The majority of Russians associate the surname Matvienko with the former governor of the Northern capital and the current head of the Federation Council, Valentina Ivanovna. However, her son Sergei is a no less famous person. In the 90s, he became involved in a criminal case. Later, the young man took up his mind and started promoting his own business, thanks to which he managed to become a billionaire. In addition to financial success, Sergei Matvienko became famous for his novels with beautiful women. Previously, his wife was the popular singer Zara, and today he is married to former fashion model Yulia Zaitseva.
Family
The future billionaire was born on May 5, 1973 in the family of Valentina Ivanovna and Vladimir Vasilyevich Matvienko. He was born in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg). Sergey's parents are graduates of the Leningrad Chemical Pharmaceutical Institute. His mother was already an active public figure then. Soon after graduating from the institute, she became the head of the department, and after 6years - the first secretary of the district committee of the Komsomol. Sergei's father worked as a teacher at the Leningrad Military Medical Academy. It is clear that a child in such a family had to grow up as a highly educated person. And so it happened. Sergei Matvienko received two higher educations. The son of Valentina Ivanovna has diplomas in popular speci alties: "International Economics" and "Finance and Credit".
Business
Sergey began his career in 1992 as a manager in the Augustina investment checking fund. After working in it for 3 years, the young financier in 1995 established his own company, Northern Fairy Tale. This was followed by the founding of the limited liability company "Architect". For some time, Sergei Vladimirovich Matvienko was listed as an employee of the Inkombank and Lenvneshtorg banks. In 2003, he was appointed Vice President of Bank Saint Petersburg. The son of Valentina Matvienko held this post until 2010. In parallel with this, since 2004, Sergey Vladimirovich began to act as vice president of another large financial institution - Vneshtorgbank. After 2 years, he became the founder of the closed joint-stock company VTB Capital. Investment projects and real estate of Vneshtorgbank fell under the management of the established company. In 2010, he was appointed General Director of VTB-Development. Among other things, Matvienko owns the Empire company, which owns 28 subsidiaries and is engaged in activities in the field of cleaning, construction, media market and transportation. In the spring of 2012, Sergei Vladimirovich began to supervisepromising domestic eSports project Moscow Five.
In 2011, Matvienko entered the list of the richest people in Russia. According to the rating of billionaires, compiled by the domestic edition of Finance, he took 486th place in the list of 500 possible. Experts estimated his assets at almost 5 billion rubles.
A dark spot in the past of a billionaire
Today Sergey Matvienko, whose photo is presented in this article, is a successful businessman. High-ranking officials in Russia and abroad reckon with him, the best financiers of the world listen to his opinion. However, in his youth, Valentina Ivanovna's son had problems with the law, which could not have the best effect on the development of his career. In 1994, young Matvienko was involved in a criminal case involving beating and robbery. Sergei at that time worked at the Augustina Foundation, and his famous mother served as the Russian Ambassador to M alta. For several years, the materials of the case were hidden from prying eyes, but at the beginning of the 2000s they fell into the hands of journalists and became available to the public. The information leak occurred just during the appointment of Valentina Matvienko as governor of St. Petersburg and could be the beginning of the end of her career as a politician. The woman was then able to hold on to her high position, but the illegal act of her son became the topic of many conversations.
Case details
How did it happen that an educated, we althy guy fromdecent family was involved in crime? According to the protocol, Sergey Matvienko and his friend Yevgeny Murin (the son of a famous professor at the State University of St. Petersburg) severely beat their friend A. Rozhkov, and then tried to take away valuables from him on account of a debt that he did not return to them. On the fact of committing a crime, a criminal case was opened against the guys. They faced 4 to 10 years in prison.
Sergey Matvienko was arrested on the day of the crime, but after three days they let him go home, taking a written undertaking not to leave him. The guy partially admitted his guilt. Murin was taken into custody after Matvienko was released from the pre-trial detention center. However, none of Rozhkov's offenders suffered the deserved punishment. In 1994, the case was hushed up, apparently, not without the intervention of high-ranking parents of the guys. Shortly thereafter, Matvienko went headlong into his own business, setting up the Northern Fairy Company, and his accomplice Murin went to re-educate in the army.
Meet Zara
In 2004 Sergey Matvienko turned into a gossip hero. The personal life of the businessman began to be discussed in the media in connection with his marriage to the young singer Zarifa Mgoyan, better known under the stage name Zara. Sergey saw a girl at one of the fashion shows, and he immediately liked her exotic beauty. Brought up in strict oriental traditions, Zara did not reciprocate Matvienko for a long time. In order to win her favor, the man began to court her beautifully. He attended all her performances, gave her gorgeous bouquets of flowers. ButZara was in no hurry to let him into her life. Then the businessman decided to go for broke and made an offer to the singer. The girl answered him with consent. Zara's parents liked their daughter's fiance, and they gave their blessing to the young. After Valentina Matvienko approved the choice of her son, preparations for the wedding began.
