Rebecca Rubin Film and Media Reporter“Navalny,” a fly-on-the-wall documentary about Russian dissident and one-time presidential candidate Alexei Navalny, was intended to debut directly on HBO Max. But since the harrowing story has renewed timeliness amid Russia’s recent unprovoked invasion of Ukraine, Warner Bros.
Who is Countess Alexandra Tolstoy and what is the Netflix documentary The Countess & The Russian Billionaire about?
14.03.2022 - 17:01 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
Sergei Pugachev was once dubbed ‘Putin’s banker’. Today he is considered a ‘traitor’ and is exiled in France.
The Countess & The Russian Billionaire, a documentary about Pugachev and his wife Countess Alexandra Tolstoy, was first shown on BBC Two and is now available on Netflix. It gives details on their marriage and fallout.
The 48-year-old Countess Alexandra appeared on ITV’s Lorraine today (March 14), where she called both President of Russia Vladimir Putin and her ex-husband ‘narcissists’, adding that they’re capable of ‘self-destructive things’. But who is Countess Alexandra and what is the documentary The Countess & The Russian Billionaire about?
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Here’s everything you need to know.
Countess Alexandra is an aristocrat and comes from a long line of Russian nobility. The Countess gets her title from her great-great grandfather, her father's great-grandfather, Pavel Tolstoy-Miloslavsky. He was the chamberlain to the last emperor, Tsar Nicolas II of Russia, shortly after the First World War.
The Countess grew up in Oxfordshire before attending Edinburgh University to study Philosophy. She is the eldest of Anglo-Russian historian and writer Nikolai Tolstoy's four children.
She was married to billionaire financier Pugachev and they share three children together. The pair met while the Countess was teaching English in Moscow.
After the family arrived in the UK in 2011, Pugachev was accused of embezzling a fortune out of his finance house Mezhprombank. State creditors in Moscow pursued him in the British courts. He then fell out with Putin and fled the country to France - from where he was sentenced to two years by a High Court judge in 2016.
Today he remains in France
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