People started talking about Ekaterina Tereshkovich after it became known about her relationship with Gauguin (Ilya) Solntsev, a shocking and scandalous character in the modern media space. Over time, 63-year-old Ekaterina and 37-year-old Ilya got married. But interest in them was not lost, and Catherine’s pastic operations only fueled interest.
Almost nothing is known about the life of Ekaterina Tereshkovich, who positions herself as a businesswoman.
For Dmitry Shepelev’s program, she starred in a luxurious country house and showed off luxury furniture, fireplaces, an expensive foreign car with a personal driver and a mink coat.
But many considered this to be a lie - the house was rented, the talk about foreign real estate and foreign currency accounts was a fiction. They said that Tereshkovich acted in extras for 500 rubles a day.
All these conversations did not stop the woman, who constantly asserted on camera that she had the most sincere feelings for the young man and that Ilya reciprocated her feelings. All this was discussed more than once in the television programs of Andrei Malakhov and Dmitry Shepelev.
There was a lie detector for each of them and verdicts from experts, psychologists, and a heated discussion of the situation on social networks.
Childhood and youth
The biography of Ekaterina Lvovna Tereshkovich contains more questions than answers. Little is known about life before meeting Gauguin. Where she was born and when, how she achieved financial success is unclear.
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Ekaterina Tereshkovich and her daughter Polina Davydova
On the air of Dmitry Shepelev’s program “Actually” on April 9, 2022, the woman only said that she was a philologist by training, but from childhood she dreamed of becoming an actress.
Is Gauguin's wife Solntsev rich?
This is one of the main issues of concern to the public. Solntsev’s acquaintances and his wife constantly discuss whether she is rich, where she worked and where the money for a luxurious life comes from. The gossip began after an interview in a luxurious country house.
Photos of a huge mansion worth about 1 million euros have appeared, against which the happy couple was filmed. But then it turned out that it was rented. Therefore, it is not yet clear whether Tereshkovich is really rich. Read the biography of Ramzan Kadyrov.
Career and business
According to Gauguin Solntsev, the bride is the owner of her own business. According to media reports, the woman has a dowry in the form of a country house furnished with expensive furniture, a personal luxury car with a driver, and Swiss bank accounts with a large number of zeros.
As the businesswoman herself stated, the fireplace in the house was made of Italian marble, so its cost was €800 thousand. And fish scales were used to create the paintings that Catherine purchased at a price of €5 thousand.
However, an entrepreneur with such data was not noticed either in the Forbes magazine lists or in major transactions. Independent journalists conducted their own investigation into the personality of the “millionaire” and suspected that Catherine is not at all who she claims to be.
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Wedding of Ekaterina Tereshkovich and Gauguin Solntsev
Perhaps Tereshkovich is an actress. According to the WomanHit.ru portal, before the scandalous affair with the showman, she worked as an extra artist, whose pay per shift was 500 rubles. Attentive television viewers recalled that footage of the performer appeared in the program “The Investigation Was Conducted”, as well as in the TV series “Fortune Teller”. Catherine’s filmography includes several works, but all of them are episodic.
Biography of Gauguin Solntsev
The famous Russian showman was born on December 5, 1980. After school, he wanted to enroll in theater, but his parents did not have money to pay for his studies, so the guy enrolled in network marketing courses. Gauguin began his career as a distributor of Swiss cosmetics.
After some time, he became a teacher of theater arts at a children's creativity club and taught about 200 children in three years. Soon the extravagant Gauguin was noticed by producers, and he ended up on television. Now the guy often appears on talk shows, he is discussed among the crowd because of his marriage to Tereshkovich, who is much older than him. Details of the personal life of Adriano Celentano and his wife.
Personal life
The founder of the Moscow Theater of the Absurd says that he met his future wife 4 years before the wedding. At that time, the public knew nothing about Tereshkovich’s relationships with the opposite sex in her youth. The meeting took place at a social event, and the romance arose when Catherine came to Gauguin’s performance and offered to finance his work.
In February 2022, the couple got married, after which they went on a romantic trip to the Dominican Republic. The lovers settled in a secluded hotel, but their compatriots recognized them. They say that the neighbors at the hotel had a hard time. When asked to make fewer love moans at night, Gauguin called those complaining “plebeians.”
On March 7, 2022, the couple submitted an application to the registry office, and since then began noisily preparing for the wedding. The Internet was full of photos of brides trying on dresses. And Gauguin Solntsev posted a photo of the wedding rings on the social network Instagram. In the caption to the post, he thanked Channel One for the invitation to the “Actually” program, where the marriage was called into question. Solntsev wished everyone great love - like he had with Ekaterina.
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Ekaterina Tereshkovich and Gauguin Solntsev
Fans of the show “Dom-2” conducted their own investigation: on the social network “VKontakte” there is a page of a certain Ekaterina Toroshkova, the woman looks like Gauguin’s wife. The photographs in this account belong to a person with low financial income: filming from 2014 shows kittens in a modest home environment, and in 2018 a photo was posted in which a woman looks like a simple pensioner, wearing a headscarf and a gray sweater.