First marriage
The couple's marriage took place 2 months after the engagement. Matvienko insisted that he and Zara were not only painted, but also married in the church. For this reason, the girl converted to Orthodoxy. They married young people in the Wedding Palace No. 1 of the city of St. Petersburg, and got married - in the Kazan Cathedral. The bride and groom moved around the city in a carriage. All relatives and friends of the newlyweds were invited to a luxurious celebration.
Family life and divorce
The wedding of the singer and businessman has become a real social event. However, the spouses turned out to be very different in cultural upbringing and could not get along together. In addition, the young wife of a banker was interested in the career of a pop star, and not the birth of an heir. Sergei's friends believed that, having married an influential and we althy man, Zara was counting on his financial support. However, Matvienko was in no hurry to invest in the promotion of his wife, and soon after the wedding, the newlyweds began to have serious conflicts. Zara's high-ranking mother-in-law wasn't thrilled with her ambitions either.
A year and a half after the marriage, the couple broke up. The divorce of Zara and Sergey Matvienko cost the latter 500 thousand dollars. It was this amount that the young singer demanded from her husband as a ransom. She invested the money she received in her own promotion. Shortly after the divorce, the former daughter-in-law of Valentina Matvienko met the official Sergei Ivanov and married him in 2008. Zara's second marriage was more successful than the first. Today, the couple are raising two sons and look quite happy.
Wedding with Yulia Zaitseva
Zara's first husband Sergei Matvienko did not waste time after the divorce. Photos of his new darling were kept secret for a long time and appeared in the media shortly before the wedding. The second wife of the banker was a student of the Faculty of Philology and fashion model Yulia Zaitseva. She is much younger than her chosen one: by the time she met her future husband, she was a little over 20 years old. The spectacular blonde conquered Sergey with her beauty and intelligence. Having fallen in love with a girl, Matvienko soon proposed to her.
Young people got married in St. Petersburg on the last day of November 2008. At the time of the wedding, Julia was already in her fourth month of pregnancy. She was dressed in a chic snow-white dress that successfully hid a rounded tummy. Only close relatives of the couple were invited to the celebration, and immediately after it ended, the happy newlyweds went on a romantic trip to Italy for 7 days. Returning to Russia, Sergey went about his work, and his wife began to prepare for the defense of her Ph. D. thesis in economics.
Birth of a daughter
Late on April 6, 2009, in an elite Swiss clinic, Yulia Matvienko, Sergei's wife, gave birth to his daughter, Arina. The birth of the baby on this very day was a real gift for her grandmother, a politician, because on April 7, Valentina Ivanovna was preparing to celebrate her sixtieth birthday. The governor of St. Petersburg has long dreamed that her only son would give her a grandson or granddaughter, and, finally, her wish came true. Valentina Matvienko was one of the first to congratulate her son and daughter-in-law on the birth of an heiress. In addition to her, many celebrities expressed their good wishes to the young family. But Sergey Vladimirovich did not receive congratulations from his ex-wife Matvienko. Zara, who had recently married a second time, ignored the joyful event in the life of her first husband.
Details of the family life of Sergei and Yulia Matvienko are not advertised today. The second wife of a businessman turned out to be a non-public person, so it is almost impossible to see her at fashionable parties. Social life is of little interest to a young woman. She takes care of raising her daughter and the house, which her influential banker husband really likes.
Interesting details about the businessman
The biography of Sergei Matvienko contains many interesting facts from his life. For example, the famous businessman celebrated his 35th birthday in the luxurious Yusupov Palace, one of the main attractions of the Northern capital. The banker then spent about 60 thousand euros on the birthday celebration.
Despiteto the high status of his mother, Sergei Matvienko did not shy away from the army. For two years he served in the Russian border troops on the border with Finland.
There are a lot of rumors about Sergey Matvienko on the Internet. After his divorce from Zara, false information appeared on one of the sites that he died of a heroin overdose.
Valentina Matvienko's son loves to read. On business trips, he always takes 5-6 books. In addition to literature, Sergei Vladimirovich is fond of classical music. His favorite composers are Chopin, Beethoven and Mozart.
Results
Being the son of a famous politician is a huge responsibility. Sergei Vladimirovich Matvienko from childhood got used to increased attention to his person, so he tried to act in such a way that his mother did not have to blush for him. And although in his youth this did not always work out, but today the son of Valentina Ivanovna has become a truly respected person whom she can be proud of.
