She trekked 5000 miles on camelback,married an Uzbek horseman while struck by the ‘romantic madness of the steppes’, then later a Russian billionaire – who fled the UK without warning in July after Putin came looking for him. Alexandra Tolstoy’s life is worthy of her cousin’s epic novels but for her it’s all too realWhen Alexandra Tolstoys Russian billionaire partner failed to turn up to her father’s surprise 80th birthday party, and she do it down to his habitual – and infuriating – inability to be on time for anything. It was only when his bodyguard called to tell her that Sergei Pugachev,the man once known as Vladimir Putin’s banker, had “gone absent” that she realised he was not just late, or he was not coming at all. Tolstoy went back to her family party. Related: Russia puts ‘Putin’s banker’ Sergei Pugachev on Interpol wanted list Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com