One of Russia’s most eligible heiresses – whose parents are fighting the world’s largest alimony battle – has wed a humble dance teacher ten years her junior.
Anastasia Potanina, 34, married Artem Kruchin, 24, in a sumptuous ceremony on the Cap-Eden-Roc hotel on the Côte d’Azur.
She is eldest daughter of oligarch Vladimir Potanin, 57, a metals magnate officially worth £13.7 billion, who is seen giving her away on videos of the ceremony .
Her mother Natalia is currently embroiled in potentially the world’s biggest divorce settlement, a bitter four year dispute in which the Russian supreme court this year refused to allow her appeal for roughly £11.7 billion.
Anastasia Potanina, 34, married Artem Kruchin, 24, in a lavish ceremony on the Côte d’Azur over the weekend. Pictured: The bride being walked down the aisle by her oligarch father Vladimir Potanin
There has been speculation that the alimony battle between Anastasia’s parents will switch to the courts in London where Natalia now as a home.
Pictures and video did not show Anastasia’s 57 year old mother attending the wedding.
Anastasia is a former Russian acquabike champion and now a contemporary art gallery owner in Moscow.
Her blond groom, aged 24, is a Moscow-born amateur sport ballroom dancer – claiming to represent Britain – who was a teenage world champion after starting his career at the age off four.

The couple were married overlooking the harbour at the Cap-Eden-Roc hotel surrounded by friends and family

Artem is ten years Anastasia’s junior and works as an amateur ballroom dancer and dance teacher. Pictured: The couple together before the wedding

The host was Russian TV celebrity and comedian Ivan Urgant and singer Leonid Agutin provided the music during the elegant ceremony
He works as a ballroom or wedding dance teacher changing just £17.55 for a 45 minute lesson – and a model.
Potanin – 56th richest man in the world who has since remarried – had a luxury yacht named after Anastasia which he sold £67 million earlier this month, according to reports.
The oligarch – once a Kremlin vice prime minister – is seen as close to Vladimir Putin.
Kruchin comes from a very different world, advertising online as a dance teacher.
He has said: ‘I have been into sport ballroom dances for 16 years.
‘I have around six years of experience of working with people of absolutely different age. I can train groups, private lessons, training for competitions, show, (and) wedding dances.
‘I’m friendly with my students and find an individual approach to everyone. I am currently an amateur dancer and am representing the UK.’


Anastasia later changed into a second wedding dress for an evening of dancing and celebrations with her new husband (pictured together on the dance floor)

The marble aisle was decorated with ornate floral displays, some shaped into bird figures for the bride’s entrance

Guests were later treated to an enormous six tier wedding cake decorated with fresh purple flowers
Few details of the lavish ceremony have emerged but it was followed by a stunning fireworks display.
The host was Russian TV celebrity and comedian Ivan Urgant and singer Leonid Agutin provided the music.
Ekaterina Toloknova, a jet-ski champion, spoke of ‘an incredibly moving, soulful and cheerful wedding’. She said the ‘miraculous fireworks show was outstanding’.
Anastasia has not spoken of her parents’ acrimonious split but has remained close to her father.

After becoming a champion dancer as a teenager Artem works as a ballroom or wedding dance teacher changing just £17.55 for a 45 minute lesson – and a model.
Her brothers are believed to be close to their mother. Potanin and Natalia divorced in 2014 after a 31 year marriage.
The ex-wife says he ‘dumped, betrayed and humiliated’ her claiming he started a relationship with an employee 15 years his junior with whom he had a love child.
She has told how Potainin asked her for a divorce over tea in 2013, claiming he called for their settlement to be backdated to 2007.
‘I thought this was some kind of a badly-worded tease, a joke,’ she said.

Anastasia’s parents Potanin and Natalia divorced in 2014 after a 31 year marriage (pictured on their wedding day) she is thought to not have attended her daughter’s wedding

The ex-wife says he ‘dumped, betrayed and humiliated’ her claiming he started a relationship with an employee 15 years his junior. Pictured: Vladimir, Natalia, son Ivan (first from the left) and daughter Anastasia (first from the right)
‘How else would you look at it?
‘I sat with him at the end of 2013, and he was saying ‘Let’s divorce behindhand, so that the divorce and any settlement is dated to 2007.’
Pictures on Potanin’s luxury yachts prove they were a couple at the time he claimed they had already split, she said.
She contends their marriage was crucial to his rise as one of the most prominent Reds-to-Riches tycoons.
Potanin’s Interros Group routinely says it ‘never gives any comments on the circumstances of the company founder’s private life’.
A Russian legal source has said: ‘It is clear (Natalia Potenina) will get nowhere in the Russian courts. The Supreme Court has already rejected her earlier claim. Her only hope is to take this to London where she now lives.’
Potanin has three children from his marriage to Natalia, and two from his second marriage to current wife Ekaterina.