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’.
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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.
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