Revealed: ANOTHER superyacht ‘that belongs to Putin’, with giant round bed beneath a mirrored ceiling and is ‘a favourite of his gymnast lover Alina Kabaeva’
Yet another superyacht believed to be owned by Vladimir Putin has been revealed, with leaked photos showing the dictator sleeping in a giant circular bed under a mirrored ceiling.
The £40million luxury ship ‘Victoria’ features two large bedrooms and is said to be a favorite of Putin’s gymnastics enthusiast Alina Kabaeva, 40.
Now undergoing an astonishing upgrade at a NATO shipyard in Turkey, the 233-foot superyacht is the “the flagship of Putin’s Black Sea flotilla,” revealed the independent research agency Dossier Center, which has ties to opposition politician Mikhail Khodorkovsky.
Its existence, along with the accompanying yacht – the 30-metre Italian-built Orion – means there are ten luxury yachts in Putin’s armada as he looks to stay one step ahead of his richest oligarchs.
The £40 million Victoria – with opulent and ostentatious furnishings – is usually based in Sochi on the Black Sea, where belligerent Putin moves his court in the summer, like the Romanov tsars.
Yet another superyacht believed to be owned by Vladimir Putin has been revealed, with leaked photos showing the dictator sleeping in a giant circular bed under a mirrored ceiling (pictured)
The £40 million luxury ship ‘Victoria’, which features two large bedrooms, is said to be a favorite of Putin’s gymnastics enthusiast Alina Kabaeva, 40
The £40 million Victoria – with opulent and ostentatious furnishings – is usually based in Sochi on the Black Sea, where warmongering Putin moves his court in the summer, like the Romanov tsars
Alina Kabaeva and Vladimir Putin at an event in the Kremlin
The ship can carry 28 people, but typically operates with just six passengers and a crew of up to fifteen.
A 2019 customs declaration shows that Putin’s ‘royal yacht’ has ‘two master cabins on board’, possibly for Putin and his glamorous lover Alina Kabaeva, 40.
According to the report, the Victoria is a favorite of the unofficial Russian Tsarina.
A close personal and business friend of Kabeva – gymnast and choreographer Natalia Belugina – drew attention to the floating palace, but posed with it in the background as she performed the standing splits.
“There are the same number of master cabins on the Graceful yacht” – another Putin superyacht, about 270 feet long.
‘(Russian) presidential homes always have two separate bedrooms: for the owner and for the hostess.’
One of Victoria’s large bedrooms has a giant round bed with a mirror above it.
Dossiercentrum’s research does not show whether this is ‘his’ or ‘her’ bedroom, but it is rumored that the couple has had a close relationship for fifteen years, even though the relationship has never been officially recognized.
Intriguingly, the yacht’s TV system is connected to multiple channels for children, perhaps confirming that Putin has a young family with Kabaeva, which is often denied by the Kremlin.
The ship can carry 28 people, but typically operates with only six passengers and a crew of up to fifteen people. Pictured: a lounge area in the superyacht
A 2019 customs declaration shows that Putin’s ‘royal yacht’ has ‘two master cabins on board’, possibly for Putin and his glamorous lover Alina Kabaeva, 40
The £40 million luxury ship ‘Victoria’, which features two large bedrooms, is said to be a favorite of Putin’s gymnastics enthusiast Alina Kabaeva, 40
A close personal and business friend of Kabeva – gymnast and choreographer Natalia Belugina – drew attention to the floating palace, but posed with it in the background as she performed the standing splits.
‘Among the items purchased for the yacht: four napkin rings cost 76,500 rubles (£690 GBP), beach towels – 216,000 rubles £1,950), chess set – 146,000 rubles (£1,316 GBP) and a backgammon set – 321,000 rubles £2,900) .
‘There is also a television on board with a connected channel package for children.’
The yacht’s routes have taken it to Cape Idokopas, the site of the infamous £1 billion Gelednzhik Palace at Cape Idokopas, which is widely seen as Putin’s despite official denials by the Kremlin.
In 2021, the Victoria, launched in 2013, was spotted off the coast of annexed Crimea, the Dossier Center investigation said.
“After the start of the war, the Scheherazade was seized in Italy, and the Victoria is now the largest Putin-linked yacht in the Black Sea,” the report said.
The report says Putin was not photographed on the ship, but there is other evidence it belongs to the dictator – who has been called the richest man in the world.
The crew includes secret service officers, as on the £560 million Scheherazade, Putin’s 450-foot flagship, and another lavish Putin yacht, the £100 million Graceful.
The Victoria is now at the Desan shipyard in Istanbul.
“This unusual company not only carries out civilian contracts, but also builds military ships for NATO and can work with the Alliance’s classified documentation,” the study said.
It was originally built by the Sevmash military factory in Russia.
An early favorite of Putin’s was the 187-foot Olympic yacht, reports say.
The ship can carry 28 people, but typically operates with just six passengers and a crew of up to fifteen
Another superyacht built for warmonger Vladimir Putin – reportedly the richest man in the world – has been unveiled. The Victoria is often seen near his palace on the Black Sea
But it wasn’t big enough because he wanted to compete with the modern ocean liners favored by his oligarch friends.
Victoria – like Scheherazade – has been linked to Putin’s friend, billionaire Gennady Timchenko, who is said to have raised money from wealthy cronies to ensure Putin has the largest armada among Russians.
Yet his hunts are hidden from ordinary people. The Russian media is not allowed to report on Putin’s lavish navy.
But in August, further leaked photos revealed the interior of Putin’s £100million superyacht, nicknamed ‘the Killer Whale’ – decked out with a swimming pool that turns into a dance floor, £27,000 beds and a workspace for war plans.
On board, Putin and Kabaeva have separate bedrooms, where the Russian dictator is provided with a velvet bedspread.
The photos taken by the investigation team of the Russian president’s arch-enemy, the imprisoned Alexei Navalny, show him continuing to live in luxury aboard the ship, named Graceful.
The 80-metre boat, towed from Hamburg days before the start of the war to avoid Western sanctions, is said to be Putin’s favorite floating love nest – even bigger than his seized yacht Scheherazade.
“Putin’s homes always have a separate bedroom for him – and another for his ‘good wife’ Navalny’s team.
They also have separate bedrooms in his two palaces, Valdai, north of Moscow, and Gelendzhik, on a cliff overlooking the Black Sea.
In his lover’s bedroom, the bed cost £27,600, complete with a £6,700 mattress and two £10,900 bedside tables.
There is a sofa worth £33,400 and a champagne-coloured carpet running through it, worth over £71,000.
Since being taken from Germany and held in Kaliningrad, Russia, the yacht has been undergoing renovations at a yard where Hitler’s yachts were once made.
Navalny’s team insists that Putin’s yacht is unaffordable compared to his official salary of £7,000 a month.