Olga Yurevna Lysova

Short Biography

Olga Lysova was Abramovich`s first wife. When they met, she already had two-year-old Nastya from a brief affair with a touring actor. Abramovich, then 20, spotted Olga, 23-year-old daughter of a high-ranking government diplomat, across a crowded restaurant in Ukhta in northern Russia`s Komi Republic in the summer of 1987. The two eventually married. Within, three years the couple decided to divorce so that they could emigrate to Canada. Unfortunately that never happened. Roman married his second wife, Irina instead. In the years that followed, Olga put her first husband to the back of her mind and moved on. She married a musician called Stefan Stefanovich and now manages his career from their split-level apartment in one of Moscow`s highrise blocks.She still owns the flat in Tsvetnoi Boulevard which she rents out and even has the Soviet-era sofabed which she shared with Abramovich after they married.