The wedding of Xenia Sobchak and Maxim. The love story of Ksenia Sobchak and Maxim Vitorgan
0 February 2, 2013, 02:54 PM 
Yesterday, the Runet literally stirred up the news and - in the evening, the first pictures from the wedding celebration appeared on the network, and the guests of the event - - began to post pictures on Instagram and congratulate the newlyweds.
Today, new details of the wedding party, which took place in one of the capital's restaurants on Frunzenskaya Embankment, have become known, which blogger Kartoshechka helped put together.
It turns out that many guests did not know that today they were invited to a wedding, and thought they were going to a movie premiere.
When Ksenia and Maxim appeared in front of the guests in wedding dresses, many could not believe that the newlyweds had played them. And some even went home to change clothes to choose more formal outfits.
The ceremony took place with the blessing of the parents of the bride and groom - mother Ksenia Lyudmila Narusova and father Maxim Emmanuel Vitorgan and his wife Irina came to the party. Parents, who have now become one big family, embraced with smiles and congratulated each other on a joyful event. Maxim's close friends were also seen among the guests - a member of the "Quartet I" Rostislav Khait and Sergey Belogolovtsev.
At the evening, an incendiary program awaited the couple's relatives and friends: however, the musicians themselves - Gluck "oZa and Alexei Kortnev - claimed that they did not know who they would perform for. During the release of Gluck" oZy, Ksenia herself took up the microphone and sang a song for her husband " I wanted a groom" - to the applause of the guests and the embarrassed smiles of Maxim's family.
Bride Ksenia Sobchak
Natalia Ionova posted her photo from the wedding of Ksenia Sobchak
A buffet was prepared for the guests, the main decoration of which was selected black caviar.
They also say that there were no traditions observed: the bride did not throw the bouquet, she and the groom did not rehearse the dance in advance, but the artists in white outfits and confetti, which fired at the dance floor from a special gun, looked very gentle.
At the height of the evening, the police raided the restaurant - it is not known what attracted the attention of law enforcement officers: a cluster of photographers in front of the entrance or the "oppositional" reputation of the bride. Convinced that the holiday is held without violating the law, the police left the hall.
As a result, the festive extravaganza lasted about five hours (although single cries of "Bitter!" were heard almost until dawn). The flowers given to the young people had to be taken away in a separate car - for the purpose of secrecy, the cars were equipped with curtains on the windows. For the same purpose, at the end of the evening, a girl in a bride's veil and glasses came out of the main entrance - Sobchak's assistant turned out to be the "fake Xenia", who diverted attention from the true hero of the occasion.
Ksenia herself secretly went out through an emergency exit to break through a dense cordon of paparazzi, and as a consolation for her fans, posted a photo of her and Maxim's wedding rings online.
Modest bride Ksenia Sobchak
She continues to host the Sobchak Live program on the Dozhd TV channel, maintains a blog on Instagram, and also holds the post of editor-in-chief in the fashion magazine L'Officiel. In October 2017, Sobchak announced her intention to run for president, replacing the column "against all" for voters.
Childhood and youth of Ksenia Sobchak
The famous TV presenter Ksenia Anatolyevna Sobchak was born in St. Petersburg on November 5, 1981. Father - co-author of the current Constitution of the Russian Federation, the first mayor of post-Soviet St. Petersburg (headed the city from 1991 to 1996) Anatoly Sobchak (died in 2000). Mother - a senator from the Republic of Tuva since 2002, a former State Duma deputy Lyudmila Narusova. But at the time of the birth of their daughter, the spouses were teachers who did not think about a political career: Anatoly Alexandrovich - from the Faculty of Law of the Leningrad State University, Lyudmila Borisovna - from the Faculty of History of the Leningrad Institute of Culture. Krupskaya. 
Sobchak has an older (16 years old) half-sister Maria, born in Anatoly Sobchak's first marriage to philologist Nonna Gadzyuk. She is a lawyer by education, she worked in the St. Petersburg Bar Association.
