Kseniya Anatolyevna Sobchak (Russian: Ксе́ния Анато́льевна Собча́к), born November 5, 1981 in Leningrad, Soviet Union (present day Saint Petersburg, Russia), is the second daughter of the first democratically-elected mayor of Saint Petersburg Anatoly Sobchak. A celebrity widely known nationally as a presenter on the reality show "Dom-2" on the Russian channel TNT, she is sometimes described to international audiences as, by way of analogy, Russia...
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Kseniya Anatolyevna Sobchak (Russian: Ксе́ния Анато́льевна Собча́к), born November 5, 1981 in Leningrad, Soviet Union (present day Saint Petersburg, Russia), is the second daughter of the first democratically-elected mayor of Saint Petersburg Anatoly Sobchak. A celebrity widely known nationally as a presenter on the reality show "Dom-2" on the Russian channel TNT, she is sometimes described to international audiences as, by way of analogy, Russia's "It girl" and "Russia's Paris Hilton".
As a child she attended the ballet school attached to the Mariinsky Theatre and the Hermitage Museum art school. In 1998, Ksenia left the school attached to Herzen University, and enrolled at the Saint Petersburg State University (Department of International Relations). In 2001 she moved to Moscow and enrolled in the International Relations program at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations. In 2002 she enrolled in a masters program at the department of politics at the same university....
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