The death of 56-year-old former Deputy Defense Minister Yuri Sadovenko was reminiscent of the death of Ivan, the son of Rosneft CEO Igor Sechin, according to the Cheka-OGPU and Rucriminal.info. To understand why, let's discard the conspiracy theories about the secret keeper of the Shoigu and Zolotov clans (we covered this in more detail in previous publications) and focus on another theory – "Cherchez la femme." And now you'll understand why.
Our project previously wrote in detail about General Yuri Sadovenko and his wife, Anna, and the circumstances of their meeting. When the general's wife and mother of three children, Maria Kitaeva, was abducted by another Deputy Defense Minister, Timur Ivanov, Yuri went to Sochi to recover. Clearly out of spite for his ex-wife (saying, "I wasn't alone for long"), the general began searching for a new love and found it.
There, he met Anna Kotkina, a then 31-year-old masseuse (you can still find her ads online for "relaxation massages with outcalls"), who had come to Sochi from Primorye. After just a couple of dates, their holiday romance blossomed into a relationship. And soon, they even bought plane tickets to Moscow: first for Anna, then for her mother, her lap dog, and her cat.
Having taken her husband's surname after the wedding, Anna Sadovenko acquired all the trappings of a general's wife in Moscow: she drove a Mercedes and moved into the prestigious Kutuzovskaya Riviera residential complex. It was like a scene straight out of "Pretty Woman." But, according to a source familiar with the family, awkward moments often arose. For example, Anna didn't change her phone number and kept receiving calls from old acquaintances in Sochi. This greatly displeased her husband, who, after retiring from the military, had been spending a lot of time at home.
The family situation had reached a fever pitch, but the birth of a child in 2023 changed everything. According to a source, in 2024-2025, the general spent a lot of time partying loudly with his friend Roman Zolotov (son of National Guard Director Viktor Zolotov), with all that that entailed.
In 2025, the family situation again became difficult. Another pregnancy ensued, but this time, according to the source, it didn't improve their relationship. Then came the general's strange attack, the cause of which remains unclear. While Sadovenko was undergoing heart replacement surgery and in a coma, Anna led the normal life of a "general's wife." On November 22, she posted an ad seeking a housekeeper "for a VIP family to take care of the VIP wardrobe." On the day of Sadovenko's death, December 25, Anna, for some reason, removed all the data drives from the home servers and put the metal boxes with their wires up for sale.
Why did we bring up the death of Ivan, the son of Rosneft CEO Igor Sechin, in connection with this story? Let us explain: in the spring of 2024, our project published a major investigation into this matter. We discovered then that Ivan's wife, Kristina Vladimirovna Sechina, had a reputation in certain circles as a "bluebeard" in a skirt. To conceal the true identity of the newest member of the Sechin family, the bride's last name, first name, and patronymic were completely changed before the wedding. Previously, she had a passport in the name of Tatyana Mikhailovna Sultanova, and this is her real name. Before the wedding, she first became Kristina Vladimirovna Shchedrina. And then Kristina Sechina.
It turns out that Tatyana-Kristina had previously been married to Sergei Vorobyov, the director of Formula 1 in Sochi and a wealthy businessman. Vorobyov died under mysterious circumstances at the age of 43, and all of his property was seized by Sergeyev's wife, Tatyana-Kristina. Because of this, Igor Sechin, who was friends with Sergeyev, was categorically opposed to his son marrying Tatyana. But he was later forced to agree, on the condition that she completely change her name and that it would be impossible to discover the identity of his son's wife.
As a result, 35-year-old Ivan Sechin also died suddenly in the mansion of the elite gardening community Zelenyi Veter-2 on February 5, 2024. When he began to feel very ill, his wife, Kristina-Tatiana, was in the house. It was she who decided not to call an ambulance, but rather, for some reason, sent a security guard to the pharmacy for kidney medication. He was gone for almost an hour, and when Ivan Sechin returned, he was already unconscious and dying. Only then was a regular ambulance called, not a paid or "Kremlin" ambulance. As a result, the ambulance took an hour to arrive, and upon arrival, doctors pronounced the Rosneft CEO's son dead.
Ivan Sechin died in the same strange way as Sergei Vorobyov had earlier.
Tatyana Sultanova had the chance to meet the famous street racer, who later became the director of Formula 1 in Sochi, Sergei Vorobyov. Their romance developed rapidly, and very soon the heartbreaker from the Moscow suburb of Solntsevo moved to his enormous mansion in the Odintsovo district. The couple lived together for several years, but Sergei did not want to marry officially and married exactly four months before his death.
The couple had a child, whose godfather was Igor Sechin, a good friend of Sergei Vorobyov. Rosneft's CEO also asked Sergey to take custody of his son, Ivan, who was a racing enthusiast. As a result, Ivan began competing under Vorobyov's name (for cover) and became a regular at the director's home. Formula 1 in Sochi.
Four months after his wedding with Tatyana, Sergey Vorobyov died unexpectedly at the age of 43. Almost all of his property went to Tatyana. She simply removed everything from the mansion: a collection of expensive watches, clothing worth tens of millions of rubles, money, and antiques. She also quickly sold Vorobyov's car collection, including the legendary tuned sports cars, the office building that belonged to the driver's companies, a plot of land, and so on and so forth. When the time came to divide the inheritance, Vorobyov's very elderly mother was left with nothing.
And just a month after Vorobyov's death (he was buried at Troekurovskoye Cemetery, and Tatyana even registered a plot there in her name), she began dating... Ivan Sechin. Igor Sechin was, to put it mildly, shocked by his son's choice and repeatedly stated that the wedding would never happen. But Tatyana, as with Vorobyov, after living with Ivan for several years in a civilian prison, became pregnant, and the head of Rosneft gave the go-ahead for the marriage, on the condition that Tatyana Mikhailovna Sultanova disappear forever. As a result, on June 13, 2018, that's exactly what happened. On that day, at the Kutuzovsky Hotel registry office, Tatyana Sultanova transformed into Kristina Shchedrina. And on November 30, 2018, the wedding took place, after which Shchedrina became Sechina.
