granddaughter of the commander before her death in 2012 was a man named Christopher Drake. Some of these facts Confirmed An investigation of Alexei Navalny published in 2017.

The Insider material also provides a photograph of Anastasia Budyonny. When exactly she was made, is not specified.

In the photo we see a woman who has some common features with the heroine of the picture of interest to us, but at the same time it is difficult to draw any conclusions here due to the presence of large sunglasses. Persons recognition service Pimeyes When working with this photo, it offers similar pictures from sites like the material listed at the beginning. All relevant articles are devoted to Anastasia Budyonny-Peskova-Chules-Dreak.

But an attempt to recognize the face of a mysterious girl without glasses leads us to numerous sports resources. The picture is a Russian tennis player, the former first racket of the world of Dinara Safina.

Screenshot from the online service Pimeyes

The same photo, only without digital processing, decorates profile Tennis players on the website Tennis.ru.

And thanks to the Getty Images photobank, you can to knowthat the author of the photograph is Matthew Stockman and it was taken on October 25, 2009 in Doha, at a press conference before the start of the final WTA tournament, where Dinara Safin was sown under the first number.

What resource was the first to give a picture of the athlete for the image of the ex -wife of Dmitry Peskov is not known for certain. Obviously, this oversight (or intentional forgery, which is less likely) was repeated by other publications specializing in the secular chronicle. Nowadays, the error continues to wander from the site to the site, despite the fairly recognizable appearance of the Russian tennis player.

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