Childhood and family
The biography of Tatyana Navka dates back to April 13, 1975.
On this day, a girl, Tanechka, was born in the Ukrainian city of Dnepropetrovsk. The parents of the future champion played sports in their youth, so they did not interfere with their daughter’s passion. Tanyusha became interested in figure skating after Elena Vodorezova’s performance was shown on television. The parents decided to start training “on the shore” - first they bought roller skates, and only after she learned to skate well on them, they took the girl to the skating rink. Thus, the future Olympic champion got on the ice in 1980, at the age of 5 years. In 1987, the girl unexpectedly grew by 14 centimeters, which disrupted her jumping technique.
On April 13, 1975, the eldest daughter Tatyana, a future figure skater and winner of the Olympic Games, was born into the family of an engineer and economist. Her parents were also fond of sports in their youth: her father Alexander Petrovich played basketball, and her mother Raisa Anatolyevna had the title of Master of Sports in artistic gymnastics.
Little Tanya also wanted to become an athlete since childhood, having seen figure skating on TV. Her career began at the age of five: first it was single skating, and then ice dancing.
When the girl was fifteen years old, she moved to Moscow and began training together with Samvel Gezalyan under the guidance of coach Natalya Dubova. Thus began the star journey of Tatyana Navka.
In Navka's intelligent family, parents respected sports and tried to instill a love for it in Tanya. Her childhood idol was the famous figure skater, champion Elena Vodorezova, and this predetermined her choice of sport. At the age of five, Navka was already skating: first on roller skates, and then easily switched to ice.
Some fans of looking for Jewish roots in biography and personal life claimed that Tatyana Navka has the same nationality, but according to official sources, she is Ukrainian. The word “Navka” itself is translated as “mermaid”. In general, this morbid interest in the nationality of this or that famous person seems to us to be some kind of atavism.
Tatyana Navka in childhood
Navka started out as a “single skater”, but then acceleration took its toll: she grew up sharply, difficult jumps were no longer possible, and she was advised to switch to ice dancing. The advice turned out to be very practical: it was in dancing that Tatyana found herself.
Sports career
The year 1987 can be considered the beginning of Tatyana Navka’s brilliant sports career: she moved to Moscow and came under the wing of the famous coach Natalya Dubova, who raised more than one champion.
Dubova’s athletes trained in the USA, which is how Navka ended up there. In total, Tatyana lived in America for more than ten years. Some sources have information that Navka has American citizenship and pays taxes in this country. She herself categorically denies this.
Navka's first ice dancing partner was Samvel Gezalyan. At the 1994 Olympics they competed for Belarus and took 11th place, and at the World and European Championships they took fifth and fourth place, respectively.
Tatiana Navka and her skating partner Samvel Gezalyan
After the breakup of this duet, Navka performed with Morozov, but this couple did not achieve much success. Two years later, Navka is already defending the honor of the Russian flag. This was the time when Tatyana Navka realized how closely everything is connected in this life: sports biography, personal life, husband, children... Tatyana’s first husband was figure skater and coach Alexander Zhulin, but more on that later.
Navka performed with Morozov
And Navka’s most stellar partner was figure skater Roman Kostomarov. From 2003 to 2006, they have the following achievements:
- Two victories at the world championships
- Three victories at the European Championships
- Three victories at Russian championships
- Gold medal at the Turin Olympics
Tatyana Navka's star partner is figure skater Roman Kostomarov
After winning the Olympics, Navka and Kostomarov decided to end their careers in amateur sports and become professionals.
After leaving sports, Tatyana Navka made a career as a television show star and TV presenter. She took part in the most rated programs:
- "Glacial period"
- "Stars on Ice"
- "City Lights"
Today Navka is the presenter of the federal channel “Match TV”.
Tatiana Navka and Ville Haapasalona at the Ice Age show
Specialists and experts in the field of figure skating have repeatedly emphasized that Navka’s success was not accidental. The stars aligned very well: her excellent external data was combined with excellent strength, plastic and choreographic training. But this was not the main thing - there are many technical skaters, but not all reach heights.
Navka was distinguished from all the others by his undoubted dramatic talent, the art of transformation, and unique expressiveness. She managed to create her own style of skating - always on the verge of risk, bright and emotional.