Ksenia first studied at the "English" school No. 185, but she received a certificate already at the school at the Herzen State Pedagogical University. In parallel with her studies, the girl studied at the ballet studio and attended the Hermitage art school. The teacher, composer Vladislav Uspensky, who was engaged in the musical education of the girl and taught her to play the piano, came home to the Sobchaks. Ksyusha studied excellently, but she was the purest humanitarian: physics and chemistry were given to her with difficulty. She read a lot, including the works of ancient Greek historians: Suetonius, Plutarch, Tacitus, knew all the sculptures in the Summer Garden by heart.
Close girls noted that she was an extremely naughty and impudent child, often disrupted lessons. In addition, Ksyusha has always been sharp on the tongue. For example, when Anatoly Sobchak once tried to flog a naughty daughter, she shouted: “Me too, democrat!” However, Ksyusha always easily found a common language with her father, but relations with her mother were tense.
Interview with 11-year-old Ksenia Sobchak
Ksenia Sobchak has known the second President of Russia Vladimir Putin since childhood. In his youth, Vladimir Vladimirovich was Sobchak's adviser on foreign relations.
In 1998, she became a student at the Faculty of International Relations at St. Petersburg State University, but literally three years later, due to moving to Moscow, she had to transfer to a similar specialty at MGIMO. A year later, after receiving a bachelor's degree (her thesis was an analysis of the presidential regime in Russia and France), Sobchak entered the magistracy at the Faculty of Political Science, which she graduated in 2004, after which she went to graduate school, which she never completed.
Scandalous person and socialite
Fame came to Ksenia Sobchak at the age of 16 - it was then that she first appeared on the pages of the Russian tabloid Express Courier, which reported that the daughter of the mayor of St. Petersburg had been kidnapped. In 1998, 17-year-old Ksyusha was credited with an affair with 43-year-old businessman Umar Dzhabrailov, then with publisher Vyacheslav Leibman, after that with Alexander Shustorovich, also a publisher. In 2001, the media reported about about $ 600,000 worth of jewelry stolen from a girl's apartment (according to the documents, allegedly belonged to Leibman).All scandalous videos of Ksenia Sobchak
And although relatives tried in every possible way to protect their daughter from such attacks by the press, it seemed that the attention of journalists only fuels Xenia's passion for public provocations. The girl was a frequenter of all secular parties, her name often appeared in drug scandals, she also managed to star in a photo shoot for men's gloss.
Lyudmila Narusova, said that Xenia's shocking roots go back to childhood, and she was sure that her daughter's behavior was temporary and would soon pass.
Ksenia herself later admitted that she was horrified by the “cocaine glamor” of the 2000s, but she reconciled and mimicked fashion trends, because the image of the “blonde in chocolate” went with a bang.
I was horrified by all this. But is it somehow necessary to live and survive in fashionable Moscow? Soon I was trying to come to terms with reality with Wonderbra silicone liners and pink corsets.
Dom-2 and other TV projects
In 2004, Ksenia Sobchak became the co-host of Ksenia Borodina on the controversial Dom-2 project. It should be noted that the impudent girl, who does not go into her pocket for a word, fits perfectly into the format of an ambiguous reality show, which brought Xenia not only fame, but also a huge amount of criticism. So, in 2005, the Duma Health Committee sent a statement to the Prosecutor General's Office with a request to bring Sobchak to criminal responsibility (with the wording "for pimping and pandering").At the dawn of her career, Sobchak hosted the scandalous show "Dom-2"
With the growth of popularity and interest in her person, Ksenia began to be invited as a host by other TV channels. Later, she hosted the programs "Who Doesn't Want to Be a Millionaire" on TNT, "The Last Hero" and "Two Stars" on the First, "Blonde in Chocolate", "Top Model in Russian" on Muz-TV.
In 2008 and 2010, Ksenia Sobchak, along with Ivan Urgant, was the host of the Muz-TV Prize. Thanks to Ksenia's sociability and eloquence, programs with her participation have always aroused the genuine interest of the audience, although - often - with a minus sign.