Toroshkova’s friends include a teenager, Semyon, with the last name Tereshkovich, as well as a woman under the pseudonym Nadezhda Krupskaya. The latter is surprisingly similar to Toroshkova in appearance, one can assume that she is the daughter. This woman’s main page on VKontakte says that Semyon Tereshkovich is her son.
Fans concluded that Toroshkova is the same Ekaterina who tied the knot with the ex-participant of “House-2”. Judging by the pages of the alleged daughter and grandson, there is no talk of any “grandmother’s millions.”
However, footage filmed for Dmitry Shepelev’s program shows that Gauguin’s wife Solntsev lives in a luxurious mansion, where the kitchen set alone costs about a million rubles. Experts from the talk show “Actually,” having tested Tereshkovich with a lie detector, concluded that Ekaterina was exaggerating her condition, and the house was most likely rented for the duration of filming.
A certain Elena Khugaeva came to the show to Dmitry Shepelev. The girl stated that she was Catherine’s daughter. According to her, she was born in Altai and raised by her father, since the mother abandoned the baby immediately after birth. 15 years ago she called Tereshkovich and asked to borrow money, but the “millionaire” refused.
Ekaterina Tereshkovich before and after plastic surgery / Facebook, Instagram
Gauguin’s mother Lyudmila Kravtsova also came to the program. The woman protested against the upcoming marriage, warning the mature bride that her son was greedy for money and would do anything for fame. She also said that Ilya Solntsev (the showman’s name on his passport) is incapable of sincere feelings.
On Cosmonautics Day 2022, Solntsev and Tereshkovich officially became husband and wife. Ekaterina posted photos from the gala event on her Instagram account. On the occasion of the celebration, Gauguin did a festive hairstyle and put on a classic formal suit, Catherine dressed in a white linen dress with bright flowers and blue boots from Russian designer Natalia Gaidarzhi. In her hands the wife held a neat bouquet of yellow roses.
Gauguin’s close friend, Diana Bicharova, in an interview with StarHit, said that at the registry office, Ekaterina Tereshkovich gave her husband the keys to an apartment in the capital as a wedding gift. Diana also said that after the ceremony the couple will go to the Dom-2 project for a gala banquet.
The StarHit portal learned that the wedding was initially planned to be celebrated at the Moscow yacht club. The preliminary list of invitees included 70 people, including singer Sergei Penkin and the group “Factor-2”. Gauguin changed his mind at the last moment and decided to hold the festivities at the capital site of the Dom-2 project.
According to rumors, the highlight of the program was the debut song of the notorious blogger Diana Shurygina and singer Sasha Akt. Photos of the latter with the newly-made spouses appeared on the Internet. At the end of the evening, guests were treated to a cake from the popular pastry chef Alex Kush.
The young couple decided to spend their first wedding night in the mansion of Ekaterina Tereshkovich. Gauguin Solntsev, by the way, stated in one of his interviews: children are unlikely to appear in this marriage, he is ready to give all the care and love to Catherine. However, after a couple of months, the showman reconsidered his views on the family.
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Gauguin Solntsev and Ekaterina Tereshkovich in a swimsuit
At the beginning of the summer of 2022, Gauguin and Ekaterina publicly announced their readiness to become parents. The meaningful post first appeared on Solntsev’s Instagram page. The photo showed a happy couple next to a baby stroller. The photo intrigued the couple's fans.
Soon, having become guests of the “Live Broadcast” program, Solntsev and Tereshkovich revealed their plans. The couple decided to opt for surrogacy. During a visit to the doctor, the reason for Catherine’s inability to have children was established. The woman has no reproductive organs at all. Tereshkovich admitted that the operation to remove the uterus had to be done a long time ago, since at that time there was a threat to life due to rapidly developing sepsis.
The cost of a full cycle of giving birth to a child from a surrogate mother, according to the doctor, in the case of Catherine and Gauguin would have been 2.3 million rubles. The fertility specialist advised the couple to turn to their closest relatives for help, which would significantly reduce costs. But when meeting with Catherine’s own daughter, Polina Davydova, she categorically refused to help her mother and her young husband.
Later, the couple considered the option of adoption. Gauguin even suggested that taking an older child into the family would be a plus for them. In this case, there was no need to wash dirty diapers and get up at night to feed.
While the issue was being resolved at the family planning center, Ekaterina Tereshkovich began transforming her appearance. The woman was eager to undergo facial plastic surgery and increase her bust size. In turn, Gauguin Solntsev was excited by this prospect, because the use of anesthesia at that age could be fatal for a person. But Catherine managed to convince her husband of the need for surgical intervention.
