Away is good: The children of Russian celebrities living in America

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Every parent wants to offer the best to their child. Someone sees it in education, and someone else sees it in life in America.

Some celebrities like Sasha Zvereva or Maria Mashkova moved to the United States with the whole family. However, today’s heroes of our selection once sent their children to live abroad, while they themselves remained in Russia, because there is work here.

Many don’t understand what this life in different countries and this endless separation is for (given the strained relations between our countries, covid restrictions and other “buts” that prevent frequent communication), but the stars are sure to have done the right thing.

Vera Brezhneva’s eldest daughter, Sonya Kiperman, has been living in the United States away from her parents for several years. In 2019, the girl enters a prestigious college in Los Angeles, so she does not see her mother as often as she would like. Even her birthday in February 2022, Sonya must have missed – because of her studies. However, it is clear that Kiperman loves life abroad and, they say, she will stay there to live after graduation.

Anna Sedokova’s youngest daughter, Monica Chernyavskaya, could be happy living with her mother in Russia, only the daughter is an American citizen and obeys American laws. When the conflict between Anna and her ex-husband Maxim Chernyavsky reached the court, the judge decided that Monica should live in her homeland, so Anna sees her daughter extremely rarely – once every few months. And he is very worried about it.

Tonya Khudyakova, 15, is the daughter of a famous Russian director who has lived most of her life in Miami and recently moved to Los Angeles. The girl studies at a local school and travels a lot around the world in international competitions – she is a dancer. On the Web, Tonya is often criticized for her too “adult” content on Instagram (the social network is recognized as extremist and banned in the Russian Federation) and parents are blamed for this: they say they neglected her.

In 2009, Evgenia Brik and Valery Todorovsky became parents: their daughter Zoya was born. By then, the couple had already decided to move to Los Angeles, and the girl was born in America, where she remained to live: her parents wanted their daughter to grow up in a sunny climate, breathing sea air. Nevertheless, Evgenia and Valery themselves had to return to Russia, where work awaited them. All these years they have lived in two countries. And in 2022 Evgenia Brik died: the actress hid her illness for many years.

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The only daughter of Leonid Agutin and Angelica Varum Elizabeth was born in 1999. Already at the age of 4, parents decided to send their daughter to live in Miami. Since then, Lisa has been living in the United States, and in 2021 she received citizenship at all, which she is incredibly happy about. Agutina has a boyfriend in America and she plans to build her life there. Parents, like all these years, occasionally come to visit their daughter.

Erika Kiknadze decided many years ago that she wanted to study and live in America. Mom Natalya Kiknadze and stepfather Ivan Urgant made up her mind. Parents and daughter rarely see each other, but they support each other a lot and are in constant contact. In the United States, Erica works as a model and also runs an online vintage clothing store.

Few people remember that before Regina Burd, Sergei Zhukov was already married. His first wife in 2000 was Elena Dobyndo. A year later, their daughter Daria was born. Alas, family life coincided with the growing popularity of the Hands Up! group, and the spouses’ marriage cracked – in 2005 they broke up. Soon Elena decided to move to the United States with her daughter. Dasha, who is already 20, still lives in Chicago and sees her father once every few months.

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Igor is the adopted son of Tatyana Ovsienko and her ex-husband Vladimir Dubovitsky. After the divorce, Vladimir went to live in the United States, and when Igor’s teenage rebellion made itself felt, Tatyana sent her son to his father. As a result, the guy liked the foreign country and he stayed there to live: he met his future wife, became a father. Tatyana does not hide the fact that she misses her son very much, but she is happy that he has found his place in life.

For the first time Kirill Safonov married a girl named Elena. In 1994 they became the parents of their daughter Anastasia, and after the divorce Elena went abroad with her child – to Israel. Later, Anastasia moved to the United States, where she met her future husband, Irish financier Stephen Murphy. Since then, the question of where to live and raise a family has not arisen for the daughter of a Russian actor.

Alexei and Yulia Navalny have two children – daughter Daria and son Zakhar. Dasha is already 20 years old, and since 2019 she has been a student at Stanford University and lives there, in California. It is not known if the girl will continue to live in the United States after graduation (and it will happen in 2023), but so far she feels very confident, despite the fact that she lives far from his family.

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