Ksenia Sobchak recites a poem about an inflatable version of herself
By this time, her style had changed from glamorous to more delicate and feminine - "a la russe". Not the last role in the change of image was played by her friendship with the designer Ulyana Sergienko.
Soon Ksenia Sobchak became the host of the radio program "Weekdays Barabaki" (later renamed "Barabaki and the Gray Wolf") on the radio station "Silver Rain". In the spring of 2010, the girl of the talk show "Freedom of Thought" on Channel Five, but after several episodes left the project, because, according to her, "everything slipped into a discussion of utility tariffs." Then, for six months, she was the co-host of the entertainment program “Girls” on the Russia-1 TV channel, created as an alternative to the ProjectorParisHilton Channel One project. Xenia's company was Marina Golub, Alla Dovlatova and Olga Shelest. After the 24th issue of the first season, Ksenia left the program after the scandal with Vladimir Solovyov on the air.
Ksenia Sobchak in the program "Girls": scandal with Vladimir Solovyov
In addition to the role of the host, Ksenia tried herself with great pleasure in new endeavors, for example, she participated in the show "Circus with the Stars" and starred in Timati's video for their joint song "Let's Dance".
In early July 2012, Ksenia Sobchak left the Dom-2 project, stating the following:
I left because I internally outgrew this stage, and also because I find it impossible to combine social activities with the conduct of such a show. I used to think that it was enough to reflect reality, and people would be horrified, but now I understand that this is not enough, you need not just reflect - you need to create reality in order to educate those who are still included in the disgusting matrix of lies and indifference of our society.
Actor career
Ksenia Sobchak received her first film role in 2003, playing a journalist in the film Thieves and Prostitutes. In 2006, the film "Chocolate Blonde" was released, in which Paris Hilton played the main role. Ksenia dubbed her character's lines into Russian. In 2007, Sobchak got the role of a prostitute in the film by Garik Kharlamov and Mikhail Galustyan "The Best Movie". 
In 2008, Ksenia starred in the film "Hitler Kaput" as Adolf Hitler's mistress. In the same year, films such as “Beauty Requires ...”, “Nobody Knows About Sex 2”, “Europe-Asia” and “Artifact” were released, where the TV presenter appeared in episodic roles. In 2012-2013, she was involved in such films as "A Short Course in a Happy Life", "Rzhevsky against Napoleon", "Term", "Affair with Cocaine" and "Corporate Party".
Ksenia Sobchak crashed into Euroset
The girl is also connected with Euroset by the fact that in 2010 she acquired 0.1 percent of the shares from the owner of the company Alexander Mamut for one million dollars. She is also one of the three co-owners of the Bublik cafe on Tverskoy Boulevard in Moscow. She invested about 17 million rubles in this institution.
Books
Ksenia Sobchak wrote five books, one of them co-authored with Oksana Robsky (Marriage to a Millionaire, or Marriage of the Highest Grade (2009). The first printed work was the book Ksenia Sobchak's Stylish Things. titled "Masks, glitter, curlers. The ABC of beauty". 
In 2010, the "Encyclopedia of a sucker" was released - a book that defines a "loch" as "a person for whom self-presentation is above all else." In the same year, together with Ksenia Sokolova, a collection of interviews was published, compiled on the basis of articles for the GQ magazine - the book Philosophy in the Boudoir.
Scandals
Ksenia Sobchak has repeatedly become the culprit or participant in various scandals in the media. In 2008, she had a fight on the radio "Mayak" with the host of the program "Cult of Personality" Katya Gordon. During the interview, a skirmish broke out between them, which then continued on the Internet, as a result of which Gordon was fired from the radio station.Ksenia Sobchak vs. Katya Gordon on Mayak radio
In 2011, Sobchak grappled (in a figurative sense) with Anastasia Volochkova. Sobchak participated in the filming of the program "Let them talk", dedicated to the anniversary of the ballerina. This transfer was the starting point, after which Anastasia left the United Russia party, swearing at both United Russia and Sobchak.
