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Putin’s Alleged Daughter Reemerges to Denounce ‘Man Who Took Millions of Lives’

Adopting the alias Elizaveta Rudnova on Telegram, she issued cryptic rebukes of the war by coordinating anti-war art exhibitions in Paris

In this pool photograph distributed by the Russian state agency Sputnik, Russia's President Vladimir Putin visits the Valaam Monastery on Valaam island in the northern portion of Lake Ladoga, on August 1, 2025.
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Overview

  • On August 4, 2025, Elizaveta Krivonogikh posted on her private Telegram channel under the name Elizaveta Rudnova, alluding to “the man who took millions of lives and destroyed mine” in a statement widely seen as a rebuke of Vladimir Putin.
  • Since mid-2025, she has interned at L Galerie in Belleville and Espace Albatros in Montreuil, organizing and producing exhibitions that criticize Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
  • Her return to the Paris art scene triggered a rift among Russian émigré artists, with figures like Nastya Rodionova publicly severing ties over Krivonogikh’s alleged Kremlin connections.
  • The Kremlin continues to deny any link between Putin and Krivonogikh, maintaining official silence even as independent investigations like Proekt’s 2020 report fuel speculation about her parentage.
  • UK sanctions imposed on her mother, Svetlana Krivonogikh, in 2023 have intensified scrutiny of Krivonogikh’s lineage and underscored the political stakes of her activism.