Putin's younger daughter Tikhonova reportedly has a son whose birth was registered almost a year late
The news outlet Agentstvo, citing leaked civil registry records, reports that Katerina Tikhonova, the younger daughter of Russian President Vladimir Putin, had a son named Adrian in Moscow. His birth certificate was issued only almost a year after he was born.
Katerina Tikhonova, the younger daughter of Russian President Vladimir Putin, has a son named Adrian, according to the news outlet Agentstvo, which cites leaked civil registry records. If the records are accurate, Putin likely has a fourth grandchild. The report was also covered by Meduza.
Agentstvo says the boy was born in Moscow on August 15, 2025. It names choreographer Igor Zelensky, who is in a relationship with Tikhonova, as his presumed father. The child, however, was registered under a different surname: Adrian Igorevich Tikhonov.
Registration came with a delay
The first document recording the birth was issued by the Central Clinical Hospital of the Presidential Property Management Directorate. Moscow's Chertanovo civil registry office did not issue a birth certificate until July 10, 2026, almost a year after the boy was born. The reason for the delay is unclear.
Agentstvo suggests it may be tied either to the family's wish to conceal the birth or to complications caused by the parents' different surnames, Tikhonova and Zelensky.
Family background
Tikhonova married businessman Kirill Shamalov in 2013, and in January 2018 it emerged that the two had divorced. She then began a relationship with Zelensky, who was at the time artistic director of the Bavarian State Ballet in Munich. Journalists have found that the couple has a daughter, Elza, born in 2017.
Putin keeps his family out of the public eye, especially his sons with former gymnast Alina Kabaeva. He also has two grandchildren through his elder daughter, Maria Vorontsova: one is the child of her former husband, Dutch businessman Jorrit Faassen, and the other of Evgeny Nagorny, a manager at the company Novatek.
