Ekaterina gordeeva biography book

(1971-)

Who Is Ekaterina Gordeeva?

Ekaterina Gordeeva is a Russian champion ice skater. In their 13 years of skating together, Gordeeva and Sergei Grinkov were first co-workers, became friends, then fell in love, married, became parents and won four world championships and two Olympic gold medals.

In 1995, at age 28, her partner and husband Grinkov died of a heart attack.

Early Life

Gordeeva was born in Moscow, Russia, on May 28, 1971. Her father, Alexander Alexeyevich Gordeev, a folk dancer for the Moiseev Dance Company, wanted Gordeeva to become a ballet dancer.

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Her mother, Elena Levovna, was a teletype operator for the Soviet newsagent Tass. Gordeeva's parents both worked hard and traveled so much that Gordeeva and her sister, Maria, often stayed with their grandparents. Gordeeva's grandmother read Grimm's fairytales to her, not knowing that's how Gordeeva would later describe her life — like a fairytale.

Gordeeva, in My Sergei, also commented that