Conflict between Ksenia Sobchak and Anastasia Volochkova
Political activity
Until a certain point, the name of Ksenia Sobchak was associated by the majority exclusively with “yellow” scandals and “Dom-2”, until in 2006 the girl announced the creation of the youth movement “Everyone is free!”. According to Sobchak's plan, the main goal of the organization was to be "a fun and easy fight for rights", but these plans remained unfulfilled. 
Ksenia Sobchak began to actively demonstrate her civic position in 2011. In December 2011, she actively rallied against the falsification of elections to the Duma, in March 2012 she participated in the rally "For Fair Elections", and on May 8, the girl, along with Alexei Navalny, was detained at the Nikitsky Gate. After that, her career leading on state channels went downhill. First of all, she was excluded from the list of hosts of the Muz-TV anniversary award. In the summer of 2012, a search was carried out in the apartment of Ksenia Sobchak with the seizure of significant sums of money, but the investigation did not find anything illegal in the origin of the funds, so they were returned to the girl.
The experience gained by Ksenia over the years of work on television helped in the public expression of her political views. So, in 2012, the first issue of the talk show “The State Department with Ksenia Sobchak” was released on the MTV-Russia channel, which was called “Where is Putin Leading Us?”. It was attended by the coordinator of the Left Front Sergei Udaltsov, a member of the Solidarity movement Ilya Yashin and the head of the movement In Defense of the Khimki Forest Yevgenia Chirikova. After the first release, the show was closed by decision of the channel, although low ratings were announced as the official reason for the cancellation. Two weeks later, the first series of the State Department-2 program was published as part of the Internet version of the Snob magazine.
The husband of Ksenia Sobchak, Maxim Vitorgan, is the first and only husband of the TV personality. Maxim himself has a third marriage with Ksenia, but this does not bother any of the lovers.
Maksim
The husband of Ksenia Sobchak is the son of a famous and popular actor of the Soviet era. The guy grew up in an acting environment, attended performances from childhood, loved the theater and, naturally, followed in the footsteps of his parents. Maxim Vitorgan graduated from GITIS, worked in various Moscow theaters, tried to act in films. The craving for playing in the theater is still stronger, Maxim admits. The husband of Ksenia Sobchak also plays in the cinema, but he loves the theater more. Today's success was brought to the actor by shooting on the radio", "What Men Think About". In addition, Maxim hosts children's shows on television and feels comfortable in this role.
Ksenia
The infamous TV presenter Ksenia Sobchak became famous in the world of show business for her bright character, boldness of views and shocking behavior. The daughter of St. Petersburg politician Anatoly Sobchak, Ksyusha, from childhood was a member of the highest circles of society, grew up surrounded by famous people and absorbed the lifestyle of a public person. She began her career on television with the role of the host on the TV show "Dom-2", then began to appear in other projects. The husband of Ksenia Sobchak met her on one of the programs, which was hosted by a girl.
Acquaintance
Ksenia Sobchak's husband Maxim Vitorgan first saw his future wife on a television project, where he came with his girlfriend. Ksenia led the program on which the couple met, not yet assuming that in the future their relationship would lead to marriage. Intersecting in the course of work, meeting at opposition rallies, which Ksenia did not miss at that time, the young people realized that they wanted to be together forever. Maxim made an offer to Ksenia, by all the rules, kneeling down and presenting a ring, to which the girl replied: "Yes." No one, even the closest friends of the young, knew that the lovers decided to get married. The wedding was kept in the strictest confidence, before the ceremony they even changed the registry office, in which they were going to sign, because it became known about the leakage of information to the yellow press.
Wedding
The wedding ceremony took place in secret, as planned. The newlyweds announced their decision to get married and the wedding that had already taken place to the public during the premiere of the film in Moscow, when all those present thought that they were invited to the premiere, and not to the celebration of the celebrations on the occasion of the marriage. The news that Maxim Vitorgan is now the husband of Ksenia Sobchak, a photo from the wedding, shocked the public. Rumors immediately spread that the marriage was concluded by calculation, Ksenia needed this marriage in order to assert herself in the status of a married woman, and Maxim coveted the condition of his wife. But days fly by, years run, and the couple is together and is not going to leave. Premieres, exhibitions, work, career - everything goes on as usual with the Vitorgan-Sobchak couple, and all the gossip subsides without finding confirmation.
