Maria Vorontsova Biography – Maria Vorontsova Wiki
Maria Vorontsova also referred to as Maria Faassen, is a Russian pediatric endocrinologist. She is the eldest child of Russian president Vladimir Putin. She studied biology at Saint Petersburg State University and is a graduate of medicine at Moscow State University in 2011. With Ivan Ivanovich Dedov as her advisor, she was a Ph.D. 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.
Between 2013 and 2015, she co-authored five studies including “The status of blood antioxidant system in patients with active acromegaly”. 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.
On April 6, 2022, because of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Vorontsova was sanctioned by the United States Department of the Treasury due to her being an adult child of Vladimir Putin. The United States Department of the Treasury stated, “Vorontsova leads state-funded programs that have received billions of dollars from the Kremlin toward genetics research and are personally overseen by Putin.”
She attended a German school in Dresden, East Germany, while her family lived there in the 1980s. After her family relocated to Leningrad in the spring of 1991, she attended Peterschule, 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.
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 started her university studies, enrolling together with Katerina as first-year students.
Maria Vorontsova Age
She was born on April 28, 1985, in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
Maria Vorontsova Husband
She is married to Dutch businessman Jorrit Joost Faassen. In 2013, they were living in a penthouse atop the highest residential building in Voorschoten in the Netherlands. In 2014, Dutch residents called for her to be expelled from the country after Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot down by pro-Russian rebels in Ukraine. In 2015, Vorontsova and Faassen were reported to be living in Moscow.
Maria Vorontsova Parents
She was born in Leningrad, Russian SFSR (now Saint Petersburg, Russia). She is the eldest daughter of Vladimir Putin and Lyudmila Putina (née Shkrebneva). She has a younger sibling, a sister named Katerina Tikhonova.
