Valeriya Kudryavtsev-Medvedev

Valeriya Kudryavtsev-Medvedev is the wife of Lev Medvedev and mother of The Patriarch. She was born in Krasnoyarsk, Russia, to a wealthy family of merchants who made their money off of trade on the Yenisei River. Her family moved to Samara to try trade on the Volga River and the Samara River. Samara is located at the confluence of those two rivers. While there, Valeriya met her husband, Lev Medvedev, and they were married. They bought a fancy estate in Samara, but only lived in it for nine months. They were evicted from the estate because a high-ranking official wanted to live there, and the young couple was forced to move to Sochi. In Sochi, they had three children, including The Patriarch. She died in Sochi at the age of 84.