Children
No matter how hard the journalists try, it is not yet possible to consider the outstanding tummy under Xenia's outfits. About whether the couple plans to have children, Sobchak always answers evasively: “We don’t plan yet, but when we want, we don’t know.” Maxim Vitorgan has children from his first marriage - a son and a daughter, so whether the current wife will give birth to another child is not important. So far, the couple is equipping their life, attending social events, traveling and giving themselves up to work. The recent acquisition of the family - an apartment - according to Maxim's father, Emmanuil Vitorgan, includes a children's room. This fact further fueled the curiosity of journalists, but no one has yet been able to get to the bottom of the truth. Remembering the past statements of the TV personality, we can conclude that she is not going to become a mother, but these words were heard in the past, before marriage. Now life has changed, Ksenia Sobchak has become a married and sedate lady. Husband, children are the main values and the meaning of female happiness, which the former scandalous blonde is now convinced of from her own experience. Therefore, nothing unusual will happen if the couple suddenly announces that the child has already been born. Of course, it will be more difficult to repeat the experience with a secret marriage, hiding the pregnancy, but with a strong desire, such an operation can also be performed.
Text: Veronika Poltavskaya
Photo: ITAR-TASS, Starface.ru, instagram, twitter
On February 1, 31-year-old Ksenia Sobchak and 40-year-old Maxim Vitorgan got married. Since the celebration took place in an atmosphere of the strictest secrecy, its details became known only now.
Ksenia Sobchak's mother, Lyudmila Narusova, said in an interview with the Ekho Moskvy radio station that she had learned about a month ago, but did not tell anyone. The ceremony took place in a completely empty registry office. It was attended only by an employee of the registry office, who registered the marriage of the couple, the newlyweds and their parents. For the celebration, the bride chose a delicate cream-colored dress from her friend -.
“This is not a hasty decision. Close people knew about this a month ago, she just carefully concealed it from the press. Ksyusha wanted it to be her holiday, not the paparazzi. As a mother, I accept any of her choices - the main thing is that she is well, ”Russian News Service quotes Narusova.
The groom's father Emmanuil Vitorgan is pleased with his son's choice. “Of course, we want grandchildren, even though we already have great-grandchildren. The wedding was a pleasant surprise for me. Irina is also glad that she has such a daughter-in-law, ”Vitorgan said in an interview with StarHit magazine.
We went to the restaurant of the club "Wick" to celebrate the wedding. Only relatives and close friends of the newlyweds gathered there, in particular: Veronika Belotserkovskaya, Rostislav Khait, Alexei Kortnev, Alexei Navalny and others. Singer Gluk "oZa sang her hit "Wedding" for the newlyweds. After a while, the bride came on stage and sang the song "I wanted a groom, so I flew."
By the end of the celebration, a crowd of photographers was already waiting for Xenia and Maxim at the entrance to the restaurant. To divert their attention, a girl similar to Sobchak came out of the building, hiding behind a veil. While the paparazzi were filming her, the real bride went out with her chosen one through the back door located in the basement.
By the way, talk about the wedding of Ksenia Sobchak even reached distant America. The New York Times wrote about the marriage of the TV presenter. However, the article refers not so much to Xenia's wedding as to her relationship with oppositionist Ilya Yashin. The author of the publication calls them none other than "Romeo and Juliet of the Revolution." At the end of the article, The New York Times correspondent gives an answer to the rightly arising question - why didn’t Sobchak choose Yashin? “She could not live her whole life with the revolutionary Yashin. She decided to have a real family, and maybe become a mother. It is impossible to dedicate your whole life to fighting,” the newspaper quoted one of the political commentators as saying.
