Founders of online retailer Wildberries take lead in Russia’s rich list, beating out politically connected tycoons & ex-oligarchs

Teacher-turned-CEO

Teacher-turned-CEO Tatiana Bakalchuk and her husband Vladislav are now firmly leading the pack of connected business tycoons and glitzy socialites in the newest edition of Forbes’ rankings of Russia’s most well-off families.

The league table, which was updated on Monday, places the duo above the family of Andrei Guryev, an agriculture billionaire who worked for disgraced ex-oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky, and the relatives of Arkady Rotenberg, a gas and electricity tycoon currently on a US blacklist. The couple is understood to have a combined fortune of $13.1 billion.

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