Tatiana Navka
Navka's programs were not just a set of technical elements. These were mini-performances with her in the title role. She managed to embody a variety of images in dance - comic, tragic, eccentric.
Many believe that with Navka’s departure from the sport, figure skating has lost a lot. So far no one has managed to reach the same heights of femininity. “Carmen” performed by Navka is still considered the best embodiment of this image on ice.
“Carmen” performed by Navka and Kostomarov
They also noted Navka’s extraordinary musicality: she always unmistakably followed every note, every bar, as if conducting an invisible orchestra.
At the age of 14, the girl moved to Moscow on her own and joined Natalia Dubova’s group. Here she found herself paired with Samvel Gezalyan. With this partner, Tatyana competed for Belarus until 1995. They took fourth place at the Dortmund European Championship and seventh at the Birmingham World Championship.
In 1996-1998, she danced for Belarus together with Morozov. In 1998, at the Olympics, the couple took 16th position in the ranking.
She joined the Russian national team in 1998. Natalya Linichuk became Tatyana’s first coach. From the same year, the skater teamed up with Roman Kostomarov. She skated with him until the end of her sports career. The biography of figure skater Tatyana Navka as Kostomarov’s partner excludes the years 1999 and 2000, when Roman danced with Anna Semenovich.
After the return of the partner, Alexander Zhulin was the couple’s coach until 2006. In addition, since 2002, Elena Tchaikovskaya has been a consultant. The choreography of the numbers belongs to Tatyana Druchinina.
After winning the Turin Olympic Games, the couple jointly decided to end their sports career.
After the official end of her sports career, Tatyana takes part in many projects and participates in competitions. It was recently announced that she will star in the fourth series of Midshipmen, which will begin filming this year.
Tatyana also participates in photo shoots, appearing for various publications and calendars. Lately, her life has been more reminiscent of socialite entertainment, since she doesn’t do anything significant, she just takes part in various events.
Fans of the figure skater hope that Tatyana Navka’s biography will not end with a discussion of her photos on Instagram and the title of the most desirable woman in the country.
Before meeting Peskov, Navka stole Zhulin from another figure skater
The personal life of the Olympic champion of Turin was turbulent long before her big victories and her acquaintance with the presidential press secretary.
While still playing for Belarus, Tatyana had an affair with her coach Alexander Zhulin. True, there was one problem - he was already married to someone else: also a figure skater Maya Usova. Passions ran high. Navka’s partner at that time, Samvel Gezalyan, even beat the figure skater with the words: “How can you do this to Maya, she’s your friend.” Figure skating
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As a result, Zhulin nevertheless left for Navka, and the couple moved to live in the USA. In May 2000, Navka gave birth to the coach's daughter Alexandra, but after a very short period she returned to the ice again, teaming up with Roman Kostomarov. Then you know: two golds at the European Championships, the same number of victories at the World Championships and the crown of the cycle - gold at the Olympics in Turin. But it was then that the relationship between Navka and Zhulin began to crack.
“It was the winning of the Olympics that became the starting point when Tanya internally decided that she was no longer a girl, not my student, but an adult 30-year-old woman with her own understanding of life. I continued to train Tanya, but her opinion now sounded the same as mine. Now I understand everything, but then I missed the moment of Tanya’s transformation from my little angel into a strong woman, the moment that coincided with the appearance of the “Ice Age” in our lives,” Zhulin later recalled.
Marat Basharov became Navka’s partner on the project, and the media very quickly started talking about their extremely stormy romance. At the same time, Zhulin started a love affair with his student Natalya Mikhailova. A more than 10-year relationship has come to a logical end.
Participation in projects
Tatyana Navka, biography, photos, details of her personal life have long been the subject of discussion in the “yellow” and official press, after finishing her career she took part in projects conducted by Channel One.
In 2006 it was Stars on Ice. Tatyana Navka, whose biography and personal life again appeared on the front pages of newspapers, found herself paired with Marat Basharov. They became the winners of the project.
In 2007, Tatyana Navka’s biography was supplemented with a new project - “Ice Age”, where she, together with Ville Haapasalo, took second place.
In 2008, in Ice Age 2, Tatyana performed with Vadim Kalganov, with whom she again ended up in second position.
