Ukrainian wedding on Lake Como for a million euros: details from the life of Angelina Terskaya

Before Ukrainians had time to recover from the shocking luxurious wedding of a Lviv prosecutor and an ex-employee of the DBI, another newlyweds attracted attention. On the territory of Villa Balbiano, located on Lake Como in Italy, a pompous wedding of Ukrainians took place, estimated, according to preliminary estimates, at least 1 million euros.

Ukrainian Angelina Terskaya got married, about whom journalists learned a lot of details.

“Villa Balbiano is a striking Italian gem, an exceptional historic palazzo once owned by the famous Cardinal Tolomeo Gallio, who built it in the late 16th century and used it as his main residence... Villa Balbiano is now the largest private residence on the lake, occupying more than 2 hectares with large luxurious gardens, awarded by the British Society of Garden Designers, outdoor swimming pool, private pier and boat slip. Inside, its historic interiors were filled with the finest art and furnishings from centuries past, sourced from Sotheby's and Christie's. Impressive 17th-century frescoes by brothers Recci and Agostino Silva still adorn the walls, untouched by time. Villa Balbiano, with its glorious past and its incomparable combination of man-made and natural beauty, is one of the most glamorous places on Lake Como,” says the official website where you can rent the building.

Before the wedding, Angelina Terskaya visited the villa in May of this year, signing the photos “gorgeous.” Obviously, it was at this time that she was looking for a place for a luxurious wedding.

According to media reports, Russians own the villa and make money by renting it out. The estate is often rented specifically for weddings, including by citizens of the aggressor country. Thus, in 2019, Villa Balbiano hosted the wedding celebration of the star of the Russian version of the Bachelor program Daria Klyukina and Gazprom Media top manager Vladimir Chopov. The celebration was attended by the wife of Russian figure skater Evgeni Plushenko, Yana Rudkovskaya, and singer Dima Bilan, who now actively support Russia’s war against Ukraine. The wedding was hosted by another propaganda singer, Nikolai Baskov.

The wedding of Ukrainian Angelina Terskaya and her now legal husband, which took place on June 10, 2024, was officiated by Russian comedian Maxim Galkin, who was once close friends with the aforementioned Nikolai Baskov. After the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, Galkin condemned the Kremlin’s actions and left for Israel, of which he is a citizen. At Angelina Terskaya’s wedding, Galkin spoke a lot in Ukrainian and even sang Ukrainian songs.

Angelina Terskaya comes from a small urban village of Magdalinovka, Dnepropetrovsk region. For a long time she worked in a travel agency, which in 2020 she called “the most technologically advanced company in the aviation market.”

Tickets Consolidator LLC is a travel company established in September 2013. According to the YouControl business platform, the company’s authorized capital is 1000 hryvnia. The founders are Anatoly Yurkov and Viktor Nekrylov. On the pages of social networks, Tickets Consolidator actively supports the Armed Forces of Ukraine, including financially.

Before the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, Angelina Terskaya, according to her Instagram page, spent most of her time in her homeland. In particular, in March 2022, she published a photograph apparently taken in her parents’ house in the village of Magdalinovka.

Angelina’s father, Sergei Tersky, is engaged in freight transportation. He is a registered individual entrepreneur in his own name.

Mother - Elena Terskaya, runs a real estate rental business. Five days before her daughter’s wedding in an Italian villa, a three-room apartment on the Dnieper embankment in the “Great” residential complex was purchased in the name of Elena Terskaya.

A similar apartment without renovation can be purchased in this residential complex for $115,000. At the same time, a renovated one-room apartment is being sold for $136,000. In any case, the apartment registered to Angelina Terskaya’s mother cost at least $100,000. Considering that the apartment was purchased 5 days before the luxurious wedding, we can assume that it was one of the wedding gifts from Angelina’s husband.

It was reported online that the groom’s name was allegedly Vladislav and he was a businessman. Angelina Terskaya actually dated a man named Vladislav for a long time, with whom she has many photos on the now banned Russian social network VKontakte. They flew with him to Barcelona and Dubai in 2013. But this man is completely different from the one who walked Angelina down the aisle on Lake Como.

Since 2023, Angelina has hardly published photographs from Ukraine. She travels a lot around Europe. Most often, her photographs were taken in Paris and London. And she spends even more time in Istanbul.

There is an assumption that Angelina Terskaya’s husband is a Turkish businessman and that is why there can be no complaints about how the man left Ukraine during martial law.

Angelina managed to comment on the attention of journalists to her wedding with the phrase that she and her husband are not politicians or children of officials. They do not live in Ukraine, but they support it. Therefore, the question should not arise for them.”

The woman is absolutely right that the private lives of non-public people should not be of interest to journalists or anyone else. On the other hand, when during the war Ukrainians allow themselves to ostentatiously organize luxurious holidays, the cost of which is 1 million euros, this may be of interest not only to the Ukrainian press, but also to the European one. After all, Ukraine is asking for help from the whole world to fight the aggressor. At the same time, if conditional spouses are ready to pay a million for a wedding in Italy and show it all over Instagram, then at least the Italians may have questions about whether Ukrainians are really that poor?

Angelina Terskaya in 2024 and in 2011

In one of his interviews, President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky called on Ukrainians to be more modest in what is published on social networks. Firstly, this may cause indignation among those at the front, and secondly, it will further divide those who allow themselves “vacations, swimming pools, cocktails” with those who save even on food. The wedding of Angelina Terskaya clearly shows this example. It’s one thing to throw a wedding for a million and rejoice with your loved ones, and another thing to show it off all over Instagram without any remorse.