Vladimir Putin has an eight-year-old granddaughter — Elza Tikhonova. Her parents are the Russian president’s younger daughter and ballet dancer Igor Zelensky.

Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, has an eight-year-old granddaughter named Elza Igorevna Tikhonova. The girl is the daughter of Katerina Tikhonova, the head of the Innopraktika foundation and the Russian president's younger sister, and ballet dancer Igor Zelensky. Journalists from the Russian investigative outlet Proekt discovered Elza's identity by examining a leaked database from the Federal Border Service.

Born in November 2019, Elza received her mother's invented surname but kept her father's patronymic. Proekt's investigators speculate that Elza was named after Princess Elsa, the character from the animated film Frozen, noting her mother's apparent fondness for Hollywood - her first husband even performed a song by Princess Elsa from the American animated film Anastasia at their wedding.

Elza first flew with her parents aboard a business jet operated by German airline Air Hamburg, now known as VistaJet, shortly before her second birthday. Two years later, she took a flight to Croatia aboard a Bombardier Global 5000. Putin keeps his family hidden, and they live under different surnames. Investigations have revealed that Putin has three daughters from his marriage to Lyudmila Putina - Maria Vorontsova, Katerina Tikhonova, and Luiza Rozova.

He also has two sons from his relationship with Alina Kabaeva - Ivan and Vladimir Spiridonov. Putin has a grandson, Roman Faassen, the son of Vorontsova and her first husband, Dutch citizen Jorrit Faassen.