In 2009, while participating in the Ice Age-3 project, Navka was again paired with Basharov, excluding five episodes with Yegor Beroev, who replaced Marat, who dropped out due to a leg injury. This time the couple did not become the winner, but reached the finals of the project.
In 2010, together with Alexey Vorobyov, she performed in the project “Ice and Fire”. In 2008, she took part in a ballroom dancing competition with professional ballroom dancer Alexander Litvinenko. The couple took an honorable second place.
Numerous novels
In 2000, an important change occurred in the biography and personal life of Tatyana Navka - she had a husband. It was Alexander Zhulin, whom she admired in her youth, when he shone as a figure skater.
In fact, by this time Navka had already been living with her future husband in the USA for six years, but they formalized the relationship only before the birth of their daughter Alexandra in New York.
In the biography of any great athlete, problems in his personal life arise when the question of children arises, and Tatyana Navka was no exception. Sports, family life and children - how to combine it? Nevertheless, at first Tatyana succeeded.
Tatyana's first husband - Alexander Zhulin with his daughter
But by 2008, for various reasons, relations in the Navka-Zhulin family became heated to the limit. This was facilitated by photos that captured Navka’s clearly unfriendly relationship with Marat Basharov, her partner in “Ice Age.”
Marat, the famous Don Juan, completely lost his head and threw himself into passion, like into a pool, forgetting about his legal wife. This whole affair had a clearly scandalous connotation. It all ended with the fact that mutual passion gradually faded away, and the former families of both Navka and Basharov fell apart.
It was rumored that everything could have turned out differently, but the relationship was ruined by Marat’s immoderate passion for strong drinks.
Navka and Basharov
The story with Basharov also showed how vulnerable a person’s private life has become. No matter how you hide something, in our age, when anyone who simply has a smartphone with a good camera can become a paparazzi, it is almost impossible to keep anything secret.
The next man in Tatyana Navka’s life seemed to be the famous singer Alexei Vorobyov. It seems to be because neither journalists nor bloggers were able to collect “serious evidence” that Navka and Vorobyov’s relationship had gone that far.
Both denied this, claiming that they were connected by an exclusively pure and tender friendship. Most likely, this was actually the case, because this story did not receive any continuation.
Tatiana Navka and Alexey Vorobyov
In the end, journalists hunting for photos, details of biographies and personal lives of stars and their children were forced to admit that rumors about Tatyana Navka’s numerous novels turned out to be just rumors. In reality, there were not too many such novels.
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Marriage
Tatyana met her first husband on the ice. It turned out to be her coach Alexander Zhulin. The relationship lasted more than five years, despite the age difference and the fact that the man was married. Years later, after the start of the relationship, the couple officially registered their marriage.
Family life fell apart 13 years later, after Tatiana’s participation in the “Stars on Ice” project. It was here that Tatyana Navka, a biography whose personal life was always under the close attention of fans and journalists, met Marat Basharov, whose charm she could not resist.
Both Zhulin and the actor’s wife tried to save their families, but, unfortunately, they failed. The marriage of Navka and Zhulin broke up in 2010. Despite the painful breakup, the former spouses maintain friendly relations, given that they have a daughter together.
The relationship with Marat turned out to be very difficult: the couple got together and then separated again. At one time it was believed that the athlete was dating singer Alexei Vorobyov, but Navka herself rejected this assumption - she said that she could never date a man younger than herself.
Wedding Venue
The couple decided to have a wedding ceremony in Sochi. Navka stated that the celebration is not planned on a large scale, since she and the groom have long since left their youth and this is not their first marriage.
Let us remind you that between them the couple has six children, the youngest of whom was born just a year ago - Tatyana’s daughter from Peskov.
After the baby was born, Dmitry presented his beloved with a gift in the form of a car worth more than 10 million rubles. At that time, the press did not know who the father of the child was, and actively tried to uncover this secret.
Tatyana Navka and Dmitry Peskov
The athlete and diplomat met in 2012 at a mutual friend’s birthday party. Soon they began an affair, which only close people knew about. For about two years, there was active discussion in the press that there was some kind of relationship between the press secretary and the Olympic champion, but there was no official confirmation of this.
At the first meeting, as Peskov recalls, he did not recognize the famous figure skater and Olympic champion in his new acquaintance. Only when they were introduced to each other did the man realize who was in front of him. Tatyana believes that she and Dmitry are from completely different spheres. According to all the laws of nature, they could hardly have met, but nevertheless the acquaintance took place, and not just an acquaintance, but a fateful meeting that grew into true love.