Tereshkovich bravely went under the knife in August. The first plastic surgeries to be performed were a circular facelift and blepharoplasty. Almost immediately the couple appeared in Andrei Malakhov’s “Live Broadcast” studio. A woman came to the program with her head wrapped in bandages. Gauguin Solntsev reverently supported his wife during a conversation with studio guests.
There was also a “fly in the ointment.” It turned out that during his wife’s stay in the clinic, Gauguin spent time in a nightclub, where he had fun in the company of girls. And one day he showed up with a lady of considerable age, whom he simply called “Aunt Sveta.” But Ekaterina Tereshkovich treated all the rumors philosophically and did not worry about possible betrayal.
But information about Gauguin’s affair with Tereshkovich’s daughter infuriated her: Catherine could not restrain herself and attacked the heiress with her fists. Then she packed her things and defiantly left the house. Soon Gauguin's wife Solntseva realized she was wrong and asked her husband for forgiveness. For some time, idyll triumphed in the family.
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Ekaterina Tereshkovich and Gauguin Solntsev Soon,
the showman’s wife took up her own personal life. Various companies, his wife’s friends, as well as her casual acquaintances, began to appear in Solntsev’s house. Catherine threw parties with or without reason. Over time, the consequences of alcoholism began to appear: according to Gauguin, Catherine repeatedly raised her hand to him, threw hysterics, and behaved inappropriately. Her husband sent her to a rehabilitation clinic. He refused to follow the advice of his friends and did not leave his soulmate during a difficult period for her.
After returning home, Catherine began to have health problems. She needed medical attention. Gauguin announced to the audience that his wife was seriously ill. She went bald and had red spots on her head. Solntsev tried to do everything to return his wife to her previous state. But, according to him, the disease did not subside. Catherine even had to be placed in a wheelchair, as she was paralyzed. Tereshkovich drew up a will, according to which her 2-room Moscow apartment, dacha and bank account were assigned to Gauguin.
The husband, in turn, has already begun preparations for his wife’s farewell: Solntsev surprised fans by purchasing a coffin for Tereshkovich in advance, and also ordered a place in the cemetery. There were rumors that the wife of the notorious celebrity had died. But the showman himself hastened to reassure the audience: his Katya is alive and well, and he used the preparations for the funeral to intimidate the pensioner. After the diagnosis was made public, her alcoholism and, as a consequence, inappropriate behavior resumed.
After recovery, Tereshkovich decided to creatively play with her new image. She starred in an erotic photo shoot, where she appeared before the public in an unusual image for herself - a vamp woman. Tereshkovich appeared in the photo in a swimsuit, in a transparent peignoir next to a motorcycle and in dresses with a deep neckline.
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Ekaterina Tereshkovich after the transformation
In 2022, Gauguin became a guest of Alena Zhigalova’s project “Alena, damn it!” In a conversation with a journalist, he admitted that he already has a child from a fleeting relationship. True, he was against his birth, so he does not communicate with his ex-girlfriend and does not even know whether it is a son or a daughter.
In March 2022, Solntsev again appeared in the studio of the “Live Broadcast” program, this time in a wheelchair. The TV presenter said that in recent months Gauguin was undergoing treatment in a paid clinic, where his wife placed him. On air, he threatened his wife that he would get a divorce through the court.
Gauguin Solntsev and his wife at Malakhov's on Let Them Talk
The outrageous couple took part in television shows several times. On May 15, at the talk show “Live” (not to be confused with “Let Them Talk”), Andrei Malakhov discussed the true motives for marriage with the invited participants. Tereshkova’s well-being was also a topic.
On June 26, they showed footage of Solntsev and his old 63-year-old wife vacationing abroad at sea on their honeymoon. Among the guests was the showman’s own mother, who had a hard time surviving her son’s wedding. A woman almost had a stroke and plans to destroy her unwanted marriage.
On July 23, viewers learned that Gauguin and his elderly wife wanted to have a child. Tereshkovich’s daughter came to the program, and she reacted very negatively to her mother’s choice. Catherine pretended that she did not recognize the girl.
Ekaterina Tereshkovich now
Those sincerely interested in the personal life of the unusual couple updated the information by watching the September episode of Andrei Malakhov’s show in 2021. Now Ekaterina Tereshkovich decided to tell her truth. The showman's wife told the audience that it was Gauguin who forced her to risk her health and go under the knife of a plastic surgeon. He wanted his companion to look younger, but he didn’t think about the blow that was dealt to her body.
In addition, the businesswoman complained about her chosen one’s alcoholism. For this reason, she said, she tried to place Solntsev in a special clinic for rehabilitation. But nothing helped - Solntsev extracted the last money from her and disappeared. The former millionaire said: divorce is inevitable. And on October 11, Gauguin told subscribers that he had divorced Catherine. Unexpectedly for everyone, the showman’s new chosen one turned out to be Tereshkovich’s daughter, Polina.
