- Kseniya Sobchak
Kseniya Anatolyevna Sobchak ( _ru. Ксения Анатольевна Собчак), born
November 5 ,1981 in Leningrad,Russia , is the daughter of the first democratically-elected mayor of Saint PetersburgAnatoly Sobchak . Acelebrity widely known nationally as a presenter on thereality show "DOM 2" on the Russian channel TNT, she is sometimes described to international audiences as, by way ofanalogy , Russia's "It girl " and "Russia'sParis Hilton " [http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/27/world/europe/27tabloids.html] .Biography
As a child she attended the ballet school attached to the
Mariinsky Theatre and theHermitage Museum art school. In 1998, Ksenia left the school attached toHerzen University, and enrolled at the Saint Petersburg State University (Department of International Relations). In 2001 she moved toMoscow and enrolled in the International Relations program at theMoscow State Institute of International Relations . In 2002 she enrolled in a masters program at the department of politics at the same university.She is also known as a clothes designer and promoter of rubber boots. In June 2006 she created her first collection of such boots.
In 2004, Sobchak was identifed as a candidate to become Russia's first indigenous Space Tourist, flying to the
International Space Station aboard a Soyuz rocket. [1] She may have undertaken some initial tests and cosmonaut training, but the project came to nothing.She also acted against the newly produced law that prohibits sharing of private life of Russian celebrities without their permission.Fact|date=July 2008
NB: the model named Ksenia who featured on the cover of Pulp's "
This is Hardcore " is not Kseniya Sobchak, but a different model who has worked with Pretty Polly and has featured in FHM (Pretty Polly Feature). The two have been confused on a number of occasions.External links
* [http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1789595,00.html The Guardian: "She has a TV show and a Porsche. Now Moscow's Paris Hilton wants a party too"]
* [http://www.astronaut.ru/as_turst/as_turst.htm] Candidates for Space Tourists
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