What is the uniqueness of the "Russian wedding" of the Malaysian king
'02.12.2018'
Source: Look
The Moscow Region wedding of the former “Miss Moscow”, Oksana Voevodina, with the King of Malaysia, Muhammad the Fifth, is interesting not so much as an event of high life, but as a unique political event. There has never been anything like this in our history. What does this royal romance mean for modern Russia?
About the wedding held on Friday in Barvikha it became known only on Monday evening. A new family then formed the former "Miss Moscow" 25-year-old Oksana Voevodina and 49-year-old Malaysian Supreme Ruler Sultan Muhammad the Fifth, recalls Look.
In this country of Southeast Asia, the head of state is elected for five years from among the rulers of the monarchical states included in it (there are nine of them) - and Muhammad, who ruled the state of Kelantan since 2011, was elected two years ago by Yang di-Pertuan Agong (that is, the supreme ruler is literally "the one who was created the supreme master"), but for simplicity, he is simply called "the king of Malaysia" in the rest of the world. That is, a Russian girl married a king. Is this a story for glossy magazines?
Not only, and not that it is interesting. Yes, the public is curious about the details and photos of the wedding - naturally, non-alcoholic and halal, because Oksana converted to Islam and became Rakhina-Oksana - so did the details of the bride's biography. The Rostov student studied economically in Moscow, but in 2015, Miss Moscow won for herself unexpectedly, after which she began working in parallel with her studies as a model - first in Europe, and then more and more in Asia. Apparently, Mohammed saw her there, who had already become king of Malaysia by that time. Judging by the story of the father of the bride Andrei, they met their future son-in-law a year and a half ago - so the path to the wedding was a long one:
“I have known him for a year and a half. If I had even the slightest doubts about his decency, I would not approve of my daughter’s choice. ”
It is known that during this time the monarch repeatedly came to Russia - caring for his future wife.
Muhammad was the first king of Malaysia to take the throne single - his first marriage broke up 10 years ago. At the same time, the current wedding took place at the time when he was officially on sick leave - apparently, designed to hold a ceremony in Russia. The Malaysian media that reported on the wedding and posted photos from it, then deleted their publications - apparently awaiting the official announcement of the wedding. It is likely that after the return of the monarch in Kuala Lumpur, it will be dealt with again.
In this story, everything is unusual.
In our entire history, this is the first case of the marriage of the head of a foreign power on Russian soil. And the wedding of a Russian citizen with a foreign ruler was last nearly a thousand years ago, when in May 1051, Princess Anna Yaroslavovna (daughter of the Kiev prince) married Henry the Great, King of France.
Yes, the royal powers of Heinrich and Mohammed are incomparable, and Rakhina-Oksana cannot become neither the queen nor the regent (as happened to Anna after the death of her spouse). But still, she will be the first Russian to marry a foreign king (ruler) since the time of Princess Anne.
Why the first? Because all the widely and not very famous examples of Russian women on foreign thrones do not fit: all of our grand princesses were marrying European princes at a time when they were still heirs. The most famous examples are the daughter of Paul I Anna, the former Queen of the Netherlands in 1840 – 1849, and his great-granddaughter Olga Konstantinovna, who was the Greek Queen for almost half a century (1863 – 1913).
Russian wives of foreign rulers were observed even in the Soviet years, but even then they married Russian without being invested with the highest authority, but simply as leading cadres or even as political emigrants.
The Russian wife was with Matias Rakosi, who led Hungary in the post-war decade, but he married Theodore Kornilov during his years of work in Moscow, in the Comintern. Even Yumzhagiin Tsedenbal, who lived for almost half a century in marriage with Anastasia Filatova, met her only at the beginning of his journey to power in Mongolia, which he led for three decades.
But Tatyana Kukanova, in 1966, in Baku, who married an oil student, Jose Eduardo Dos Santos, clearly did not reflect on the presidential prospects of her Angolan husband. His country was a Portuguese colony, and after completing his studies, his spouse went to partisan to his homeland, where after declaring independence he made a swift career - first in 1975, he headed the Foreign Ministry, and in 1979, became president (and remained until last year). Then they divorced Tatiana, who has since lived in London. And their daughter is considered the richest man in Angola.
Well, Faina Vahreva, when she married Nikolai Yelizarov in 1935, knew, of course, that he was actually Jiang Chingguo, the son of Chinese leader Chiang Kai-shek. But she couldn’t imagine that in 40 years she would be destined to become the first lady in Taiwan whom her spouse would rule.
In general, it is South-East Asia that is distinguished by Russian wives. In addition to Vakhrevoi, there is also the Ekaterina Desnitskaya, the Knight of the St. George Cross for her work as a sister of mercy during the Russo-Japanese War, which does not fall under the status of the wives of the rulers.
In 1907, she married the son of King of Siam, Prince Chacrobon, who studied military science in Russia. They had children, then Chakrobon became the crown prince of his childless brother, but neither he, nor she was destined to ascend the throne. The prince wanted to take a second wife for himself, this time a local one - as a result, the couple broke up, and soon Chacrobon died suddenly, without waiting for the throne. However, the granddaughter of Desnitskaya and Chakrobon Sirikit nevertheless became the Queen of Thailand - and remained her 66 years as the wife of Rama Ninth, who died only two years ago.
So, Oksana-Rakhina falls into an interesting region - and just at the time when Russia is making more and more efforts to strengthen ties with South-East Asia. It is here that the interests of China and the United States intersect most firmly, and therefore SEA is doomed to become the arena of superpower struggle. Just recently, at the beginning of this month, Vladimir Putin visited Singapore, adjacent to Malaysia, where he had a meeting with ASEAN leaders and, separately, with the Malaysian prime minister, the legendary 93-year-old Mahathir Mohamad.
You can not even doubt that some Western media will soon write that the marriage Vojvodina is the result of a special operation of the Kremlin. Of course, our women are our main secret weapon. Therefore, Putin did not go to the wedding to Rublevka, so as not to shine “Agent Olga”.