The love story of Tatyana Navka and Dmitry Peskov did not develop at all simply, and a happy ending was by no means guaranteed. These people belonged to too different social strata, and it would seem that there simply could not be anything in common between them.
By the time they met, both had experienced family dramas. Peskov’s first wife was the granddaughter of Army Commander Budyonny, but the early marriage broke up early.
Peskov's divorce from his wife Ekaterina
Peskov met his second wife, the ambassador’s daughter, when he worked as an attaché at the embassy in Turkey. Peskov was brought to the big political arena by Boris Yeltsin, who invited him to work in Moscow.
Since then, Peskov’s life has been inextricably linked with the Kremlin. Work took up almost all the time of both him and his wife Ekaterina, a famous businesswoman. As practice shows, the cooling of relationships with such busy life schedules is simply inevitable; even having children together cannot save you.
Tatyana Navka and Dmitry Peskov met at a mutual friend’s birthday in 2010. The relationship did not develop rapidly at all: Peskov acted carefully, unobtrusively, and besides, Navka knew that he was married and had three children, and she did not want to play the role of a family destroyer again. But, however, Peskov’s gentle persistence brought results: he managed to win the beauty’s heart.
Tatyana Navka and Dmitry Peskov at Gum Skat
Realizing that publicizing their relationship could have an unwanted resonance, the couple hid their relationship for a very long time. She hid it even when Tatyana’s daughter Nadezhda was born in 2014. By this time, Peskov had already divorced his wife, although the divorce was not easy for him.
Wedding of Tatiana and Dmitry
The official wedding ceremony of Peskov and Navka took place in an elite hotel in Sochi in 2015. As usual, this did not happen without a scandal. Peskov’s daughter Elizaveta made extremely unflattering statements about Navka on her Instagram, and the Bolgers were embarrassed by the overly expensive watch on the groom’s hand, visible in the wedding photos. According to some estimates, they could cost almost four hundred thousand dollars.
One way or another, this incident was smoothed over, and the couple went on a magical honeymoon.
Dmitry Peskov with his daughter Elizaveta
Information about how the biography and personal life of Tatyana Navka is developing at the present time indicates that she has finally achieved true family happiness.
The spouses live in love and harmony and support each other in everything. Everything suggests that there is spiritual closeness and mutual understanding between them.
Peskov’s children from a previous marriage finally found a common language with Tatyana, all the unpleasant moments and acute conflicts were resolved.
Tatyana Navka with her family
Actually, anyone can verify this by visiting Tatiana Navka’s Instagram page. She now has 672 thousand subscribers - a very good figure.
However, Tatyana is not going to be content with the role of a housewife. The premiere of the musical on ice “Ruslan and Lyudmila” to Ignatiev’s music recently took place. In this show, Navka acts simultaneously as a leading actress, producer and director.
The show is full of cutting-edge lighting and computer effects. World figure skating stars take part in it, and vocal parts are performed by Kirkorov, Lorak and other famous pop performers.
Tatyana Navka in the musical on ice “Ruslan and Lyudmila”
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The show premiered to a full house, and subsequent shows during the New Year holidays were also a great success.
Tatyana Navka has already had experience in a joint vocal performance with Mikhail Boyarsky, and, according to rumors, she is preparing a new musical surprise for her fans. What it will be - a new duet or a solo performance - is still unknown. Let's hope that this bright, multi-talented woman will delight us more than once.
The wedding video of Navka and Peskov became a hit on social networks
Social networks are vigorously discussing the “main wedding of the summer” - the press secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov and the famous figure skater, Olympic champion Tatyana Navka have officially formalized their relationship. The event took place in the most expensive hotel in Sochi, Rodina Grand Hotel & SPA. Note that the cost of the most affordable room in this hotel is 36 thousand rubles per day, and for a night in a deluxe suite you need to pay 200 thousand rubles. As the media found out, for the sake of the wedding celebration, the hotel was temporarily closed to other guests. According to journalists, to the sacramental question “at whose expense is the banquet”, the answer is this: the wedding was paid for by the owner of the hotel himself - the owner, number 230 on the Forbes list, billionaire Oleg Deripaska. Photos and videos of the wedding itself, as well as the bride in her wedding dress and her bridesmaids, immediately became a hit on social networks. Thus, a photo of Navka in a wedding dress was posted on her Instagram by one of the “bridesmaids,” actress and socialite Alika Smekhova. Other famous guests also shared photos from the celebration. In addition, photographs from the Tatler Russia magazine, which were published not only in the electronic version of the publication, but also on the project’s Facebook page, were shared by thousands of shares on social networks. for forty-year-old Tatyana Navka and 47-year-old Dmitry Peskov . The beautiful Navka was officially married once. Since 1992, the talented figure skater lived and trained in the USA, where Tatyana began a romantic relationship with her coach, world champion in ice dancing Alexander Zhulin . In 2000, the couple officially registered their marriage in New York. Their daughter Alexandra was born there in 2000. In 2006, Navka returned to Moscow with her husband and daughter: Tatyana and Alexander were offered to take part in the television project “Stars on Ice.” Soon their marriage broke up, but the skaters managed to part with dignity and grace, maintaining friendly and business relationships, including for the sake of their daughter. After Navka’s official divorce, the “yellow press” attributed affairs with her ice show partners - actors Marat Basharov and Alexei Vorobyov . According to media reports, Navka began a relationship with Dmitry Peskov back in 2010, and in August 2014 they had a child together, daughter Nadezhda. For Dmitry Peskov , according to media reports, marriage to Navka is the third official marriage. From two previous marriages he has three sons and a daughter. Peskov married for the first time in his early youth - to Anastasia Budennaya , the granddaughter of the famous commander of the civil war. They had a son, Nikolai. Peskov’s second wife is the heiress of a family of Soviet diplomats, Ekaterina Solotsinskaya (in marriage, Peskova). This marriage broke up when the press secretary of the Russian president became interested in Tatyana Navka. By the way, the marriage and then divorce of Ekaterina and Dmitry Peskov was covered by the same Tatler, first publishing beautiful Parisian photo shoots of an exemplary family with three children (the Peskov couple had a daughter, Elizaveta, and sons, Mick and Denis), and then the confessions of a disappointed ex-wife. Currently, however, Ekaterina Peskova, who lives in Paris, seems to be no longer alone: her new chosen one is a successful Frenchman.
Children
Tatyana Navka, biography, personal life, whose children were always under the guns of paparazzi cameras, gave birth to her first daughter in 2010. This is their common child with Alexander Zhulin. The girl was born while the couple was living in the USA.
The second daughter was born on August 19, 2014. The skater carefully hid this pregnancy from everyone. The birth of a child first became known from Tatyana’s friend Lyubov Uspenskaya’s Instagram account, who wrote that she and her friends were celebrating the birth of their daughter Navka. The athlete also gave birth to her second child not in Russia - the photographs that she posted on the microblog indicate that this happened in Italy.
Navka quickly regained her figure after giving birth. After which many manufacturers of weight loss products began to claim that the athlete lost extra pounds with the help of their products.
Interesting Facts
The life of stars always passes in plain sight, but there are always some interesting facts that are not so widely known to the general public. We have collected some of them:
- Tatyana has a younger sister, Natalya.
- Tatyana was very superstitious and always started out on the ice with her left foot.
- The daughter of Navka and Zhulin is building a career as a singer and sings under the pseudonym Alexia.
- Tatyana played a role in the film “Loser,” directed by the famous Alexander Abdulov.
- Tatyana is an excellent cook and enjoys poetry.
- Tatyana dreams of trying herself as a singer.
Tatyana and her younger sister Natalya
Guests
Recently it became known that the wedding ceremony of Navka and Peskov will be attended by hundreds of celebrities, among whom Putin may be.
According to the bride, an invitation was sent to him and, if he wants, he can come to the ceremony.
By the way, guests will live in the Grandhotel Rodina, which is known as one of the best hotel complexes in Russia.
Room prices are in the tens of thousands of rubles, and the menu costs approximately 5,000 rubles.
The owner of the complex, Oleg Deripaska, will pay for the guests’ accommodation. The businessman gave this unique gift to the couple.
By the way, Navka’s ex-husband was not invited to the wedding, although, according to Zhulin, he maintains a good relationship with his ex-wife.
